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March 31
- The next Cortana: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC
- Intel Battlemage G10 and G21 next-gen discrete GPUs seen in shipping manifests — expected to address entry to mid-range market
- Rickroll ASIC heralded as a world first – this chip is never gonna let you down
- Intel CEO's compensation still trails AMD CEO's by half — despite a significant boost in 2023
- Mini-ITX board transformed into a Mini-ITX Laptop with a battery and 32GB of memory
March 30
- Seven-year-old AMD gaming GPU continues to stick around — low-profile RX 550 arrives for SFF PCs
- PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced requirements allegedly leaked — upscaled 4K at constant 60 FPS with ray tracing is the new target
- HP ends ties with Russia, shutting down its Russian website — website redirects to Kazakhstan with no support
- Chinese chipmaker launches 14nm AI processor that's 90% cheaper than GPUs — $140 chip's older node sidesteps US sanctions
March 29
- OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100 billion datacenter project for an AI supercomputer
- AMD 170W Granite Ridge Zen 5 CPUs and 128W Strix Point APUs revealed in shipping manifest — 16-core 'Fire Range' mobile CPUs also coming
- Chinese manufacturer Tryx reveals unique AIO cooler with curved AMOLED display
- EVGA replaces customer's destroyed hard drives after power supply RMA blunder
- Arm China bolsters its AI accelerator with open source driver to compete against AMD, Intel, and Apple
- AMD says the UCIe universal chiplet interface will create a whole ecosystem — custom multi-chiplet designs are the future
- TSMC is on a hiring spree to recruit 23,000 employees — comes amid explosive multi-continent expansion
- Dutch gov't to invest $2.7 billion to keep ASML in the Netherlands - roads, trains and education included in package
- US gov't working on list of Chinese fabs banned from advanced chipmaking tools as China's stockpiling spree continues
- Nvidia's sanctions-compliant 4090D gaming GPU for China is overclockable, restoring performance to standard unsanctioned RTX 4090 FE levels
- AMD lists mystery MI388X AI GPU in official docs, says it's barred from China sales due to US sanctions
- Putin orders development of homegrown Steam Deck-like gaming machines — 100% self-sufficiency goal apparently applies to gaming, too
- Chinese flash memory maker claims breakthrough - QLC NAND matches endurance of TLC NAND
- Game developer issues warning about Intel's fastest gaming chips - downclock Core i9 flagships to avoid crashes in Outpost Infinity Seige.
- Modder morphs NES cartridge into a working console that plays other NES games — and itself
March 28
- New Windows Insider build gets rid of annoying watermark, adds Copilot support for local accounts
- We tried to install Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 5 — lack of internet connectivity left us stuck
- GPU pricing update: Nvidia RTX 4080 Super prices down to $999 MSRP now — 4060 starts at $279
- Granite Rapids shows up on CPU-Z boasting 80 cores and 672MB of L3 cache
- MSI introduces Spatium M580 Frozr, a PCIe 5.0 SSD rated for 14.6 GB/s read and 12.7 GB/s write
- Lego Technic autoclicker taps in at record-breaking 70 clicks per second, if your mouse can survive it
- Half of Russian-made chips are defective: Baikal struggles to meet Russia's demand
- Taiwan produces 90% of the world's AI servers – raising concerns as US-China trade conflicts continue to simmer
- Leak reveals Microsoft's next Xbox with familiar design in white — alleged 'Brooklin' revamp is dead
- China's chipmaking tool purchases skyrocket — imports up 256% in the face of intensifying U.S. sanctions
- New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software
- Nvidia's new ChatGPT-like AI chatbot falls victim to high-severity security vulnerabilities - urgent ChatRTX patch issued
- Chinese retailer lists $139 'Thor Darth Vader' 2K IPS monitor - looks nothing like Thor or Darth Vader
- Lenovo says demand for AMD's Instinct MI300 is record high — plans to offer AI solutions from all important hardware vendors
March 27
- China's president says it doesn't need ASML — tells Dutch PM it will continue with advanced technological progress regardless
- Nvidia Hopper H200 breaks MLPerf benchmark record with TensorRT — no Blackwell submissions yet, sorry
- Intel's Lunar Lake MX mobile processor pictured, with LPDDR5X memory on board
- Intel confirms Microsoft's Copilot AI will soon run locally on PCs, next-gen AI PCs require 40 TOPS of NPU performance
March 26
- Intel shares Microsoft's new AI PC definition, launches AI PC Acceleration Programs and Core Ultra Meteor Lake NUC developer kits at AI conference
- Diablo IV's new ray tracing update is live — Outpost: Infinity Siege also gets DLSS 3
- Google keeps trying to force feed me its hideous new Chrome design. Here's how to revert to the classic one.
