Best Tech Deals January 2020: CPUs, SSDs, More By Avram Piltch Score the best deals on everything from CPUs to laptops.
Pascal Apparently Lives on in the New GeForce MX350 and MX330 By Zhiye Liu Pascal is apparently coming back for another round in the new GeForce MX350 and MX330.
Range-Topping Intel Core i9-10980HK Comet Lake CPU For Notebooks Spotted By Niels Broekhuijsen Intel's Core i9-10980HK pops up in several Geekbench submissions.
Nvidia's RTX 2080 Super Pops Up in Max-Q Variant for Gaming Laptops By Niels Broekhuijsen Essentially, this is an underclocked desktop-class RTX 2080 Super tucked into a laptop.
Apple's Lawsuit Against its Former Lead Chip Designer Is Moving Forward By Nathaniel Mott Apple's lawsuit against its former lead chip designer is moving forward.
Intel's NUC 11's with Tiger Lake CPUs Spotted; Panther Canyon Has PCIe 4.0 By Niels Broekhuijsen Intel's Panther Canyon NUCs look to be a potent upgrade over the Frost and Hades Canyon models.
MNT Modular, Open Source 'Reform' Laptop to Hit Crowd Supply in February By Nathaniel Mott A modular, open source laptop called the MNT Reform 2 is expected to hit the Crowd Supply crowdfunding site in February.
HPE Expects Server Shortages To Last Throughout 2020 By Arne Verheyde HPE has warned customers that it expects Intel's shortages are to persevere throughout 2020, and advises customers to chose alternatives to the Cascade Lake-SP processors.
Intel Releases OSPRay 2.0 Ray Tracing Engine By Arne Verheyde Intel bulks up the open-source ray tracing engine
AMD Adds Zen 3 Code To Linux Kernel By Niels Broekhuijsen Henceforth, the Linux Kernel should support AMD's upcoming Zen 3-based CPUs.
AMD Has Now Definitively Confirmed Big Navi By Niels Broekhuijsen However, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be an "Nvidia Killer"
Ubisoft Is Taking a DDoS Attack Subscription Service to Court By Nathaniel Mott Ubisoft filed a lawsuit against the operators of a site that sells DDoS attacks to people who need to cheat in popular games.
Report: Hacker Publishes Credentials for 500,000 Telnet Devices By Nathaniel Mott A hacker reportedly published the IP addresses, usernames and passwords of 500,000 devices accessed via Telnet.
Leaked Benchmarks Show 11 Percent Uplift On Radeon RX 5600 XT With New vBIOS By Zhiye Liu Radeon RX 5600 XT flexes its muscles with new core and memory clocks.
Toshiba Claims New Algorithm Runs Faster on Desktop PCs than Similar Algorithms on Supercomputers By Lucian Armasu Toshiba's senior research scientist Hayato Goto invented a quantum computing-inspired algorithm that outperforms other combinatorial optimization algorithms running on supercomputers.
Report: AMD Laptop CPU Market Share Expected to Jump to 20% in Q1 By Lucian Armasu Intel CPU shortages are reportedly convincing more laptop vendors to switch to AMD chips, which could help AMD reach 20% market share in the notebook market in Q1 2020.
Intel to Reduce Gen7 Performance Hit With Final Version of Graphics Driver Security Fix By Lucian Armasu Intel said it will reduce the performance loss seen by the Gen7 graphics driver after it patched a security vulnerability.
Report: AMD Ups Radeon RX 5600 XT Performance Amid Nvidia RTX 2060 Price Cut By Zhiye Liu AMD has allegedly pushed out a new vBIOS to all its graphics cards partners to raise the performance on the its looming Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics card.
PS5 and Xbox Series X Specs Point to Higher Demand for SSDs, GDDR6 in 2020 By Niels Broekhuijsen Demand for SSDs and GDDR6 will rise thanks to the hefty specs of the next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X, according to research firm DRAMeXchange.
In the Midst of Stadia, Google is Working on Steam for Chromebooks By Niels Broekhuijsen Google appears to be working to get Steam onto ChromeOS, which would make it the most significant game store on the operating system.
