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- July 31
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- Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins for the company's CPU crashing and instability issues
- China's newest homegrown AI chip matches industry standard at 45 TOPS — 6nm Arm-based 12-core Cixin P1 starting mass production
- Alphawave develops 3nm UCIe chiplet IP for die-to-die connectivity
- China limits civilian drone exports starting September 1 — country aims to prevent use by foreign military or terror orgs
- Newegg launches CPU trade-in program with low payouts — $300 for a Core i9-14900K or $220 for a Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Asus has a new laptop that comes with a fragrance dispenser — Adol Book laptop always smells good
- Ampere unveils monstrous 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor — custom AI engine, support for HBM memory
- Nvidia to deliver Blackwell engineering samples this week — chips on track for fourth quarter launch
- AMD Ryzen 9000 price listings now on Best Buy — costs significantly less than Ryzen 7000 launch prices
- New US government rules to allow export of some equipment to China by ASML, Tokyo Electron
- AMD's Ryzen 9 5900XT, Ryzen 7 5800XT launch today for $349 and $249, respectively — existing Ryzen 5000 is less expensive
- The cheapest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite PC is its mini desktop Dev Kit, and its available for preorder now
- Particle launches Tachyon, a Snapdragon powered single-board computer with its own AI accelerator
- Maker crams Raspberry Pi 5 inside custom 'Raspberry Pi 1000'
- The U.S. has sanctioned 18 Chinese fabs, dozens remain in white zone
- New technique uses 3D printing to fab three-dimensional chip circuits
- Intel to launch Core Ultra Series 2 Lunar Lake processors in early September
- Intel allegedly plans imminent lay off of thousands of employees to fuel turnaround
- AMD's gaming revenue falls 59%, but the company posts a 115% data center revenue increase
- July 30
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- DRAM and NAND revenue could swell to $90 billion and $67 billion respectively in 2024, thanks to AI-driven demand
- Raspberry Pi 5 hits world-record 3.4 GHz with thermoelectric cooling and firmware tweaks
- AMD denies reports of Ryzen 5000XT launch delay — chips on schedule for release this month
- AMD Ryzen AI software heralds the arrival of five new CPUs — support for Strix Halo and Kraken Point chips added
- Paperlike color portable e-ink monitor hits U.S. market for $849 — Dasung Paperlike Color portable monitor flexes 12-inch, 2560 x 1600 touch screen
- This Raspberry Pi Pico W keeps count of your YouTube subscribers
- Valve now updating SteamOS to support popular DeckHD screen replacement— others may follow
- SK hynix announces its GDDR7 memory touting 60% faster speeds, 50% improved power efficiency
- Apple skips Nvidia's GPUs for its AI models, uses thousands of Google TPUs instead
- July 29
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- AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 lowers latency by 28% — low-latency frame generation comes to RX 6000 and RX 7000 GPUs
- Alleged GDDR6X shortage could briefly hinder Nvidia gaming GPU supply starting August — affected models include RTX 4070 through RTX 4090
- Super Nintendo mod fixes a 34-year-old blurry video nuisance — the kit provides sharp video through composite and S-Video connectors
- Lenovo touts 29-hour battery life for new ThinkPad T14s — laptop features Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite CPU, 32GB LPDDR5x RAM, and 1TB SSD
- Overnight fiber optic sabotage disrupts telecommunications in several French regions — Paris and the Olympic Games unaffected
- New memory tech unveiled that reduces AI processing energy requirements by 1,000 times or more
- Multi-platform spyware provider Spytech gets hacked, revealing global scale of operations and swaths of unencrypted victim data
- Disco-themed floppy disk cleaning machined demoed
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X grabs Cinebench R23 world record when pushed to 6.5 GHz
- Amuse 2.0 beta released for easy on-device AI image generation on modern AMD hardware
- AMD Ryzen 9000 CPU family compared in Cinebench — purported scores for the 9900X, 9700X, and 9600X shared
- July 28
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- Zerowriter Ink typewriter sequel comes with larger 5.2-inch eInk screen, all-week battery, and mechanical keyboard
- AMD may have delayed Ryzen 9000 launch due to a typo — mislabeled Ryzen 7 chip emerges, Ryzen 5 9600X impacted, too [Updated]
- Meet Nintendo Kawaii, the new smallest Wii build that fits on your keychain
- DJI drone ban dropped by the U.S. Senate — the Senate draft of 2025 NDAA does not include the ‘Countering CCP Drones Act’ that would kill DJI business in America
- Kill Windows tasks with impunity — Windows 11 has a hidden 'End Task' taskbar option that's quick and easy to toggle
- Intel's CPU instability and crashing issues also impact mainstream 65W and higher 'non-K' models — damage is irreversible, no planned recall
- AI can snoop on your computer screen using signals leaking from HDMI cables — researchers develop new AI model that enables using antennas for long-range attacks
- M.2 device generates PC startup sounds that mimic the NEC PC-9800 series from 80s Japan
- New transistors switch at nanosecond speeds and deliver remarkable durability — ferroelectric material transistor could revolutionize electronics, say MIT scientists
- Secretive network exploits GitHub to spread malware and phishing links — nefarious actors attack from 3,000 shadow accounts
- July 27
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- TSMC VP says 'I don’t care if Moore’s Law is alive or dead' if technology keeps scaling — 3D chip packaging fuels continued advances