- SK hynix reportedly planning for a $4 billion chip packaging facility in Indiana — for HBM and other exotic memory types
- Microsoft's newly-unified Windows and Surface Team gets a new head — restructuring and AI in Redmond
- TSMC's 3nm node will reportedly account for over 20% of its revenue in 2024, as Apple, AMD, and Intel adopt the technology
- Intel adds Arc A750E and A580E SKUs to Linux drivers — likely offloading Alchemist silicon before Battlemage arrives
- AOC launches its first 240 Hz OLED ultrawide — $1,399 for the 44.5-inch Agon Pro AG456UCZD
- Google releases Chrome for Windows on Arm ahead of Snapdragon X Elite launch
- AMD to refresh socket AM4 with Ryzen '5000 XT' CPUs — two new iGPU-less Ryzen 8000-series processors also announced
- Huawei gains 11% in a down year for Chinese PC sales — Dell loses 44% market share
- YouTuber assembles single-slot low-profile Intel Arc A380 GPU using A310 cooler
- Phison's new software uses SSDs and DRAM to boost effective memory for AI training — demos a single workstation running a massive 70 billion parameter model at GTC 2024
- Working PCIe 6.0 connectivity demoed at GTC — Astera Labs' Aries retimers currently power Nvidia's HGX systems with eight H100 GPUs, likely future Blackwell systems, too
- South Korean Search giant Naver pivots away from Nvidia – Samsung will supply $752 million in AI chips instead
March 25
- Mysterious SiSoftware results show two new Intel Arc GPUs sporting 10 and 12 Xe-cores — possibly Battlemage, but clocks and L2 cache leave uncertainties
- Raspberry Pi hat camera views the world from your perspective
- Asus launches ROG Strix XG27WCS gaming monitor – 27-inch VA panel cranks to 180 Hz
- Meteor Lake-PS CPUs will be the first chips to use Intel's LGA1851 socket
- Tiny Corp decides to make both AMD and Nvidia versions of its TinyBox AI server - GeForce version is 67% more expensive
- Next-gen GPUs likely arriving in late 2024 with GDDR7 memory — Samsung and SK hynix chips showed chips at GTC
- China blocks Intel and AMD CPUs for government offices and servers, plans to switch to domestic-made alternatives
- Leak suggests AMD's upcoming 'Turin' Zen 5 CPUs will support 4TB of RAM at 6000 MT/s
- Horizon Forbidden West PC port analysis: Another game that can exceed 8GB VRAM use
March 24
- SMIC and Huawei could use quadruple patterning for China-made 5nm chips: Report
- Microsoft aims to boost ray-tracing performance in VRAM-constrained scenarios — patent describes a new level of detail system for RT effects
- Russian businesses get shut out from Microsoft cloud services at the end of this month – new EU sanctions come into effect
- Steve Jobs signed Apple Computer business card achieves over $180,000 at auction — about 14X more expensive than an unsigned card
- The Sibolan SZBox S69 Ryzen Mini PC is made in a 'Power-Ranger' choice of colors — but older hardware and pricing means this isn't a superhero
- Intel CEO Gelsinger proposes a fab tour for Elon Musk — could be an attempt to win orders from Tesla, other Musk companies
March 23
- This NAS motherboard has more 2.5G Ethernet ports than USB ports — Topton N9 comes with eight 2.5G Ethernet ports
- Asus ROG NUC has a $1,629 starting price — entry-level SKU comes with Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and RTX 4060 GPU
- AMD lifts memory overclocking limitations on RX 7900 GRE — new Adrenalin driver increases limit to 3,000 MHz
- EVGA power supply allegedly kills 22TB of customer storage — revised model from RMA had a different pin layout and killed all SATA-powered devices
- Chinese smuggler tried to slip 44 tattered RX 580 GPUs through customs
- Denuvo DRM maker cracks down on game leakers with new tech — TraceMark for Gaming puts a watermark on games to unmask the source
- Gen-over-gen performance uplifts are getting smaller with Nvidia's mid-range GPUs — GTX 1060, RTX 2060, RTX 3060, and RTX 4060 retested in 2024
- Broadcom shows a gargantuan AI chip — XPU could be the world's largest chip built for a consumer AI company
- Formula 1 management shocked team used Excel for 20,000-part inventory, now replacing 'impossible to navigate' sheet
- The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina
- Intel's Germany chip fab site yields discovery of 6,000-year-old burial mounds — no word yet about potential construction delays
March 22
- Micron shows massive 256GB DDR5-8800 memory sticks — High-capacity double-height 20-watt MCRDIMM modules come in different flavors
