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May 31
- 'Godmode' GPT-4o jailbreak released by hacker — powerful exploit was quickly banned
- ASRock launches Radeon RX 7900 WS cards with blower coolers and 12V-2×6 power connectors
- US government probes South Korean company accused of selling American tools to Chinese entities
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will launch day one on Xbox Game Pass — Microsoft clearly wants more subscribers for its subscription service
- Windows 11 24H2 may block connections to unsecured third-party NAS devices — Microsoft enables SMB signing for enhanced security
- Semiconductor legends take a stroll in a Taiwanese night market — Nvidia, TSMC, MediaTek, and Quanta heads seen eating dinner
- US government extends tariff exemption on graphics cards and motherboards for another year
- U.S. delays Nvidia, AMD AI GPU export licenses to Middle East
- Sales of desktop graphics cards increase 28% year-on-year as quarterly GPU shipments drop 10% in Q1: Report
- Acer debuts three OLED gaming monitors, including the 27-inch 480 Hz Predator X27U F3
May 30
- Ultra Accelerator Link is an open-standard interconnect for AI accelerators being developed by AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Google, Microsoft, others
- This Raspberry Pi AI clock listens and smells for the current time
- Researchers cracked open $1.6 million Bitcoin wallet after 20-character password was lost — well worth the six months of effort
- AMD to use Samsung's 3nm tech as it looks to dual-source future chips: report
- Lian Li 's SUP01 Micro ATX case mounts the GPU up front, touts 'Back to Future' rear connector motherboard support
- Computex 2024 Preview: The Hardware Side of AI
- Former SK hynix employee charged with stealing tech for Huawei — Chinese national was arrested at airport
- Framework updates Laptop 13 family with Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 7040, new display options
- Frore intros trio of AirJet PAK coolers targeting edge AI systems up to 25W
- Nvidia GeForce G-Assist AI April Fool's joke may soon become a serious product
- AMD willing to pay you up to $30k via its new bug bounty program
May 29
- Microsoft launches DirectSR preview to let developers easily integrate FSR, DLSS, and XeSS upscaling into games
- Arm takes aim at client PCs with new 3nm compute subsystems, offering pieces of its IP to its customers for desktops, laptops, and tablets
- Intel Arrow Lake and AMD Ryzen 9000 motherboards listed from Maxsun — 31 products named, across five unannounced chipsets, all with 800-series branding
- TeamGroup's LPDDR5X CAMM2 memory modules become the third consumer option for the new space-saving RAM standard — also tosses Expert AI branding in for good measure
- Internet Archive facing sustained cyber attacks — nonprofit struggles with 'impactful, targeted, adaptive' DDoS campaign
- Sunfounder's Pironman 5 Raspberry Pi desktop case comes with RGB LEDs and SSD support
- 8BitDo Retro 18 Mechanical Numpad preorders begin — NES, Famicom, C64, other models to ship in July
- RTX 5090 may be surprisingly svelte — twin-slot, twin-fan model on the way, says leaker
- Intel's 1nm-class fabs in Germany delayed by too much black soil and EU subsidy approval
- Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES
- Russia develops its first chipmaking tool — outdated by 30 years from day one
May 28
- China-made Moore Threads AI GPUs used for three billion parameter LLM training — MTT S4000 appears competitive against unspecified Nvidia solutions
- Micron's plans for an additional DRAM fab in Hiroshima delayed until 2027
- Huawei patent reveals 3nm-class process technology plans — China continues to move forward despite US sanctions
- Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 CPU trails Core i9-14900K in leaked benchmark — Granite Ridge 5.8 GHz CPU shows Core i9-13900K-like single-threaded performance in CPU-Z
- Liquid-cooled RTX 4090 Suprim Fuzion Frankencard crams tubes and radiator into its monstrous 4.5-slot form factor
- HP's latest 37-inch WQHD+ ultrawide offers IPS Black panel aimed at professionals who don't want to pay more for OLED
- Nvidia rumored to be opening a second R&D center in Taiwan — and it has plans for an AI supercomputer on the island