- Faulty Nvidia H100 GPUs and HBM3 memory caused half of failures during LLama 3 training — one failure every three hours for Meta's 16,384 GPU training cluster
- You don't need to wipe off dead bugs and bird droppings from this AMD-powered Cybertruck mini-PC — Xyber XPC comes with Ryzen 7 8845HS, 1TB SSD, and up to 64GB RAM
- Liquid-cooled mini-PC lives inside a fish-tank-looking case — Tecno x Geekom Mega Mini Gaming G1 features a Core i9-13900H CPU and RTX 4060 GPU
- Thermal Grizzly's new thermal pad has a phase-changing design — the pad changes from solid to liquid above 45C
- Core Ultra 7 265KF staggers behind Core i7-14700K in multi-core benchmark — Arrow Lake chip has 7% higher single-core performance
- Chinese AI built off open-source code matches American tech in chatbot benchmark tests
- Pink thermal paste launches with TIM 'caulk gun' for application — thermal gel designed to replace thermal pads, fill voids between components
- iFixit releases a PSA on whether or not you should blow into game cartridges
- Ex-Twitter dev reminisces about finding 700 unused Nvidia GPUs after takeover — forgotten cluster was 'powered on and idle'
- July 26
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- Intel 13th and 14th Gen 'Raptor Lake' instability troubles: Everything you need to know
- Nvidia RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU specs revealed and it's as weak as expected — comes with just 1,768 CUDA cores and 4GB VRAM on a 64-bit bus
- Intel 13th Gen CPUs allegedly have 4X higher return rate than the prior gen — retailer stats also claim Intel CPU RMAs are higher than AMD
- Game dev adds in-game crash warning for 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPUs — link provides affected owners instructions to mitigate crashes
- Nvidia and partners could charge up to $3 million per Blackwell server cabinet — analysts project over $200 billion in revenue for Nvidia
- Secure Boot key compromised in 2022 is still in use in over 200 models — an additional 300 more use keys are marked ‘DO NOT TRUST’
- ASRock introduces passively-cooled RX 7900 XT and XTX with vapor chamber heatsink and slightly lower clock speeds
- Cyberdore 2064 Cyberdeck features an oversized scroll wheel, handle, OLED display, and Raspberry Pi Zero
- Supercomputing icon warns that China could have the world's fastest supercomputers
- Intel hires Micron's technology development chief to lead Intel Foundry manufacturing operations
- US to boost chip packaging capacity with CHIPS Act grant — Amkor to receive $600 million for advanced chip packaging facility
- Researchers discover battery-free technology that harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices
- Raspberry Pi powered Picade Max brings two-player retro gaming to Pimoroni's Picade family
- July 25
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- Electronics engineer builds 1986 Macintosh Plus clone
- Nvidia reportedly planning RTX 3050 A using Ada Lovelace AD106 silicon — it's unclear what features remain available or how it might perform
- Antec has a new woody PC case — buyers can pick between walnut or birch trim
- AMD's 128-core EPYC CPU becomes the multi-threaded performance champ in CPU-Z — EPYC 9755 Turin chip scores over 108,000 points
- ASRock intros thin AM5 Mini-ITX motherboard — the X600TM-ITX targets sleek HTPC DIYers
- $4 billion in restricted US chips flowed to Russia through one Hong Kong address
- Ryzen 9 9950X supercharged with 6 GHz overclock — extra 250 MHz increases multi-core performance by 27% in Geekbench
- AMD Zen 5 'Fire Range' CPUs retain FL1 packaging, but may mean refreshed laptops will stick with RTX 40 graphics
- Microdisplay tracks your pupils to adjust brightness, avoid HUD fatigue
- Cryptominer with palm-sized $179 ASIC hits the jackpot with $206,000 in Bitcoins
- New Zen 5 128-core EPYC CPU wields 512MB of L3 cache
- Chinese chipmaker Loongson claims its 16-core 3C6000 CPU matches Intel's Ice Lake 16-core Xeon Silver 4314
- After the largest PC outage in history due to buggy software updates, CrowdStrike now offers affected partners a $10 UberEats gift card
- A third AMD Strix Point Ryzen AI CPU has been officially confirmed— Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 debuts just above HX 370
- July 24
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- AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks [Updated]
- Japanese Prime Minister Kishida vows government funds for local chip fabs — Rapidus eyes 2nm production by 2027
- Patched Microsoft Defender flaw still being used to deliver information-stealing malware to vulnerable machines
- Leaked internal reports allegedly reveal Intel's instability problems are not over — elevated voltages could be only one of the causes of CPU crashing
- Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software
- SAS storage isn't dead yet — SAS 24G+ adds new features for next-gen enterprise hard drives and SSDs
- Arrow Lake CPU up to 18% faster than Core i9-14900K at 250W — Ryzen 9 9950X still faster
- AMD dishes out more Zen 5 details — compact core is 25% smaller than the normal core, new SoC and chip architecture with dual CCXs
- Raspberry Pi gains Bluetooth assisted Wi-Fi config tool from Remote.It
- Elon Musk powers new 'World's Fastest AI Data Center" with gargantuan portable power generators to sidestep electricity supply constraints
- Elon Musk reveals photos of Dojo D1 Supercomputer cluster — roughly equivalent to 8,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs for AI training
- US requests proposals for next-gen Discovery supercomputer — will be up to five times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, arrive in 2027
- Core Ultra K prototype appears on CPU-Z, uses Intel 4 process node and hits 5 GHz, lacks AVX-512 support
- July 23
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- Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance
- Nvidia reportedly preparing a Blackwell-based Titan GPU — maybe that 4-slot prototype cooler will show up again
