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- February 29
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- Microsoft is adding skills and third-party shopping plugins to Copilot — Windows and AI want to help you spend more money
- Nvidia publishes eight security flaws patched by new drivers — update to fix the issues
- Anycubic 3D printers hacked in bold attempt to inform owners of security hole
- Intel Core i9-14900KS packaging revealed as it gets spotted in Vietnam
- Nextorage launches 8TB SSD for PC gamers and PS5 owners — $849 for 8TB of storage at 7,300 MB/s
- AI-powered gaming Smell-o-Vision promises scent of gunfire, storms, and explosions
- Microsoft's new DirectSR super resolution API aims to simplify DLSS, FSR, and XeSS implementation
- Intel's Pentium project manager and former India head Avtar Singh Saini dies at 68
- VisionBoard keyboard incorporates a 10-inch touchscreen, leans into retro word processor style
- Samsung to introduce backside power delivery with 2nm-class production node: Report
- Raspberry Pi transforms old radio into audiophile grade network music streamer
- HDMI Forum rejects AMD's HDMI 2.1 open-source driver
- Classic Intel Pentium III sticker doesn't entirely match the 1999 CPU architecture
- Dorland reveals an 'explosion proof' 10-inch tablet for use in harsh environments – but the system specs aren't exactly incendiary
- Raspberry Pi celebrates 12 years as sales break 61 million units
- February 28
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- White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use 'memory-safe' programming languages
- Chinese chipmaker defeats US DOJ espionage charges — found not guilty of IP theft from Micron
- AMD confirms bug with recent Radeon gaming GPU — RX 7900 GRE overclocking limit will be removed in a future driver
- Intel and ASML achieve 'First Light' milestone with world's most advanced chipmaking tool — High-NA tools' EUV light source and mirrors are functional
- EKWB takes over Intel's discontinued Cryo Cooling tech — adds 14th Gen support to EK Delta TEC waterblock
- Largest chip toolmaker receives multiple subpoenas from U.S government over China shipments — Applied Materials under the govt's microscope
- Notoriously litigious Nintendo sues maker of Yuzu Switch emulator, alleges it facilitates ‘piracy at a colossal scale’
- Popular PC monitoring tool HWInfo64 can now show FPS and more with onscreen display — full-featured CPU, GPU and system monitoring in new OSD
- IBM's new AI-enabled SSDs identify and eradicate ransomware in under a minute
- TinyBox packs a punch with six of AMD's fastest gaming GPUs repurposed for AI — new box uses Radeon 7900 XTX and retails for $15K, now in production
- TSMC founder says unnamed customers want 10 new fabs to build AI chips
- $300 million of CHIPS Act R&D funds is officially up for grabs as U.S Department of Commerce opens applications for packaging technology
- February 27
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- Intel puts 1nm process (10A) on the roadmap for 2027 — also plans for fully AI-automated factories with 'Cobots'
- Arm-powered Snapdragon X Elite laptop shown outperforming Intel Core Ultra by up to 10X in AI tests — Qualcomm fires early NPU shots at Intel [Updated]
- Leaked Intel Core i9-14900KS spec sheet all but confirms 6.2GHz boost clock
- ROG Ally Z1 with Radeon 740M iGPU tested against Steam Deck in compute benchmarks
- Former AMD GPU head accuses Nvidia of being a 'GPU cartel' in response to reports of retaliatory shipment delays
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE partner card roundup — all the cards currently listed
- Modder turns an old pair of iPods into Steam Deck controllers — for Skyrim, though support in other games is possible
- PC market recovery continues — GPU and CPU shipments up 20% year-over-year in Q4 2023
- Nvidia's AI customers are scared to be seen courting other AI chipmakers for fear of retaliatory shipment delays, says rival firm
- Nvidia forces GeForce Now gamers on free tier to watch ads while waiting to play
- Sabrent's rocket-fast Rocket 5 SSDs are available for pre-order, starting at $190
- Lightweight DietPi v9.1 adds support for Raspberry Pi 5
- Intel expects behemoth 144-core Sierra Forest chips to boost per-rack performance by 2.7X at lower power
- SolidRun unveils AMD Zen 3-based Ryzen V3000 computer-on-module for networking and edge computing
- U.S. govt wants to onshore 20% of leading-edge chip production by 2030
- February 26
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- India continues to innovate homegrown RISC-V, launches Aries 3.0 board with an onboard Vega ET1031 CPU
- AMD's RX 7700 XT gets a $30 price drop, making it more competitive with the RTX 4060 Ti
- Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers
- Intel demonstrates PyTorch AI optimizations for accelerating large language models on its Arc Alchemist GPUs
- Microsoft to debut DirectSR universal image upscaling technology next month, co-developed with Nvidia and AMD
- Nvidia GEAR research group created to develop AI robots and NPCs for physical and virtual worlds — jobs open at up to $333,000 per year