- Asus NUC 14 Performance mini-PC launched — combines up to Core Ultra 9 185H and RTX 4070
- MSI Z890 and B860 motherboards for Intel Arrow Lake-S leak via online database — devices certified ahead of Computex 2024
- ASML sets new EUV chipmaking density record, proposes Hyper-NA tools and radical EUV speed boosts
- China pours more money into Big Fund III: $47.5 billion and counting
May 27
- Gigabyte's new motherboard supports massive 128-pound GPUs — Reinforced slots still can't fix GPU PCB cracking
- US sanctions against China boost UMC's production — Taiwanese fab sees growth, but so does China
- Ayaneo launches motherboard upgrades for the majority of its older handhelds — refreshed new models are coming too
- CHIPs Act throws its weight behind glass packaging for chips — Biden admin invests in SK hynix affiliate
- Tape shipments increased to 152.9 exabytes in 2023 — not bad for a ’dead’ storage medium
- Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated
- AMD expected to release 800 series motherboard chipsets for Ryzen 9000 CPUs — chipset series numbers to run in parallel to Intel
- Lenovo Legion Go Lite tipped to do battle with the refreshed Asus ROG Ally X
- Der8auer admits he 'messed up' with underperforming Thermal Grizzly Heatspreaders and Direct Die coolers
- Intel throws in the towel on the processors that killed the first Aurora supercomputer — Knights Mill and Knights Landing support removed from LLVM
May 26
- Windows 11 Copilot+ AI features like Recall can be enabled without an NPU
- Samsung denies report citing HBM quality issues, asserts its HBM memory works just fine
- Lenovo embraces MoDT in China — laptop CPUs are used in its new Legion 7000K gaming towers
- Chinese chip industry leader asks companies to focus on building innovations using mature nodes
- AI accelerators market poised to grow by 250% this year, says TSMC
- World's first bioprocessor uses 16 human brain organoids for ‘a million times less power’ consumption than a digital chip
- Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs
- Apple's never-released iPod Tetris game discovered on third-generation prototype
- Chinese PC maker spills AMD Radeon RX 7650M XT launch plans — GPU features in a dock it will reveal on Monday
- Windows 11 LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional — lower storage requirements, too
May 25
- U.S. continues to investigate Applied Materials for doing business with Chinese entities — company receives another subpoena, one of many over the past couple of years
- Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution arrives to improve gaming performance — Auto SR serves as an upscaler similar to Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR
- 90s instant messaging service shuts down after 28 years — ICQ will stop working from June 26
- Snapdragon X Elite shows 2X higher multi-threaded performance than Apple M2 in new benchmarks — Apple M2 is faster in single-threaded performance, though
- AMD reportedly changes upcoming Ryzen CPU branding to one-up Intel — leak points to Ryzen AI 300 to leapfrog Intel's Core Ultra 200 series
- Samsung HBM3E chips reportedly fail to meet Nvidia's heat and power requirements — Korean chipmaker continues to struggle for Nvidia HBM3E orders
- Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips help three new supercomputers top the Green500 list — GH200 is more efficient than rival supercomputers with AMD's Instinct MI250X
- 17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web
May 24
- 'ShrinkLocker' ransomware uses BitLocker against you — encryption-craving malware has already been used against governments
- Nvidia's AI chip sales in China hampered by U.S. sanctions, but gaming GPU shipments increase
- Modder creates 'invisible' extreme gaming PC — hides 13900K, RTX 4090, and 45-inch OLED display inside a standing desk
- Dual-screen OLED laptop from handheld PC maker GPD teased — device to rival Asus ZenBook Duo
- Talking tomato plant uses Raspberry Pi and AI to tell you how its growing
- Micron loses patent trial, must pay rival Netlist $445 million in damages
- Biden administration plans to resume Trump tariffs on China-made GPUs and motherboards
