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March 21
- EU preps Chips Act 2.0 to stregthen semiconductor industry after original program reportedly flopped
- AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC
- Save $400 on the new Nvidia RTX 5080-powered Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop
- Enthusiasts report Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme chipset temps exceeding 100°C
- 'Pi Tin' retro gaming handheld is minty fresh thanks to a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
- Microsoft says DirectX Raytracing 1.2 will deliver up to 2.3x performance uplift
- Kioxia shows off new 122.88 TB SSD — PCIe 5.0 LC9 packs a whole lot of QLC NAND
- Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPU shipping manifest hints at imminent launch
- Intel's technology development chief Ann Kelleher to retire, sparking leadership overhaul ahead of 18A production start
- Amazon Eero 7 Pro Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Middle child with middling performance
- How to Restart Windows Explorer in Windows 11
March 20
- Nvidia to spend hundreds of billions on U.S.-made chips, confirms Blackwell system production in the U.S.
- Windows 11 Insider builds offer FAQs based on your PC's specs
- Nvidia Blackwell RTX Pro with up to 96GB of VRAM — even more demand for the limited supply of GPUs
- Solidigm debuts the world's first liquid-cooled eSSD solution — Aims to achieve fully fanless GPU servers
- Nvidia CEO denies being approached for stake in Intel Foundry, casting doubt on consortium reports — TSMC board member also denies involvement
- The Wolfbox MF100 Electric Air Duster is now only $62 — Make your PC dust-free
- IBM cuts thousands in Cloud Classic, other units: Report
- Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 up close: Blackwell RTX Workstation, Max-Q Workstation, and Server variants shown
- Asus unveils AI Cache Boost — claims up to 19% faster AI workloads on Ryzen 9000 series
- ASML recalls its humble origins in a ‘leaky shed’ in Eindhoven, circa 1984 — it now makes the most cutting-edge chipmaking tools on the planet
- Raspberry Pi 5 powered 'wall arcade' features a big, low-res RGB LED matrix display
- Golden Asus ROG RTX 5090 Astral with Jensen Huang's autograph shown off at GTC
- Corsair EX400U review: Game-changing USB4 speed in a magnetic, phone-friendly form factor
- Nvidia sells RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 from a 'food truck' at GTC
- SoftBank to acquire Arm CPUs for datacenter firm Ampere in $6.5 billion cash deal
March 19
- Nvidia shows off Rubin Ultra with 600,000-Watt Kyber racks and infrastructure, coming in 2027
- Half-Life 2 running with just 8MB of VRAM is a beautiful wireframe mess
- Maker builds Raspberry Pi Pico smart clock with lots of cool features
- AMD has reportedly sold nearly 200K RX 9070 GPUs worldwide (Updated)
- At Nvidia's GTC event, Pat Gelsinger reiterated that Jensen 'got lucky with AI,' Intel missed the boat with Larrabee
- Nvidia power meltdowns hit 8-pin adaptors — old power supplies are the common factor
- Crucial's superfast 2TB T705 Gen 5 SSD is back down to its lowest-ever price — Grab one of these drives for the ultimate gaming PC build
- Nvidia unveils DGX Station workstation PCs with GB300 Blackwell Ultra inside
- ViewSonic XG2736-2K 27-inch QHD 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Getting faster all the time
- Nvidia CEO stops by Denny's food truck to eat and serve Nvidia Breakfast Bytes before GTC 2025
- Micron and SK hynix unveil new LPDDR5X SOCAMM memory up to 128GB, debuts on Nvidia GB300 systems
March 18
- Nvidia announces Rubin GPUs in 2026, Rubin Ultra in 2027, Feynman also added to roadmap
- Nvidia’s new silicon photonics-based 400 Tb/s switch platforms enable clusters with millions of GPUs
- Nvidia announces Blackwell Ultra B300 —1.5X faster than B200 with 288GB HBM3e and 15 PFLOPS dense FP4
- Best Buy shaves $50 Off Seagate's 26TB Expansion HDD — now just $11.50 per TB
- AMD RX Vega 64 runs Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at well over 30FPS in Linux with RADV driver
- Nvidia earned nearly as much as its next 9 fabless rivals combined last year
- Asus' mini supercomputer taps Nvidia Grace Blackwell chip for 1,000 AI TOPS
- HP updates its OmniBook X line with a lattice-free keyboard, processors from AMD and Intel
- HP's new Omen 16 Slim goes up to an RTX 5070 and is 16% slimmer than its predecessor
- Watch Jensen Huang’s Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote here — Blackwell 300 AI GPUs expected
- Samsung 9100 Pro SSD Review: Samsung’s Capable Answer to Phison’s Storage Gauntlet
- GPU meets PCIe-based hard drives: Seagate and Nvidia demo NVMe HDDs
- AMD's beastly Ryzen AI Max+ 395 comes to a new GMKTec mini-PC, and AMD's Lisa Su appears to approve
- Intel finally releases the XeSS 2.0 SDK for developers — Technology still gated by closed-source barriers
- AMD Radeon RX 9070-series GPU supply to stabilize after April claims AIB partner Yeston