- Micron's new ultra-fast memory to power Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs — 24GB HBM3E chips put into production for H200 AI GPU
- Buyers of Nvidia's highest-end H100 AI GPU are reportedly reselling them as supply issues ease
- Nvidia launches the RTX 500 and 1000 Ada Generation laptop GPUs - allegedly up to 14x better generative AI performance than CPU-only
- BenQ announces Mobiuz EX321UX, its first 144 Hz 4K Mini LED monitor
- AMD's fastest AI chips could get a memory boost as competition with Nvidia intensifies — Instinct MI300 will soon come with new memory configurations
- $3,699 audiophile media server is powered by a standard NUC with a mystery CPU — you still have to buy your own storage, too
- Elon Musk blasts Microsoft about Windows 11’s account requirement – takes several hours to bypass it
- February 25
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- Lenovo shows off a concept laptop with a transparent micro-LED display at MWC, and is making some ThinkPads more repairable
- Believe it or not, Windows 11 doesn't support Wi-Fi 7 and USB4 2.0 yet — but it soon will
- Notebook for prison inmates bought on eBay — 'Justice Tech Solutions Securebook' is locked down but has freedoom-loving Linux
- AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE goes global - arrives on US shores Tuesday, says report
- Huawei's new CPU matches Zen 3 in single-core performance - HiSilicon Taishan V120 server CPU benchmark
- TSMC founder sees resurgence in Japan semiconductor industry - as the land of the rising sun adds billions more in subsidies to the pot
- Early Snapdragon X Elite benchmark shows Arm CPU is faster than AMD's top-end mobile APU
- Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI
- Chinese Mini PC offers external PCIe slot - and an interesting inverted U form factor
- GPU‐punishing FurMark 2 released with cross-platform support for Windows, Linux - macOS and Raspberry Pi support in the works
- February 24
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- Your next Windows update may not require a reboot — "Hot Patching" is reportedly coming to Windows 11 shortly
- Doom comes to lawnmowers — Husqvarna offers Doom as a free update on robotic lawnmowers starting April
- Preview version of Microsoft OS/2 was sold for $650 on eBay
- Multi-threaded computing across multiple processors demoed — promises big gains in AI performance and efficiency
- Nvidia, Intel, and Jeff Bezos invest millions in AI humanoid robot company
- Corsair rolls out cases for motherboards with hidden connectors — 2500D/X and 6500D/X support MSI Project Zero and Asus BTF
- Chinese researchers tout optical disk format with up to 125TB capacity
- U.S. Government to provide update on CHIPS Act: multi-billion dollar payouts to Intel, TSMC, Samsung expected
- Nvidia is testing the waters with two new AI GPUs for China — CEO says customers are sampling them now
- Intel's next-gen CPUs may use different iGPUs — data mining reveals Arrow Lake-S paired with Xe-LPG and Arrow Lake-H with Xe-LPG Plus
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang uses Perplexity AI 'almost every day' – ChatGPT is also a favorite
- February 23
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- 15.5 million Toshiba laptop AC adapters recalled over fire hazard
- Leaked AMD Ryzen 7 8700GE 35W desktop Zen 4 APU tested vs 8700G, 23% less GPU performance at half the power
- MSI brings 256GB RAM support on Intel and AMD motherboards
- Nvidia Grace falls short of Threadripper 7000 in head-to-head Linux benchmarks
- TSMC celebrates as Arizona hits key construction milestone on second fab
- Nvidia publishes new security driver updates for Windows 7, 8, and older Kelper GPUs
- Nvidia crosses $2 trillion market cap as AI demand and stock price soar -- becomes only fifth company to reach that benchmark
- US won't restrict exports of 'mature chips' to China — processors using 28nm or older tech will be free from sanctions
- Is your Intel Core i9-13900K crashing in games? Your motherboard BIOS settings may be to blame — other high-end Intel CPUs also affected (Updated)
- Zhaoxin's new ZX C-1190 iGPU performs like a decade-old iGPU
- February 22
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- Nvidia rallies to $1.9 trillion on AI surge, making founder and CEO Jensen Huang the world's 21st richest person
- Slimbook's new AMD Ryzen laptop runs KDE Neon Linux, has a 16-inch screen
- Nvidia expects next-gen Blackwell GPUs to be supply constrained
- Phrozen breaks the Ice with a four color 3D printer
- Thermaltake's new 120 mm and 140 mm flippable fans have stronger magnets and no RGB
- This Raspberry Pi RP2040-based keyboard is open-source and designed for serious modularity
- Samsung announces Galaxy Book 4 laptop will be available next week — includes Intel Core Ultra and AMOLED displays
- US Commerce Secretary calls for CHIPS Act 2, says American semiconductor giants need more funds for fabs
- Framework launches first sub-$500 system: Laptop 13 DIY Edition B-Stock features slight cosmetic blemishes
- New 'Nvidia App' unifies GeForce Experience and ancient Control Panel — currently in beta, but for how long?
