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- January 31
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- Exacluster with 144 Nvidia H200 AI GPUs detailed by its designer: Hydra Host enters the scene
 - Most RTX 50-series GPUs sold out in five minutes at Newegg — entire inventory evaporated in just 20 minutes
 - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet President Trump at White House today
 - Pick up an iBUYPOWER desktop PC (with RTX 4070 Super) for a fraction of the price of an RTX 5090 — now just $1,399
 - Intel co-CEO confirms Nova Lake is on track for 2026 — some parts will be produced externally
 - U.S. investigates whether DeepSeek smuggled Nvidia AI GPUs via Singapore
 - ViewSonic VX1655-4K-OLED portable monitor review: 4K OLED goodness in a slim package
 - Nvidia's RTX 50-series drivers feel half-baked, focus too much on MFG
 - This old phone reads poetry to you using a Raspberry Pi Zero
 - Nvidia introduces DLSS Smooth Motion, DLSS Override, improved model for RTX Video Super Resolution reduces VSR power consumption by 30%
 - Microsoft releases new Surface Copilot+ PCs for Business — starts at $1,499.99 and powered by Intel Lunar Lake chips
 - Asus publishes GeForce RTX 5090 prices: $3,099 for range-topping model
 - Intel delays key Xeon data center processor amid massive losses — Clearwater Forest pushed back to 1H 2026
 - Intel cancels Falcon Shores GPU for AI workloads — Jaguar Shores to be successor
 
 - January 30
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- Seagate responds to fraudulent hard drives scandal, says resellers should only buy from certified partners
 - A GPU deal you can get your hands on today — grab the ASRock Creator Radeon RX 7900XTX for $864
 - XPG Fusion Titanium 1600 Power Supply Review
 - RTX 50-series paper launch saw RTX 5090, RTX 5080 fly off the shelves — Micro Center, Best Buy, and Newegg are all out of stock
 - Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed
 - Reviewer reports RTX 5080 FE instability — PCIe 5.0 signal integrity likely the culprit
 - Microsoft Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs get local DeepSeek-R1 support — Intel, AMD in the works
 - The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) OLED gaming laptop with RTX 4060 is now $500 off
 - Chinese chipmaker ships record-breakers: YMTC quietly begins shipping 5th Gen 3D TLC NAND
 - Asus comments on Q-Release Slim damaging GPUs, issues official removal guidelines
 - Aurora supercomputer is now fully operational, available to researchers
 - Rapidus to reportedly install 10 EUV chipmaking tools at its fab in Japan
 
 - January 29
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- Nvidia stock drops again thanks to rumors of expanded China chip sanctions by Trump administration
 - AMD claims RX 7900 XTX outperforms RTX 4090 in DeepSeek benchmarks
 - Apple silicon is vulnerable to side-channel speculative execution attacks "FLOP" and "SLAP"
 - AMD released instructions for running DeepSeek on Ryzen AI CPUs and Radeon GPUs
 - Comcast's L4S low-latency tech promises up to a 78% latency reduction, testing begins in select cities
 - Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's startup chose China's DeepSeek instead of OpenAI
 - Wake up in style with this Raspberry Pi Pico Game Boy Pokémon-themed alarm clock
 - Japanese retailer will host a lottery to give buyers a chance to purchase an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080
 - Creality K2 Plus Review: Now in Color
 - Spitballing Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU die manufacturing costs — die could cost as little as $290 to make
 - Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5080 graphics card - when they come back in stock
 - AI research team claims to reproduce DeepSeek core technologies for $30 — relatively small R1-Zero model has remarkable problem-solving abilities
 - Huawei adds DeepSeek-optimized inference support for its Ascend AI GPUs
 - TSMC founder says Tim Cook told him in 2011 that Intel did not know how to be a foundry
 - MSI delays RTX 5090 shipments until February 6 — Prebookings go live on January 30
 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition review: Incremental gains over the previous generation
 - Lenovo Legion R27fc-30 27-inch 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Remarkable performance and value
 - Microsoft and OpenAI investigate whether DeepSeek illicitly obtained data from ChatGPT
 - US introduces act to add tax credits for chip designers, extends credits for chip production, too
 - German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
 
 - January 28
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- Lucky buyer snags a RTX 4070 Super for $350 in Walmart clearance sale
 - January Windows security updates are breaking audio on PCs using external DACs
 - Chinese-made DeepSeek AI model records extensive online user data, stores it in China-based servers
 - DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA for some functions, uses Nvidia's assembly-like PTX programming instead
 - Nvidia says 'Press Build'-stamped GPU dies in RTX 5090s are not juiced up — performance is identical to retail counterparts
 - Nvidia finally admits looming RTX 50-series GPU shortage — RTX 5090, RTX 5080 stockouts may happen
 - Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise
 - AMD-powered NUC appears to be in the works — Ryzen AI Max 395+ powered mini-PC spotted
 - AMD denies 9070 XT leaked prices — '$899 USD starting price point was never part of the plan'
 - Crucial's X9 Pro 2TB external SSD is now only $119 — fast and portable storage
 - Cyberpunk 2077 SteamDB page indicates that the Apple MacOS port is just around the corner
 - ViewSonic VG1656N portable monitor review: Delivering wireless freedom
 - Taiwan's Economy Ministry responds to Trump's threat of up to 100% tariffs on chips, including those from TSMC
 - Best Buy lists RTX 5080s from Gigabyte at up to 40% higher than MSRP — just one model at $999
 - Nvidia loses $589 billion in market cap — broad stock plunge triggered by DeepSeek AI release
 - Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger loads up on Nvidia stock, says the market's reaction to DeepSeek is wrong
 - Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC
 
 - January 27
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- Maxsun RTX 5060 Ti EEC filings show 8GB, 16GB models — 2016 wants its VRAM capacity back
 - Raspberry Pi Pico secure delivery box helps protect your packages
 - Microsoft OneDrive for Business allegedly keeps OCR'ed data in an unprotected format
 - Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 buyers are already camping at Micro Center three days before launch
 - Be Quiet Light Base 900 DX Case Review: Innovative design with lots of space
 - 8BitDo's retro console-inspired keyboard is at its all-time low price of $59 — again
 - Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked
 - Intel quietly slashes prices of Xeon 6 CPUs by up to $5,340
 - DLSS Swapper now updates FSR, XeSS, and DLSS, too — Supports all major upscaling/frame gen technologies
 - Offloading Lossless Scaling Frame-Gen to secondary GPU eliminates overhead
 - AMD RX 9000 series will focus on desktop GPUs first — RDNA 4 mobility offerings to follow later
 - Nvidia RTX 5090D experiment bakes the label off a 750W SFX power supply
 - AMD slides claim Strix Halo can beat the RTX 4070 laptop GPU by up to 68% in modern games
 
 - January 26
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- Fujifilm to double spending on chip materials as U.S., Japan and South Korea up chip production
 - Modder creates the Steam Brick — a stripped-down Steam Deck with only a power button and a USB
 - Intel concerned about Irish energy costs says report — wants gov to subsidize renewables
 - This Asus TUF 27-inch QHD gaming monitor is now only $199 at Amazon
 - Linux kernel source expands beyond 40 million lines – it has doubled in size in a decade
 - A version of Snake only playable with a microscope has been made — Meet Subpixel Snake
 - SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Review: High RISC
 - MSI MAG B860 Tomahawk Wifi Motherboard Review: A more affordable Z890 alternative
 - MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 5 adds Nvidia RTX 50 plus initial Arrow Lake and Zen 5 support
 - Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11
 - MSI optimizes affordable Intel 800 mobos for China's first homegrown DDR5 memory chips
 - AMD FSR 3.1 game titles 'should just work' with FSR 4 drop-in DLL file replacement hints leaker
 
 - January 25
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- More Xbox first-party games will come to PlayStation and Nintendo — Xbox hardware will remain
 - GB202 die shot beautifully showcases Blackwell in all its glory — GB202 is 24% larger than AD102
 - Nvidia Broadcast upgrade brings studio-grade mic and lighting features
 - Intel game bundle aims to boost Arrow Lake, Raptor Lake CPU sales — codes for Civ 7, AC: Shadows
 - Meta to build 2GW data center with over 1.3 million Nvidia AI GPUs — invest $65B in AI in 2025
 - Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme is available for a record-low price of $449
 - $150 PS1-inspired console runs PlayStation games natively — supports PS1 memory cards, controllers
 - Microsoft reveals improved Windows 11 battery icons and percentage toggle settings
 - RTX 5080 outperforms RTX 4080 by 10% in Blender benchmark — only 8% higher than RTX 4080 Super
 - RTX 5090D overclocked to 3.4 GHz consumes 1,000W — beats dual RTX 3090 Ti and quad GTX 1080 Ti
 - Espresso Display 15 Portable Monitor Review: Can’t touch this
 - BOE reportedly mulls producing glass substrates for China's CPUs — new focus on semiconductors
 - China-exclusive Arrow Lake CPU poses for photos — Core Ultra 5 230F debuts in sleek, black box
 
 - January 24
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- Third Chinese company begins HBM memory production for AI processors: Report
 - Vendors safeguard 16-pin connector on RTX 5090 with thermal pads — helps dissipate excess heat
 - Samsung's massive 55-inch Odyssey Ark 4K OLED gaming monitor drops to $1,799
 - RTX 5090 runs 2°C hotter with thermal paste than liquid metal — Arctic MX-6 vs. stock LM tested
 - RTX 5090 scalpers sell Blackwell flagship GPU for up to $7,000 — 2X-3X scalper markup over MSRP
 - Nvidia starts phasing out Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs — GeForce driver support status unclear
 - Zen 5-powered gaming handheld launches with modular controller design — Ayaneo 3 starts at $699
 - The new Doom's RT system requirements may ignite The Dark Ages for your wallet
 - Maker builds their own pocket sequencer using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2
 - Student builds open-source laptop in 6 months — uses 4K AMOLED screen and has 7h battery life
 - Asus' Q-Release Slim feature is reportedly damaging some GPU PCIe connectors
 - India set to launch its first semiconductor chip based on 28nm this year
 - Intel proposes easily repairable and sustainable modular PC design for laptops and mini PCs
 - Chinese semiconductor production equipment makers set sales records
 
 - January 23
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- Seeed Studio debuts Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe 3.0 HAT with dual M.2 slots for $45
 - Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 patch adds DLSS 4 support days before RTX 50 series debut
 - Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5090 graphics card
 - US retailer lists RX 9070 preorders starting March 23 — AMD ad suggests RDNA 4 was set for January
 - Nvidia RTX 5080 is reportedly available in Vietnam — RTX 5080 build on hold without driver support
 - Corsair USB4 external SSD boasts speeds up to 4,000 MB/s — $139 for 1TB, $199 for 2TB, $359 for 4TB
 - RTX 5080 is 22% faster than the RTX 4080 per leaked benchmarks — falls short of the RTX 4090
 - Logitech repair program offers OEM replacement parts for 20+ devices — available in 62 countries
 - Company develops copper-diamond composite for better heatsink cooling — lower CPU and GPU temps
 - Chinese hackers compromise South Korean VPN — malicious code found inside NSIS installer
 - Noctua pitches its PC fans as home heating boosters — active fans beat natural convection
 - Nvidia's RTX Blackwell workstation GPU spotted with 96GB GDDR7 — ProViz GPU with a 512-bit bus
 - MSI's silent switch mechanical keyboard debuts at $79.99 — switches with noise levels below 35dB
 - After 18 years, Sony's recordable Blu-ray media production draws to a close — will shut last factory in Feb (Updated)
 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review: Blackwell commences its reign with a few stumbles
 - SK hynix posts record revenues and profits as AI industry drives surge in HBM3 and HBM3E demand
 - UK reseller claims single-digit RTX 5090 inventory — Flagship GPU could sell out in seconds
 - Samsung to cut foundry investment in half, to $3.5B, says report — Rivals expected to invest more
 - In 1991, after a 28-hour coding spree, the efforts of John Carmack 'Doomed' us all
 - AMD RX 9070 series to benefit from 'maximum performance' tuning ahead of touted March release
 
 - January 22
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- Nvidia shows off gigantic quad-slot RTX 5090 FE cooler prototype in new video
 - Crucial P310 SSD with heatsink carries a $30 to $40 premium — $105 for 1TB and $160 for 2TB
 - Nvidia RTX 5090 FE reviews go live tomorrow at 6 AM PST — Custom AIB models will follow a day later
 - Earthquake may have affected 20,000 TSMC wafers — the majority will likely have to be scrapped
 - Case that folds around a mini-ITX motherboard launches on January 30 — 200W 80 Plus PSU included
 - Sega launches new Sega Account online system — benefits and rewards for Sega and Atlus titles
 - RTX 5070 Ti may hit the market on February 20 — European retailer confirms imminent launch
 - Gigabyte gaming mouse allegedly goes up in flames — scorched device left a hole on user's desk
 - MSI MAG A550BN Power Supply Review
 - RTX 5090 is allegedly 39% faster than RTX 4090 in 3DMark benchmarks — beats RX 7900 XTX by 93%
 - Wine 10.0, the latest Windows compatibility layer for Linux, has a stable release
 - Maker resurrects Toshiba T1000 with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a slew of upgrades
 - Windows 11 Insider Build addresses mouse stuttering, Auto HDR issues, other annoyances
 - This budget 1440p gaming PC is only $899 at Best Buy — the MSI Codex Z2 packs an RTX 4060 Ti and AMD Ryzen CPU
 - Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank to invest $500 billion in 'Stargate' AI project
 - Nvidia confident that RTX 50 series power connectors unlikely to melt despite higher TDP
 - China's second-largest foundry hires former Intel executive to lead advanced node development
 
 - January 21
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- Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3+ extended
 - AI will drive storage needs by 2x over next three years, according to survey funded by Seagate
 - Energizer announces affordable EnergyBook Classic laptops starting at a suspiciously low $199
 - Silverstone supports four NVMe M.2 SSDs in a single-slot PCIe card
 - Raijintek debuts MGA-68 aluminum hall-effect keyboard with 8,000 Hz polling rate
 - AMD exec reveals Ryzen 9 9950X3D, Ryzen 9 9900X3D gaming performance — similar to Ryzen 7 9800X3D
 - Intel ships Nova Lake CPUs to partners for testing — samples intended for validation and research
 - Fujitsu claims the world’s lightest Copilot+ laptop at 1.87 lbs — device is under an inch thick
 - Pick up an Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 gaming laptop with RTX 4070 graphics for only $1,099
 - AMD seeks input from users for ROCm GPU support list — RX 6000 RDNA 2 GPUs most highly requested
 - RTX 5090 prototype allegedly has 24,576 CUDA cores and 800W TDP — two 16-pin connectors present
 - Lenovo's grenade-styled external SSD looks certain to delay you at airport security
 - E-ink screen performance hits 60 Hz with 10.3-inch portable touchscreen monitor from Dasung
 - Bambu Lab: We’re not Bricking Your X1-Carbon
 - TSMC restores operations after magnitude 6.4 quake halts production in Taiwan
 - AMD Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards global rollout set for March, confirms AMD exec
 
 - January 20
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- Silicon Motion is developing a next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSD controller
 - Most GeForce Now tiers are currently sold out — Nvidia blames high demand for unavailability
 - New MSI promotion offers up to $100 Steam codes with hardware purchases
 - Vendor rolls out two new decade-old Nvidia GT 730 GPUs — 2GB and 4GB models, starting at $45
 - RTX 5090 FE unboxing reveals eco-friendly packaging — an inkless box made of paper fibers
 - US AI Diffusion Policy may harm Nvidia's sales — most of the chipmaker's AI GPUs are affected
 - 3D printer 'bone filament' simulates real bones, helps surgeons practice operations
 - Overclocker hits DDR5-12054 on pure air cooling — DDR5-8000 RAM maxed out without exotic cooling
 - The Corsair MP600 Mini 2TB SSD is now only $193 at Amazon
 - Fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are circulating in China — MSI China alerts buyers of new Zen 5 scam
 - Raspberry Pi Pico Game Boy Printer emulates the original to a T
 - MSI's upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs to feature yellow-tipped 16-pin power adapters
 - Liquid Web VPS Hosting Review: Very Fast
 - NATO deploys 'sea drones' to safeguard undersea cable infrastructure
 - Nvidia's mid-January GPU driver update addresses several vulnerabilities and exploits
 - Nvidia hints DLSS 4 Frame Generation may extend support to past GPUs, including RTX 30 Series
 
 - January 19
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- Maker turns old Roomba vacuum into a Raspberry Pi-powered AI dog-feeding robot
 - Snag this budget Asus TUF Gaming 24-inch IPS monitor for just $79 at Walmart
 - The first-ever ransomware dropped 35 years ago disguised as a floppy sharing 'AIDS Information'
 - Bambu Lab Security Update will remove OrcaSlicer’s Access
 - Nvidia's Huang enjoys 'trillion dollar banquet' with 35 Taiwanese semiconductor industry chiefs
 - Vertigo Mk1 3D printer crowdfunder touts auto-eject, bed-clearing, and more for $2,250
 - Doom ported to a standalone Microsoft Word document — plays well but there's no sound
 - The Asus RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming has allegedly been unboxed, suggesting ready stock at retailers
 - RayNeo Air 2s Review: Truly basic AR glasses saved by affordable pricing
 - Trump administration will back CHIPS and Science Act hints outgoing Commerce Secretary
 
 - January 18
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- Chinese hackers infiltrated US Treasury Secretary's PC — attackers had access to over 400 PCs
 - New UEFI vulnerability bypasses Secure Boot — bootkits stay undetected even after OS re-install
 - EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app
 - Raspberry Pi 4 brings the Raspberry Pi stream deck to life
 - Get your hands on this Ryzen 9, RTX 4060 gaming laptop for $1,099
 - Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade
 - Microsoft auto-updates consumer PCs to Windows 11 24H2 — you can defer the update for five weeks
 - New York proposes background checks for 3D printer purchases — the bill combats 3D-printed guns
 - The FTC is concerned about Big Tech-AI startup partnerships — Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms
 - OrangePi 4A Review: Coming for the king
 - Thunderbolt 5 dock comes with built-in PCIe 4.0 SSD and four TB5 ports — pricing starts at $399
 - AMD Ryzen 5 7400F sells for $115 in China — US availability and pricing remains a mystery
 - Montech’s Heritage Pro case is like a designer handbag for your Micro ATX PC
 - RTX 5090 beats RTX 4090 by 36% in the Blender benchmark — RTX 5090D is 40% faster than RTX 4090D
 - Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and previous-gen chips
 
 - January 17
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- Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal
 - Custom RTX 5090, RTX 5080 listed for up to $2,800 and $1,400 overseas — initial pricing exceeds MSRP
 - Analysts halve Nvidia Blackwell cabinet shipment forecasts for 2025 — prediction contrasts AI boom
 - GlobalFoundries to expand New York fab — announces new $575 million advanced packaging and photonics facility
 - Elgato's Stream Deck+ is now $169 at Amazon - Save $30 on this content creation peripheral
 - AM5 copper guard stops you from making a mess on your Ryzen CPU — also improves heat dissipation
 - AMD preps 32-core and 64-core Threadripper 9000 CPUs — Shimada Peak resurfaces once again
 - RTX 5090 exhibits 27% higher CUDA performance than RTX 4090 — exceeds 500K points in Geekbench
 - This Raspberry Pi handheld emulator looks like a Nintendo Switch but it can play many more games
 - Bureaucracy and distance mean TSMC's U.S. fabs may always be behind Taiwan
 - Thermalright Grand Vision 360 Review: It’s not a competition, it is a massacre (again)
 - PCIe standards group releases draft specification for PCIe 7.0 — full release expected in 2025
 - Apple joins UALink Consortium for open-standard AI accelerator interconnections
 - TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 mass produces 4nm chips at a higher price than Taiwan
 
 - January 16
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- Nvidia's RTX 5090, 5080 reportedly have the same L1 cache size per SM compared to RTX 4090, 4080
 - China investigates whether CHIPS and Science Act harms its chip companies
 - Maker turns Raspberry Pi into a wireless USB flash drive for an embroidery machine
 - Cooler Master's tiny NCore 100 Max SFF ITX case hits an all-time low on Amazon
 - China-tailored RTX 5090D has AI and cryptomining limiters — multi-GPU config is also locked
 - G.Skill releases DDR5-6400 C30 96GB memory kit — 64GB and 48GB kits are also in the works
 - Ryzen Z2 Go is seemingly 10% slower than Ryzen Z1 Extreme — Legion Go S clashes with ROG Ally X
 - Nvidia shifts to CoWoS-L packaging for Blackwell GPU production ramp-up
 - Retro PC case flaunts floppy disk-style bay cover — Silverstone FLP01 will sell for around $130
 - Parallels adds x86 OS support for Apple Silicon — you can now run x86 Windows and Linux distros
 - Starlink touts $9 a month 5GB data cap plan to Australian users — marketed as a 'Backup' option
 - Montech Heritage is a premium PC case featuring synthetic leather and a carrying strap for $89
 - Swedish Army's AI drone swarm tech allows one operator to control up to 100 devices
 - Intel Arc B570 review featuring the ASRock Challenger OC: A decent budget option with a few deep cuts
 - New export regs may see Israel requiring a license to buy U.S. chips developed in the country
 - Asus ProArt PA27JCV 5K professional monitor review: Redefining pixel density and color accuracy
 - China's Cambricon posts first profit as demand for this Nvidia rival's AI processors explodes
 
 - January 15
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- Nvidia reportedly prioritizing dual-die Blackwell GPUs with CoWoS-L packaging
 - More than 251 million GPUs shipped in 2024, according to new research
 - Microsoft 365 users still on Windows 10 will be out of luck when Windows 10 is retired in October
 - Save $200 on Dell's exquisite 32-inch Alienware AW3225QF 4K OLED monitor with superfast 240Hz refresh rate
 - RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 specs reportedly leaked — up to 4,096 SPs, 16GB VRAM, and 2.9 GHz boost
 - Benchmarking Blackwell and RTX 50-series GPUs with Multi Frame Generation will require some changes, according to Nvidia
 - US bans sales of 14nm and 16nm chips with over 30 billion transistors to China
 - Nvidia Blackwell for creators and professionals — upgrades for editing video, images, audio, and more
 - Raspberry Pi powers this Meshtastic network BBS
 - Nvidia RTX AI PCs and generative AI for games — how the Blackwell GPUs and RTX 50-series aim to change the way we work and play
 - AMD silently introduces the Ryzen 5 7400F based on Raphael — Six Zen 4 cores, a boost clock of 4.7 GHz, and global availability
 - Netherlands tightens export controls on sanctioned semiconductor equipment — move made in line with U.S. limitations, ASML will apply for licenses from the Dutch government
 - Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series Founders Edition graphics cards — Details on the new design, cooling, and features of the reference models
 - Nvidia neural rendering deep dive — Full details on DLSS 4, Reflex 2, mega geometry, and more
 - Nvidia Blackwell architecture deep dive: A closer look at the upgrades coming with RTX 50-series GPUs
 - In a private letter to U.S. President Biden, semiconductor industry groups blast incoming export rules
 - Razer settles 'deceptive' marketing FTC lawsuit for over $1 million — 6,764 Zephyr mask buyers to get full refunds
 
 - January 14
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- Axiom Space pitches idea to produce chipmaking materials in space, plans trials aboard ISS
 - Scammer uses AI-generated images of Brad Pitt to swindle over $850K from 53-year-old French woman
 - Arc B570 GPU is 10% slower than B580 in Geekbench AI test — Battlemage tested ahead of release
 - You can get your hands on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D today if you bundle it with other components
 - Rare Ryzen 7 9800X3D emerges in bundles starting at $639 — one per buyer to prevent scalpers
 - Asus GPU power connector delivers 1,000W for cableless builds — GC-HPWR has a retractable design
 - Intel retires Alder Lake mobile CPUs, excluding HX-series — 12th Gen goes EOL starting April 25
 - Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Hacking Challenge results announced — four winners are each awarded the full $20K prize
 - EU protests new US AI chip restrictions — some countries face GPU caps
 - Arm crafts plan to raise prices by up to 300% — mulls designing own chips to rival competitors
 - Sapphire teases dual-fan RX 9070 XT GPU — may be the smallest custom RX 9070 XT
 - ASML-backed university suffers cyberattack — institution is the pipeline for ASML's talent needs
 - Doom ported to run directly from a PDF file — DoomPDF port runs at approximately 12.5 FPS
 - RTX 5090 hits 800 FPS in Valorant with sub-3ms latency — Reflex 2 reduces system latency by 75%
 - Gigabyte B850 Aorus Elite Wifi 7 Review
 - Apple will soon receive ‘made in America’ chips from TSMC's Arizona fab — company in final stages of quality verification
 - Researchers build a 3D printer optimized for space applications — Designed to work in a vacuum, the printer could be used to rapidly prototype components while in space
 - Qualcomm hires Intel's Xeon architect to lead development of server CPUs
 - China's SpacemiT develops 64-core RISC-V datacenter CPU — 12nm chip allegedly performs like a 10-year old Xen or Opteron but with higher core count
 - Modder tests if waiting 14,272 years will beat the classic Oregon Trail game
 - Nvidia ARM SoC for Windows machines reportedly debuting in Q4, featuring N1X, with N1 to follow in early 2026
 
 - January 13
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- RTX Titan Ada prototype allegedly surfaces with 18,432 CUDA cores and 48GB VRAM — GPU-Z screenshot shows a full AD102 GPU die
 - Snake game port is only 56 bytes big and and fits in a QR code
 - Taiwanese govt clears TSMC to make 2nm chips abroad — country lowers its 'Silicon Shield'
 - AMD's current flagship Ryzen 9 9950X processor is marked down to $589
 - Lenovo led global PC shipment in 2024 with 61.8 million units — Apple is gaining PC market share with a 17.3% growth
 - Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H outperforms the Ryzen AI 9 365 in user review — Alchemist+ offers a nice bump in synthetics, but gaming performance remains similar to Meteor Lake
 - Nvidia mobile Blackwell RTX 50 gaming laptops listed on Best Buy from $1,800 to $4,200 — paired with Intel Arrow Lake-HX and AMD Dragon Range Refresh CPUs
 - Truck with $1.8M in smuggled electronics seized by Hong Kong Customs — 670,000 undeclared chips and 80,000 PC hardware components
 - ROG NUC offers powerful performance in a smaller package than a PlayStation 5 — Asus pairs the RTX 5080 laptop GPU with a Core Ultra 9 mobile CPU
 - Maker designs custom Raspberry Pi 5 case using CNC machined aluminum for the ultimate cooling
 - Nvidia blasts Biden’s new AI restrictions as ‘misguided’ – GPU giant praises Trump’s hands-off approach to tech industry
 - AMD RX 9070 XT allegedly tested in Black Myth Wukong and Cyberpunk 2077 — RDNA 4 flagship purportedly lands 4% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti Super per limited testing
 - GMK shows off Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 powered EVO-X1 mini PC with OCuLink port for GPU — hints at future Ryzen AI Max+ 395 version
 - Aorus FO27Q2 240 Hz QHD QD-OLED review: Blinding speed and stunning color
 - Qualcomm is hiring a data center chip architect for Snapdragon-based reference server designs
 - Chinese university applies for undersea cable cutter patent — device developed by coastal university located across the sea from Taiwan
 
 - January 12
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- Microsoft prepares DirectX to support neural rendering for AI-powered graphics — a key feature of the update will be Cooperative Vector support
 - Intel i9-14900KF overclocker clinches CPU frequency world record at 9.12 GHz — Wytiwx joins Elmor as the only person to push a CPU past 9 GHz
 - Maker builds a Raspberry Pi 5 powered stereoscopic 3D video camera
 - Researchers 3D-print fully-functioning microscope in less than 3 hours — total system costs around $60, including lenses, camera, and Raspberry Pi
 - Modular AMD Hawk Point mini PC showcased at CES — its easy to swap the case panels, RAM, and dual-SSDs but the CPU is soldered
 - You can buy this AOC 27-inch Mini-LED 2K gaming monitor for just $249 at Amazon
 - Thunderbolt 5 dock with MXM graphics, M.2 SSD slot, lots of I/O debuts at CES – J5Create's device offers RTX 3060 and RX 7600M variants for about $1,400
 - Tetris packed inside a PDF file to run in any PC browser — Pdftris runs from a 60KB PDF
 - Intel to spin off RealSense depth camera business by mid-2025 — but it will remain part of the Intel Capital portfolio
 - Thunderbolt 5 equipped LaCie Rugged Pro5 SSD boasts 6,700 MB/s data transfers
 - Lossless Scaling 3 update touts greatly improved latency and performance — Universal Frame Gen tool boasts 24% reduced latency
 - TSMC ends contract with Singapore-based company over alleged Huawei ties
 - Graugear G-M2HP04-F NVMe Cooler Review: Two heatpipes and a fan deliver strong performance
 - Patriot celebrates 40th Anniversary with Viper Xtreme 5 DDR5-9600 CKD memory launch — Also has an Anniversary Special RAM kit alongside the iLuxe Stick C for Apple devices
 
 - January 11
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- Ryzen 7 9800X3D is selling like hotcakes at major German retailer — Mindfactory sold 8,700 CPUs in a single day
 - Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs power new 120 x 160mm COM-HPC modules from congatec — features up to 24 hybrid cores, 128GB of DDR5-4000 memory, and 32 EUs
 - Redditor allegedly purchased two Intel Arc B570 GPUs at Micro Center days before the official launch — the CPU couldn't recognize the GPUs due to the lack of driver support
 - Laptop stand created from a single sheet of recycled paper supports up to 10 pounds — the included cardboard case also serves as a phone stand
 - Mode Loop TKL (2024) Review: A Classy Classic in the Making
 - User runs an AI model on an Xbox 360 — 3-core PowerPC with 512 MB memory handles an AI model based on llama2.c
 - 3D Benchy’s new owner ruffles the community’s feathers
 - Maker builds Raspberry Pi jukebox and loads it full of custom music
 - Spanish retailer lists RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs, though the prices might be mere placeholders — RX 9070 for $912 and RX 9070 XT for $1,097
 - HPE lands $1 billion AI server order from Elon Musk
 - Take home this Ryzen 7, RTX 4050 gaming laptop for only $784
 - Pump-free 360mm AIO liquid cooler goes up for preorder at $419 — Threadripper variant caries an eye-watering $599 price tag
 - Exacluster reveals one of the industry's first clusters based on Nvidia's H200 Hopper GPUs for AI and HPC: 192 96-core CPUs
 - TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips — yield and quality reportedly on par with Taiwan fabs
 - High court ruling ends man's hopes of recovering $750M bitcoin hard drive from a Welsh landfill — hard drive storing 8,000 bitcoins was lost over 10 years ago
 
 - January 10
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- AMD chips now comprise 55 percent of Puget Systems orders — AMD makes big inroads in professional systems
 - Chinese hackers target US Treasury computers used for sanctions — Committee on Foreign Investment specifically targeted
 - Intel reveals Core Ultra Series 2 stock coolers with more conductive copper-base heatsinks
 - LG 27-Inch QHD UltraGear curved gaming monitor is on sale for $156
 - G.Skill showcases DDR5-10600 RAM overlock and DDR5-8133 CSODIMMs
 - Hacker successfully tests Toslink at unprecedented distances of up to 143 kilometers — separate test shows transmission speeds of about 1.47 Mb/s
 - Nvidia and SIA fire back at US gov's new export restrictions on AI GPUs to China
 - Zotac's Safety Light feature averts 16-pin power connector meltdowns on RTX 50 GPUs — the mechanism prevents GPU power-on until the cable is fully inserted
 - This 3D-printed Raspberry Pi all-in-one is made for portable gaming
 - Biwin Black Opal X570 Pro 4TB PCIe 5.0 — SSD using SM2508 controller, coming in March 2025
 - VLC demos AI-generated subtitles as it hits new milestone of 6 billion downloads
 - MSI MEG X870E Godlike Motherboard Review: Seven USB-C and M.2 sockets, $1100 price
 - Razer showcases Project Ava AI gaming co-pilot and Project Arielle gaming chair with heating and cooling functionality
 - AMD's Instinct MI325X smiles for the camera: 256 GB of HBM3E
 - AIO cooler prototype has room for action figures
 
 - January 9
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- Keyboard for writers has word-count odometer, sprint timer
 - AMD says Intel's 'horrible product' is causing Ryzen 7 9800X3D shortages
 - Altera officially announces independence from Intel — the company strives to expand FPGA portfolio
 - Best of CES 2025: Performance and Productivity
 - Quantum computing stocks tank as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts the tech won't be viable for another 20 years — stocks fell more than 40% for a total market value loss of over $8 billion
 - You can grab the Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB for just $79 on Amazon!
 - Lenovo to build $2 billion PC and server plant in Saudi Arabia
 - Valve seemingly discontinues Steam coupons — the company quietly removes partner documentation
 - Intel Twin Lake CPU powers Chuwi's new 2-in-1 laptop and tablet — MiniBook X N150 and Hi10 X N150 features quad-core Intel N150 CPU
 - Nvidia's $3,000 mini AI supercomputer draws scorn from Raja Koduri and Tiny Corp — AI server startup suggests users "just buy a gaming PC"
 - Asus' new NUC has a customizable, always-on E-Ink display on top — the army of five NUCs includes ultra-efficient to maximum performance and everything in between
 - Nvidia RTX 5090 laptop GPU undergoes multiple benchmark tests — flagship mobile GPU yields inconsistent results
 - More GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition mysteries revealed: backside of the PCB
 - Philips Evnia 27M2N8500 360 Hz QD-OLED review: Unmatched speed and response
 - Cooler Master showcases three new cases and a pre-built at CES 2025 — the cases cover a wide range of aesthetics, form factors, and sizes for every user
 - SK hynix to showcase 16-layer HBM3E, 122TB enterprise SSD, LPCAMM2, and more at CES
 - This Matrix inspired Raspberry Pi 5 case could be 'The One'
 - CES 2025 Day 2: Corsair Xeneon Edge auxiliary touchscreen, Project Zero motherboards, Gigabyte’s 2025 portfolio, and more
 - OneXPlayer G1 handheld gaming device packs up to a Strix Point or Arrow Lake-H processor — Top model has 64GB of RAM and 4TB of storage for $1,539
 - Arm considers acquisition of Oracle-backed Ampere Computing to expand data center footprint
 - Cooler Master reveals V-Series air coolers resembling high-performance engine blocks alongside new cooling solutions at CES
 - Imagination quits RISC-V CPU business to focus on GPUs and AI
 - Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Review: Plenty of memory
 - CES 2025 is the 40th anniversary of the Commodore 128 — the last 8-bit PC first appeared at CES 1985
 
 - January 8
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- Phison unveils next-generation high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD platform: PS5028-E28
 - AMD's first RDNA 4 GPU die pictured: Navi 48 around 390 mm2, targeting mainstream gamers
 - Unreleased RTX 4090 prototype disassembled — massive four-slot GPU has unique PCB layout and runs exceptionally cool
 - Adata gears up for 2025 with new PC cases, coolers, and PSUs at CES
 - Hyte shows off new PC cooling toys, including new Thicc Q80 AIO — contact frames and magnetic hubs displayed at CES 2025
 - RTX 5080 laptop GPU OpenCL score surpasses RTX 4090 laptop GPU and RX 7900 XTX — mobile Blackwell GPU nearly catches the RTX 3080 Ti
 - Radeon RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPU purportedly performs similar to RTX 4080 Super in CoD Black Ops 6
 - Snag this amazing Core i9, RTX 4070 gaming laptop for only $1,903
 - Radeon RX 9070 GPU preorders are seemingly scheduled for January 23 — Asus RTX 9070 and RX 9070 XT show up at US retailer, but pricing remains unknown
 - Micron invests $7 billion in HBM assembly facility amid AI boom
 - Gigabyte launches a new PC case, laptops, and monitors at CES 2025 — five high-end gaming laptops and two premium gaming monitors
 - MSI reveals Project Zero motherboards featuring concealed connectors — the trio of midrange motherboards include PZ variants of Tomahawk models
 - Raspberry Pi upgrades Lego retro radio into the real thing
 - This tiny Corsair touchscreen could change the way you view info on your PC
 - InWin shows off its upcoming Prism and Shift PC cases, and unique cooling fans at CES 2025
 - CES 2025 Day 1: New laptops from Lenovo, Snapdragon X for desktops, Wi-Fi 7 routers, and more
 - TSMC Arizona allegedly now producing AMD's Ryzen 9000 and Apple's S9 processors: Report
 - Creality unveils multicolor 3D printer for under $500
 - China starts Big Fund III spending: $47 billion for ecosystem and fab tools
 - Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 versus RTX 4090 — How does the new halo GPU compare with its predecessor?
 - Nvidia says Blackwell-based servers are in full production - 200 different configurations now available
 - ChatGPT was used to plan Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas — police release details on prompts used to decide crucial details
 
 - January 7
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- AMD quietly introduces Ryzen 5 9600 — non-X variant brings back Wraith Stealth cooler
 - Nvidia's powerful RTX 5090 PCB is amazingly small yet pumps 575W of power
 - Geekom introduces new Mini PCs at CES 2025 — Snapdragon X Elite, Ryzen AI 9, and Core Ultra 9 all represented
 - Jensen says DLSS 4 'predicts the future' to increase framerates without introducing latency (Updated: Nope)
 - Here's all the silicon AMD launched at CES 2025 - family die photos of Strix Halo, Krackan Point, Ryzen 9000X3D, Fire Range, and Hawk Point Refresh
 - Nvidia introduces RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 laptop GPUs — RTX 50 Blackwell goes mobile with up to 24GB of GDDR7 memory
 - Netgear's Orbi 870 rounds out its premium Wi-Fi 7 mesh router family
 - Snapdragon X Arm chips are coming to the desktop PC market — Lenovo launches two new mini-PCs powered by Qualcomm
 - Asus’s new Zenbook A14 weighs just 2.18 pounds, boasts 32 hours of endurance
 - RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the only SKU that meets Nvidia SFF-Ready requirements
 - Gigabyte releases 27 new Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs at CES 2025 — 3 Aorus Radeon RX 9000 GPUs also announced
 - Razer updates Blade 16 gaming laptop with flagship RTX 5090 and Ryzen 9 HX 370 hardware
 - Chinese company accused of shipping kamikaze drone parts to Russia through elaborate re-selling and rebranding scheme
 - Asus ROG Rapture GT-BE19000AI launches as world’s first AI-powered gaming router with built-in NPU
 - MSI shows off cable-free panoramic PC at CES 2025 — Project Zero X uses radical orientation for GPU and motherboard
 - Nvidia's Blackwell flagship GPU uses liquid metal instead of thermal paste to reign in the 575W TGP
 - Lenovo is bringing its rollable, expandable-screen laptop to market – ThinkBook Plus Gen 6’s display gets taller with the press of a button or the wave of a hand
 - Lenovo’s new ThinkPad X9 laptop ditches the TrackPoint and familiar keyboard in favor of MacBook aesthetic
 - Lenovo's new Yoga 9 laptops include an in-display webcam, dual 14-inch OLED Book 9i with a bigger battery
 - Lenovo’s Legion Go S handheld is powered by AMD’s Z2 Go, runs SteamOS or Windows
 - Micron's new PCIe 5.0 SSD promises longer battery life — DDR5 portfolio also gains higher capacity CUDIMMs and CSODIMMs
 - Raspberry Pi Baby Logger helps keep track of feeding, sleeping and everything in between
 - MSI announces a plethora of new cases, coolers and accessories at CES 2025
 - Razer's PC-adjacent CES lineup includes a monitor stand, lights, and a chair with integrated heating and cooling
 - CES 2025 Day 0: Nvidia RTX 50 Series GPUs, Arrow Lake goes mobile, Ryzen 9 9950X3D, Dell retires XPS branding
 - Nvidia cuts down the China-specific RTX 5090D AI TOPS performance by almost 23% to meet US export guidelines
 - Asus introduces flagship ROG Astral RTX 50-series GPUs alongside ROG Strix, TUF and Prime models
 - Raspberry Pi 5 powers motorized keyboard that changes layout based on hand gestures
 - Nvidia DLSS 4 is the magic bullet behind the RTX 50-series' touted 2X performance — Reflex 2, Multi Frame Gen AI tools come to the fore
 - Asus first to announce Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards
 - Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 at $549 — How does it stack up to the previous generation RTX 4070?
 - Nvidia's Project Digits desktop AI supercomputer fits in the palm of your hand — $3,000 to bring 1 PFLOPS of performance home
 - Nvidia announces RTX 5090 for $1,999, 5070 for $549 — plus AI, DLSS 4, and more
 - Asus unveils full suite of RTX 5000 series gaming laptops, complete with 100% DCI-P3 screens
 - HP’s new Omen gaming monitors include 280 Hz IPS Black and Google TV options
 - Acer’s new Predator Helios gaming laptops up the ante on performance and RGB – RTX 50 series and Intel Core 200HX CPUs meet a disco’s worth of glowing RGB
 - MSI’s New gaming laptops include a Norse-themed Titan Dragon Edition, translucent Cyborg
 - HP's latest Omen 16 laptops, Omen 16L gaming desktop offer compact, understated design and AMD or Intel CPU options
 - Acer’s Predator X323QX elevates 16:9 gaming to 5K at 144Hz
 - New Alienware Area-51 laptops have a Gorilla Glass window, color-shifting paint job
 - Alienware unleashes 27-inch AW2725Q QD-OLED 4K 240Hz gaming monitor for gamers who like high ppi
 - HyperX wants you to print your own mouse
 - Intel shows off working Panther Lake systems at CES — Xe3 GPU cores power Intel sneak peek
 - AMD explains the missing RDNA 4 GPUs in its CES 2025 livestream
 
 - January 6
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- US DoD adds CXMT, CATL, Tencent to list of companies suspected of aiding the Chinese military
 - Thermaltake's new case fan has built-in temperature sensor to help adjust its speed
 - Intel lists non-K and T-series Core Ultra 200S processors for desktop PCs
 - Intel announces H810 and B860 budget chipsets for Core Ultra 200 CPUs
 - AMD announces Ryzen Z2 series processors for handhelds — more performance, better efficiency, coming soon
 - AMD RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs revealed: Targeting mainstream price and performance with improved AI and ray tracing
 - Acer’s eco-friendly Vero 16 laptop is made from oyster shells and recycled plastic
 - Dell kills XPS and Optiplex brands, adopts Apple-inspired three-tiered naming scheme for its PCs
 - Acer’s gaming handhelds go big with 9- and 11-inch displays – Nitro Blaze 8, Blaze 11 pack AMD 8840HS CPUs
 - AMD Launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon
 - AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops
 - AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors
 - AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores
 - Intel is sampling 18A-based Panther Lake with customers — Intel Foundry's 18A node and CPUs are on track for 2H 2025 launch
 - HDMI 2.2 and DisplayPort 2.1b display standards announced, offering greater bandwidth and strict cable requirements
 - Asus introduces its first AMD Apex motherboard for Ryzen CPUs — Crosshair X870E Apex brings extreme overclocking features to the AM5 platform
 - Elon Musk confirms that Grok 3 is coming soon — pretraining took 10X more compute power than Grok 2 on 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
 - Computer used in the first QDOS demo to Bill Gates showcased in video
 - Florida experiences a huge 1,150% surge in VPN use as Pornhub blocks access in response to age-verification law
 - United Airlines to roll out Starlink for passengers this Spring — download speeds up to 220 Mbps
 - Chinese freighter suspected of damaging undersea Internet cable connecting the US and Taiwan
 - Qualcomm teases mini desktop PC, announces 8-core Snapdragon X chip to bring Arm-powered Windows CoPilot+ laptops down to ~$600
 - Samsung showcases world’s first 18.1-inch foldable OLED display
 - Intel launches Arrow Lake mobile family with Core Ultra 200HX and 200H processors for gaming laptops
 - UK chipmaker Imagination Technologies up for sale — UKCT accuses current owners of stripping the company of its key technologies
 - This Raspberry Pi Pico W-powered Inky Frame display will help keep you organized
 - Alleged RTX 5080 retail packaging surfaces hours before CES — The GPU reportedly features 16GB of GDDR7 memory and Gainward is preparing for retail launch
 - Intel Battlemage and Arc B-series GPUs: Specifications, release dates, pricing, and everything we know
 - Linux-powered handheld computer connects to Raspberry Pi HATs, snap-on modules
 
 - January 5
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- Maker builds drum machine from scratch using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2
 - U.S. uncovers hacking campaign targeting Guam's critical infrastructure — suspected Chinese Volt Typhoon hacks could disrupt the defense of Taiwan
 - Commodore 64 gets a true Full-HD HDMI plus stereo sound daughterboard
 - Chinese Nvisen GX06 mini-PC channels the Apple Mac mini M4's sleek design — but this Windows 11 PC with Core i9-12900H and RTX 4050 seems expensive at $820
 - This Lenovo Legion Pro 7i RTX 4080 gaming laptop is now only $2,879 at Amazon
 - MSI Afterburner author says triple fan RTX 5080 GPUs will have three independent fan controllers — Async speed control support for all three fans to arrive in an upcoming release
 - Intel discontinues its weakest stock cooler – RS1 Laminar cooler was only used for the Pentium G7400 and Celeron G6900
 - TSMC's wafer pricing now $18,000 for a 3nm wafer, increased over 3X in 10 years: Analyst
 - Arrow Lake-H powered LG Gram Pro 17 2025 allegedly tested and torn down — Reviewer disassembles the machine and reports that Blackwell RTX 5050 GPUs are expected to arrive in May
 - American lab is developing a BAT laser that could enable 'beyond EUV' lithography, provide 10X power efficiency boost
 - Arm PC market share won't rise above 13% in 2025 says ABI Research
 - Koorui to demo the 'world's first' 750 Hz gaming monitor at CES — TN panel device gets welcome color boost with the latest QD film
 - Microsoft surprises analysts with massive $80B AI investment plans for 2025
 
 - January 4
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- Intel Razer Lake, Nova Lake, and Wildcat Lake CPU PCI IDs added to Linux
 - Maker designs Raspberry Pi GameCube case that's free and 3D printable
 - World's fastest Arm PC put to the test — 128-core Ampere Altra Max CPU claims 128-core Cinebench 2024 world record
 - Vendor claims Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with Zen 5 cores and 3D V-Cache is ready for launch — manufacturer also asserts Arrow Lake-HX CPUs offer minimal performance improvements
 - Take home this LG UltraGear 32GP83B-B 32-inch 165 Hz IPS monitor for $210, its lowest price yet
 - Asus ZenWiFi BT8 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh at a more affordable price point
 - It looks like the Raspberry Pi RP2350 Hacking Challenge may have been beaten — Hacker gains access to the OTP secret by glitching the RISC-V cores to enable debugging
 
 - January 3
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- Nvidia gives away five classic GPUs signed by CEO Jensen Huang personally — the first two are the GeForce 256 and GeForce 8800 Ultra
 - The minimalistic Creative Pebble Pro stereo speakers marked down to just $49
 - IBM and GlobalFoundries settle lawsuits over chipmaking tech given to Intel and Rapidus
 - ECS readies 14-inch laptop with AMD Krackan octa-core CPU — motherboard maker also has two Snapdragon X-powered laptops up its sleeves
 - Maker uses Raspberry Pi 5 and Pico to power this multi-sensor project
 - Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 13) Aura Edition Review: Lightest Carbon Yet
 - Latest Arc B580 graphics driver adds support for Intel Twin Lake and Core 200 CPUs
 - Leakers revise RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 power draw to 575W and 360W respectively — Up to 27% higher than last-generation RTX 40 GPUs
 - MSI MAG CoreLiquid A13 AIO Liquid Cooler Review: Not bad for $99
 
 - January 2
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- G.Skill introduces CL26 DDR5-6000 for AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs — world's tightest timings for a DDR5-6000 memory kit
 - MSI and Asus announce 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitors with 240Hz refresh rates ahead of CES
 - Samsung's 500Hz Odyssey G6 OLED joins stacked 2025 gaming monitor lineup
 - Power wire-less motherboards pump 1,500W over 50-pin connector — BTF3.0 standard envisions zero cables between the motherboard, GPU, and power supply
 - This Raspberry Pi project visualizes your real-time network traffic in the most beautiful way
 - New Captcha requires defeating three enemies or you're Doomed to repeat it
 - Solidigm finalizes consumer SSD market exit with discontinuation of drives – Storage company shut down consumer division over a year ago [Updated]
 - AMD CPUs, 64GB RAM, and Windows 11 show strong gains in the latest Steam Hardware Survey
 - Get half-price on KiCA's Jetfan 2.0 vacuum/blower combo, now just $59 — Clean up your PC and peripherals for 2025
 - Cuneiform-like digital storage tech quadruples data storage — uses three levels of indentation in polymer film
 - Leaker claims Nvidia RTX 5090 mobile could offer 24GB of memory — Nvidia expected to employ 3GB GDDR7 modules to increase VRAM capacities on the same 256-bit interface
 - ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF Review: Best for overclockers, works great for everyone
 - Significant U.S. Treasury cybersecurity breach is the latest in string of China hack attacks claims U.S. officials
 
 - January 1
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- Minecraft tool lets you create scale replicas of real-world locations — Arnis uses geospatial data from OpenStreetMap to generate Minecraft maps
 - Nvidia RTX 5060 laptop GPU beats 4060 laptop by over 30% in leaked benchmark — performance gap stretches almost to 70% with the RTX 3060 mobile
 - You can customize this Raspberry Pi eInk display with tons of cool plugins
 - Canada joins the hunt for rare earths to make chips — restrictions could delay a new mine by 10 to 15 years
 - Best Portable Monitors 2025: Gaming and Laptop Productivity
 - Great battery life, a powerful RTX 4070 GPU, and 16GB of RAM all in one HP laptop for only $849 —- 2025 is off to a good start
 - Nvidia RTX 5080 rumored to hit shelves on January 21 — expected to debut at CES with sales embargo reportedly lifting two weeks later
 - AOC Agon Pro AG276QZD2 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: A faster and more colorful revision
 - Incredibly compact 10-in-1 USB-C Hub has a dial for customization, 100W charging — HubKey includes five keys and a knob, now available on Kickstarter for $69
 - 50% of TSMC's Arizona employees are from Taiwan, despite recent controversies — company plans to hire more US workers over time
 - iHTP M.2 2280 NVMe Cooler Review: The best SSD heatsink only costs $6.99