- Cooler Master clarifies CryoFuze 5 ‘AI Thermal Paste’ announcement was a translation error
May 23
- AMD Navi 44 RDNA 4 GPU shows up in ROCm code — next-gen graphics cards can't be too far behind
- Raspberry Pi Fably uses AI to generate bedtime stories on demand
- New Chinese chatbot was trained on President Xi Jinping's philosophies on socialism and several other 'major internet information' databases
- Lisa Su says AMD is on track to a 100x power efficiency improvement by 2027 — CEO outlines AMD’s advances during keynote at imec’s ITF World 2024
- AMD introduces Radeon Anti-Lag 2 with full integration for Counter-Strike 2 — the Nvidia Reflex alternative shouldn't trigger cheating bans this time
- MSI delivers first motherboard with CAMM2 memory — Z790 Project Zero brings new RAM standard to desktops
- Asus confirms ROG Ally X with upgraded hardware — faster RAM and a larger battery
- Consumer-grade spyware found running on hotel guest PCs contains serious security flaw that lets anyone see recent screenshots
- Microsoft suffering from outage — Bing, Copilot, and DuckDuckGo inaccessible for several hours
- $19 billion support package unveiled for South Korean semiconductor industry
- Minisforum AtomMan G7 Pt touted as world’s first AMD Advantage Mini PC — packs an AMD R9 7945HX and RX 7600M XT
- TeamGroup adds magnets to T-Force Siren AIO CPU cooler line for easy PC customization
- Leak suggests that DDR6 development has already started, aiming for 21 GT/s
- Nvidia posts $26 billion Q1 revenue amid record AI GPU demand surge
May 22
- MSI issues new Claw BIOS update, claims to outperform ROG Ally in top 100 most popular Steam games
- PC pioneer Gordon Bell has passed away at 89 years old
- Recall drawing regulatory scrutiny in the UK — Microsoft's AI Copilot+ feature a 'privacy nightmare'
- Dell hints at Nvidia-made chips for Windows AI PCs as soon as next year
- Apple's 1994 PowerBook 520C rises from the grave with iPad display and 2015 Core i5 MacBook Pro internals
- Raspberry Pi 400 powers post-apocalyptic 'Fallout' home automation terminal
- New Waveshare IoT board uses Raspberry Pi Zero form factor, brings cellular connectivity and a custom version of MicroPython
- $40 million Raspberry Pi IPO is set for June
- Galax brings blower-style cooling to new RTX 4070 Super and 4070 Ti Super cards
- TSMC will retain leading-edge production tech and trade secrets in Taiwan, says new national tech minister
- Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit is an $899 mini PC — meant to develop for Windows on Arm
May 21
- Dell will have an eight-way Nvidia Blackwell server with liquid cooling — coming later this year
- Early Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks seemingly confirm the chip's incredible performance and battery life potential
- Samsung names new CEO as company loses market share to SK hynix, hopes to retake ground as AI demand for memory increases
- Amazon hits pause on Nvidia Grace Hopper superchip orders — reportedly waiting for Grace Blackwell to ship
- New open-source, high resolution, low-latency E-ink monitor announced — Modos Paper delivers 1200p in a 13.3-inch form factor
- Samsung reveals 16-layer 3D DRAM plans with VCT DRAM as a stepping stone — IMW 2024 details the future of compact, higher density RAM
- Star Citizen gets DLSS and Vulkan support, as new Nvidia driver adds support for F1 24, Hellblade 2, and more
- Biwin enters the memory and SSD market with Black Opal line — OEM supplier begins selling products under its own brand
- Gigabyte introduces new 80 Plus Platinum power supplies — four Aorus Elite PCIe 5.0 modular 850W and 1000W PSUs announced
- Deep dives into AMD Zen 5, Nvidia Blackwell, and Intel Lunar Lake architectures coming at Hot Chips 2024
- Cooler Master introduces colored ‘AI Thermal Paste’ — CryoFuze 5 comes with nano-diamond technology
- AMD unveils EPYC 4004 CPUs: AM5 gets server-grade processors
- TSMC’s EUV machines are equipped with a remote self-destruct in case of an invasion
- Noctua unveils its Home series products — $100 NV-FS1 desk fan is the star attraction
- HP reshuffles PC naming scheme, adds AI Helix logo branding, kills some old favorites
- Total Recall: the only Copilot+ AI feature that matters is a huge privacy risk