- Brazilian modders double Nvidia RTX 2080 memory but only see a 10% performance boost
- Surging AI demand sees Nvidia full-year revenue hit $60.9 billion in 2023
- February 21
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- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger: I hope to build chips for Lisa Su and AMD
- Arm unveils next-gen Neoverse CPU cores and compute subsystems — hoping to entice more custom silicon customers
- Cooler Master sues competitors for infringing on patented pump-inside-radiator cooler design
- Xbox chief Phil Spencer reaffirms commitment to physical media despite brick-and-mortar abandonment, Game Pass success
- Intel lands foundry deal for custom Microsoft processor — 18A process tech to be used for 'very exciting platform shift'
- Intel announces new roadmap at IFS Direct Connect 2024: New 14A node, Clearwater Forest taped-in, five nodes in four years remains on track
- Microsoft begins forced updates to Windows 11 23H2 — targets PCs running 21H2 and 22H2
- AMD FSR 3 now in a dozen games, including Starfield — too bad the latter has hemorrhaged players since launch
- Elon Musk says first human Neuralink implantee can now move a mouse around 'just by thinking'
- Microsoft develops its own networking gear for AI datacenters: Report
- February 20
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- Arm, Samsung working together on next-gen 2nm chips — will co-optimize Cortex-A and Cortex-X cores for gate-all-around transistors
- Intel Foundry Services Head Stu Pann explains company's plan to build Arm chips, move more manufacturing to the U.S.
- Arctic's Liquid Freezer III coolers could void your CPU warranty — require a custom contact frame for Intel chips
- Developer releasing self-described 'shovelware' on the PlayStation Store has made nearly $350K in under 1.5 years
- AMD confirms AI NPU monitoring is coming to Windows Task Manager
- Acer launches two AMD 'Hawk Point' notebooks — Swift Go 14 and 16 feature Ryzen 8040 CPUs
- Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads touted MTT S30 for office productivity — comes with one VGA and one HDMI port
- Meteor Lake gets performance and efficiency tweaks via new Linux patch
- AI researchers discuss risks and potential regulations — suggest putting the brakes on the compute hardware as one approach
- Elon Musk reminisces about the time Jensen Huang donated a DGX-1 to OpenAI, shares photo gallery
- Not all RTX 40-series Super GPUs use the new 12V-2x6 connector — new images of 16-pin "H++" power connector emerge
- Crucial takes aim for the sweet spot with DDR5 Pro Memory Overclocking Edition running at DDR5-6000
- Scammer gets creative and ships women's shoes instead of Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti
- Dutch government minister talks about China's military advantage — May point to stricter sanctions in the future
- February 19
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- GlobalFoundries gets 1.5 billion from CHIPS fund, $600 million from NY state
- Wyze security failure let 13,000 customers see into other users' homes
- Following reports indicating a Q1 2025 Nintendo Switch 2 release, Nintendo's JP stock drops by over 5 percent
- Show off your CPU and M.2 SSDs to your friends with these $15 stands
- Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce fingerprints to enable attacks
- Reddit reportedly selling its users' content to an AI company for $60 million per year
- This Raspberry Pi volumetric display is a new spin on LED 3D animations
- Razer Sneki Snek Wall Light launched at $80 – USB powered but no Synapse control
- AMD's China-exclusive Radeon RX 7900 GRE appears in European and U.K. retailers
- Graphcore reportedly explores sale: Arm, OpenAI, and Softbank named as rumored potential buyers
- February 18
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- Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchip poised to push the boundaries of quantum computing in Australia
- An ordinary squirt of canned air achieves supersonic speeds - engineer spots telltale shock diamonds
