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April 24
- Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling well — instead, old Raptor Lake chips boom
- Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate
- AMD releases open-source GIM driver aimed at GPU virtualization, support for mainstream Radeon GPUs coming later
- Kingston's Renegade G5 PCIe 5.0 SSD with 14.8 GB/s speeds now available starting at $200 for 1TB
- TSMC mulls massive 1000W-class multi-chiplet processors with 40X the performance of standard models
- AMD RX 9070 GRE allegedly ready for launch — Navi 48 GPU trimmed down to 12GB VRAM and 48 compute units
- Newegg has RTX 5090 bundles starting at $3,139 — the fastest GPU paired with a lackluster Z890 motherboard
- Researchers develop new metamaterials that pave the way to bendy, stretchable computer chips
- Panther Lake and Nova Lake reportedly power Intel's next-gen automotive SoCs, Intel releases new roadmap
- TSMC's 2nm N2 process node enters production this year, A16 and N2P arriving next year
- Nvidia introduces G-Assist plug-in builder, allowing its AI to integrate with LLMs and software
- Windows 11 24H2 triggers a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas related to the Skimmer seaplane
April 23
- PC shipments up 6.7% YoY in Q1 2025, likely caused by buyers worried about tariffs
- TSMC's 3nm update: N3P in production, N3X on track
- TSMC unveils 1.4nm technology: 2nd Gen GAA transistors, full node advantages, coming in 2028
- Top PC OEMs reportedly planning Saudi Arabia plants to avoid US tariffs — Lenovo, HP, Dell exploring options as panic continues
- Chinese companies stockpiled billions of dollars worth of Nvidia H20 GPUs prior to recent ban
- Colorful announces a white, quad-fan variant of the iGame Vulcan RTX 5080
- Russia on track to manufacture 28nm chips in domestic fabs by 2030, 19 years after tech first debuted
- Custom keyboard maker stopping US sales entirely due to tariffs — Keyboardio cites tariffs, axed de minimis rule
- American 3D Printer filament companies raise the flag, not the price
- Elon says Tesla humanoid robots impacted by China's export ban on rare earth minerals — Optimus production is delayed due to a 'magnet issue'
- AMD RX 9060 XT GPUs reportedly target a May 18 launch — RX 9070 GRE tipped for a Q4 release
- Gigabyte RTX 50-series GPUs reportedly prone to melting thermal gel issues
- Chinese data centers refurbing and selling Nvidia RTX 4090D GPUs due to overcapacity — 48GB models sell for up to $5,500
- Nvidia aims to solve AI's water consumption problems with direct-to-chip cooling — claims 300X improvement with closed-loop systems
- Intel to announce a 20% workforce cut this week: Report
April 22
- Scythe faces uncertain future in Europe as insolvency proceedings begin
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285K performance sees 6% improvement on Linux — Arrow Lake boosts even without new '200S Boost' BIOS
- Igor's Lab uncovers 'hotspot issue' affecting all RTX 50-series GPUs — says it could compromise graphics card longevity
- TSMC's N2 process reportedly lands orders from Intel — Nova Lake is the likely application
- M.2 HDMI capture card provides dual 2K video input — works in any PCIe 2.0 or later slot
- Nvidia's DLSS tech now in over 760 games and apps — native and override DLSS 4 support has broad reach
- 2006 Nintendo Wii hacked to run Infected Systems' blog — uses open-source NetBSD
- Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB struggles due to lack of VRAM — and not just at 4K ultra
- Samsung discontinuing DDR4 production in late 2025 — company to focus on DDR5, LPDDR5, and HBMs
- Speculation mounts that Musk will raise tens of billions for AI supercomputer with 1 million GPUs: Report
- Toshiba launches 24TB hard drives priced up to $649 for NAS systems
April 21
- Unreleased AMD RX 6500 surfaces: a 2022-era budget chip for our 2025 GPU woes
- TSMC says it cannot guarantee that its chips don't end up in China