- AMD introduces a free Frame Latency Meter tool to measure mouse response time — works with all GPUs, no high-speed camera or manual frame-counting needed
- TP-Link and Walmart tout first sub-$100 Wi-Fi 7 router, but it lacks speedy 6 GHz band
- HighPoint's new SSD adaptor hits 56 GB/s, stores 2 petabytes of data — the world's first PCIe Gen 5 x16 add-in card debuts at $1,999
- Ultra-rare NES Gold Nintendo World Championships cartridge auction sits at $77,000 — one of only 26 ever made
- Lenovo to launch Yoga Portal AI 3.7-liter mini PC overseas — powered by 14th Gen Intel desktop CPUs, it looks just like the ThinkCentre Neo Ultra
- AMD's older Zen 4 gaming flagship pounds Zen 5 in new gaming benchmarks — Ryzen 7 7800X3D was up to 23% faster than Ryzen 9 9900X
- Chinese cloud giant releases homegrown operating system for Chinese server CPUs — TencentOS Server V3 supports Huawei Kunpeng, Sugon Hygon, and Phytium FeiTeng chips
- JEDEC's new standards will double DDR5 bandwidth, enable faster memory for laptops — DDR5 MRDIMM and LPDDR6 standards for next-generation servers and laptops being ratified
- AMD President Victor Peng retires — SVP of AI group Vamsi Boppana will lead AMD's AI business
- Thunderbolt 4 dock fused into a $350 display mount — Sabrent's port-rich hybrid flaunts 65W USB power delivery, Ethernet, and more
- AMD says its EPYC processors are up to twice as fast as Nvidia's Arm-powered Grace CPU Superchip across multiple benchmarks
- Adata Legend 970 Pro PCIe 5.0 SSD doubles capacity and removes SATA power cable cooler requirement
- Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks
- Shipments of advanced processors to Russia reportedly drop 20% — Hong Kong remains a key hub for smuggling
- July 22
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- Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August [Updated]
- CrowdStrike issues go beyond Windows: company's security software has reportedly been causing Linux kernel panics since at least April
- Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate
- Nvidia preparing a China-focused variant of its B200 Blackwell AI GPU to comply with US export regulations
- Elon Musk fires up ‘the most powerful AI cluster in the world’ to create the 'world's most powerful AI' by December — system uses 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs on a single fabric
- Asus ROG Ally X available for $799 — Best Buy ships Asus' new handheld gaming device by July 26
- Intel's new desktop CPU and chipset names spotted in leaked photo — Core Ultra Arrow Lake chips will land on Z890 chipset
- Indie dev reverse-engineers Asus proprietary XG eGPU connector to work with unsupported devices — open-source GPU docking station embraces ROG Ally and ROG Flow
- An interview with AMD's Mike Clark, the Father of Zen — 'Zen Daddy' says 3nm Zen 5 is coming fast; also talks compact cores for desktop chips
- Beefy Meteor Lake CPU powers new mini-PC — OneXPlayer M1 features Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, up to 32GB RAM, and OCuLink
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series launch pushed back to early 2025 according to prominent leaker
- Microsoft's EU agreement means it will be hard to avoid CrowdStrike-like calamities in the future
- AMD Ryzen 9000 processors prices listed by French retailer — European Ryzen 9 9900X price at nearly $750
- Intel cancels fab investment in Italy and R&D facility in France — chipmaker remains committed to other European expansions
- July 21
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- Microsoft defends Game Pass price changes, tells FTC that adjustment offers multiplayer for less
- Leaked RDNA 4 features suggest AMD drive to catch up in Ray Tracing — doubled RT intersect engine could come to PS5 Pro
- First surgery scheduled for graphene chip designed for next-gen brain implants — non-metallic chip could used for brain stimulation in the future
- New Chinese drone can fly as long as the sun shines — solar-powered device with 200mm wingspan weighs record-breaking 4.21g
- Nvidia's business model hinges on profitable AI use cases, says SK Group boss [Updated]
- Microsoft releases CrowdStrike Recovery Tool — admits 8.5 million Windows devices were affected by the BSOD issue
- Asus ProArt FF04 chassis from Xikii accommodates an enthusiast CPU and GPU in under 10 liters
- Nvidia could lose up to $12 billion in revenue if US bans new China-oriented GPU — analysts believe the H20 will get the banhammer soon
- Intel sneaks out nine 14th-Gen CPUs without E-cores — odd flagship Core i9-14901KE is the first overclockable chip for the embedded market
- 'Russia’s Google’ exits the country — Yandex plans to triple its Nvidia GPU deployments
- Windows 11 runs on the iPhone 15 Pro — Tiny11 and UTM SE used to create a 'terribly slow' pocket PC
- July 20
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- Intel XeSS receives some minor improvements — tech still lacks a native Frame Generation feature
- Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips — chipmaker blames common software and hardware issues
- Benchmark dev says Snapdragon X CPU is off to a good start — 6.5% of Geekbench 6 benchmarks in the past month run on Snapdragon X devices
- Archaic Windows version saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with ancient OS [Updated]
- 12-core Zen 5 CPU beat Intel's 20-core chip and Apple's M3 Max in PassMark — Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 glides past the Core i7-14700HX and M3 Max
- 39 million motherboards expected to be sold in 2024 — shipments recover to pre-pandemic levels
- DARPA invests $1.4 billion to build multi-chiplet 3D processors for military and civilian applications
- Neural network learns to make maps with Minecraft — code available on GitHub
- Nvidia GPU partners reportedly cheap out on thermal paste, causing 100C hotspot temperatures — cheap paste allegedly degrades in a few months
- LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells
- July 19
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- New massive PC liquid cooling radiator weighs over 35lbs, holds nine 200mm fans — MO-RA IV 600 costs close to $600
- This Raspberry Pi DinkyDash family dashboard helps track chores, birthdays, and more
- TSMC establishes new Foundry 2.0 paradigm — could help address regulatory concerns of a monopoly
- CrowdStrike's market cap plunges $12.5 billion in wake of global outage
- AMD Anti-Lag steps out of its comfort zone — tech arrives on Vulkan 1.3.291, bringing Anti-Lag benefits outside of DirectX for the first time
- Huawei sues MediaTek for patent infringement of unnamed technology
- Nvidia cuts GeForce Now pricing in half — Priority and Ultimate memberships 50% off for a limited time
- One of the first home computers resurrected — Raspberry Pi and 3D printing brings faux TRS-80 to life
- Enthusiast ejects failing Lenovo laptop keyboard, upgrades system with custom titanium case and mechanical keyboard
- Microsoft's new Xbox Game Pass Standard Tier is a 'degraded product' according to FTC
- Micron unveils MRDIMMs for Intel Xeon 6: Up to 256GB DDR5-8800 modules
- China memory maker YMTC sues Micron in the US — accuses Micron of infringing 11 of its patents
- Global IT issue strikes Windows machines, cause now linked to CrowdStrike software update
- July 18
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- Windows 11 Update 23H2 is now in broad deployment after fixing critical bugs
- Steam Deck, ROG Ally docking station has enough ports to turn your handheld into a part-time battlestation
- AMD's flagship Zen 5 desktop CPU impresses in new rendering benchmarks — Ryzen 9 9950X outperforms Ryzen 9 7950X by 24%
- AMD 3DNow! instructions finally extinct as LLVM compiler drops support
- Microsoft will soon implement Nvidia GeForce Now alongside Xbox Cloud Gaming for its first-party titles listed on Xbox.com
- AMD's biggest AI GPU booster adds support for Nvidia, too — Lamini AI preps memory tuning for Nvidia hardware
- Nvidia transitioning to open-source GPU kernel modules for Linux — R560 and later default to open-source for Turing and newer graphics cards
- The U.S. is building a chip packaging supply chain in Latin America
- Dev reports Intel's laptop CPUs are also suffering from crashing issues — several laptops have suffered similar failures in testing
- AMD's fastest new laptop chip beats Apple M3 Max in single-core performance — Apple fires back at AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in multi-core
- New software lets you run a private AI cluster at home with networked smartphones, tablets, and computers — Exo software runs LLama and other AI models
- AMD's Zen 5 chips pack in 8.315 billion transistors per compute die, a 28% increase in density
- AWS Graviton4 CPU benchmarked against AMD and Intel processors — faster than predecessors and more cost-effective
- Transistors on NASA's Europa satellite can't handle space radiation, putting mission at risk — repair could require 'baking' the MOSFETS inside the satellite
- UK gov't invests $1.43 million in UltraRAM — new non-volatile memory is as fast as RAM, can store data for 1,000+ years
- Enthusiast makes their own liquid nitrogen with readily available refrigeration components
- Tenstorrent's RISC-V-based Wormhole AI accelerators are available for pre-order today — pre-built workstations start at $12,000
- Acer EEC filing reveals Radeon RX 7900, 7800, and 7700 non-XT versions may be on the way
- July 17
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- Gigabyte twists its RAM slots to fit 24TB of DDR5 sticks into a standard server — AMD EPYC sports an impossible 48 DIMMs in new configs
- AMD Radeon 880M iGPU 15% faster than last-gen 780M — Asus reveals Strix Point performance increase in 3DMark Time Spy
- Gigabyte releases AI software to help train your own AI — AI TOP utility taps Gigabyte motherboards, GPUs, SSDs, and power supplies to fine-tune local AI model training
- Trump says Taiwan should pay US for defense — 'They did take about 100% of our chip business'
- U.S. closing critical gap in domestic chipmaking supply chain — GlobalWafers given $400 million to make wafers in the U.S.
- Huawei's long-awaited Windows challenger will likely come to PCs this year — HarmonyOS Next makes the transition from phones to desktops and laptops
- Nvidia, Apple, and others allegedly trained AI using 173,000 YouTube videos — professional creators frustrated by latest AI training scandal: Report
- U.S. planning 'draconian' sanctions against China's semiconductor industry: Report
- Intel reportedly prepping three Panther Lake configurations, for laptops after Lunar Lake
- New SCALE tool enables CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs
- Ryzen 5 9600X listed for preorder on Amazon Canada — the steep $472 CAD price tag is no Prime Day deal
- Despite being deployed on Copilot+ PCs — Windows 11 24H2 won't be hitting x86 PCs until 'later this year'
- July 16
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- Snapdragon X Elite iGPU disabled by default in latest Linux patch — caused by OEM key signing that may not be available
- Intel Capital's investments in Chinese AI startups draw US govt attention — firm invests in 43 Chinese tech companies
- $1,100 Meteor Lake-powered laptop features a removable camera — Honor MagicBook Art 14 also flaunts a 3.1K OLED 120 Hz display with 4,320 Hz PWM dimming
- Windows veteran details creating Windows NT Start Menu — dev recalls shifting from bitmaps to live rendering
- Jonsbo's new ITX case looks like a baby O11-Dynamic Mini with wood grain trim — TK-0 features a dual-chamber design that's faintly taller than a Coca-Cola bottle
- Intel’s next-gen desktop CPUs may run even hotter than current ones — chipmaker allegedly extends maximum temperature for Arrow Lake CPUs
- Russia-based Kaspersky antivirus shuts down its US business due to sanctions — offices to close by July 20
- Cerabyte brings archival glass storage with 5,000 year durability to the U.S.