- Samsung details petabyte SSD subscription service, uses custom-built servers
- China-made RISC-V PCIe 5.0 SSD controller promises competitive performance — up to 14.2 GB/s without a fan
- Former UPS employee stole $1.3 million in Apple merchandise — used proceeds to buy a home, pay off his Audi
- US chip toolmakers skip Semicon China conference they sponsored amid ongoing trade war
- Raspberry Pi spins precision movement stage for beautiful up-close microchip videos
- Procyon AI image generation benchmark uses Stable Diffusion — UL to release new benchmark on March 25
- Unlike Apple's chips, Qualcomm's X Elite Arm CPU will run Windows games just fine using x64 emulation — native ARM64 code will give best performance
- SK hynix to spend $90 billion to build 'world's largest mega fab complex' — first fab operational in 2027
- Notepad on Windows 11 gets spellcheck feature 41 years after launch
- AMD debuts China-only Ryzens at AI summit — Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F ditch the iGPU
March 21
- New chip flaw hits Apple Silicon and steals cryptographic keys from system cache — 'GoFetch' vulnerability attacks Apple M1, M2, M3 processors, can't be fixed in hardware
- Gigabyte's new trio of Aorus QD-OLED gaming monitors ship in April — 1440p or 4K at up to 360 Hz
- Nvidia RTX 40-series allegedly getting down-binned GPU updates — certain 4060 and 4070 class cards to use larger, harvested chips
- New Intel Arc driver improves frame rates by up to 174%, adds support for 'Horizon Forbidden West'
- Micron says high bandwidth memory is sold out for 2024 and most of 2025 — intense demand portends potential AI GPU production bottleneck
- A new generation of Ryzen processors codenamed 'Strix Point' will be released in 2024 - integrating Zen 5, RDNA 3+, and XDNA 2 architecture
- VR 'inception' attacks exploit developer mode loophole and VR's dreamlike unreality to manipulate what you see, steal real personal data
- Microsoft's Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business are all in on office Copilots
- AMD's Zen 2 FPU for PlayStation 5 is 35% smaller than a Ryzen 7 3800X but sacrifices nothing in terms of gaming performance
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3.1 shown at GDC 2024: 'Decoupled' Frame Gen can work with other upscalers
- DongleHider+ is a cunning new Framework laptop Expansion Card for hiding up to three dongles
- Gaming PC sales slipped 13% last year, but analysts predict 2024 will see a return to growth
- HP uses banned made-for-China AI GPU for Z workstations — A800 GPU is given a new purpose
- MediaTek rolls out first processors with built-in Nvidia graphics – aimed at bringing AI-powered entertainment to future vehicles
- Ultra Ethernet Consortium adds 45 new members in five months – aiming for version 1.0 to connect HPC and AI clusters this year
March 20
- Video shows world's first Neuralink brain interface patient playing PC games and chess with his mind
- SK hynix's in-house designed PCIe 5.0 SSD breaks cover — Platinum P51 targets top-notch speed and lower idle power
- Insulated blue light-emitting diodes could banish OLED burn-in for good
- Alibaba claims it will launch a server-grade RISC-V processor this year
- RTX off, AI on: Jensen says we'll see fully AI-generated games in 5-10 years
- 3D print your own animated, 3D-printer-shaped wireless charger for less than $50, thanks to Bambu Labs
- Adafruit announces the latest CircuitPython release for Raspberry Pi Pico and other microcontrollers
- New Xbox dev kit certified for testing in South Korea, console refresh could come this year
- Samsung to launch AI chips to challenge Nvidia, others — 'Mach 1' chips to launch in early 2025
- Nvidia vows to ship Blackwell GPUs this year, but Meta doubts it will get them before 2025
- AMD TinyBox project put on hold due to GPU instability in AI workloads — firm publicly considering using Intel GPUs
- 3D-printed holographics can encode data using common plastic -- keys and addresses up to 576 bits, with redundancy
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's star power made him a celebrity magnet at GTC 2024
- Leaker suggests that Nvidia's Blackwell gaming graphics processer, GB202 to use the same technology as GB200
- Intel awarded $8.5 billion in funding for building chipmaking fabs - CHIPS Act funding to boost US semiconductor manufacturing
March 19
- Ubisoft, Nvidia, and Inworld AI partnership to produce "Neo NPC" game characters with AI-backed responses
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang says Blackwell GPU to cost $30,000 - $40,000, later clarifies that pricing will vary as they won't sell just the chip
- AI startup Extropic emerges from stealth with superconducting processors it boldly claims will beat GPUs, CPUs, and TPUs
- AMD shows off DX12-related rendering advances that make game engines more efficient and less dependent on the CPU -- demo shows a 64% improvement
- Noctua is back in black with $99, 120mm NH-D12L chromax.black air cooler
- Custom virtual pinball machine packs Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 and a full PC
- Researchers 3D print wood objects from sawdust ink – texture, appearance, and smell similar to the real thing
- Burned RTX 4090 brought back from the dead — PCIe repair job resurrects GPU that suffered power connector meltdown
- You can install Nvidia's fastest AI GPU into a PCIe slot with an SXM-to-PCIe adapter -- Nvidia H100 SXM can fit into regular x16 PCIe slots
- Playtron announces self-titled Linux OS and gaming handheld with hopes to unify storefronts
- Intel and TSMC face chip fab construction delays and supplier woes in Arizona
- Samsung to unveil petabyte SSD subscription storage service for AI: Report
March 18
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang debuts new $8,990 lizard-embossed leather jacket, also says something about AI GPUs
- New research shows naturally occurring mineral is an 'unconventional superconductor' when purified
- TSMC considering advanced packaging facility in Japan: report -- with two fabs already in the works, this would be a major boost to country's chip industry
- Nvidia’s next-gen AI GPU is 4X faster than Hopper: Blackwell B200 GPU delivers up to 20 petaflops of compute and other massive improvements
- Nvidia's generative AI tool delivers a radical 60X performance boost for chipmakers - TSMC and Synopsys are now using the cuLitho software in production
- Despite Ban, China-based cryptocurrency investors made $1B in gains during 2023
- AMD adds support for Zen 5 to Linux GCC compiler
- Modder transforms AMD's RX 5600 XT by boosting its memory capacity to 16GB and widening its memory bus to 256-bits
- Watch Nvidia's GTC Keynote Here (1 pm PT / 4pm ET)
- Intel pushes launch date of Ohio fab from 2025 to 2027 or 2028 – state politicians remain enthusiastic about progress.
- PiBoy handheld turns Raspberry Pi 5 into an overpowered, color Game Boy
- China's Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU doubles performance of prior-gen chip, still trails 6-year-old AMD and Intel processors
- Huawei's new magneto-electrical disks promise 90% lower power consumption than HDDs, ability to store tons of archival data
- Kickstarter CAZE card reader holds up to 20 cards, offers data transfer speeds up to 300 MB/s
- Typing sounds can be used to determine keystrokes, new research shows -- your keyboard can reveal passwords, even in noisy environments
- Despite U.S. sanctions, researchers in China can still access high-end Nvidia GPUs for AI
- Further PlayStation 5 Pro specs leak, improvements to CPU speed, GPU, RAM, and audio
March 17
- Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG
- U.S. outlines five-year plan to harness CHIPS Act funds — R&D, manufacturing, education, and ecosystem highlighted for balanced funding
- Raspberry Pi Pico W adds Bluetooth to Atari 2600 for wireless controller support
- Intel Core i9-14900KS runs at all-core 6 GHz with direct die cooling - with headroom to spare
- GhostRace CPU vulnerability threatens all major architectures — IBM and VU Amsterdam researchers detail new cross-platform speculative execution attack
- ChatGPT's ancestor GPT-2 jammed into 1.25GB Excel sheet — LLM runs inside a spreadsheet that you can download from GitHub
- Modded M3 MacBook Air outperforms the more expensive M3 MacBook Pro — supercharged cooling solution delivers big performance
- China filed 25% more patents than the U.S. in 2023 — heavily sanctioned Huawei led all companies worldwide despite bans
March 16
- The Sphere in Las Vegas features 4PB of flash memory at 400 GB/s to deliver 16K content
- PlayStation 5 Pro leak touts a 45% performance uplift — reliable leaker confirms PS5 Pro rumors about 4X higher RT performance and AI-based PSSR upscaling
- NASA's old supercomputers are causing mission delays — one has 18,000 CPUs but only 48 GPUs, highlighting dire need for update
- ASML delivers cutting-edge new chipmaking tool — third-generation EUV enables 2nm processors and beyond
- Intel CPUs see slight performance loss with new security fixes — E-cores and Atom chips not hugely affected by RFDS vulnerability
- Acer launches two new AMD Radeon GPUs — Predator Bitfrost Radeon RX 7900 GRE arrives with an oversized cooler
- Rare port that combines DisplayPort and HDMI discovered on Piston Xi3, the failed Steam Machine
- Ayaneo AM01 Macintosh-esque mini-PC design gets an AMD Zen 3 upgrade
- OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report
- Chinese foundry XMC aims to produce HBM memory
March 15
- Google to use RISC-V for its custom AI silicon — TPU to get open source compute core: Report
- Intel's plan to postpone chip plant in Italy confirmed by the country's Industry Minister
- Delidded Core i9-14900KS PCs on sale with Intel approval and warranty - Maingear among first partners
- DNA storage group publishes first standards for DNA-based storage — paves the way for broader use by standardizing vendor and codec data
- Vela AI uses Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to enable safety-conscious smart bikes
- AMD claims Ryzen smashes Intel's Meteor Lake in AI benchmarks — up to 79% faster at half the power consumption
- Western Digital claims its new QLC SSD beats its last-gen TLC drive — SN5000S is up to 16.5% faster than SN740
- Samsung races to beat Intel to market with glass substrates for chips — revolutionary tech boosts processing capabilities
- FCC quadruples requirements for basic broadband service — 100Mbps download and 20Mbps upload are now the base standard
- U.S. government set to announce multi-billion dollar Intel grant in Arizona next week: Report
- Intel 600/700-series motherboards from Asus now support 256GB of memory
March 14
- Newegg is selling an old but unused RX 5600 XT GPU for $109 — it's super cheap, and here's how it stacks up in 2024
- Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records
- NASA hopes to resolve Voyager 1's communication issues by 'poking' its flight data computer
- Nvidia expected to give developers a peek at next-gen Blackwell B100 GPU next week
- Cytron releases Edu Pico, an educational innovation project kit for makers and learners
- Intel finally adds more games to its game-boosting APO utility for 14th Gen Core i7 and i9 CPUs
- Enermax offers up 'world's smallest' ATX 3.1 PSU, giving you more space for compact and rear-connector PC builds
- Asus GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6GB graphics cards launched – low profile dimensions and DVI-D connectors set them apart
- Major CS2 tournament to update its systems with AMD 7800X3D CPUs and Nvidia RTX 4080 graphics
- Fanless Intel N100 stick PC bundles Windows 11, 16GB RAM and 256GB eMMC into a tiny form factor
- Sycom puts RTX 4070 Super and 4070 Ti Super under massive cooler equipped with Noctua fans
- Intel Core i9-14900KS Review: The Last Core i9 Hits Record 6.2 GHz at Stock Settings
- Thermaltake MS-1 M.2 SSD cooler launched with tiny 8,000-rpm fan, heatpipe, and heatsink
- Pentagon pulls out of Intel's $3.5 billion CHIPS Act grant, expects Commerce Department to foot the bill
- Nvidia touts three more games with DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction, more than doubling the current count — Black Myth: Wukong, Naraka Bladepoint, and Portal with RTX
March 13
- Cerebras launches 900,000-core 125 PetaFLOPS wafer-scale processor for AI — theoretically equivalent to about 62 Nvidia H100 GPUs
- Seasonic unveils 600W 12V-2X6 GPU power cable upgrade — company's earlier ATX 3.0 PSUs came with older 12VHPWR cables
- Maingear's Zero Series desktops with hidden motherboard cables are now widely available — prebuilts with MG-RC start at $1,399
- Malaysia's semiconductor manufacturing flourishes in the face of U.S. and China's Chip War
March 12
- Banana Pi launches $30 OpenWRT Wi-Fi 6 Router with WPA3 protection, optional PoE
- GPT-4 can play Doom, badly — doesn't hesitate to shoot humans and demons
- Macintosh Classic gets quadrupled memory with 4MB of onboard RAM — no daughterboard required
- DIY Raspberry Pi all sky camera captures the majesty of the Northern Lights
- Nvidia being sued by writers for unauthorized use of their works in generative AI training
- Leaker discusses Nvidia Blackwell memory configurations — suggests GB202 with 512-bit, GB203 with 256-bit, and GB205 with 192-bit
- Steam Deck modder builds custom 'Nintendo 3DS console' by adding second screen
- New AIO radiator testing reveals lead and other substandard materials — Caseking halts Barrow Dabel product sales in response
- Microsoft Windows 10 21H2 support will officially end for businesses and education institutions in June
- Qualcomm's Arm chip beats Intel in pre-launch Windows performance demo — Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 takes down Core 7 Ultra 155H
- Intel staves off AMD and China critics to keep exclusive export license to Huawei — Intel sells 90% of CPUs used in the company's laptops
March 11
- Samsung's Snapdragon X Elite-powered Galaxy Book 4 Edge will reportedly cost as much as premium Intel and Apple alternatives
- AMD's latest Ryzen APUs trounce China's best home-grown gaming cards — Ryzen 8000G easily outperforms Moore Threads MTT S80 and S30
- Impending Taiwan electricity price hikes to impact TSMC, other chipmakers
- Micro Center reveals potential $749 MSRP for Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900KS Special Edition CPU – imminent flagship CPU might be even more expensive than expected
- Soaring SSD prices could hobble NAND flash industry with reduced demand, Phison CEO cautions
- Broken Nvidia RTX 3090 rises from the grave – 'death by liquid metal' wasn't permanent
- Prototype 'Steam Machine' dusted off and tested — running Windows on an old AMD APU ten years later
- Nvidia Turing graphics cards get Resizable BAR support — if you're willing to flash a modified UEFI
March 10
- Jensen Huang says even free AI chips from his competitors can't beat Nvidia's GPUs
- Extra NAND chip makes Apple MacBook Air M3 256GB SSD drastically faster than predecessor
- Nvidia CEO admits next gen DGX systems necessitate liquid cooling - and the new systems are coming soon
- Compal Rover Play 2-in-1 PC offers fold-out rear controller grips for gamers - wins an iF Design Award
- Modding ancient AGP slots is still oddly popular in 2024 to add modern GPUs and boost networking — two adaptors enable GTX 960
March 9
- Repair shop offers MacBook M-series storage upgrades: Up to 2TB at up to $550 (Updated)
- One runaway prison laptop caused 1,200 incarcerated students to lose their devices — jailbroken laptop spurs prison officials to issue a recall of now-unsecured notebooks
- M3 MacBook Air hits eye-popping 114 degrees Celsius in stress test and didn't melt — temperature settles down at 100 degrees after thermal throttling
- Next-gen Nvidia GeForce gaming GPU memory spec leaked — RTX 50 Blackwell series GB20x memory configs shared by leaker
- Microsoft's mysterious Z1000 SSD uncovered, points to wider portfolio of drives — M.2 NVMe drive comes with Toshiba NAND, Micron DRAM, and CNEX Labs controller
- Core i9-14900KS listed with price tags up to 30% higher than Core i9-14900K
- Samsung rep says High-NA EUV is good for logic fabrication but might have cost issues for memory — Intel, ASML, and others share more bullish views
- China to give chipmakers $27 billion to counter U.S. sanctions — Big Fund III will have further funding rounds
- Nvidia becomes the world's third most valuable company — chipmaker is on the way to overtake Apple for the second spot
March 8
- Password-cracking botnet has taken over WordPress sites to attack using the visitor's browser
- TSMC will receive $5 billion incentive from U.S. for Arizona fab: Report
- AMD video upscaler arrives for RX 7000 GPU owners yearning for Nvidia's RTX Video
- Raspberry Pi 5-powered cat TV shows bird videos to feline friends
- MSI details how to make your Intel CPU run cooler without losing performance — recommends disabling CEP
- Startup aims to make CPUs 100x more energy efficient with 'reconfigurable' chips - Efficient Computer reveals Monza chip
- MSI Claw handheld PC with Intel Meteor Lake now available -- $699 device targets Steam Deck, ROG Ally
- China wants to rid itself of Western tech by 2027 -- outlines domestic alternatives in 'Document 79'
- Steam Deck OLED sees burn-in after 1,500-hour stress test — reducing brightness recommended to avoid damage
- Korean researchers power-shame Nvidia with new neural AI chip — claim 625 times less power draw, 41 times smaller
- Gigabyte now offers three-year warranty for its entire QD-OLED monitor range
- Six new Raspberry Pi 5 compatible Pineberry Pi boards announced, including dual NVMe, AI and 2.5G Ethernet
- Ray tracing can run without a GPU, if you like slideshows — Quake II RTX demoed at 1 FPS with CPU-based ray-tracing
March 7
- China and Japan gave TSMC over $1.5 billion in subsidies to build and equip new fabs as US CHIPS Act payouts stall
- GeForce Now gains 'Cloud G-Sync' variable refresh rate tech — works with Macs using Apple silicon, Intel CPUs, and Radeon GPUs
- Delidded Core i9-14900KS hits intense 409 watts, runs 10C cooler — beheaded chip gets tested before March 14th launch
- Sanwa Supply releases USB foot pedals that let you type with your feet
- AMD updates FreeSync minimum requirements — 144Hz or higher refresh rate needed for 1080p and 1440p displays
- Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots with ASCII art -- ArtPrompt bypasses safety measures to unlock malicious queries
- Intel to get $3.5 billion infusion from U.S. gov't to make chips for military: Report
- AMD fires back at Nvidia and details how to run a local AI chatbot on Radeon and Ryzen — recommends using a third-party app
- Raspberry Pi Pico turned into a working GPU
- Maingear refreshes North Series gaming desktops with North XL case
- Chinese engineer accused of stealing Google's GPU and TPU secrets, transferring them to China-based startups
- Semiconductor group says China chipmaking sanctions should be the 'last resort,' cautions EU against further restrictions
March 6
- Tiny Corp is 70% confident that AMD will make at least some of its GPU firmware open source
- ASML may be looking to leave the Netherlands — but the Dutch government is desperate to keep it there: Report
- Microsoft engineer begs FTC to stop Copilot's offensive image generator – Our tests confirm it's a serious problem
- Nvidia's and AMD's mid-range GPUs drop to around $420 — RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7700 XT available below MSRP
- Huawei says its mysterious new magneto-electric storage device offers unparalleled density
- NAND production cuts result in higher SSD pricing, fueling 25% revenue growth for memory makers
- Adata debuts heat-dissipating PCB coating with DDR5-8000+ memory, claims it boosts cooling performance by 10%
- GPU sales saw 32% year-over-year increase in Q4 — AMD's market share rises to 19%
- Tachyum plans to sample server platforms early next year — oft-delayed Prodigy chips slated for production in Q2 2024
- AMD’s Lisa Su steps in to fix driver issues with GPUs in new TinyBox AI servers — firm calls for AMD to make its GPU firmware open source, points to issues with Radeon 7900 XTX
- Open-source Nvidia Nouveau contributor confident driver will add HDMI 2.1 support, unlike AMD's troubles
- Raspberry Pi 5 dual NVMe SSD board doubles the storage, follows new PIP guidelines
- Microsoft is killing Windows 11's Android emulator -- no one will miss it
March 5
- GDDR7 graphics memory standard published by JEDEC — Next-gen GPUs to get up to 192 GB/s of bandwidth per device
- Horizon Forbidden West PC system requirements revealed — Nvidia touts DLSS 3 support, plus Thaumaturge game-ready driver
- Arctic's latest Freezer 36 coolers are ready for Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs and socket LGA1851
- Nvidia GTX branding finally reaches the end of the line after 19 years — the last GTX 16-series chips have reportedly left the foundry
- Samsung Foundry renames '3nm' process tech to '2nm,' rewrites contract: Report (Updated)
- Nvidia is the 'kingmaker,' says analyst firm Omdia — company projected to make $87 billion from data center GPUs alone in 2024
- Threadripper 7000 outsells Intel Xeon 10 to 1, but Intel's mainstream PC chips dominate Ryzen 7000 in Puget Systems 2024 Hardware Trends report
- New dynamic airflow concept aims to boost gaming laptop cooling with displaced external heat module — Laptop ODM Wistron's 'Hinge Auto-Extension' wins design award
- AMD's custom Instinct MI309 GPU for China fails export license test from U.S. government: Report
- China provides 'computing vouchers' for AI startups to train large language models — designed to combat rising GPU costs due to US sanctions
- Chinese researchers aim to replicate Open AI's Sora text-to-video capabilities
March 4
- Developers of Switch emulator Yuzu settle with Nintendo in court for $2.4 million less than a week after being sued
- Annoyed by bursty fans and bloated apps, engineer writes software in Python to better control his NZXT Kraken AIO
- Raspberry Pi Pico used in 'Back to the Future' time circuits replica
- AMD confirms it is working on an AI upscaler for gaming – CTO Papermaster says it's part of 'AI enabling our entire portfolio'
- Intel shares biggest unboxing video ever as ASML’s $380 million High-NA lithography machine is installed in Oregon fab
- Dev shows off the little red Corvette that designing Windows Zip folders bought, shares details
- Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software — previously the prohibition was only listed in the online EULA, now included in installed files [Updated]
- Intel Foundry is trying to poach Samsung's South Korean customers in its bid to become world's second-biggest foundry: report
- Half of tested PC watercoolers don’t use the premium materials advertised, like copper: Report
- Most upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs will leverage TSMC nodes for compute, Intel 20A only for Core i5 and lower: Leak
- Apple's MacBook Air gains M3 upgrade and support for two external displays — both 13-inch and 15-inch get improvements
- Hardware hacker runs GTA Vice City on a router with a little help from an eGPU and Debian Linux
March 3
- Gem12 Pro Mini PC uses an amped-up Ryzen 7 8845HS APU, has a built-in mini screen, and OCuLink support
- Pumpless 240mm AiO cooler is only 8C behind traditional pump-powered rival in tests
- Intel's new Special Edition gaming CPU hits 6.2 GHz with 1.5 volts — upcoming Core i9-14900KS packaging and per-core frequencies revealed
- OpenAI leadership rejects Elon Musk lawsuit – memo seen by reporters rebuts three main claims point by point
March 2
- AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources
- AI worm infects users via AI-enabled email clients — Morris II generative AI worm steals confidential data as it spreads
- Intel Bluetooth driver update alleviates PS5 DualSense controller connectivity issues
- World Server Throwing Championship 2024 — organizers call for athletes that are 'needlessly brutal to servers'
- Intel's NPU Acceleration Library goes open source — Meteor Lake CPUs can now run TinyLlama and other lightweight LLMs
- Nvidia's next-gen AI GPUs could draw an astounding 1000 Watts each, a 40 percent increase — Dell spills the beans on B100 and B200 in its earnings call
- Intel has a new driver for Wi-Fi 7 adapters but they may still not work on AMD systems — Intel BE200/BE202 incompatibility on AMD platforms remains uncertain
- Asus offers up to $110 for AMD Radeon GPUs with new cashback promo
- Scientists use whey protein sponges to extract gold from computer parts, like motherboards — the process is 50X less expensive than the cost of gold and eco-friendly
- AMD's struggle with unbootable Epyc Naples and Rome prototype CPUs revealed in its new Advanced Insights series
March 1
- Raspberry Pi Pico drives StoRPer modular DIY robot rover
- Asus reveals pricing for its new NUCs — NUC 14 Pro starts at $394 and NUC 14 Pro+ at $869
- Cyberpunk 2077 adds core prioritization for hybrid CPUs, which would be great if it didn't cause other problems (Updated)
- New GPD Win Mini 2024 is a Ryzen 8840U handheld with 7-inch 120Hz VRR display, detachable handles
- Biostar's new AMD motherboard could be perfect for budget builds — A620A motherboard arrives with a rebadged B550 chipset
- Turning a dial can change CPU speeds on the fly - Throttle Blaster uses Raspberry Pi Pico to adjust frequency on classic chips down to the megahertz
- Microsoft drags feet on proposed Atlanta campus that would generate 15,000 jobs -- now the city wants answers
- Chinese foundry SMIC is bruised but not broken by U.S. sanctions — revenue still much higher than in 2021 and 5nm node on track
- HP begins subscription plans for its printers and ink — up to $36 per month, includes limits and cancellation fees
- Analyst estimates Nvidia is now TSMC's second largest customer accounting for 11% of revenue in 2023
- Elon Musk sues OpenAI - alleging breaches of the founding agreement
- Researchers reveal chips that commit 'circuit suicide' — self-destruction and counterfeit protection in one
- Baidu admits US sanctions on Nvidia and AMD GPUs mean it might not have access to leading-edge GPUs again
- Intel submits schematics for chip fabs in Germany, two new fabs open in 2027
- Intel spins off Altera: A standalone FPGA company under Intel ownership