- Intel's new fastest gaming CPU spotted at multiple European retailers — Core i9-14900KS costs $100 more for this binned CPU
- Windows 10 Installed in possible record 104 seconds – witness the fast and furious speedrun with Tiny10
- February 17
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- Softbank founder reportedly aims to raise $100 billion to build AI chip company that would rival Nvidia — Project Izanagi might leverage Arm design
- Revamped AMD-powered gaming handheld will launch by the end of the month — GPD Win 4 upgraded to a Ryzen 7 8840U CPU
- Lian Li launches L-shaped power supplies for dual-chamber PC cases
- Controversial benchmarking website goes behind partial paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription [Update]
- MSI Pro MP251 monitor drops down to $79 at Newegg
- Intel's next-gen CPU boosts to 2.8 GHz without Hyper-Threading — Lunar Lake chip with eight cores, eight threads has a bigger L2 cache than the L3 cache
- Nvidia's new trimmed-down entry-level gaming GPU fails to outperform rivals — RTX 3050 6GB lags behind five-year-old GTX 1660 Ti
- House cleaners find two of the world's first desktop PCs in random boxes — Intel 8008-powered Q1 PC has 16KB of memory, 800 kHz CPU
- Kioxia offers to make chips for SK Hynix to help revive merger talks with Western Digital: Report
- Intel's CHIPS Act award package exceeds $10 billion, payout expected within two weeks: Report
- Legendary chip architect Jim Keller responds to Sam Altman's plan to raise $7 trillion to make AI chips — 'I can do it for less than $1 trillion'
- February 16
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- New HAMR lasers could usher in 30TB+ HDDs, Seagate and Sony team up for production: Report
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 spotted in super tiny unofficial Game Boy handheld
- ASML dethrones Applied Materials, becomes world's largest fab tool maker: analyst
- Microsoft confirms four Xbox exclusives coming to PS5 and Switch, sees a future 'Where every screen is an Xbox'
- U.S. chip fab construction is among the slowest in the world — a complex web of regulations is to blame according to study
- Qualcomm reveals 'Sound of Snapdragon' audio logo — similar to Intel's Jingle, Netflix's 'ta-dum'
- ASML explores Hyper-NA chipmaking tools as the next step in shrinking transistors — tools would debut in 2030, but significant technology and cost hurdles remain
- Prototype LaserDisc HD media sells for $1,000 — despite disc rot and unknown contents
- Russian military botnet discovered on 1000+ compromised routers — FBI deactivated Moobot by taking control of impacted routers
- Existing workarounds fail with new Windows 11 requirement that invalidates older CPUs — Microsoft's PopCnt restriction appears to be unbreakable
- OpenAI Sora text to video generator debuts – results can be amazing, but bugs admittedly remain
- Meteor Lake seemingly struggles against AMD's Phoenix APU in early MSI Claw review
- Wait times for Nvidia's AI GPUs ease to three to four months, suggesting peak in near-term growth — the wait list for an H100 was previously eleven months: UBS
- Now you can 3D print a custom, modular, stackable ITX NAS PC
- Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks — SPEC says the company's compiler used unfair optimizations to boost performance
- February 15
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- Nvidia provides the first public view of its fastest AI supercomputer — Eos is powered by 4,608 H100 GPUs, tuned for generative AI
- Lian Li's protoype desk PC case has a transparent OLED screen built into it
- Google proposes users of older Windows 10 PCs to migrate to ChromeOS Flex — 600 devices certified
- 'Craigslist for GPUs' launches amid crushing Nvidia AI GPU shortages — gpulist.ai allows you to rent AI GPU clusters by the hour
- Intel seeks a partner to provide $2 billion in funds for Irish fab: Report
- AMD's brings powerful RDNA 3 graphics to power-sipping 35W APUs — Ryzen 8000GE comes in both standard and hybrid configurations
- Nvidia becomes world's 4th most valuable company, surpasses Alphabet and Amazon
- AMD's fastest CPUs put new price pressure on Intel — Ryzen 9 7900X3D drops to a new low of $410 and 7800X3D is nearly $100 less than MSRP
- Chinese workshops recondition Nvidia's old flagship gaming GPU for AI — RTX 2080 Ti upgraded to 22GB for $499
- Intel Core i9-14900KS tipped for mid-March release – touted timeframe wouldn’t be a surprise
- MSI Afterburner finally drops Windows XP support — latest update adds Nvidia Reflex latency monitoring
- Raspberry Pi RP2040 powers new Waveshare USB dev board with onboard LCD screen
- AMD expands AI and ONNX support to more Radeon GPUs
- February 14
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- Microsoft Flight Simulator's free Dune expansion lets you fly an Ornithopter over Arrakis
- ASML warns that more U.S. sanctions against China could have a major impact on its business
- Lost Japan-exclusive Satellaview F-Zero GP 2 restored with footage and special tools
- AMD says Anti-Lag+ is returning in a more mature state after its disastrous launch
- Impending Windows 11 update will let you set up Wi-Fi connections with the camera app and QR codes
- Intel discloses 34 security holes in firmware and software — Thunderbolt, XTU, chipset drivers, and more
- AMD discloses slew of high severity security vulnerabilities that attacks BIOS chips on Zen systems — updates aren't available for all chips, finally a fix Zenbleed
- Chinese chipmaker tapes out 16-core DragonChain-powered CPU, 64-core coming — Loongson LS3C6000 server processor will rival Zen 3 CPUs
- New Nvidia Game Ready driver improves DLSS 2 and 3, bundles Super GPU support
- Intel Lunar Lake Xe2 integrated graphics patches introduce adaptive sharpening and higher visual quality for gaming and images
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says $7 trillion isn't needed for AI — cites 1 million-fold improvement in AI performance in the last ten years
- Gamer says fire ants infested his PC to eat thermal paste and pads — pics reveal insects proliferating in the GPU around thermal pad debris
- Nvidia Chat with RTX runs a ChatGPT-style application on your GPU that works with your local data — RTX 30-series or later required
- $77 3D Printer from AliExpress is Actually Usable, Reviewer Says
- February 13
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- AMD updates Ryzen Master to support Ryzen 8000G series APUs, improves Curve Optimizer
- Nvidia's original GTX Titan benchmarked 11 years later — $1,000 card now 'barely usable' in modern titles, often beaten by AMD's sub-$200 RX 6400
- You can run LUnix on an NES — demo shows a Unix-like OS running completely on the NES
- Intel Core i9-14900KS alleged benchmarks leaked — up to 6.20 GHz and 410W power draw
- 3D printed Raspberry Pi 5 NAS supports up to 10TB of storage
- Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year break – grows from 50MB to 700MB
- Flipper Zero gains DVI output and motion control thanks to Raspberry Pi Pico powered video game module
- Audacity gets AI transcription and noise suppression courtesy of Intel OpenVINO plug-ins
- Equipment delivery to Intel's Ohio fab delayed for several weeks; full move will take nine months to finish
- Microsoft expected to bring Xbox games to PS5 and Switch, announces coming "updates" on Xbox business
- Older systems now won't be able to update to newer versions of Windows due to reliance on an arcane CPU instruction often used for AI neural networks: Report
- ASML's High-NA chipmaking tool will cost $380 million — the company already has orders for '10 to 20' machines and is ramping up production
- The Canadian government wants to ban Flipper Zero-type hacker tools to combat car theft (Updated)
- February 12
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- Nvidia's new Pro GPU costs less than $650 — RTX 2000 Ada Generation arrives with 2,816 CUDA cores and 16GB ECC VRAM
- Taiwan accuses China of 'cheating' and 'stealing' chipmaking technologies
- Software allows CUDA code to run on AMD and Intel GPUs without changes — ZLUDA is back but both companies ditched it, nixing future updates