- Ryzen 9 9950X overclocked to 6.7 GHz with LN2 — liquid nitrogen helps AMD’s newest flagship break previous world records
- Noctua responds to complaints of ‘rattling’ noise affecting its new NH-D15 G2 CPU air cooler
- Chip design legend Jim Keller aims for Tenstorrent wins in market 'not well served by Nvidia'
- July 15
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- WD quietly adds roomy 8TB NVMe SSD to its gaming lineup
- $499 Asus ROG Azoth Extreme gaming keyboard boasts an OLED touch screen and aluminum build with a carbon fiber plate
- Nvidia RTX 4070 10GB prototype appears on GPU-Z — the configuration provided more shader cores but less memory and bandwidth
- Meteor Lake-powered mini-PC arrives with an external expansion slot to connect GPUs — Beelink GTi14 sports a latchable PCIe x8 slot and integrated 145W power supply
- Maker community takes over where Fractal Design stopped and produces miniature North case for Raspberry Pi users
- Buckle up! Apacer launches seat belt for RAM sticks — protection for DIMMs from vibration damage
- Benchmark maker comments on the scarcity of Qualcomm Copilot+ PC tests in the wild — only 56 Windows-on-Arm devices benchmarked in the last 30 days
- AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15%
- Samsung's fastest consumer SSD has a different endurance rating in other countries — TBW listing could be a typo, though
- Asus showcases its first Intel Lunar Lake laptop — ExpertBook P5 (P5405) detailed
- HP's OmniBook Ultra 14 gets AMD Ryzen AI 300 chips and Thunderbolt 4
- First PC emulator arrives on iOS App Store, delivers i486 or PowerPC fun on your iPhone, iPad or Vision Pro
- July 14
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- Laptop fire caused American Airlines jet to be evacuated
- AMD's new Zen 5 flagship gets benchmarked — Ryzen 9 9950X Engineering Sample isn't as impressive in Blender at maximum power settings
- Asus revises its entry-level Nvidia gaming GPU again — Dual RTX 4060 V3 becomes even more compact
- Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries
- User alleges Gemini AI scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without explicit permission — Google says otherwise
- Nvidia RTX 50 graphics card family TDPs 'leaked' by Seasonic
- Valkyrie AL125 CPU air cooler delivers IPS screen and RGB lighting frills for under $20
- Print your own ITX desktop PC case — enthusiast shares free download for 3D model SFF case
- Huawei officially opens its 2,600-acre R&D center in Shanghai, will accommodate over 35,000 scientists and engineers
- Research team working on building a DNA hard drive within three years — aims to build a working DNA micro-factory for data archiving
- July 13
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- China's telco companies are gradually shifting to Chinese CPUs — telecom giants switch hundreds of thousands of their servers to homegrown CPU platforms
- Developer ports Windows NT to Power Macintosh systems — firmware and boot loader now available
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 delivers Intel-beating single-core performance — Zen 5 chip jumps ahead of the Core Ultra 7 268V and Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
- Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates
- Goldman Sachs says AI is too expensive and unreliable — firm asks if 'overhyped' AI processing will ever pay off massive investments
- US government announces process for first CHIPS Act research and development beneficiaries
- Former Tesla AI Director reproduces GPT-2 in 24 hours for only $672 — GPT-4 costs $100 million to train
- Apple's renewed push for Mac gaming relies on its whole ecosystem to attract users
- July 12
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- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Engineering Sample gets a full suite of Blender benchmarks at various TDPs, showcasing major efficiency improvements
- Preliminary HBM4 specs point to major performance uplift for GPUs — transfer speeds up to 6.4 GT/s across a 2048-bit interface
- Enthusiast claims to have obtained an early Ryzen 7 9700X — warehouses stock AMD’s latest Zen 5 CPUs in preparation for distribution to brick-and-mortar retail stores
- Arduino starts selling a new Plug and Make kit for electronics beginners
- Game publisher claims 100% crash rate with Intel CPUs – Alderon Games says company sells defective 13th and 14th gen chips
- Software engineer achieved free plane Wi-Fi at a terrible cost — PySkyWiFi bypasses firewall but is limited to plain text endeavors
- You can use a Raspberry Pi to control this flip display
- Nvidia's latest RTX 4070 Ti Super AD102 GPUs are in stores now — custom models start at $819
- Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86
- Softbank takes over AI processor designer Graphcore
- King Charles III packs 'fifty millionth Raspberry Pi' during visit to Sony factory
- Intel's Arrow Lake-S rumored for December launch
- Months after completing a major project, leading Chinese chip development software firm cuts half of workforce: Report
- July 11
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- David vs Goliath: Desktop SLS Kickstarter Ends with Acquisition
- Dual-core CPUs aren't dead yet — Intel Processor 310 rocking two P-cores debuts on Geekbench
- China's homegrown OS fires back at AI PCs — openKylin gets AI assistant, text-to-image generation, and local LLM support
- Microsoft has fixed the nasty update bug causing Windows 11 boot loops
- Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks leaked on Geekbench 6 — comparable performance to Radeon 780M and Arc A380
- 150 Nvidia RTX A6000 GPUs power the Vegas Sphere — Nvidia fuels 1.2 million LED exterior pucks and multi-layered 16K interior screens
- Attempt to upgrade Raspberry Pi 5 with 16GB of RAM results in a bricked Pi
- 13th and 14th Gen Intel CPU instability also hits servers — W680 boards with Core i9 K-series chips are crashing
- NUC-like Ryzen mini PC features a 4K flip-up touchscreen — Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU and up to 32GB DDR5 RAM and 2TB SSD under the hood
- AMD is reportedly set to use glass substrates for CPUs between 2025 and 2026
- Sapphire launches Frostpunk 2-themed GPU for $449 — Radeon RX 7700 XT Pure Frostpunk 2 features a white fan shroud and oil-and-soot backplate with hints of rust
- Arm's new ASR game-upscaling tech is based on AMD's FSR2 — this open-source solution is optimized for lower-power devices
- AMD Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs edge closer — samples pictured, motherboards get new stickers
- German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigates
- AMD acquires Silo AI in $665 million deal to boost its AI solutions pedigree — deal should be wrapped up later this year
- July 10
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- Adata makes ATX case for reverse-connector motherboards — XPG Invader X BTF also supports standard layouts
- Enthusiast shows how to build 16MB 30-pin SIMMs to upgrade your vintage 386DX PC
- Minisforum's latest Mini PC flaunts an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and an RX 7600M XT in a slim-looking case
- Windows 10 gets Copilot as part of mandatory update — turns AI widget into a full-fledged app on the taskbar
- AMD reportedly preps Hawk Point CPU without the NPU — Ryzen 7 8745HS is a Ryzen 7 8845HS clone but with the XDNA NPU chopped off
- Microsoft raises Xbox Game Pass prices — changes also include overhauled tiers, and the new bottom tier can no longer play Day 1 games
- Client PC market grows 3% in Q2 as sales of Apple's computers skyrocket by nearly 21%
- OBS encoding enhancements come to Nvidia's Maxwell GPUs — GeForce GTX 900 series can now leverage the Twitch Enhanced Broadcasting feature
- Universities list LimeWire, Kazaa, and other defunct software in piracy warning
- NATO outlines Internet doomsday plan — researching tech to reroute subsea Internet traffic via satellite in case of attack
- Intel's upcoming CPU models confirmed by diagnostic tool — Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake SKUs revealed
- Benchmarked: How Copilot+ PCs Handle Local AI Workloads
- Samsung Foundry to build 2nm processors with HBM for Japanese AI firm
- Researchers developing next generation 2D semiconductors investigate potential silicon replacement in transition-metal dichalcogenide
- TSMC may increase wafer pricing by 10% for 2025: Report
- July 9
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- Cryorig debuts dual-tower RGB air cooler with 120mm fans and copper base plate for AMD and Intel CPUs
- TSMC's market cap is on track to reach $1 trillion — 6.5 times larger than Intel
- Nvidia bundles Black Myth: Wukong with RTX 40-series GPUs — RTX 4060 and RTX 4050 are not eligible, though
- Current AIs only have the IQ level of a cat, asserts Google DeepMind CEO
- Tencent boosts 100,000 GPU-capable AI clusters with network optimization — Xingmai 2.0 increases communication efficiency by 60% and LLM training efficiency by 20%
- Here's what happens when you change every registry value in Windows 10 to zero — technically, the OS still boots up
- Nvidia co-organizes a contest to help build AI dataset to accelerate GPU design
- Intel's Arrow Lake-S won't be an AI powerhouse — 13 TOPS NPU is only slightly better than Meteor Lake, much less than Lunar Lake
- Tokyo Electron's new tool can reduce the necessity for EUV double patterning and improve yield
- Ex-Microsoft exec unearths first-ever copy of Windows 95, in pristine condition and hidden from view since its release
- AMD's Ryzen 9000 single-core performance again impresses in early Geekbench results — 9700X, 9600X dominate previous-gen AMD and Intel CPUs
- Microsoft Azure China offers Chinese businesses a loophole to OpenAI’s departure
- Sabrent launches discrete $30 clip-on Steam Deck Gaming Hub — brings USB-A storage options and USB-C PD upstream power delivery
- Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales
- China to boost its state-owned compute performance by 30% by 2025, plans to hit 300 exaflops
- Intel begins groundwork on Magdeburg chip fab despite 13 remaining regulatory and environmental objections
- July 8
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- US, China Chip War may continue for decades, says former ASML CEO — Wennick shares insights from selling chipmaking gear to both sides
- Asus launches NUC 14 Pro+ powered by Meteor Lake CPUs — Core Ultra 5 125H, 512GB SSD, and 16GB RAM for $860
- HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash — Instant Ink subscription gets the boot, too
- AMD now has better brand recognition than Intel — firm rides AI wave to win on Kantar’s BrandZ Most Valuable Brands report
- Intel preps Lunar Lake-optimized adaptive sharpening filter for Linux deployment
- Samsung workers in South Korea begin 3-day strike — labor union striking for first time in Samsung's history
- Qualcomm hires former AMD ray tracing expert for its GPU team
- AMD engineer discusses firm's 'Layoff Bug' — infamous Barcelona CPU bug revisited 16 years later
- Alleged Ryzen 9 9900X result puts AMD on top as single-threaded CPU champ in Geekbench
- Microsoft’s official guide to switching from a Microsoft Account to a local account in Windows has been reinstated
- AMD may unveil next-gen Radeon RX 8000-series GPUs at CES 2025 according to leaker
- Tiny $10 Raspberry Pi 5 PCie board brings low-cost, high-speed storage – the end of micro SD is nigh
- Key chipmaking tools are missing from China’s new self-made list of semiconductor industry challenges — lithography machines are curiously absent
- Chinese GPU maker Moore Threads' MTLink fabric tech challenges Nvidia's NVLink, can now scale to 10,000 GPUs for AI clusters
- July 7