- New undersea cable tech listens for sabotage — can be retrofitted to existing fiber optic lines
March 17
- Qualcomm debuts new Snapdragon G handheld gaming PC chips to compete with Intel and AMD
- China to spend $55 billion on R&D in 2025 — Semiconductor, AI and quantum computing fields to benefit
- Bambu Lab Announces New Printer: H2D
- Finally, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is readily available again, and at MSRP
- Motherboard dies after marathon 100-hour BIOS update process, vigil attended by thousands online
- AMD boasts its Ryzen AI Max+ 395 is up to 12.2x faster than Lunar Lake in AI workloads
- Freeware image editor GIMP 3.0 arrives after seven years of incubation
- Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash is reportedly capable of removing watermarks — Also found to generate AI celebrity photos
- Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT bring AI conversations to your retro rotary phone
- Keydous NJ98-CP V2 HE Review: Dedicated calculators
- MSI Afterburner update enables RTX 50 series owners to push their GDDR7 VRAM up to 36 GT/s
- AMD manager reports 45% GPU retail market share in Japan — Eyes 70% as the next target
- ERNIE 4.5 AI model by Baidu claims to match DeepSeek R1 at half the cost
- Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350 SoC goes on general sale
- Keller and Koduri headline the Beyond CUDA Summit today — AI leaders rally to challenge Nvidia's dominance
March 16
- China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September
- Five Best Photoshop Alternatives Tested: Image Editing for Free
- You can snag this 24-inch Asus TUF gaming monitor for $99 at Amazon – its lowest price to date
- Micron 4600 2TB SSD Review: The New Baseline in SSDs
- Elon Musk and OpenAI to fast-track trial to December — suit aims to stop OpenAI's transition to a for-profit company
- U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, has spent $100K+ designing new parts — last original Atari hardware launched 32 years ago
- New Huawei Kirin X90 chip revealed in state report — possible server and PC chip set to replace the aging Kunpeng 920 design
- CoolIT unleashes 4kW single-phase DLC Cold Plate — Seemingly timed for Nvidia Blackwell Ultra chips
- Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 Dex Review: A very close second
- Akira ransomware can be cracked with 16 RTX 4090 GPUs in around ten hours — new counterattack breaks encryption
March 15
- Super Flower’s beastly 2800W power supply lands at $899 — enough juice to power a couple of RTX 5090 GPUs
- Huawei's Microsoft Windows license for PCs expires this month, company launching PCs with Harmony OS: Report
- RTX 50-series GPU scalping extends to system integrators — over $3,000 for a RTX 5090
- Intel’s new CEO gets a $1 million salary plus $68 million in bonuses
- SNES consoles appear to run faster with age — APU frequency increased by up to 182 Hz after 35 years
- ASRock PG-1600G Phantom Gaming power supply review
- Tech giants call Trump tariffs 'big headache' — Foxconn CEO teases increased production in US
- Samsung's 990 EVO Plus 4TB SSD is now only 6 cents per GB
- The week in chip news: Intel gets a new CEO, China chip smuggling, AMD dominates
March 14
- Raspberry Pi Pico powers $75 PicoCalc portable programming handheld
- Intel's new CEO warns employees about 'tough decisions', but Wall Street cheers
- MSI skips RDNA 4 and will not manufacture AMD Radeon 9000-series GPUs
- Deepseek 'clearly not interested' in scaling up — 160-person team focused on developing new models
- Asus quietly updates Q-Release Slim — removes metal frame blamed for scratching GPUs
- ID-Cooling FX 360 INF Pink Review: Stylishly pink, but loud in more ways than one
- Linux or Landfill? End of Windows 10 Leaves PC Charities with Tough Choice
- Intel reaches 'exciting milestone' for 18A 1.8nm-class wafers with first run at Arizona fab
- AMD's Radeon VP calls RX 9070 XT demand 'unprecedented' — RDNA 4 launch 'milestone event'
March 13
- Xbox announces 'Copilot for Gaming' AI assistant — early access coming to Xbox mobile app, more details to come at GDC 2025
- Nvidia teams up with Microsoft to put neural shading into DirectX, giving devs access to AI tensor cores
- AMD RDNA 3 professional GPUs with 48GB can beat Nvidia 24GB cards in AI — putting the 'Large' in LLM
- Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Apex is available for pre-order on Newegg — Launches April 4 at $749
- 24-hour BIOS update? User's attempt to flash motherboard becomes a marathon
- Retailers selling base model RX 9070 GPUs at 22% markup compared to MSRP — 9070 XT now typically starts at $799
- Public IPv4 addresses are now valuable loan collateral and can be worth millions
- Raspberry Pi and AI power open source smart city monitoring project
- ViewSonic XG2536 25-inch FHD IPS 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Incredibly quick and value priced
- AI tool tells user to learn coding instead of asking it generate the code
- QNodeOS claims to be the first operating system for quantum networks, paving the way for future quantum applications
- Singapore court grants bail to trio accused in $390 million Nvidia chip smuggling case
- Asus rumored to launch Xbox handheld in 2025 — OEM working with Microsoft to 'unify' Windows and Xbox libraries
- Nvidia says it has shipped twice as many 50-series GPUs as 40-series since launch, but it's a misleading comparison
- Chinese e-tailers list Nvidia's RTX 5060, RTX 5060 Ti, priced up to equivalent of US$528
March 12
- Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as permanent CEO
- WD Black SN7100 SSD Review: The power efficiency king, with caveats
- Congatec shows off acetone-based heat pipe cooling solution for extremely cold environments
- Biwin launches 192GB DDR5-6400 and DDR5-6000 memory kits for AMD's AM5 platform
- Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
- The ‘world’s smallest microcontroller’ measures just 1.38 mm² and costs 20 cents
- Asus anticipates price increases as it shifts production from China
- UserBenchmark bashes AMD GPUs and claims they lack real-world performance
- The Best CPU for Gaming in 2025
- Voice controlled Raspberry Pi paper towel dispenser turns a prank into reality
- Microsoft's latest Quantum computing claims have been named 'unreliable' by scientists
- YouTubers Give New Meaning to 'Air Printing'
- TSMC and Intel foundry joint venture reportedly still in the works — AMD, Broadcom, and Nvidia approached
- Awekeys Antiques Metal keycaps are Viking-themed luxury for your fingertips
- ASML teams up with Imec for sub-2nm process technologies with High-NA EUV chipmaking tools
- Repealing the CHIPS Act could dramatically shrink US chip market share, analysts say
March 11
- Undervolted RX 9070 XT beats RTX 5080 — RX 9070 and 9070 XT models with heavy coolers have massive OC headroom
- Custom water-cooled 'gaming laptop' shell supports mini-ITX motherboards, RTX 5090 graphics
- AMD unveils Zen 5c embedded processors, 9005 EPYC series optimized for edge computing
- WD Red Pro 26TB hits the market for $569 — new capacity enables portable 208TB RAID solution for $8,299
- Gigabyte pokes fun at Asus’ GPU-scratching quick-release mechanism — undamaged GPU connector even after 100 insertions
- Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU — Best-in-class choice for gamers and professionals alike
- Meta is reportedly testing its first RISC-V based AI chip for AI training
- This smart Raspberry Pi LED world map has global appeal
- IBM secures patent for 4D printing — smart material uses ML for transporting microparticles
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D Review: Stunning gaming performance meets top-tier productivity
- MacBook Air (M4, 2025) review: Blue skies ahead
- Apple Mac Studio (Early 2025) Review: Renewed vigor with M4 Max and M3 Ultra
- OptiScaler mod adds AMD FSR 4 support to DLSS-supporting games
March 10
- Control Ultimate gets DLSS 3.7 support and new 'Ultra' settings — cuts performance nearly in half
- Raspberry Pi powers briefcase-sized PiEEG 'Bio Lab' project
- RISC-V mini AI PC that fits inside a Framework laptop shell revealed — DeepComputing's DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC claims 50 TOPS, 64GB RAM
- Asus launches air-purifying monitors starting at $129 — 27-inch and 34-inch models retail for $159 and $359
- Huawei reportedly acquired two million Ascend 910 AI chips from TSMC last year through shell companies
- Fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D bought from Amazon was actually an old AMD FX chip disguised by IHS sticker
- Raspberry Pi 5 powers cyberpunk themed brain scanner in a custom 3D printed case
- Nvidia RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and RTX 5060 Ti specs leak — expect 8GB/16GB flavors and higher TGPs
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i review: The most luxurious ultrabook
March 9
- AMD's Zen 6-based desktop processors may feature up to 24 cores
- Elgato Wave Neo Review: I hope you got this as part of a bundle
- Compal Infinite Laptop built around screen that extends from 14- to 18-inches, horizontally
- AMD's 16-core 9950X3D chip allegedly lands 14% faster than last-gen in PassMark
- 'Self-replaceable batteries' return with the Dynabook Portégé Z40L-N business laptop
- Netgear Orbi 870 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Solid performance can’t mask high price and feature regression
- Nvidia RTX 50 owners get another Hotfix, with 572.75 addressing crashes and clock speeds
- Run Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 5 with Botspot Virtual Machine
March 8
- Nvidia RTX 5090's 16-pin power connector hits 150C in reviewer's thermal camera shots
- Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics
- Core i9, RTX 4060, 64GB gaming laptop drops to all-time low price of $2,249
- AMD's RX 9070 is on track to become the best-selling GPU on Amazon — RDNA 4 already ranks as the top bestseller in Amazon Germany and UK
- Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU spotted with 24,064 CUDA cores, 96GB GDDR7, and 600W — 11% more cores than RTX 5090
- How to use an RFID reader with a Raspberry Pi Pico
- Russia sees tech boom amid sanctions — microelectronics industry sees massive hiring surge and increased salaries
- FSP MP7 and NP5 Air Coolers Review: Simple and effective
- Micron shows off world's fastest PCIe 6.0 SSD, hitting 27 GB/s speeds — Astera Labs PCIe 6.0 switch enables impressive sequential reads
- Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 V3 power supply review
- How to fix Salmon Skin Problems in 3D Prints
March 7
- AI bots now play Mafia with each other on public website, and almost all of them are terrible at it
- AMD: RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT MSRPs are real, but some cards will be priced at a premium
- Physical game media might perish because of the 25% tariffs on imported discs
- AMD's 9000-series GPUs sell for up to $2,000 as opportunistic scalpers take control
- 'You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU' — Google researchers release kit to exploit microcode vulnerability in Ryzen Zen 1 to Zen 4 chips
- RTX 5090 GPUs aren't being recalled for being a fire hazard after all — Nvidia and MSI refute accusations
- This illuminating Raspberry Pi Pico project wants to improve your photos and YouTube videos
- Lenovo expands PC production in India, aims to produce 100% of PCs for the Indian market in the country (Updated)
- Elon Musk ally leading CHIPS Act office purge — only 14% of original staff remain after dismissals
- AMD announces pricing for Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D at $699 and $599; chips arrive March 12th
- Chinese lawmaker proposes law to allow Chinese companies to hide their foreign suppliers
- Sovol SV06 Plus ACE review: Super size your prints
- We need your help to shape the future of Tom’s Hardware
- Apple M3 Ultra benchmark seen on Geekbench — beats M4 Max in multi-core, but not single-core
- ASRock B860I Lightning Wifi Motherboard Review: Is Wi-Fi 7 important to you?
- Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti rumored launch in 'ten days' — but don't expect any stock until April
- AMD grabs GPU market share from Nvidia as GPU shipments rise slightly in Q4
- Startup claims its Zeus GPU is 10X faster than Nvidia's RTX 5090: Bolt's first GPU coming in 2026
March 6
- Nvidia denies allegations that laptop RTX 50 GPUs are also missing ROPs
- Logitech G915 TKL on sale at $119.99 — RGB mechanical keyboard at 48% off, lowest price in years
- Intel will keep using TSMC's services even when 18A is ramped up: 'It is a good supplier'
- Brother denies firmware blocks third-party toner and ink use
- Ontario cancels Starlink deal over US tariffs — Italy may follow due to US pullback from Europe
- TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look
- This Raspberry Pi Pico protractor has all of the angles covered!
- AMD teams up with Cisco, Nokia, and Jio Platforms for Open Telecom AI platform
- TSMC's Arizona chip fab production is sold out through late 2027
- Where to buy AMD's Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards
- China says TSMC's $100 billion U.S. deal shows Taiwan's ruling party is 'selling out Taiwan'
- Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D hit retail on March 12, according to official AMD outlet in China
- World's first 'body in a box' biological computer uses human brain cells with silicon-based computing
- Republican senators show little interest in scrapping CHIPS Act, despite Trump's call
- Amazon Eero 7 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Dual-band wireless with entry-level pricing
- Intel shareholder lawsuit dismissed — complaints stemmed from single-day $32B devaluation in 2024
- Chinese researchers reveal self-encrypting molecular HDD technology supporting 100TB+ capacities
March 5
- Trump wants to kill the CHIPS Act — says chipmakers are coming to the USA to avoid tariffs
- Maker builds Raspberry Pi-powered temperature gun using a Pico 2
- Corsair guarantees defect-free RTX 50-series GPUs in its pre-built systems — reports only one instance of missing ROPs
- Firm says AI-assisted security analyzer found 16 bugs in OpenRISC CPU core in under 60 seconds
- This Raspberry Pi Snake console totally bites — in a good way
- Artificial Intelligence comes to smart pens, includes handwriting-to-text and ChatGPT
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 review: Excellent value, if supply is good
- Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5070 graphics card — All models across Newegg, Best Buy, B&H, and others
- Apple debuts M3 Ultra in refreshed Mac Studio with up to 512GB memory
- Apple's MacBook Air gets M4, new color, and a lower price
- Nvidia's shortages are limiting PC GPU market growth, looming tariffs also impacting sales
- Photo of Elon Musk’s new gaming PC reveals odd component choices – is he rocking an RTX 4060?
March 4
- Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition won't be available on launch day, coming 'later in March'
- China doubles US research output on next-gen chips amid export bans — trade war fuels a research wave
- The NAND market faced a 6.2% revenue loss in Q4 24 — forecast projects a further 20% hit in Q1 25
- Chinese government shifts focus from x86 and Arm CPUs, gov't promoting RISC-V chips heavily
- Nintendo GameCube modified to run PowerPC Windows NT and Doom
- Microsoft updates Windows 11 CPU support for OEM systems to include 8th to 10th Gen Intel CPUs
- TSMC's $100B US investment only accounts for 7% of company's output — Taiwan gov't gives official blessing for project
- AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: $549 price and performance look decent on paper
- Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals
- AMD's mobile X3D chips come to desktops — Minisforum's $599 MoDT debuts with Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
March 3
- Trump purge hits Chips Act office, two-fifths of staff to be terminated: Report
- TSMC and Trump announce $100 billion investment in the US, including three fabs
- AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X on sale for $289 — get a killer CPU for 20% off plus Monster Hunter Wilds for free
- Chinese firms get Blackwell chips by ordering through nearby countries, defying U.S. bans
- Cozy cats live in a Raspberry Pi-powered luxury automated smart house
- Alibaba launches RISC-V-based XuanTie C930 server CPU — AI/HPC chip ships this month, more designs to follow
- Lenovo showcases a USB-C connected AI Stick with a 32 TOPS NPU on board
- MSI quietly raises prices of its supposed RTX 5070 Ti MSRP models
- The hidden danger lurking in your server infrastructure? Its own cooling system
- Samsung showcases 500 Hz OLED monitor and foldable gaming handheld at MWC 2025
- HP Omen 32 OLED 4K 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Speedy, colorful, precise, and flexible
- Nvidia and Broadcom continue trialing Intel 18A test chips: Report
- Nvidia's poor RTX 50 compute test results due to missing 32-bit OpenCL support, says PassMark
- Lenovo debuts new ThinkPads and an RTX 5070-powered Yoga
- Lenovo's new concept laptops include solar panels and tall, foldable screens
March 2
- 2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD is on sale for $84 — just 4 cents per GB
- Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chips for PCs to boost core count from 12 to 18, says report
- Full Xbox 360 recompilation for PC debuts with Sonic Unleashed Recompiled
- Huge OS and RAM usage swings in Steam Survey likely to have been influenced by China influx
- Efabless shuts down, fate of Tiny Tapeout chip production projects unclear
- Windows 11 Task Manager update will show accurate CPU utilization, align with industry standards
- Defective RTX 5080 takes up to 11% performance hit in gaming — Larger impact at higher resolutions
- 'Fire the Intel board and rehire Pat Gelsinger,' argues former Intel CEO Craig Barrett
- SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless Review: More buttons - less weight
March 1
- Asus ROG Strix 27-Inch QHD IPS monitor is only $199 at Amazon
- DeepSeek brings disruption to AI-optimized parallel file systems, releases powerful new open-source Fire-Flyer File System
- Nvidia Hotfix arrives to address black screen issues remaining after Thursday's driver release
- RTX 5070 appears on Best Buy at MSRP — Asus Prime listed for $549.99 days before official launch
- AMD VP teases RDNA 4 compatibility with ROCm, but doesn't reveal official launch date
- Google's newest moonshot delivers internet by firing lasers through the air — Taara project upgrades to tiny 13mm photonic chips placed 1km apart
- HP says 90% of products for the U.S. will be made outside of China by October
- Angry Miao claims new gaming mouse offers ‘infinite battery’ — premium tri-mode mouse maker makes dubious claims
- Drop CSTM80 Review: Highly, easily customizable
- Former Intel directors strongly oppose TSMC takeover, call for Intel fabs spinoff
- AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries