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- January 31
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- Intel Arc A370M mobile GPU transformed into desktop card with the help of a heatsink and tiny cooling fan
- Here are all the Nvidia RTX 4080 Super cards currently listed, including specs, photos, and pricing
- U.S. plans to invest CHIPS Act money in Vietnamese semiconductor industry
- U.S. blocks shipment of 24 Nvidia AI GPUs to China over concerns about self-driving truck company
- Lamptron's new CPU cooler has a screen as big as the iPhone 15 — ST060 sports a six-inch LCD with a 1920x1080 resolution that functions as a second display
- Intel's new workstation chips look to smash AMD's Threadripper, but Xeon W9-3595X refresh appears on Geekbench with underwhelming performance figures
- Raspberry Pi Pico powers open source smart watch
- New 'stamping' chipmaking technique uses 90% less power than EUV — Canon to ship the first nanoimprint litho tools to customers this year or next
- Nvidia reportedly selects Intel Foundry Services for GPU packaging production — could produce over 300,000 H100 GPUs per month
- The U.S. government will distribute $500 million from the CHIPS Act to fund R&D for packaging technology and a research institute
- ASML fires back at accusations that its next-gen High-NA EUV chipmaking tools are too expensive
- Asus unveils RTX 4080 Super Noctua Edition ahead of launch, just before the RTX 4080 version gets discontinued
- Startups are raking in up to $85,000 per day by recycling gold and copper from electronics thrown in the trash — e-waste 'gold mining' efforts are expanding
- Super long-range Wi-Fi works at a range of 1.8 miles — HaLow standard aces a real-world test despite high interference
- AMD announces it has preorders for $3.5 billion of its AI GPUs; stock tumbles in after-hours trading anyway
- January 30
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- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be at Intel's next foundry event — and he's currently looking for chip partners
- Intel, SK hynix, and NTT turn to light-based communication between chips and memory to reduce power consumption by up to 40 percent
- German police claim largest Bitcoin seizure ever — more than $2 billion recovered in ongoing video piracy investigation
- Retail listing for Nvidia's RTX 3050 6GB details price, launch date, and has even fewer cores than expected
- Raspberry Pi mini desktop PC has a 3D-printable case and plays DOS games
- MSI's Intel-powered Claw gaming handheld starts at $700 — VRR screen confirmed
- Raspberry Pi appoints London based bankers for IPO listing, possible big win for UK financial capital (Updated)
- Say cheese! This optical mouse is now a camera
- January 29
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- Maxsun has another wide "YTX" motherboard for Intel CPUs — Terminator H770YTX D5 arrives with backside connectors and DDR5-8000 support
- Samsung's upcoming 280-layer QLC flash could allow for 16TB M.2 SSDs — claims up to 50% higher storage density than the competition
- MIT researchers demonstrate a new technique for rapid 3D printing using scrap metal and beds of sand-like glass beads
- Raspberry Pi smart fridge uses Chat GPT4 to keep track of your food
- Samsung to demo higher-bandwidth GDDR7 VRAM next month at ISSCC
- High-end external GPUs still suffer a performance hit — OCuLink tests show up to a 23% drop with an RTX 4090
- Samsung opens next-gen 3D DRAM research lab in the United States
- MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway — company listed admin job for 30-year-old operating system
- January 28
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- Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language
- Microsoft axes WordPad after 28 years of duty - Windows 95 stalwart has been removed from the new Windows 11 Canary Build
- Chip smuggling operation that sent 53,000 banned American chips to China gets busted — $12 million worth of chips funneled through South Korean company
- Bambu Lab issues A1 Printer heat bed recall: Here’s how to get a free replacement part
- First gaming PC motherboard made entirely with China tech comes with integrated homegrown CPU — $700 buys the claimed world's first totally China-made board
- The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block
- Windows installer gets its first update since Vista – cleaner modern Setup Experience debuts in Windows 11 Build 26040
- January 27
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- Gigabyte launches new white RTX 40 series GPUs — Eagle Ice series introduces the white theme for RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 families
- U.S takes the China chip war to the next level - will soon stop Chinese companies from using American clouds for AI training
- Entry-level GPU RAID card enables mind-bending storage speeds — 80 GB/s of throughput from eight SSDs with SupremeRAID SR-1001
- AMD's looming Ryzen APUs show big 30% boost over prior-gen models — Ryzen 8000G benchmarks easily beat Ryzen 5000G
- New world record: Modded 3D printer completes ‘Speed Benchy’ model in just 2 minutes!
- This bulky mouse is a full computer with a screen, creator boasts its the best gaming mouse available
- China's fastest gaming GPUs get 20% performance boost in GTA V — Moore Threads GPUs continue to close the performance gap thanks to mature drivers
- Intel to deliver a 5X jump in AI in just two chip generations — Panther Lake in 2025 will double the AI performance over Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake
- OpenAI's Sam Altman discusses chip collab with Samsung and SK Hynix: Report
- Elon Musk implies that Tesla's procuring AMD's Instinct MI300 for AI
- January 26
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- Coal could be in your next CPU — researchers eye coal as a metal oxide insulator replacement in next-gen 2D transistors
- MSI's classic MPower overclocking motherboard series returns, with support for super-fast DDR5-8000+ RAM — Z790 board priced at $199
- Nintendo 'Switch 2' coming this year with 8-inch LCD screen, claims Omdia tech analyst
- Chinese silicon wafer makers to increase capacity to satisfy domestic chip boom: report
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang meets with TSMC in Taiwan, discusses AI chip shortage concerns over dinner
- Hard drive density advances face diminishing returns — 30TB+ drives gain just 6.6% capacity with SMR: Report
- Russia buys chips from Intel, AMD, and others to fuel war efforts — the country bought $1.7 billion worth of chips in 2023
- Thinkpad 'nubbin' controlled dimmer light uses Raspberry Pi RP2040 and ESP32
- Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs to use on-package Samsung LPDDR5X memory
- Asus ROG Ally 2 gaming handheld coming later this year, says Asus India VP
- Alleged Zhaoxin KX-6000G benchmarks surface — Chinese-made chips perform like CPUs from the late 2000s but uses less power
- Intel posts mixed financial report, demonstrates growth but 2023 revenues are down
- Rising memory prices and AI demand gives SK Hynix its first profit since Q3 2022
- January 25
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- Intel’s Black Edition CPUs aren’t always faster than the regular ones — Core i7-14790F performs like a Core i7-14700F in Geekbench 6 benchmark
- Apple rule change opens the door for native GeForce Now and Xbox Game Streaming on App Store
- AMD is ending support for its Link game streaming application: Here are some alternatives
- Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees amid industry-wide cuts
- Newegg's unveils 'Refreshed' refurb program — claims you'll actually get good quality
- AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D comes very close to 5800X3D in new Geekbench 6 benchmark results
- Intel and UMC team up on chip manufacturing — Intel will produce jointly developed new 12nm process node in its US fabs
- Google settles ahead of closing arguments in Singular Computing’s $1.67 billion AI tech patent trial
- TSMC creates edible chips – coconut flavor puffs made in collaboration with Taiwan’s Guai Guai
- Arduino Alvik brings MicroPython and Lego robotics to the classroom
- China's largest AI GPU maker loses its CEO despite generous government funding — development calls into question China's GPU advances
- Chinese DRAM maker CXMT 18.5nm node allegedly complies with U.S. export rules despite prior claims of it being 17nm
- Intel's combined Arc desktop and integrated Arc graphics driver boosts DirectX 11 games performance, and a few DirectX 12 games too
- Huawei's MatePad Pro hides an unknown Kirin 9000W
- January 24
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- Intel opens $3.5 billion advanced Foveros 3D chip packaging facility in New Mexico
- Redditor shows off insanely massive passively-cooled RTX 3080 prototype
- Palworld got a working Pokemon conversion mod, and Nintendo's lawyers struck immediately
- Nvidia adds AI-powered SDR to HDR video enhancement to its latest drivers — RTX Video HDR now available for all RTX owners
- ASML triples order bookings in Q4 2023 thanks to demand for EUV tools
- AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB graphics card round-up — all AIB partner versions of the new GPU
- Sam Altman is talking to TSMC about AI chip venture
- Gradiant tapped to build water treatment plant for mystery fab in Germany
- Logitech warns profits will be hit by Red Sea crisis – it is among the first tech firms to confirm impacts
- Adafruit designs Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 floppy drive emulator
- OpenWRT aims to finalize its $100 OpenWRT One open source router design and specification.