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- Google claims new AI training tech is 13 times faster and 10 times more power efficient — DeepMind's new JEST optimizes training data for impressive gains
- Ubisoft will add NFTs into Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles
- After 41 years Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad
- 2D quantum cooling system reaches temperatures colder than outer space by converting heat into electrical voltage
- China's AI model glut is a 'significant waste of resources' due to scarce real-world applications for 100+ LLMs says Baidu CEO
- E-Ink touchscreen and IPS panel collide in dual-screen laptop — $199 Bluegen OKPad all-in-one launches on Kickstarter
- Your Wi-Fi can now double as a home security system — Gamgee uses home Wi-Fi networks for intruder detection
- AI models that cost $1 billion to train are underway, $100 billion models coming — largest current models take 'only' $100 million to train: Anthropic CEO
- Full AMD Ryzen PC crammed into a folding mini keyboard — includes a built-in trackpad and battery; all you need is a display
- Zotac server misconfig exposed customer info to Google searches — customer RMA documents are available on the open web
- Asus tests BIOS update enabling Microsoft Dynamic Lighting control — makes it easier to avoid Armory Crate software
- July 6
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- These 3D-printed QR codes are scannable and edible
- New AMD firmware brings performance optimizations for Ryzen 9000 CPUs
- Biggest password database posted in history spills 10 billion passwords — RockYou2024 is a massive compilation of known passwords
- Mt. Gox customers benefit from 3500 percent increase in value, recoup losses despite only 15 percent of coins being returned
- ASRock finetunes Arc Alchemist GPU cooling — Arc A770 and Arc A750 SE arrive with better coolers
- Ryzen AI 7 Pro 360 exposed in new benchmark — octa-core Zen 5 chip falls behind the Core Ultra 9 185H
- PizzaStation 5 Development Pizza Kit sold for $6,500 — thinly-disguised Sony PS5 dev kit slips past Sony
- Scam Nvidia RTX 4090 uses a relabeled RTX 3080 Ti GPU, counterfeit memory chips — repair shop exposes new swindle that's impossible to spot at checkout
- ASRock preps AMD GPUs for AI inference and multi-GPU systems — Creator series GPUs with dual-slot, blower-type design and 16-pin power connectors
- Semiconductor analyst theorizes that China might want to destroy TSMC instead of capturing it — Chinese invasion of Taiwan would destroy supply chains, cripple South Korean chipmakers
- Mysterious quantum computing restrictions spread across multiple nations — UK cites national security risks and refuses to elaborate
- Insider says Nvidia almost sold itself to AMD, but Jensen Huang wanted to be CEO of the merged company
- Elon Musk's liquid-cooled 'Gigafactory' AI data centers get a plug from Supermicro CEO — Tesla and xAI's new supercomputers will have 350,000 Nvidia GPUs, both will be online within months
- July 5
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- Asus launches the first-ever ROG NUC with up to Core Ultra 9 and RTX 4070, prices start at $1,629
- AI industry needs to earn $600 billion per year to pay for massive hardware spend — fears of an AI bubble intensify in wake of Sequoia report
- Per-core thermal throttle reportedly coming to next-gen Intel CPUs — Arrow Lake leverages Fast Throttle for enhanced overclocking
- The most-delayed video game ever is finally out — Kien releases after 22 years for Game Boy Advance
- Nvidia to make $12 billion selling AI GPUs to China — firm to sell over one million sanctions-compliant HGX H20 in 2024
- Ryzen AI 7 Pro 160 bests previous-gen Ryzen 9 — chip hits Geekbench with three Zen 5 and five Zen 5c cores
- New Microsoft ads tout unavailable Recall feature, don't mention it was indefinitely delayed due to privacy concerns
- China beat the U.S. in generative AI patents by 6-to-1 for the past ten years — almost 10,000 Chinese patents filed last year alone
- Pentagon says it's impossible to ditch Huawei telecom gear — officials beg Congress for waiver from Chinese sanctions
- Huawei says China's AI progress will not be stopped by US sanctions on GPUs and chipmaking tech
- China's new laws encourage chipmakers to merge instead of going public — policy shift comes after tens of thousands of Chinese semiconductor firms went out of business
- OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public
- Sony Playstation 4 chip helped AMD avoid bankruptcy — exec recounts how 'Jaguar' chips fueled company's historic turnaround
- Stripped-down Windows 11 'Enterprise G' ISO investigated — made for the Chinese government, associated organizations
- July 4
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- Teardown finally reveals the secretive Huawei chip powering Raspberry Pi competitor — Orange Pi Kunpeng Pro SBC tested
- Custom Linux-powered Smart TV breaks free from ads and tracking, enables ultimate customizability — EarlGreyTV straps a laptop to the back to unlock unlimited control
- Nvidia's RTX Remix goes open source —chipmaker adds Rest API to interface with ComfyUI for AI remastering or generating new graphics in real time
- Snapdragon X Elite with liquid metal thermal paste yields disappointing results
- Intel's next-gen Arc Battlemage GPU lineup shipping starts — manifests point to BMG X2 and BMG X3 GPUs
- Throwback workstation emulated on a business-card-sized board you can (almost) carry in your wallet — DECstation emulation using RP2040
- You can now use the Game Boy Camera as a webcam for your PC — 26-year-old camera gets new life with the sleek GB Operator dock
- FTC warns Gigabyte, ASRock, and Zotac about warranty stickers
- Indonesia gov ransomware chaos may be over after hack group apologizes and says it has shared decrypt keys