- TSMC struggles to meet demand for CoWoS packaging, holding back AI and HPC chip production: report
May 20
- Hands-on with Microsoft's new Surface and Surface Pro Copilot+ PCs
- M4 iPad Pros with 8GB of RAM may actually have 12GB — teardowns reveal possible Apple hijinks
- Asus unveils glossy 27-inch WOLED gaming monitor with a flicker-free G-Sync/FreeSync gaming experience
- Intel next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs launching in Q3, Arrow Lake in Q4 — mobile chips claimed to be 1.4x faster than Qualcomm's X Elite processors
- Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs get official, starting at $1,099 — Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are all onboard, with some models promising “multi-day battery life”
- RISC-V adoption predicted to get AI boost — forecast shows 50% growth every year until 2030 for the open-standard ISA
- Microsoft May 2024 live blog: Surface updates, Copilot+PCs and more
- Be prepared for extreme productivity and Judgment Day with the Gatling Battlestation – Preorder yours for just $4,199
- 3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad, makes Nvidia's RTX 4090 work hard, without ray tracing
- Nvidia nearly went out of business in 1996 trying to make Sega's Dreamcast GPU — instead, Sega America's CEO offered the company a $5 million lifeline
- Apple COO Reportedly attends secret meetings with TSMC to reserve first batch of 2-nanometer production
- Antec Enters the handheld gaming market with Core HS, a rebadged Ayaneo Slide powered by the familiar Ryzen 7 7840U
- Loongson's ambitious CPU roadmap shows 128-core chiplet-based processors incoming
- AMD applies to open a new R&D center in Taiwan — partner program encourages cutting-edge processor design
- Thermal Grizzly's new heatspreader claimed to lower CPU temperatures by nearly 15 degrees Celsius
May 19
- Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti with memory mod easily beats RTX 4080 in Superposition benchmark
- Palit is teasing a new hybrid GPU cooling solution — revamped Game Rock expected to launch at Computex 2024
- TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate
- Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 Edge Snapdragon X laptops leak — just ahead of Microsoft’s special event
- This USB flash drive can only store 8KB of data, but will last you 200 years
May 18
- Huawei brings sanctions-busting Kirin 9000C CPU to desktop PCs to replace banned Intel Alder Lake chips
- Linux distros ban 'tainted' AI-generated code — NetBSD and Gentoo lead the charge on forbidding AI-written code
- Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet
- This giant Game Boy XL uses a Raspberry Pi 5 and has working buttons
- Jailbroken coin-operated washing machines unlock unlimited free cycles and millions in funds — unpatched security vulnerability could also pose a fire hazard
- Enthusiast gets Windows XP running on an i486 — merging two dinosaurs from different eras
- M4 iPad Pro teardown shows the M4 processor and Apple Logo heat spreader in the flesh — scores points for being repairable, too
- China firms' AI breakthrough can meld GPUs from different brands into one training cluster — Baidu says new tech fuses thousands of GPUs together to help sidestep shortages
May 17
- Two Raspberry Pi Picos power this sleek dual clock with an LED matrix
- Asus vows to improve clarity surrounding warranty claims and astronomical hardware repair costs
- Three-year-old CPU beats Intel's fastest current chip in RAM benchmark — 7 GHz Core i9-11900K tops 8.3 GHz Core i9-14900KS in PYPrime 32B
- Handheld gaming PC makers look to Intel Lunar Lake CPUs as an alternative to dominant Ryzen Z1
- Researcher develops AI-infused active noise-cancellation headphones — Tech can isolate user-specified environmental sounds in real-time
- DisplayPort 2.1 has a serious issue with UHBR-certified cables — it could explain Nvidia sticking with DP 1.4 on RTX 40-series
- Brothers charged with stealing $25 million in Ethereum in 12 seconds — Cryptocurrency heist exploited transaction validation process
- Western Digital rolls out new 2.5-inch HDDs for the first time in seven years: is 6TB the swan song for 2.5-inch hard drives?