- China's Loongson CPU seems to have IPC equivalent to Zen 4 and Raptor Lake -- but slow speeds and limited core count keeps 3A6000 well behind modern competition
- BitLocker key sniffing is still possible on modern Windows 11 laptops with discrete TPM modules
- Ayaneo's Flip DS brings familiar AMD handheld PC specs and OCuLink to an old-school dual-screen clamshell form factor
- This functional 3D-printed Pokédex uses Chat GPT to identify Pokémon
- Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire
- The International Space Station is getting the first metal 3D printer made for space, designed by Airbus and the ESA
- China's secretive Tianhe 3 supercomputer uses homegrown hybrid CPU — rivals US systems with 1.57 Exaflops of performance: Report
- Some Canon printers have seven critical security vulnerabilities — i-Sensys printer vulns rank at 9.8 severity
- Windows 11 AI super resolution scaling for all apps previewed in the latest insider build
- February 11
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- The N64 is still being pushed past its limits, 28 years later — homebrew devs won't give up on the Nintendo 64, compare 2024 Mario to his 1996 ancestor
- SCSI isn't dead yet — new SSD for old or obsolete systems is a boon for retro computing fans
- AMD Zen 5 support arrives with five new instructions — GNU compiler collection posted
- AMD Ryzen 8700G delidded – runs up to 25 degrees Celsius cooler and up to 17% faster
- Nvidia RTX 2000 entry level workstation cards leak - tipped for release in the coming week
- Steam Deck 1200p screen replacement goes under scrutiny – better than the original but outshined by the latest OLED model
- February 10
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- Gigabyte addresses PCB cracking issues with a revised design — RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 GPUs shouldn't crack anymore
- New USB stick has a self-destruct feature that heats it to over 100 degrees Celsius — a secret three-insertion process needed to unlock data safely
- Nvidia DSR and DLDSR tech can work on some DSC monitors
- AMD CEO Lisa Su reportedly hits $1 billion net worth on back of AI boom
- Nvidia's first CPU+GPU chips come to AI workstation desktop PCs — Grace Hopper Superchip systems start at $41,500
- Tachyum announces questionable 96-Core Prodigy-based AI workstation — $5,000 system also supposedly includes 1TB of memory
- February 9
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- The next, AI-focused version of Windows is Windows 11 24H2 — not Windows 12
- Viewsonic latest 27-inch 240Hz OLED gaming monitor lands in the US -- XG272-2K-OLED boasts 0.02ms response time
- Nvidia's Grace server CPU trades blows with AMD and Intel in detailed review -- outperforms Bergamo, Genoa, and Emerald Rapids in over half of the benchmarks
- Nvidia to build custom AI, console and telecom chips for high-profile customers: Report
- TSMC and SK Hynix team up for HBM4 co-production: Report
- Security firm now says toothbrush DDOS attack didn't happen, but source publication says company presented it as real
- Samsung Magician Software updated after ‘high severity’ security vulnerability found
- AMD's Radeon 780M integrated graphics hits 3.15GHz in Ryzen 7 8700G overclocking test — 37% faster on average with iGPU and memory overclock
- PiWings 2.0 Kickstarter flies in with Raspberry Pi Pico and ESP32
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeks $5 to $7 trillion to build a network of fabs for AI chips
- Acer's next Predator is a €1,299 electric scooter
- Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption
- February 8
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- Nvidia CEO recognized for high-powered GPUs and the AI revolution — Jensen Huang elected to National Academy of Engineering
- Cablemod recalls its 16-pin GPU power adapters due to fire hazard — over $74,500 in property damage claims so far
- AMD posts Linux patches to enable RDNA 4 GPUs — could RX 8000-series graphics cards actually arrive in 2024?
- NASA's Voyager 1 probe is malfunctioning in deep space due to a critical memory error
- Google announces Gemini AI and a new mobile app – subscription options will offer more powerful models
- Nvidia releases hotfix driver to address stuttering problems with certain GPUs and PCs — supports all current graphics cards
- AMD's classic Athlon CPUs emblazoned with etchings of Texas and revolvers — codenames may have changed to avoid upset car companies
- February 7
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- Some Intel chips banned in Germany after company loses patent spat — Alder Lake, Ice Lake, and Tiger Lake chips impacted [Updated]
- Utility breaks the shackles of SafeDisc optical disc DRM for retro gamers — SafeDiscShim restores playability for classic PC titles
- AMD takes market share from Intel in server, desktop, and notebooks — new Mercury Research data shows Q4 2023 data
- Patriot slaps a blower fan cooler on its new PCIe 5.0 SSD — Viper PV553 offers speeds up to 12.4 GB/s
- Intel's Clear Linux distribution adds support for APX and AVX10, which aren't out yet
- Nvidia Grace Superchip loses to Intel Sapphire Rapids in HPC performance benchmarks, but promises greater efficiency
- China's chipmaking champion struggles —SMIC fab warns that it could see declined profits due to increasingly tense economy and geopolitics
- Evidence mounts that TSMC won't adopt next-gen EUV chipmaking tools until 1nm debuts in the 2030 timeframe
- Zephyr teams up with Valkyrie for its first liquid cooled GPU — a silver and black RTX 4080 Super with 280mm AiO
- Corsair to shut down Origin PC Miami operations as it relocates production to Atlanta
- Intel's Bartlett Lake-S is incoming, but not to desktop PCs — chips will debut for Intel's NEX group
- Support for Intel Core Ultra NPUs has been added to the latest Windows 11 DirectML developer preview
- BitLocker encryption broken in 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM
- February 6
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- AMD confirms Ryzen 8000G APUs don't support ECC RAM, despite initial claims
- Mini PC maker ships systems with factory-installed spyware — AceMagic says issue was contained to the 'first shipment'
- Japan to give $1.64 billion in subsidies to Kioxia and WD to boost NAND memory chip production
- Huawei, China's only real hope for homegrown AI hardware in volume, prioritizes Ascend AI processors over Kirin smartphone chips
- Hafnia proves a viable material for memory in experiments, but it probably won't come cheap
- Asus and MSI compete over OLED monitor burn-in warranty lengths – up to 3 years of coverage
- China chipmaker SMIC on track to produce sanctions-busting 5nm processors for Huawei this year: Report
- Orange Pi enters handheld PC space with Orange Pi Neo, a Ryzen 7840U-powered handheld gaming device
- Researchers design a processor from DNA — microfluidic chip completes math calculations and also stores data in DNA
- TSMC is now the world's largest semiconductor maker by revenue, beating Intel and Samsung: Analyst
- February 5
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- $10,000 for a $3,500 Apple Vision Pro? Scalpers mark up Apple's headset, despite the fact that it's still in stock
- Nvidia's flagship RTX 4090 gets a green and gold makeover
- Sharkoon unveils high-airflow ATX mid-tower wood case with 11 fan mounts
- PCIe 6.0 over optical cables demonstrated in custom data center solution
- International Space Station gets Kioxia SSD upgrade for edge computing and AI workloads -- HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 now packs 310TB
- Raspberry Pi project lets you generate AI art for your TV using voice commands
- Nvidia feature that converts SDR games to HDR uncovered by modder -- RTX TrueHDR settings found in latest Game Ready driver
- Intel's Lunar Lake reference laptops aim to improve power efficiency with Cirrus Logic hardware
- Intel's 20-Core Xeon W 'Sapphire Rapids Refresh' CPU benchmarked
- Intel Foundry Services gets an 1.8nm Arm Neoverse chip order — Faraday to develop 64-core Intel 18A processor with Arm Neoverse design for SoC evaluation platform
- Crucial T705 could deliver a blistering 14,500 MB/s of bandwidth — new PCIe 5.0 SSD pictures and specs leak
- An unholy SLI emerges — Intel's Arc A770 and Nvidia's Titan Xp pair up to provide 70% boost in FluidX3D
- Scalpers across Asia stripping RTX 4090 cards from pre-built PCs to smuggle into China
- February 4
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- Steam Survey reveals momentum behind octa-core and better CPUs - Windows 11 and VR headsets also gain traction
- YMTC denies Pentagon allegations - says it doesn't supply technology for Chinese military use
- Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12
- Gamer hacks Palworld onto Apple Vision Pro, plays game on 300-inch virtual screen — makes 115-inch 4K projector look puny