- Researchers grow sub-nanometer size transistors — new 1D MTB transistors jump ahead of the IEEE 2037 roadmap
- Nintendo president rejects the use of generative AI in upcoming games — issues of pedigree and copyright cited
- Samsung quietly launches 61.44TB SSD, talks about a 122.88TB model
- July 3
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- Ukraine war fuels rise of killer AI robots — report details rapid evolution using consumer drones and Raspberry Pi
- AMD's revolutionary exascale APU under the microscope — MI300A processor gets deep dive paper from AMD engineers
- The new MultiPi console sports a Raspberry Pi CM4 and GPIO cartridge slot
- 16TB M.2 SSDs will soon grace the market — Kioxia unveils 2Tb 3D QLC NAND to build bigger SSDs
- Gamers using game controllers for PC gaming has tripled since 2018 — Steam survey shows Xbox controllers make up 59%
- Chinese AI firms mixing different GPUs inside individual AI servers to combat GPU shortages from US sanctions
- Intel's new CPU socket may not need custom contact frames to improve chip temperatures anymore — the LGA1851 socket allegedly features optional "Reduced Load ILM" to improve temps
- Asus will showcase Ryzen AI 300 laptops on July 17 — Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 to power TUF Gaming, ROG Zephyrus, Zenbook, and ProArt series
- World's first 'RTX 4090 Super' scores up to 16% higher than standard 4090 — Custom liquid cooled GPU has 3090 Ti PCB and faster GDDR6X
- Indonesia, suffering from a ransomware attack, discovers it has no backups — 'That's stupidity,' remarks astute government official
- Sony kills off recordable Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable
- Google reveals 48% increase in greenhouse gas emissions from 2019, largely driven by data center energy demands
- Japanese gov celebrates demise of the floppy disk — 1,000+ regulations requiring their use have been scrapped
- RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux
- US government relies on outdated manual processes to enforce restrictions on Chinese tech companies
- $335 billion in exceptions granted for sanctioned Chinese companies in the last five years — U.S. gov't revoked eight export licenses for Huawei this year
- Newer Intel CPUs vulnerable to new "Indirector" attack — Spectre-style attacks risk stealing sensitive data; Intel says no new mitigations required
- Much maligned Google Flu Trends service gets an AI reboot — new AI-infused approach appears in research paper
- Underground network smuggles Nvidia's AI GPUs into China despite US sanctions — some smugglers even sell entire servers
- July 2
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- Born in the USA: Prusa is Now Making 3D Printers and Filament In Delaware
- U.S. government addresses critical workforce shortages for the semiconductor industry with new program
- Intel's Arrow Lake LGA1851 CPU socket detailed
- Dual-screen laptop enters pre-launch period with early bird discount — AceMagic X1 pricing and availability will be available later this month
- Local Chinese firms rush to fill the AI void after OpenAI abandons China market — Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba sweeten LLM offers
- New AMD add-on for overclocking utility allows further performance fine-tuning —Curve Shaper enables 15 voltage offset points
- Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer
- Qualcomm splashes big money to promote Snapdragon PC chips on Manchester United's jerseys — logo reportedly costs company $75M per year
- Huawei reportedly facing bad AI chip yields for processors made at Chinese fab SMIC: Report
- Australian police arrest hacker who created 'Evil Twin' wireless network to steal data during flights
- Experimental transistor survives in a nuclear reactor at 125 degrees Celsius temps — GaN semiconductor can survive up to five years in a reactor
- Amazon Web Services hints at 1000 Watt next-gen Trainium AI chip — AWS lays the groundwork for liquid-cooled data centers to house new AI chips
- China plans standardized brain-computer tech similar to Elon Musk’s Neuralink
- Microsoft's redesign of the Windows 11's Weather app shoves in yet more ads
- MSI launches two 240Hz QD-OLED gaming monitors — new 34 and 27-inchers come with 1440p visuals and USB-C connectivity
- GPUs can now use PCIe-attached memory or SSDs to boost VRAM capacity —Panmnesia's CXL IP claims double-digit nanosecond latency
- Noctua's next-gen flagship CPU cooler finally arrives — Noctua NH-D15 G2 released at $150
- Intel schedules the end of its 200-series Optane memory DIMMs — shipments to draw to an end in late 2025
- July 1
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- Nvidia could receive French ban hammer — antitrust charges may follow government raids of Nvidia's offices in France
- Chinese competitor to Nvidia charged with financial fraud, loses spot on Shenzhen Stock Exchange
- Micron says GDDR7 will provide a 30% improvement in gaming — both ray tracing and rasterization
- RISC-V CPU comes to a mini-ITX motherboard — Jupiter features a SpacemiT K1/M1 chip with 2 TOPS of AI performance
- Company offers unofficial security patches for Windows 10 until 2030 — free, $27 Pro, and $37 enterprise subscriptions
- World's first Thunderbolt 5 cable launched, 120 Gbps and 240W charging for $23 — Cable Matters new cable available now
- Vaio releases the 'world’s lightest portable monitor' — Vision+ 14 screen weighs a mere 0.72 pounds
- Missing CryptoQueen bounty hiked to $5 million — woman ran a $4.5 billion crypto-ponzi-scam, says FBI
- Engineer hacks his Sleep Number bed, reveals potential backdoor and security vulnerability
- Leaked Intel Arrow Lake chipset diagram show more PCIe lanes, no support for DDR4 — new chipset boasts two M.2 SSD ports connected directly to CPU
- China plans state ownership for all of its rare earth metal resources — regulation comes into effect on Oct 1