- Intel's 1500W TDP for Falcon Shores AI processor confirmed — next-gen AI chip consumes more power than Nvidia's B200
May 16
- New PlayStation 4 jailbreak accomplished using select LG Smart TVs running webOS
- Ampere announces 256-core 3nm CPU, unveils partnership with Qualcomm
- This Core i5-12450H laptop trades a physical keyboard for dual 16-inch displays and costs just $710 on AliExpress
- Bye Bye, AI: How to turn off Google's annoying AI overviews and just get search results
- 12-core AMD Strix Point Zen 5 engineering sample shows up in early Blender benchmarks, matches 8-core 7700X in performance
- Nvidia's $82 billion CEO received 60% more compensation than last year — which accounted for less than 0.02% of his net worth
- Qualcomm doesn't expect any product revenue from Huawei beyond 2024, but licensing fees to continue
- TSMC's third generation 3nm node on track — N3P mass production to begin later this year
- BreadboardOS is the best thing since sliced bread for your Raspberry Pi Pico
- Chinese chipmakers gear up to produce HBM for AI chips — China is a decade behind in HBM tech as US sanctions force action
- Asus launches new dual-fan RX 7900 XT/XTX graphics cards — still with triple 8-pin power and a factory overclock
- Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins
- TSMC to build base dies for HBM4 memory on its 12nm and 5nm nodes
- Microsoft introduces new Proteus Xbox accessibility controller — disabled gamers gain great options for gaming as they need it
- Truck driver dies after ‘explosion’ at TSMC Arizona
- Liquid nitrogen-cooled M4 iPad Pro flaunts remarkable single-core performance gains — M4 outperforms M3 Max and M2 Ultra
- Intel's newest E-core-only "Twin Lake" CPUs are on the way, starting with Intel N250
May 15
- Intel issues advisories for 90 security vulnerabilities — includes critical level 10 for AI tools
- Intel begins sunsetting Ponte Vecchio to focus on Falcon Shores, Gaudi 2 and 3
- HPE flaunts El Capitan supercomputer blade with AMD's Instinct MI300A — projected to be world's fastest when finished this year
- Raspberry Pi announces 'expected intention to float' on London Stock Exchange
- Intel's new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance
- Raspberry Pi turns an old Sony tape deck into a wireless media streaming platform
- Linus Torvalds now favors Ampere Arm chip over Apple Silicon MacBook for building Linux kernels — says he's now doing more Arm64 Linux testing than ever
- US to increase tariffs on Chinese semiconductors by 100% in 2025 — officials say it protects the $53 billion spent on the CHIPS Act
May 14
- Intel closing in on $11 billion deal for Ireland factory funding — Apollo set to pay out 5x Intel's funding goal
- Samsung and SK hynix abandon DDR3 production to focus on unrelenting demand for HBM3
- Rockstar's original Red Dead Redemption and its expansion spotted in launcher files — Windows gamers may finally get a remastered release
- Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite
- Windows translator makes PC games run on Android — Fallout 4 demoed at 30 fps using Winlator app
- Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell AI Superchips could cost up to $70,000 — fully-equipped server racks reportedly range up to $3,000,000 or more
- AMD launches Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F — budget Zen 4 CPUs without the RDNA 3 integrated graphics
- Homegrown European processor for supercomputers delayed by a year — chip upgraded to 80 cores, but timeline gets downgraded
- OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end
- Toshiba demonstrates 30TB+ HDDs using HAMR and MAMR technologies — customer sampling scheduled for 2025
- Intel Arc GPU hacked to work on a 64-core Arm Ampere system running Linux
- Linux 6.9 arrives with Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake performance improvements
- Raspberry Pi launches $12 M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5
May 13
- Dell XPS 16 laptops may finally use AMD CPUs for the first time in 18 years — major leak reveals Dell's 2027 roadmap
- OpenAI's new assistant makes Apple's Siri look primitive, also announces GPT-4o and new desktop PC client (Updated)
- Nintendo Switch hacked to run Windows 11 on Arm, and it's just about as awful as you can imagine
- Massive Dell blunder leaks Intel and Nvidia's mobile roadmaps — Nova Lake, Panther Lake CPUs and GENxx Nvidia GPUs listed
- Huawei denies plans for Kirin X-series PC processors after losing access to Intel chips
- Next-gen Arm Snapdragon X chips for PCs to arrive in 2025 — major Dell leak exposes Qualcomm's roadmap with 'V2' and 'V3' models
- Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips in Dell XPS 13 Plus laptops will nearly double battery life over Intel, cost half as much
- Zotac releases space-themed graphics cards for China — multiple RTX 4060 Ti and 4070 variants
- Not dead yet: Intel's Battlemage G21 GPU spotted in oneAPI code update
- ASRock's AMD Ryzen-powered DeskMini X600 set for May 24 overseas launch
- Nvidia announces supercomputers based on its Grace Hopper platform: 200 ExaFLOPS for AI
- $630 million Raspberry Pi IPO float could be just a week away - Report
- Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer fails to dethrone AMD-powered Frontier on Top500 list, again — claims spot as fastest AI supercomputer with HPL-MxP benchmark instead
May 12
- 28 years later, unopenable door in Super Mario 64's Cool, Cool Mountain has been opened without hacks
- Arm to develop AI processors — prototypes ready for spring 2025, says report
- AI GPU bottleneck has eased, but now power will constrain AI growth warns Zuckerberg
- Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more
- Intel's biggest failure pops up on a Pokemon-emblazoned motherboard — 10nm Cannon Lake rides in style on a custom Meowth board
- Next-gen Dell XPS and Inspiron Snapdragon X laptop images leak — AI PCs set for Q3 release
- MSI x Monster Hunter RTX 4060 Ti comes with matching controller — and a $80 pricing premium
- Cringey retro computing band 'Windows95man' goes viral, takes 19th place at Eurovision 2024
- Typewriter modded to print messages on toast
May 11
- Portable AI supercomputer comes as a carry-on suitcase with wheels — four GPUs, 246TB of storage, and a 2,500W integrated power supply
- Asus quotes ridiculous $2,750 fee to replace chipped GPU power connector— docs back up claims of egregious repair pricing for $2,000 RTX 4090 GPU
- Vendor releases an Intel motherboard for Anime fans — iCraft B760M Cross comes decked out with pastel colors
- Multiple Arm vendors are making chips for desktop PCs — Arm exec says Qualcomm Snapdragon won't be the only game in town
- Actress Felicia Day joins Thangs 3D Printing community, shares her own downloadable models
- OpenAI hits subreddit with copyright claim for using ChapGPT logo — r/chatGPT used the official ChatGPT logo
May 10
- Raspberry Pi fortune teller prints fortunes at the push of a button
- Fujitsu uses Fugaku supercomputer to train LLM: 13 billion parameters
- US attacks China's Quantum research, spy balloons by adding 37 companies to ban list — Entity List aggressively targets potential military applications
- Blacklisted China chipmaker SMIC becomes the world's second-largest pure-play foundry by revenue — outsells GlobalFoundries and others
- Latest AMD Strix Point leak highlights monster 120W TDP and 64GB RAM limit
- Huawei and OrangePi launch new dev board with mystery CPU and AI processor — Huawei again hides chip specs from prying eyes
- AMD responds to buggy AI software complaints, releases firmware documentation for RDNA3 GPUs — pressure from TinyCorp spurred the sudden posting
- Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers
- 19 years later, X-Fi is still kicking — Creative announces Super X-Fi Gen4 audio profile, leverages AI for head and ear mapping
- If you think PCIe 5.0 runs hot, wait till you see PCIe 6.0's new thermal throttling technique
- Open AI plans to steal Google’s thunder by announcing an AI-powered search engine one day before Google I/O 2024 — report
- Steam Deck update brings BIOS overclocking and improved graphics driver to SteamOS
- Asus' upcoming ROG Ally X revision comes with minor spec bumps, same APU
May 9
- China seizing TSMC would be 'devastating' for U.S. economy, Commerce Secretary says
- Commodore 64 can run AI to generate images — takes 20 minutes per 90 iterations to make 64 pixels
- Golden Pig squeals on AMD's Zen 5 lineup, reveals ten-core Strix Point chips
- Add any voice to your Raspberry Pi project with TextyMcSpeechy
- Nvidia became world's largest fabless chip designer by revenue in 2023 thanks to AI boom
- Crucial is selling 64GB LPCAMM2 Micron memory modules for $330
- LG Display looks to sell off its last LCD plant in China as it pivots to more profitable OLED panels
- BenQ RD Series monitors target software developers — 16:10 ratio for more verticality
- U.S. to triple overall chip production by 2032, but still remain world's fifth-largest supplier
- MSI's motherboards will now default to Intel's official power specs when using a Core i9 to prevent crashing — official power profile could help address issues as Intel continues to investigate
- EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO
- Nvidia's unannounced R100 AI GPUs reportedly coming in late 2025 — 'Vera Rubin' multi-chip designs using 3nm and CoWoS-L
- Incredible Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ, beating Intel's Core i9-14900KS — results of 3,800+ posted
- The Raspberry Pi RP2040 Hackbat is an open source swiss army knife pen testing tool
- Intel's next-gen desktop CPUs have reportedly leaked — Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 series have same core counts as Raptor Lake Refresh, but fewer threads
May 8
- Sabrent debuts 5GB/s Rocket Nano 2242 Gen 4 SSD — a good fit for Lenovo Legion Go, laptops, and NUCs
- AMD takes CPU market share from Intel in desktops and servers, but Intel fights back in laptops
- Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT
- Pocket-size PC doesn't need a power plug — Minisforum S100 rocks Alder Lake-N CPU, 2.5GbE networking, and PoE support
- Storage manufacturer SK hynix raided by South Korean regulators — investigation into supplier FADU intensifies
- Ayaneo unveils retro sci-fi themed external GPU dock — handheld PC maker expands to another new category
- Microsoft guts four studios to focus on priority games aka Bethesda games
- Intel issues revenue warning after US revokes Huawei export licenses — further efforts to restrict China's access to AI chips
- Samsung accelerates race against Intel in glass chip packaging development — glass substrates boost performance
- Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen
- Intel issues official statement on Core K-series crashes: stick to Intel's official power profiles
- YouTuber built a 256-core RISC-V megacluster because he could
May 7
- Microsoft is switching RAM speed units in Task Manager — finally moving to the more technically correct MT/s
- Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 is the world's first laptop to sport LPCAMM2 memory — more compact, higher performance, lower power
- AMD's new Ryzen AI re-branding for Zen 5 comes to light — Asus leaks 'Strix Point' processor names
- Chinese-made GPU beats performance of 10-year-old integrated AMD graphics — Lingjiu GP201 hits mass production
- Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls
- Raspberry Pi Connect launches, remote controls your Pi via web browser
- Leaker claims Nvidia plans to launch RTX 5080 before RTX 5090 — which would make perfect sense for a dual-die monster GPU
- Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine
- Clippy's revenge: assistant comes back to purge Windows 11 of bloatware, ads and annoyances
- Nintendo says Switch 2 details coming before March 2025 — seven years after the original version was released
- MinisForum AtomMan X7 Ti touchscreen mini PC comes packing an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
- Asus accidentally outs 14 AMD Ryzen 8050-series laptops based on Zen 5 architecture
- Linux can run on only 4MB of SRAM — Azure Sphere and SudoMaker's X1501 Pico show off the extremes of Linux's small-scale potential
- Global chip materials market declined in 2023 — China is the only country to experience growth
May 6
- Intel reportedly demands all board partners implement Intel Default (Baseline) Profile by May 31 — company hopes to fix issues with some Core i9 chips
- 'Digital Twins' research gains $285 million in CHIPS ACT funding — virtual chip tech could revolutionize semiconductor manufacturing
- Explosive HBM demand fueling an expected 20% increase in DDR5 memory pricing — demand for AI GPUs drives production cuts for standard PC memory
- Chipmaking to go subzero — 3D flash memory manufactured at -70C with next-gen tool
- Bluetooth device on Earth connects to satellite in orbit — Hubble Network's connection spans 600km with more to come
- Robert Dennard, father of DRAM, is deceased — also known for his foundational Dennard scaling theory
- XFX releases hulking quad-slot triple-fan AMD GPU — XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phoenix Nirvana graphics card launches in China at $1,100
- Raptor Lake 9.1 GHz overclockers share secrets behind eclipsing a 17-year-old CPU frequency world record
- Sony makes Helldivers 2 PSN account linking U-turn — gamer uproar and review bombing turned the tide
May 5
- The BASIC programming language turns 60 — Dartmouth BASIC started it all in 1964
- League of Legends adds unpopular TPM 2.0 requirement — Vanguard anti-cheat update irks fanbase after Windows 11 debacle
- Pure Storage exec teases 150TB SSD modules — volume shipments of 75TB SSD modules have only just begun
- Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session
- Asus ROG Ally 2024 and Snapdragon X laptops listed in leaked Computex 2024 launch list — no new graphics cards mentioned