- AMD creates its own edible chips, embraces Guai Guai culture to ensure smooth running Ryzens
- Intel CPUs enjoy up to 14% boost in Linux - Intel Thread Director works its magic on the open source OS
- EK Direct Die AiO CPU cooler yields ‘impressive results’ - 13900KS temperatures can be 20 degrees better than stock
- February 3
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- Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge
- Old Nvidia gaming GPUs enjoy huge performance uplifts from new mod — DLSS 3 to FSR 3 mod enables frame generation to deliver up to 75% better performance on previous GeForce RTX GPUs
- Pink thermal paste smells like strawberries — Extreme Mugurisu 4G Strawberry Edition rivals Thermal Grizzly's Kryonaut
- Palit brings the DVI port back on Nvidia's budget gaming GPU — RTX 3050 KalmX features a passive cooler and zero power connectors
- AMD mobile CPUs power new mini-ITX motherboards — Zen 3 or Zen 4 chip onboard, two M.2 slots, and four 2.5G Ethernet ports
- Intel's latest lower-powered CPUs give Ryzen rivals a run for their money — Core i9-14900T trades blows with Ryzen 9 7900 in Geekbench 6 benchmark
- Raspberry Pi 5 HAT connects two NVMe SSDs for more storage
- More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices
- Nvidia's new entry-level gaming GPU is slow but very power-efficient — RTX 3050 6GB benchmarks show 20% lower performance than RTX 3050 8GB but draws 50% less power
- Nvidia's top gaming GPU prices are out of control in Asia — RTX 4090 price hikes up to 60%
- AMD and Raytheon team up for advanced chip packaging for military applications
- Bambu Lab A1 Recall Update: Company offers refunds on 3D printer, asks owners to stop using them until replacement parts arrive
- February 2
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- Faulty 12V2x6 connector found with RTX 4080 Super card — it could be a one-off problem, but caution is advisable
- This Raspberry Pi composite video player fits inside an old school VHS tape
- Google is axing cached webpages from search results, tells everyone to use Internet Archive instead
- RTX 4080 Super teardown sheds light on power connector controversy — PCB shows traces for two 8-pin connectors along with the 16-pin connector
- Rasti laptop inspired by sci-fi classic 'Aliens' -- uses Framework motherboard and 3D printed chassis
- SK Hynix says new high bandwidth memory for GPUs on track for 2024 - HBM4 with 2048-bit interface and 1.5TB/s per stack is on the way
- Nvidia slashes memory capacity with new entry-level GPU — cut-down RTX 3050 has 6GB of memory, down from 8GB two years ago, but cheaper
- Defective RTX 3070 gaming GPU gets 12GB memory upgrade — mod boosts performance by 66% in RE4
- China's top AI accelerator and CPU makers are bleeding tens of millions -- Longsoon and Cambricon losses continue despite billions in government subsidies
- Nvidia's H100 AI GPUs cost up to four times more than AMD's competing MI300X — AMD's chips cost $10 to $15K apiece; Nvidia's H100 has peaked beyond $40,000: Report
- Chips aren't getting cheaper to make — the cost per transistor stopped dropping a decade ago at 28nm
- China's CXMT reportedly aims to make HBM memory for AI chips — exotic memory is a missing piece for China's chipmaking self-sufficiency
- Pentagon now considers China's 3D NAND maker YMTC a 'military company' — designation bars company from using US-designed chipmaking equipment
- Amazon’s new AWS charge for using IPv4 is expected to rake in up to $1B per year — change should speed IPv6 adoption
- Intel's Ohio fabs could reportedly slip to late 2026 — 'Silicon Heartland' factories were originally planned for 2025
- February 1
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- Meta to deploy custom-designed Artemis AI processor alongside commercial GPUs
- Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake-S CPU spotted with 24-threads and no AVX-512 functionality
- AMD's integrated graphics performance shines in AI tests with extreme memory — Ryzen 7 8700G with DDR5-9000 up to 15% better
- Taping over your webcam might not be enough to stop hackers from spying on you — they can now use a device's ambient light sensor
- Cutting-edge memory manufacturing for AI GPUs coming to the US — SK Hynix to build HBM fab in Indiana
- New Nvidia AI GPUs designed to get around U.S. export bans come to China — H20, L20, and L2 to fill void left by restricted models
- AMD's new cheap gaming chip is 25% faster than Intel's more expensive alternative — Ryzen 7 5700X3D is faster than Core i5-13600KF in early reviews, even on aging AM4 platform
- Qualcomm earnings call suggests Apple will again extend 5G modem license, to 2027
- Nvidia simplified the board design of its RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition
- New Asus monitor leaks, has 380 Hz panel and new 'AI gaming features'