- MSI apologizes for slower RTX 4070 Ti Supers and delivers BIOS fixes
- 40 years in, the Mac is part of a vibrant PC ecosystem
- AMD's next-gen Zen 5 APUs appear — Strix Point and Strix Halo listed in ROCm Code with RDNA 3.5 GPU
- Retro laptop powered by the Intel 8088 processor updated to v2.0 with Cirrus Logic VGA graphics — Book 8088 adds COM and LTP ports, too
- January 23
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- AMD Fluid Motion Frames comes out of preview, claims up to 97% more FPS at 1080p in first full Radeon driver release
- China warns that it may "react" to "hegemonic" treatment by the U.S. in 'Chip War'
- Game Boy Advance games can be recreated from the sound they make when they die, modder demonstrates
- Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU roundup: several white models and a few sub-10-inch cards for compact PCs
- HP CEO justifies blocking third-party ink cartridges by claiming they can inject malware
- Samsung’s Hybrid 990 EVO SSD announced — world's first hybrid PCIe 4.0 x4 and 5.0 x2 SSD
- Creality Announces K1C 3D Printer's Launch Date, Pricing and Full Specs: New Flagship is a Beast
- 120 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and more PCIe 5.0 lanes coming to Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, Barlow Ridge controller debuts
- Intel Clearwater Forest Xeon chips appear in Linux patch - reveals CPU uses Atom Darkmont cores but no word on core count
- Leaked Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks are impressive — CPU performance slightly behind Ryzen 7000 non-X SKUs
- TSMC's average wafer price jumped 22% in one year — nearly all semiconductor industry growth now comes from more expensive products, not higher production volumes
- Heads roll at MSI China after games deletion joke backlash – Asus enjoys trolling opportunity
- Chinese company develops transmission electron microscope for chipmaking industry
- January 22
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- RTX Remix, the tool being used to create Half-Life 2 RTX, enters open beta today — now anyone can remaster old DirectX 8 or 9 games
- Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers
- This may be the only RTX 4070 Super GPU without a 16-pin connector, but it won't come cheap — Maxsun's RTX 4070 Super iCraft uses two regular 8-pin PCIe power connectors
- Researchers demonstrate liquid metal RAM, bringing us closer to flexible, implantable hardware – and to our Terminator 2 nightmares
- China's chipmaking tool imports climb to $40 billion as the country chases semiconductor manufacturing self-sufficiency
- Raspberry Pi Powers ReBoi Game Boy Color Drop-in Kit
- New Oklahoma data center can withstand 310 MPH winds and tornadoes — facility spans 65,000 square feet, promises 100% uptime
- The era of Nintendo Switch Flash Carts has arrived, potentially opening a new door for piracy
- "Pokemon with guns" game Palworld sells 5 million copies, tops Steam most played in a single weekend
- Nvidia's laptop GPUs appear in desktop PC graphics cards in China — upping the power limits unleashes more gaming performance, but these cards come with risks
- AMD's customers begin receiving the first Instinct MI300X AI GPUs — the company's toughest competitor to Nvidia's AI dominance is now shipping
- Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal
- January 21
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- Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs might come without hyperthreaded cores — leak points to 24 CPU cores, DDR5-6400 support, and a new 800-series chipset
- Nvidia's fabled Nintendo 3DS prototype has been leaked — Rare Gaming Dump reveals the MG20
- Windows 11 squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick — Tiny11 maker NTDEV takes Windows install image challenge to the extreme
- Intel's Granite Rapids listed with huge L3 cache upgrade to tackle AMD EPYC - software development emulator spills the details
- New memory card uses DNA to store your data — Biomemory's card costs $1,100 to store one kilobyte of data
- January 20
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- Raspberry Pi 5 squares off against a scrawny Intel CPU — Intel N100 quad-core Alder Lake-N chip proves to be a strong competitor
- ASRock prepped two new exotic Radeon GPUs that'll be hard to find — China-exclusive Radeon RX 7900 GRE comes in Steel Legend and Challenger flavors
- SSD overclocking yields big performance gains — overclocked SSD controller and NAND may lead to premature degradation or data loss, though
- I survived a scary Blue Screen of Death, the dreaded Kernel Security Check Failure. Here's how.
- January 19
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- OpenAI's Sam Altman raising billions to build AI chip empire: Report
- Samsung reportedly trials second-gen 3nm chip production -- full ramp of SF3 node coming later this year
- AMD removes Taiwan branding from CPUs, says change wasn't made to appease China
- GPD shoves Ryzen 7 8840U into Win Max 2 handheld -- NPU upgrade will improve AI workloads, but not gaming performance
- ASRock's new AMD entry-level gaming GPUs look enticing — custom Radeon RX 7600 XT GPUs with boost clock speeds up to 2,810 MHz
- Custom Raspberry Pi Pico project supports Ethernet over USB-C
- Raspberry Pi 5 delidded and topped with Peltier element for the ultimate cooling test
- Chinese chipmaker Loongson wins case over rights to MIPS architecture - company's new CPU architecture heavily resembles existing MIPS
- Asus' PCIe 4.0 x4 add-in card has two USB4 Type-C ports, each with 60-Watt Quick Charge and 8K DisplayPort support
- Galax unveils RTX 4070 Super Hall of Fame with 320W configurable TBP and 210MHz factory overclock
- Worldwide HDD revenue charted from 1957 to the present – AI boom expected to halt decline this year
- Apple Vision Pro goes up to 1TB, uses M2 chip with 10-core GPU
- Chip price war unfolds as Chinese foundries cut tape-out prices — Taiwan and South Korean foundries face new price pressures: Report
- Meta will have 350,000 of Nvidia's fastest AI GPUs by end of year, buying AMD's MI300, too
- TSMC tandem builds exotic new MRAM-based memory with radically lower latency and power consumption
- January 18
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- Intel's German fab will be most advanced in the world and make 1.5nm chips, CEO says
- RTX 4070 Ti Super is right on the RTX 4080's tail — new OpenCL and Vulkan benchmarks show less than a 10% margin between them
- CPU-Z sees its first native release for Windows on ARM64, though it's missing a few x86 features
- TSMC delays 3nm Arizona fab by a year, cites lack of U.S. subsidies and waning demand
- Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report
- Asus confirms the end of the NUC Extreme lineup - NUC 13 Extreme is the last of its kind
- Memory chip production at risk as North Korea ramps up threats against South Korea, which produces 71% of global memory supply, 51% of NAND for SSDs
- Driver hack lets you run Linux after Windows BSODs, no reboot required — bug check fallback allows running programs after the OS crashes
- Intel CEO Gelsinger says China is ten years behind in chipmaking capabilities, and it will stay that way
- January 17
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- YouTube hasn't stepped up its anti-ad-blocking activity, you're using too many ad-blockers
- 30TB hard drives are nearly here — Seagate’s Mozaic 3+ HAMR platform to provide the next jump in HDD capacities
- Nvidia's technically Game Ready driver supports new RTX 4070 Super and Pokemon-esque survival game 'Palworld'
- Graphics card flaw enables data theft in AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm chips by exploiting GPU memory
- Nvidia smashes, Samsung crashes — Gartner charts big changes in semiconductor business revenue in 2023
- Intel 300 CPU benchmarks unsurprisingly show dual-core CPUs struggling in 2024
- SSDs pricing to 'skyrocket' as flash shortages are already underway — critical NAND packages are already in short supply, high-capacity SSD models will be first to see price hikes
- This Raspberry Pi Pico marble clock displays the time using magnets, ball bearings and spiral towers
- AMD stock reaches 52-week high, nears all-time record — driven by AI demand and analyst optimism
- AMD axes Xilinx CPLD chips less than two years after acquisition, cites declining run-rate and supplier sustainability as reasons
- AMD unveils promo pricing in wake of Nvidia's Super launch — cuts pricing for RX 7900 XT and 7900 GRE
- January 16
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- Asus' low-profile RTX 4060 still takes up two slots, but its shorter shroud fits more easily into SFF builds
- Google updates Chrome Incognito Mode disclaimer in wake of $5 billion data collection lawsuit
- Analysts warn China's aggressive chip fab expansion could lead to future price war
- OneXPlayer X1 is a Nintendo Switch-inspired 3-in-1 handheld gaming PC with Meteor Lake and a 120Hz 1600p display
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 Macropad supports magnetic modules for expansion
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is in Development, CEO Eben Upton Confirms
- Linux dev delivers 6% file system performance increase – says ‘it was literally a five minute job’
- January 15
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- Microsoft introduces Copilot Pro subscription for $20 per month, runs across your devices and uses GPT-4 Turbo
- China's chip imports fell by a record 15% due to U.S. sanctions and globally weaker demand
- Despite sanctions, Chinese military, universities, and government bodies procure Nvidia GPUs.
- Tachyum: Prodigy production starts in 2024
- Custom Raspberry Pi mini PC features dual monitor setup
- Taiwanese 'CHIPS Act'-equivalent law enacted: 25% deduction on R&D and a 5% deduction on CapEx
- New Windows 11 Insider build autostarts Copilot AI assistant and enables USB 4 80Gbps support
- Intel quietly releases China exclusive Core i7-14790F 'Black Edition' CPU
- Alleged RTX 3050 6GB specifications leak — significant cuts to core count, memory bandwidth, clock speed, and TDP
- Patriot developing high-speed DDR5 RAM that guarantees speeds up to DDR5-7200 regardless of CPU IMC quality — unlocks higher overclocking potential, too
- Lexar readies three portable SSDs for release in Q1 2024
- January 14
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- Premier memory diagnostic tool now supports live RAM settings on all Intel systems and early ECC support - Memtest86+ hits v7
- Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February
- Ayaneo lists the Retro Mini PC AM02 on IndieGogo – comes with Ryzen 7 7840HS and 4-inch touchscreen
- January 13
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- AMD beats Intel in mobile gaming despite new and refreshed CPUs — Ryzen 9 7945HX3D prevails over the Core i9-14900HX in new review
- Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic
- Nvidia inks order for 16,000 AI GPUs worth $500 million — Indian data center company seeks to own 32,000 Nvidia H100 and GH200 GPUs by 2025
- Gigabyte unveils a big gaming OLED monitor with a steller refresh rate — Aorus FO32U2P flaunts 4K, 240 Hz panel with DisplayPort 2.1 and UHBR 20 support
- Raspberry Pi powers tiny retro TV with audio support
- Nvidia corrects mistake with one of its new RTX 40 Super GPUs — GeForce RTX 4070 Super has 48MB L2 after all, not 36MB
- Windows on Arm exclusivity may be a thing of the past soon — Arm CEO confirms Qualcomm's agreement with Microsoft expires this year
- Chinese-developed nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan — Betavolt BV100 built with Nickel-63 isotope and diamond semiconductor material
- ASRock launches new mini-PCs for AMD's latest Ryzen CPUs — DeskMeet, DeskMini, and Jupiter arrive with X600 chipset and USB4 support
- New GPU coolers bring swappable AIO features to custom loops — promises radical cooling improvements that you can use for multiple GPU generations
- Modular laptop maker Framework contacts customers after phishing scheme hooks internal spreadsheet packed with personal data
- Patriot demos Viper PV573 SSD: up to 14 GB/s with blower fan design
- January 12
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- Patriot shows off three external SSDs, including a USB 4 drive with speeds topping 3.7 GB/s
- Corsair's 6500X and 2500X cases are about cooling and customization
- Raspberry Pi Zero drives robotic car using voice commands
- AMD says dual-channel DDR5-6000 is the sweet spot for Ryzen 8000G APUs
- Cooler Master's Pro Station monitor riser has a built-in soundbar and a touchscreen
- CyberPowerPC combines aggressive styling, RGB, and wood accents with Amethyst 360S desktop
- Racing simulators are about to get next-level
- Corsair's redesigned PC fan screw installs with a single turn, shaving dozens of seconds off your next PC build
- Single Chinese factory reportedly repurposed over 4,000 Nvidia RTX gaming cards into AI accelerators in December
- Newer, faster PCIe 5.0 SSDs coming soon — Phison reveals E26 Max14um and E31T controllers
- Nvidia's made-for-China RTX 4090D is only 5% slower in gaming performance than the original RTX 4090
- Intel's new 35W CPUs aren't much slower than their 65W counterparts — Core i5-14600T exhibits 6% lower performance than Core i5-14600 in Geekbench 6 benchmark
- Raspberry Pi Pico powers digital audio looper
- Asus' new ROG Carnyx gaming microphone is aimed at the high end
- China's chip output expected to double in five years, Barclays says
- Vapor coating lets Raspberry Pi run under water without slimy or sticky feeling
- January 11
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- Nuvia-based Snapdragon X Elite GPU benchmarks appear in database
- Thermaltake G700 gaming desk has RGB controls with mechanical switches
- Sony DualSense V2 controller leaked ahead of release by Best Buy Canada, promises way more battery life
- Thermaltake's power supply tester lets you know if your power supply is working properly — Dr. Power III updated with support for ATX 3.0 power supplies
- Zotac to price custom GeForce RTX 40-Series Super cards at MSRP
- Ayaneo Next Lite uses HoloISO, not official SteamOS
- China commerce minister frustrated by US 'interfering' in international lithography exports via third countries
- Microsoft KB5034441 Windows 10 security patch for BitLocker bypass is leading to errors and has a complicated fix
- Best of CES 2024: Evolution and Revolution
- Despite a 2.7% decline in year-over-year PC shipments, vendors are hoping for a strong 2024
- Cooler Master wants to replace your graphics card's 3 fans with its own, 2-fan solution
- ASRock preps Sub-$200 B650 motherboard for gamers and enthusiasts
- CES 2024 Day 2: The future of PC building
- Okay, I guess monitor light bars are the new thing now — Asus introduces ROG Aura Monitor Light Bar ALB01
- January 10
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- InWin's new cases include flat-packs and modular frames
- ASRock's $200 Mini-ITX motherboard to support Intel Core i9-14900K
- ASRock unveils trio of Wi-Fi-enabled 27-inch Phantom Gaming monitors — IPS and OLED panels maxing out at 520 Hz
- Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs emerge on benchmark database, but there's only details about the graphics
- Super PCIe 5.0 SSD RAID hits 42 GBps — four Crucial T700 drives actively cooled by AirJet Mini technology
- This Raspberry Pi 5 cyberdeck is ready for doomsday
- ASRock's WRX90 WS Evo Threadripper Pro motherboard is a beast — 24 power stages, seven x16 PCIe 5.0 slots, and four slots for PCIe 5.0 SSDs
- Micron displays next-gen LPCAMM2 modules for laptops at CES 2024
- XPG's hybrid dual-fan CPU cooler features an integrated pump, loop, and radiator — XPG Hybrid Cooler claims it can cool CPUs up to 280W
- Adata showcases case with a glass panel that curves from the side to the top — Invader X Pro also includes a 5-inch LCD monitor
- Low-powered Raptor Lake CPU fails to impress in graphics benchmark — Intel Core 7 150U loses to AMD's CPUs with Radeon 740M graphics
- Solid-state active cooling tech keeps getting better — AirJet Mini Slim unveiled as a slimmer, lighter, and smarter version of the original AirJet
- Minisforum showcases its first Intel Core Ultra mini PC, and also unveils AMD RX 7600M XT mini PC
- Creality unveils new flagship K1C 3D printer and latest Ender 3 V3 model
- Hong Kong RTX 4090 buyer shocked as purchase lacked GPU and VRAM
- Asus shows off its BTF GPUs and Motherboards at CES 2024: Another way to quickly and cleanly build a system
- Samsung develops low-latency, low-power DRAM with performance that allegedly eclipses DDR5
- CES 2024 Day 1: Many monitors, easy RGB, and a vibrating seat cushion
- Cooler Master's Shark X pre-built PC is coming to market this year
- MSI's new gaming mouse will have an 8K wireless polling rate and Qi-certification
- January 9
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- Asus' new ZenScreen is a 17.3-inch portable monitor that folds in half
- Hyte's Nexus Link ecosystem of RGB devices makes building rainbow PCs seem easier than ever
- Asus' first gaming NUC uses Intel Core Ultra, up to RTX 4070 in a 2.5-liter chassis
- Cherry joins 8,000 Hz polling rate crowd with XTRFY M64 Pro and M68 Pro wireless gaming mice
- Nvidia axes RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 to pave the way Super variants, reduces RTX 4070 MSRP to $549
- We tried out Razer's 'Project Esther' HD haptics gaming cushion at CES
- Asus Zenbook Duo is a dual-screen foldable with two 14-inch OLED screens and Intel Core Ultra
- SK hynix may increase DRAM production as demand increases
- Nvidia RTX Remix utility to enter open beta - Half Life 2 RTX showcases its potential
- Asus announces two new OLED gaming monitors delivering 480 Hz at up to 1440p resolution
- Gigabyte unleashes new AI-friendly laptops, eye-popping OLED display
- Micron unveils LPCAMM2 - bringing LPDDR5X to smaller form factor memory modules
- VESA introduces DisplayPort 2.1a standard, providing higher resolution and refresh rate combos and doubling cable length limit
- AMD Fluid Motion Frames comes to Radeon 700M series iGPUs
- MSI builds tiny AIO liquid cooler prototype for the hotter, faster SSDs of the future
- CES 2024 Day 0: New CPUs, GPUs, and laptops galore
- Razer's $130 Aether monitor light bar is — shocker — infused with Chroma RGB
- MSI's AI-powered gaming monitor helps you cheat at 'League of Legends,' looks great doing it
- Intel's Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs will arrive in 2024 - three times more AI performance for both GPU and NPU
- Asus ROG Zephyrus gets a sleek, slim new look with AMD Hawk Point and Intel Core Ultra
- January 8
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- Intel launches 18 new 14th-Gen Raptor Lake Refresh processors – new locked 65W and T-Series 35W chips are available now
- Intel unleashes 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh HX-series CPUs — refreshed chips with up to 24 cores, 5.8 GHz boost clock, and 192GB DDR5 support
- Alienware m16 R2 has gaming power, but is designed not to look like it
- Acer announces fresh Nitro and Predator gaming laptops with Raptor Lake Refresh, RTX 40 – Predator Helios flaunts Wi-Fi 7 and Mini LED displays
- Alienware announces new 'pro' line of wireless gaming peripherals, starting with a hot-swappable keyboard and a high polling rate mouse
- Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid smashes a Windows laptop and Android tablet together.
- Alienware AW3225QF and AW2725DF expand QD-OLED gaming monitor family – 4K at 240 Hz and QHD at 360 Hz
- Lenovo's Slims and Yogas get Intel and AMD refreshes at CES 2024 with new chips.
- Lenovo has tons of new gaming laptops and PCs for CES 2024, ranging from $749 to $4,399 — most have new 14th Gen Intel processors.
- Intel Core Processors Series 1 launched - new 15W U chips for low-power systems
- Razer Blade 14 and 16 get new AMD and Intel chips, while the Blade 18 is teased with Thunderbolt 5
- MSI Claw is the first gaming handheld to run on an Intel Core Ultra processor with Arc Graphics
- MSI updates almost all of its laptops for CES — from 14th Gen powerhouses to affordable retro designs.
- Raspberry Pi 5 runs advanced open source AI models
- Modder works to fit dual-slot RTX 4070 Ti in 4-liter SFF case
- Here's every AIB Nvidia RTX Super GPU we know about so far
- Maingear patented its rear-connector motherboard design in 2011, and now it wants to make MG-RC an industry standard
- Acer expands GPU lineup with Radeon RX 7600 XT OC, RX 7700 XT OC and RX 7800 XT OC graphics cards
- Nvidia RTX 40-series Super models revealed — 4070 Super coming Jan 17 at $599
- Nvidia GeForce Now to offer daily rates starting at $3.99 — plus RTX game updates, more AI, G-Sync and more at CES 2024
- Wi-Fi 7 standard is finalized — Wi-Fi Alliance starts certifying Wi-Fi 7 routers and other devices
- PC DRAM prices projected to rise 10% to 15% in Q1 2024 — manufacturers continue to hold back production
- AMD doubles the VRAM and boosts clocks with the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16GB — launching January 24 at $329
- AMD launches $249 Ryzen 7 5700X3D with game-boosting 3D V-Cache tech arrive January 21, AMD also updates AM4 platform with new Ryzen 5000 ‘GT’ processors for 2024
- AMD launches Ryzen 8000G ‘Phoenix’ APUs, brings AI to the desktop PC — reveals Zen 4c clocks for the first time
- Apple Vision Pro will launch in February — $3,499 for 256GB storage
- Cooler Master's Master X Mighty 2800W and 2000W PSUs could power multiple RTX 4090s
- HP launches Omen Transcend 32 – 240Hz and 4K in a 32-inch OLED gaming monitor
- HP Spectre x360 14 and 16 get bump to Meteor Lake and a high-resolution 9MP webcam
- HP Omen Transcend 14 is a small premium gaming laptop with pudding-style keycaps and new Intel CPUs.
- January 7
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- Acer debuts 57-inch Predator Z57 DUHD gaming monitor at CES — it launches alongside two new 240Hz OLED monitors
- Xreal's $700 Air 2 Ultra AR glasses put Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest 3 in its crosshairs
- 50 years of PC vs console gaming revenue visualized, PC maintains lead over consoles - VR, mobile, and handheld market data included
- Nvidia demos frame inspection tool for examining upscaling quality — here's how it works
- Acer fills its Swift lineup with Intel Core Ultra processors — and the Swift Go 14 has a media remote built into its touchpad
- Samsung's 990 Evo is the world's first hybrid PCIe 4.0 x4 and 5.0 x2 SSD — FrankenSSD has two different interfaces with two different lane widths
- Raspberry Pi Pico HAM Transmitter Uses Onboard PIO for Oscillator
- Asus teases ROG NUC, ready to be unveiled on January 8 — first NUC from Asus since its takeover from Intel
- $1.2 million mysteriously deposited in missing Bitcoin founder's abandoned wallet — money deposited anonymously in Satoshi's Genesis wallet
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 40 Super pricing leak - expect reinvigorated $599, $799, and $999 offerings
- Oldest known version of DOS demoed — recently unearthed 86-DOS taken for a spin by retrocomputing archaeologist
- Frontier trained a ChatGPT-sized large language model with only 3,000 of its 37,888 Radeon GPUs — the world's fastest supercomputer blasts through one trillion parameter model with only 8 percent of its MI250X GPUs
- New tool for SteamCMD allows you to archive your Steam library or play old versions of games, but only on Linux
- January 6
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- Star Citizen bundle costs a whopping $48,000 — 175-ship package only available if you've spent more than $10,000 on the game
- ASRock preps a superfast monitor for competitive gamers — PG27FFX2A boasts a 27-inch, 1080p display with a 520 Hz refresh rate
- Accessory manufacturer resurrects Microsoft's peripherals — licensing deal allows Incase to make Microsoft-branded keyboards, mice, and other accessories
- Ryzen CPU bug crashes PCs using Firewire devices — old school interface causes new school problems on Linux PCs, but a fix is on the way
- Nvidia's RTX 40 Super GPUs might perform close to Ti models — RTX 4070 Super is just 5% slower than RTX 4070 Ti in Geekbench 6 benchmark
- AVX-512 is a gamechanger on Intel Emerald Rapids CPU — 5th Gen Xeon runs twice as fast on average with slightly higher power consumption
- Mickey Mouse and Darth Vader smoking pot: AI image generators play fast and loose with copyrighted characters
- TSMC won't adopt advanced High-NA EUV chipmaking tools until 2030 or later — Intel just received its first tool this week: Report
- 3D-printed tripedal robot walks on three legs
- Sabrent is about to unleash a high-speed PCIe 5.0 SSD — Rocket 5 delivers over 14 GB/s read and 12 GB/s write speeds
- January 5
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- Huawei's 5nm Kirin 9006C laptop chip was reportedly produced by TSMC in 2020, dispelling production rumors at Chinese fab SMIC
- Nvidia launches another sanctions-compliant GPU for China — RTX 5880 Ada debuts with 14,080 CUDA cores, 48GB GDDR6
- Cooler Master's new AIO and air coolers can dissipate 300W of heat and beyond
- New T-Force GE Pro SSD to debut at CES, hits 14 GB/s — Teamgroup's latest uses low-power 12nm Innogrit IG5666 controller, 2,400 MT/S NAND
- Cooler Master X Silent PSUs ranging from 850W to 1300W include two fanless options and one with a 'silent fan'
- Intel receives first High-NA EUV chipmaking tool from ASML — Intel is the first pathfinder for revolutionary new lithography tech
- FlippyDrive solderless GameCube modchip is powered by Raspberry Pi Pico
- MSI's new Intel-powered Claw handheld pictured and benchmarked – Meteor Lake handheld results appear on Geekbench
- AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux driver patches thanks to the open-source community
- China's memory maker CXMT reportedly violates U.S. export rules with its 18nm 3D DRAM — chipmaker blatantly presented new tech at industry conference: Report
- Nvidia teases RTX 40 Super series launch at CES — here's all of the leaked specs
- New research reignites the possibility of LK-99 superconductivity at room temperature — controversial material demonstrates the tell-tale Meissner Effect up to 250 K
- January 4
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- Semiconductor industry proposes new 'Chipmaker's Visa' for H1B program — program would address extreme talent shortages in chipmaking industry
- China planning 1,600-core chips that use an entire wafer — similar to American company Cerebras 'wafer-scale' designs
- Over 14,500 games launched on Steam in 2023, breaking records for the fourth year in a row
- Intel appoints new head of data center and AI group as it prepares to spin off ex-Altera FPGA unit
- Maker is building a Raspberry Pi ‘ProPico’ with upgraded features
- MSI teases its first handheld gaming PC — and it may be powered by Intel (Update)
- First functional graphene semiconductor paves the path to post-silicon chips — Georgia Tech researchers' material can be used with standard chipmaking methods
- China's x86-chipmaker Zhaoxin launches homegrown servers with Chinese-made CPUs — partners with SuperCloud for domestically produced dual-socket KH-40000/32 designs key to country's self-sufficiency
- LG announces 1440p, 480 Hz OLED gaming monitor that will be unveiled at CES 2024
- Russia and China successfully test quantum communication over satellite — 3,800-kilometer test explores possible encrypted networks for BRICS countries
- Pricing for upcoming Ryzen 5000 SKUs leaks — Ryzen 5 5500GT at 150 euros and Ryzen 7 5700X3D at 300 euros
- Windows 11 PCs to come with a Copilot key as Microsoft pushes forward with AI
- Xbox Series S styled toaster turns up at Walmart – toasts the Xbox logo directly onto your bread
- Samsung teases new Odyssey OLED monitors: 32:9 Curved Ultrawide 49-Inch G95SD and new flat screen 16:9 models
- Intel spins out its generative AI software into new Articul8 company focused on delivering LLM solutions
- New monitor standard incorporates 'dual-mode' refresh rates and overclocking certification — VESA introduces Adaptive-Sync 1.1a
- Dell XPS 13, 14, and 16 get Intel Core Ultra, lose function rows and physical touchpads
- January 3
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- Kioxia reportedly kills off 30-year-old Plextor brand — icon of the optical drive days spins up its last SSD
- Raspberry Pi project uses AI and a camera to detect fires and alert for help
- AMD's Radeon 780M integrated graphics get close to GTX 1650 in Geekbench 6 — Ryzen 7 8700G iGPU benchmark leaked
- All of Zotac's RTX 40-series Super cards use the 12VHPWR connector, with two or three fans — slated to launch this month
- New mid-range Radeon GPU may not be available in China at launch — AMD reportedly delaying RX 7600 XT in China because of the RX 6750 GRE
- U.S. government delays reinstating Chinese tariffs that would make graphics cards and other components more expensive
- Toshiba fab shuts down for checks – Japan’s earthquake affects PC component manufacturing [Updated]
- Tetris was finally beaten after 34 years, game kill screen pops up at Level 157 — hypertapping and rolling were key techniques
- Samsung plans to eliminate humans from its chip fabs by 2030 — push for full automation continues at full steam: Report
- Intel to reveal its roadmap beyond the 18A (1.8nm) process node in a few weeks — the company will share its post-5N4Y plans during February event
- Mysterious 'Skinny' Joe' Nvidia GPU spotted with a 700W TDP rating — theories abound about the new beastly silicon
- China to lead semiconductor industry expansion with 18 new fabs in 2024 —global chipmaking capacity to reach record heights
- January 2
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- Finally, a modern fanless GPU: Palit RTX 3050 6GB reportedly in the works
- Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake
- Steam survey suggests more people bought the RTX 4090 than the Steam Deck — along with millions of other RTX 40-series GPUs
- LG shows off audiophile vacuum tube DukeBox in CES teaser — combining 1950's tech with a modern transparent OLED
- This Raspberry Pi air hockey table also plays Doom
- Dutch government bans even simpler chipmaking tools from export to China — DUV lithography tools now get the axe
- AMD's upcoming integrated graphics matches seven years old GTX 1060 in Geekbench 6 — Ryzen 5 8600G iGPU benchmarks leak
- Steam stops supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 — Microsoft and Google no longer provide security support for Valve's launcher
- Alleged Intel Core i9-14900KS photo raises hopes of impending launch - but the image has inconsistencies
- Oldest known version of DOS unearthed – MS-DOS ancestor 86-DOS version 0.1 C is now available on the Internet Archive
- Unreleased Nvidia budget GPU to rival AMD and Intel emerges overseas — RTX 3050 6GB specifications shared through retailer listing
- January 1