- AceMagic launched an X-Wing shaped mini gaming PC to celebrate May 4
May 4
- Ryzen 9 7950X3D surfaces with 192MB L3 cache, 64MB more than retail CPU — may be an ES CPU or software detection error
- Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks
- Mod turns ROG Ally into a modern-day Nintendo DS — the second screen also serves as a stand for the gaming handheld
- Get rid of Microsoft's Start Menu ads with this new software tool — the "Oh F*ck Go Back" program cleans up Windows 11
- Helldivers 2 PC gamers will need a PlayStation Network account to continue playing — Sony doesn't care if players don’t own a PlayStation console
- New memory demoed running at 600 degrees Celsius for 60 hours
- Overclocker sold a die-less Core i9-14900K in China — product suffered from serious silicon deficiency
May 3
- Intel received €30 million from Ireland to offset higher EU power bills — Ireland and Intel continue a tight partnership in chip fabs
- Nintendo obliterates 8,535 Yuzu repos — Nintendo's most effective DMCA takedown campaign in years
- Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300
- Microsoft's new RAM limiter for Edge browser makes its way into latest beta version
- Man who sold counterfeit Cisco networking gear on eBay and Amazon sentenced to six years in jail – Military, school and government agencies were victims of fraud scheme
- Asus launches dual-fan, triple-slot RX 7900 XTX — a slightly smaller design with nearly the same performance
- Valve releases Proton 9.0 for Linux— improves Nvidia graphics and high core count CPU compatibility
- SK hynix is teasing 300TB SSDs as it pushes into AI
May 2
- Enthusiast demos installing Alpine Linux with the Windows Installer
- Rising metal prices could mean more expensive laptops, PC parts, and other electronics in the near future
- Nvidia GeForce Now is slightly easier to install on Steam Deck
- AMD increases Instinct MI1300 sales guidance to $4 billion — pales in comparison to Nvidia's $40B projection
- AMD finally patches gaping Zenbleed security hole — MSI releases AGESA 1.2.0.Ca BIOS update for Zen 2
- Add-on board lets you use four NVMe SSDs at once with Raspberry Pi 5
- Tom’s Hardware Innovation Awards 2024: A Step Forward
- Intel Core Ultra now powers more than 500 AI models, the company says
- Huawei is secretly backing research at U.S. and U.K. universities again — Chinese tech giant continues to draw ire
- AMD revamps 40th Anniversary special featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — uses Ryzen AI to upscale old footage
- HBM supply from SK hynix and Micron sold out until late 2025
- Windows 11 market share declines as users seemingly shift back to Windows 10
- Raspberry Pi 5 brings Futurama's Bender to life as a ChatGPT powered personal assistant
- Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder Jack Lang dies aged 76
- Newly open-sourced MS-DOS 4 installed on an IBM Personal System/2 with a 16 MHz Intel 386 CPU — took 70 minutes to build
- PCI-SIG unveils CopprLink cables for PCIe 5 and 6 connections — PCIe 7.0 versions are under development
- Nvidia criticizes AI PCs, says Microsoft's 45 TOPS requirement is only good enough for 'basic' AI tasks
- This Raspberry Pi stethoscope uses AI to listen for heart disease
- Tesla's wafer-sized Dojo processor is in production — 25 chips combined into one
May 1
- User claims RTX 4090 16-pin power connector melted on both GPU and PSU side, despite running at 75% power
- Microsoft confirms recent Windows security update breaks VPNs, no fix yet
- AMD's gaming revenue nosedives 48%, not expected to recover until 2025 — lack of interest in RDNA 3 coupled with fewer console sales
- AMD's elusive Ryzen 7 8700F hits Amazon for $299.99 — pricier than the better-performing 7700X
- Dev hopes to save legendary Z80 chip with open source clone — resurrects iconic Zilog chip with drop-in Z80 replacement
- Xbox 360 Store to close July 29, 2024 — But you can still play games without issue
- China-made server exports to US plummet — Taiwan, Mexico remain top server import suppliers
- Nvidia's ChatRTX chatbot receives major update — better photo search, AI speech recognition, and more LLM options
- A keyboard enthusiast built a $3,400 electro-capacitive keyboard that supposedly gets rid of stabilizer noise
- For sale: Cheyenne supercomputer with 8,064 Xeon CPUs and 306TB of DDR4 memory — some assembly and maintenance required
- Nvidia H100 GPU black market prices drop in China — banned by US sanctions but still available
- Cracked GPUs pop up in Frankensteined Chinese discrete graphics cards built from RTX 4080M and RTX 4090M mobile chips
- Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour