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- December 9
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- Alarming amount of Texas Instrument chips found in Russian-based weapons in Ukraine — Russian military using third parties to purchase U.S-made chips
- Aoostar AG02 eGPU dock with OCuLink support and 500W PSU announced for $219
- China levels anti-trust charges against Nvidia – country accuses chipmaker of violating anti-monopoly regulations, examining the $7 billion Mellanox acquisition
- Fanless audiophile PC sells for close to $30,000 — music server features dual Xeon 10-core CPUs, 48GB RAM, 280GB Optane SSD, and 2TB secondary storage expandable to 24TB
- Ryzen Master now supports EXPO profile enablement without a system restart — the new version also drops support for Zen and Zen+ Threadripper CPUs
- Gelsinger fires back at recent stories about 18A's poor yields, schools social media commenters on defect densities and yields
- Windows 11 for Arm can run natively on specific Android smartphones — the test device heats up very fast, and battery life substantially decreases
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused of $8 billion tax dodge by U.S. newspaper — his remaining family would be the beneficiaries of this estate tax avoidance
- Intel Arc B580 trades blows with the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in early benchmarks — B580 beats A580 by up to 30% in OpenCL and Vulkan workloads
- ASRock launches a trio of OLED gaming monitors for demanding gamers — lineup offers refresh rates from 240 Hz to 480 Hz and response times of 0.3 ms
- Fish tank PC case sales explode in 2024 — Korean retail data claims tenfold growth for this style of chassis
- DaMAgeCard SD Express card vulnerability leverages the privileged access that PCIe provides — bypasses traditional software-based security mechanisms
- Raspberry Pi Monitor Review: Well-built portable monitor that works with any HDMI-capable device
- Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again
- December 8
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- Microsoft preparing Lunar Lake Surface and Surface Pro laptops for 1Q25, says report – new Surface Laptop Studio and an 11-inch Surface also on the horizon
- Camouflage eSports monitors launched by JAPANNEXT – but you probably won't see them in stores
- Zero-day Windows NTLM hash vulnerability gets patched by third-party — credentials can be hijacked by merely viewing a malicious file in File Explorer
- Russian Ex-ASML employee indicted for stealing critical trade secrets — currently in custody, faces 20-year Netherlands entry ban
- Acer Swift 16 AI 3K OLED Intel Lunar Lake laptop drops down to $899
- Intel XeSS 2 DLL files leaked days before launch — Frame Generation and Low Latency libraries surface at Nexus Mods
- U.S. House set to vote on $3B funding for the replacement of Chinese telecoms equipment — but swapping out all the Huawei and ZTE equipment will cost more
- TP-Link Deco BE5000 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 for less than $300
- Windows 11 battery indicator revamp delivers color coding and more pixels
- NATO plans to deploy sea drones to monitor and protect undersea cables — Admiral expects drone fleet patrols to begin from June 2025
- December 7
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- Intel looks beyond silicon, outlines breakthroughs in atomically-thin 2D transistors, chip packaging, and interconnects at IEDM 2024
- iFixit now sells genuine Xbox replacement parts but at ridiculous prices — $599 for an Xbox Series X motherboard when a new console costs $499
- US govt says Cisco gear often targeted in China's Salt Typhoon attacks on 8 telecommunications providers — issues Cisco-specific advice to patch networks to fend off attacks
- Legendary video game developer imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs — John Carmack envisions a GPU with Linux onboard, so you would just add power and a display
- Black Friday is over, but this 34-inch curved QD OLED WQHD gaming monitor is still available for $569
- Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan — S12038-4K 120mm fan adds an extra fan in its center to cool its central shaft
- Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA 3 graphics
- Intel Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids CPU gain preliminary support in popular monitoring utility
- Weak demand prevents Amazon from deploying AMD's Instinct AI accelerators in the cloud — the company plans to strengthen its portfolio with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
- Broadcom unveils gigantic 3.5D XDSiP platform for AI XPUs — 6000mm² of stacked silicon with 12 HBM modules
- AMD confirms Ryzen 7 9800X3D stock will improve soon — chipmaker says more processors are being shipped weekly
- How to use SSH to connect to a Linux terminal on your web hosting service
- Quest 3S Review: Most of the same thrills as the Quest 3 for $200 less
- December 6
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- Huawei preps new Kunpeng CPU with HBM — unannounced Kunpeng Arm server chip matches Intel and AMD's tech
- Team builds Raspberry Pi smart cane to help the visually impaired
- Geekom QS1 Pro mini-PC wields Snapdragon X Elite 4 GHz CPU and up to 64GB LPDDR5-5600
- Ryzen Z2G CPU reportedly powers new $650 gaming handheld — Lenovo Legion Go S packs 8-inch display, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD
- China fires back at Trump’s 10% tariff proposal with a 20% price cut on domestic products — Beijing's policy will negatively affect chipmakers, including Nvidia and Intel
- Chinese companies are reportedly reluctant to adopt homegrown chips — domestic solutions are technologically too far behind
- Maxsun makes a GPU with two built-in M.2 SSD ports — Intel Arc B580 graphics card leverages unused PCIe lanes on the PCIe x16 slot
- Supermicro to help Musk scale xAI supercomputer to a million GPUs — Supermicro will set up local operations in Memphis to facilitate operations
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC performance testing and settings analysis — we tested 23 GPUs, the game is even more demanding than its predecessor
- US lawmakers fire back at government's chip sanctions against China, alleging glaring loopholes that let China access the latest technology
- Crucial P310 (2280) SSD Review: Same great taste, but with a new look
- Seagate's HAMR HDDs qualified by customers — volume shipments imminent
- December 5
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- Intel appoints two new board members with semiconductor backgrounds following Gelsinger exit
- Polysoft offers $849 8TB SSD upgrade module for Mac Studio — reverse-engineered SSD vastly undercuts Apple's $2,220 price
- Nvidia bids goodbye to GeForce Experience — Nvidia App officially replaces it in the latest driver update
- TSMC is reportedly in talks with Nvidia to make Blackwell GPUs in Arizona — Blackwell silicon needs to be shipped back to Taiwan for assembly
- Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS
- 3DMark gets new DirectStorage benchmark — GDeflate measures transfer rates from NVMe SSD to GPU VRAM
- Jobs eviscerated at Chinese Arm chip design firm in wake of restrictions from TSMC — lack of access to 7nm node could cause 150 employees to be laid off
- Scientists develop the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, offering a 5,000-year lifespan — the device uses radioactive decay to generate low power levels
- With this Raspberry Pi powered mask you can 'become anyone' hidden behind 2,960 LEDs
- Intel says Arc Xe4 Druid GPUs are already in the works — Software optimization is the only remaining step for Xe3 Celestial as it approaches launch with Panther Lake
- USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG pen testing cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller
- Elon Musk plans to scale the xAI supercomputer to a million GPUs — currently at over 100,000 H100 GPUs and counting
- Bitcoin crosses $100,000 milestone as incoming U.S. administration looks increasingly crypto-friendly
- Intel co-CEO David Zinsner says 'core strategy remains intact' — Intel will continue to be a products and foundry company
- AWS building ExaFLOPS-class supercomputer for AI with hundreds of thousands homegrown Trainium2 processors — AWS forges a path without Nvidia GPUs
- December 4
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- Meta turns to nuclear power for AI training — asking for developer proposals for small modular reactors or larger nuclear solutions
- Noctua shares a fan grill design that drops noise levels — 3D print your own 120mm fan grill like the one on the Seasonic x Noctua 1,600W power supply
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle requirements may put your PC in a museum — minimum requirements include ray-tracing GPU and a Core i7-10700K
- Shareholders pay up as Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger is reportedly set to depart with a $12 million golden handshake
- Intel's new Arc GPU naked in unsanctioned teardown pics — B580 has Nvidia Founders Edition-inspired cooler, BGM-G21 die surrounded by 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory
- The world's first Snapdragon X Elite mini-PC is in the works — Geekom teases new QS series mini-PCs with Snapdragon X Elite CPU
- Exclusive AMD partner reportedly hops on Intel's Arc bandwagon — new Onix brand is seemingly affiliated with Sapphire
- Pineboards announces Modulo series for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and 5
- Hands-on: Xreal One Series AR glasses announced with custom X1 spatial chip, more customization, and wider FOV
- Microsoft reiterates that it will not lower Windows 11 requirements — A TPM 2.0 compatible CPU remains "non-negotiable" for all future Windows versions
- AMD seemingly confirms Radeon RX 8600 and RX 8800 GPUs via ROCm Github update
- TSMC's N2 process has a major advantage over Intel's 18A: SRAM density
- Nvidia, flush with cash, looks to acquire new talent through mergers and acquisitions
- China's largest chip industry associations say it's unsafe to buy US chips — warnings come in the wake of new US sanctions
- Intel's next CEO could be Lip-Bu Tan, a former member of the board who reportedly clashed with Gelsinger about strategy
- Biostar X870E Valkyrie Review: Still improving, still a ways to go
- December 3
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- This dazzling Raspberry Pi Christmas light show is incredible
- Apple Touch Bar turns into a $119 standalone gadget — Flexbar features a 10-inch aluminum body with a 2K AMOLED display that communicates with a USB-C cable
- Discrete GPU sales dip while Nvidia continues to dominate — iGPUs increase while discrete GPUs decline
- Game played on a 3D dental scanner with an old Intel CPU and AMD GPU — up to 700 FPS on Counter-Strike: Source
- Seasonic x Noctua turn to keychain merch after their successful 1,600W power supply collab
- RTX 4060 Ti transformed into a 65W GPU with a passive mod — a downclocked GPU and VRAM reduces power consumption from 160W to 65W
- Chinese chip firms say a new round of US sanctions won’t stop China’s chip industry — Chinese government responds with its own export restrictions anyways
- Two internet cables connecting Sweden and Finland suffered damage — one caused by construction, the other still under investigation
- MSI's new Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ bring Intel Lunar Lake performance to handhelds
- AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT has a 220W TDP according to Seasonic's online PSU calculator — two 8-pin power plugs required, it says
- Intel announces the Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs priced at $249 and $219 — Battlemage brings much-needed competition to the budget graphics card market
- FSP Hydro G Pro 1000W ATX 3.0 PSU Review
- Samsung prepares to unveil 10th generation V-NAND with 400+ layers — ready to power future PCIe 5.0 and 6.0 SSDs
- Purported TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers (Updated)
- December 2
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- Corsair's 3000D and 4000D series cases are on sale for Cyber Monday, starting as low as $59
- Get 32GB of high-speed DDR5-7200 C34 RAM for $97 on Cyber Monday — or spend an extra $11 for RGB
- The 4TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus can be yours for $249.99 — pay just 6 cents per gigabyte with a 28% discount this Cyber Monday
- The Asus ROG Strix G16 RTX 4060 (2024) gaming laptop is only $1099
- WD Red Plus 10TB NAS HDD hits its lowest-ever price point for Cyber Monday — Just $146
- Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20 terabyte hard drive is 2-cent-per-GB on Cyber Monday — $329 HDD has a five-year warranty, three years of free data recovery service
- Billion Electric 4G/LTE routers patched to plug catastrophic CVSS level 10 severity flaw
- Cooler Master's 4K 160 Hz monitor is 75% off — 27-inch mini LED panel hits all-time low $200 for Cyber Monday
- Lunar Lake-equipped Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition drops to a historical low of $930 — Lenovo slashes price by 32% this Cyber Monday
- The Best Cyber Monday hard drive deals include 20TB capacities at $0.02 per GB
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires, effective immediately — two co-CEOs step in
- U.S. ratchets up sanctions to curtail China's AI and military tech — no more HBM memory for China
- You can now get a 240mm liquid cooler with LCD display for under $100 - Corsair's AIO hits record low price for Cyber Monday
- In a bid to compete with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and Samsung invest $700 million in AI chip startup Tenstorrent
- Corsair Vengeance i7500 gaming desktop is a Cyber Monday bargain at $1,359 with 14600KF and Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU
- Best Cyber Monday Monitor Deals You Can Still Get in 2024
- December 1
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- Best Cyber Monday SSD and HDD Deals You Can Still Get: Sales on Internal and External Drives
- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D, the best AM4 gaming CPU available, is just $199 for Cyber Monday
- The Alienware AW3423DWF QD-OLED, our best ultrawide gaming monitor, is now only $649 for Cyber Monday
- Get the most affordable RTX 4050 laptop for just $599 — The Acer Nitro V 15 plunges to an all-time low this Cyber Monday
- WebScreen is a compact webcam-sized AMOLED second screen for those without the room or inclination to use multiple monitors
- Graphics card repairer laments 'catastrophic failure' of customer's RTX 4090 volt mod and thermal paste overdose
- Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB at all-time low $224 — less than $16 per terabyte, five-year warranty, three-year free data recovery
- Score 10 terabytes of speedy storage for an all-time low $170 — Seagate BarraCuda Pro has five-year warranty, two years of free data recovery services, and exceptional performance
- Seagate's 14TB External HDD is still available for just 1 cent per gigabyte
- The Samsung Odyssey G5 WQHD curved gaming monitor at all-time low $299 for Cyber Monday
- This 32GB RAM kit is selling for an all-time low, great for an AMD system upgrade — T-Force 32GB DDR5-6000 memory kit with good timings available for $87
- These four portable monitors are at all-time low prices for Black Friday Weekend: Get a second screen for your PC or console for as little as $49 before Cyber Monday
- ASML made a $230 Lego kit version of its $380 million semiconductor tool — world's first High-NA EUV machine immortalized in small form for your mantle
- Update your AMD gaming PC with this $99 RAM Kit — 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance only for Cyber Monday
- Linux AMD patch fixes glacial boot times for some Zen 1 and 2 computers — time saved ranges from seconds to multiple minutes
- Open-source OpenWrt One router released at $89 — 'hacker-friendly device' sports two Ethernet ports, three USB ports, with dual-band Wi-Fi 6
- Intel Arc B580 GPU exposed by reviewer as Intel and AIBs subtly tease Battlemage's Dec 3 launch