- We tested Intel's new '200S Boost' feature: 7% higher gaming performance thanks to memory overclocking, now covered by the warranty
- AMD 16-core Zen 5c die shots show long, narrow CCX, all 16 cores sharing a single L3 cache
- G.Skill debuts world's first 256GB (64GBx4) DDR5-6000 CL32 UDIMM memory kit with EXPO support
- Logitech prices are increasing by as much as 25%, and they're not alone
- Rumors swirl about a 24GB Intel Arc B580 — but OEM swiftly strikes down claims
- Intel details next-gen 18A fab tech: significantly more performance, lower power, higher density
- 3D printing is about to get more expensive, if you can get it at all
April 20
- First SD Express 8.0 memory card from Adata hits 1.6 GB/s read speeds — 512GB capacity, and U3/V30 compliant
- ChatGPT is now a potent tool for finding the locations of photos, raising doxxing concerns
- World's first drone system for fighting lightning protects cities and infrastructure
- Radeon PRO W9000 GPUs said to use the Navi 48 XTW die, 32GB VRAM — Computex reveal suggested
April 19
- AI-generated videos now possible with gaming GPUs with just 6GB of VRAM
- New chip cooling technique is 7X more more effective than standard approaches
- Huawei introduces the Ascend 920 AI chip to fill the void left by Nvidia's H20
- Grab this 240 Hz 1080p gaming monitor for just $179 on Amazon
- Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will seemingly use a new LGA1954 socket
April 18
- CEO reorganizes Intel with new CTO and AI lead
- World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds
- OpenAI spends millions to process polite phrases such as "Thank You" and "Please" with ChatGPT
- 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9985WX spotted in shipping manifests — 16- and 12-core siblings also spotted
- Huawei's new AI CloudMatrix cluster beats Nvidia's GB200 by brute force, uses 4X the power
- Blower-style RTX 5090D leaked on Bilibili — two-slot GPU design built for AI rigs
- Nvidia vows to continue making products for Chinese market
- Latest Nvidia drivers boost synthetics by 6-8% on RTX 50 GPUs — Users still report stability woes
- Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders will start April 24 — the system still costs $449.99
- WD launches HDD recycling process that reclaims rare earth elements, cuts out China
- Intel is looking into CPU overhead associated with Arc GPUs on older chips
April 17
- Lawmakers demand answers from Nvidia over suspected GPU diversions to China, company denies any wrongdoing
- Microsoft researchers build 1-bit AI LLM with 2B parameters — model small enough to run on some CPUs
- Seagate claims hard drives are more environmentally friendly than SSDs
- Chinese brain computer interface user reportedly plays 'Black Myth: Wukong,' other games
- Massive 366% chip shipment surge to Malaysia amid increased Nvidia AI GPU smuggling curbs, ahead of looming sectoral tariffs
- AMD RX 9070 GRE rumored to have 48 CUs, 12GB VRAM, 2.79 GHz clocks — about 15% slower than the vanilla RX 9070
- Reviews show the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB matches the 16GB model in most tests, falls behind in DLSS 4
- AMD-optimized Stable Diffusion models achieve up to 3.3x performance boost on Ryzen and Radeon
- microSD Express cards sell out after Switch 2 announcement — more than 337 units sold per hour
- TSMC to build 30% of its 2nm and more advanced chips in the U.S., to speed up Fab 21 build out
- Old hard drive modded into a variable speed disc sander, spinning rust sands things nicely
- JEDEC finalizes HBM4 memory standard with major bandwidth and efficiency upgrades
April 16
- New PCIe adapters turn your x16 slot into a clown car of GPU and SSD connectivity
- Galax confirms monstrous dual 16-pin RTX 5090D extreme overclocking GPU for the Chinese market
- Gigabyte chops PCIe finger in half on its dual-fan RTX 5060 Ti cards
- Intel has championed High-NA EUV chipmaking tools, but costs and other limitations could delay industry-wide adoption: Report
- Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
- AMD takes $800M haircut as US gov't cuts off China's AI GPU supply
- Budget-friendly RX 9060 XT GPUs tipped for Computex unveil next month — on-shelf inventory expected by early June
- Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues
- Nvidia addresses 40 black screen, monitor, and crashing issues with new RTX 5060 Ti game-ready driver
- RTX 4090 returned to eBay seller with GPU and VRAM chips missing
- Eindhoven researchers achieve 5.7 Tb/s data transfer speeds using highly focused infrared light
- Nvidia writes off $5.5 billion in GPUs as US gov't chokes off supply of H20s to China
- Made in the USA: Inside Nvidia's $500 billion server gambit
April 15
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and 5060 graphics card roundup: Every announced card from every AIB partner
- Microsoft warns of Outlook Classic bug that can crank CPU use up to 50% when typing
- Limited-edition Severance keyboard features a built-in trackball, but aptly, there’s no Escape
- Second-gen Snapdragon X PC chips may boost performance up to 22%
- A peek into the future of 3D printing: Rapid + TCT 2025 in Detroit
- DUG Nomad is a mobile, immersion-cooled data center cube for edge AI
- Intel's P-Core only Bartlett Lake chip inches closer to reality with new Linux patch
- World's first 3D-texture UV printer for consumers now available for pre-order — prints onto 'nearly any surface'
- Buried Steam tool shows how much you've spent on your account in your lifetime
- Nvidia announces GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060, starting at $379 and $299 — reviews coming tomorrow, April 16
- Atomic-scale chip alignment: Laser holograms could set new standard for 3D semiconductor overlay accuracy
April 14
- AMD teases its first 2nm chip, EPYC 'Venice' fabbed on TSMC N2 node — also announces USA production of current-gen chips
- Intel sells 51% of Altera FPGA business to Silver Lake for $4.46 billion
- Government-funded AI tool developed to help monitor and manage nuclear reactors
- AMD splits ROCm toolkit into two parts – ROCm AMDGPU drivers get their own branch under Instinct datacenter GPU moniker
- Nvidia aims to build $500 billion worth of AI servers in the USA by 2029
- AMD RX 9060 XT specs leak: Navi 44 takes on Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti with 8 and 16GB flavors, 3.2 GHz boost clocks
- Trump says new chip tariffs will be announced next week
- China's Moore Threads polishes homegrown CUDA alternative — MUSA supports porting CUDA code using Musify toolkit
- New high-fidelity brain-computer interface is so small it can fit between hair follicles
April 13
- Leaked RTX 5060 Ti 16GB benchmarks show a 20% uplift over the 4060 Ti 16GB
- Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from Musk and Zuckerberg sound-a-likes
- Charred RTX 4070 fell victim to a PSU without protection feature
- AMD's latest ROCm 6.4 release continues to lack RDNA 4 support
- Old-school Creative Sound Blaster cards repaired and demoed
- Asus launches the flagship ROG Crosshair X870E Extreme, starting at $1,400
- Pat Gelsinger turns to particle accelerators for a new way to make chips, joins xLight
April 12
- Trump exempts computers, smartphones, and more from tariffs
- This $666 box can play Doom — Limited Run Games unveils the ultimate collector's edition set for Doom fans
- TV-signal based BPS tested as fallback for GPS — digital TV infrastructure could come to the rescue if satellites are compromised
- Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions
- 33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore computers gets an unexpected update
April 11
- Razer's PC Remote Play app lets you stream PC games to your mobile devices
- China fires back at Trump’s tariff increases with 125% levies on U.S. goods
- RTX 5070 dips below MSRP at UK retailer — £518.99 marks a rare low in this unpredictable market
- Microsoft's Windows 95 startup sound has been immortalized in the Library of Congress
- China's new semiconductor rule spares Taiwan fabs, punishes Intel, GlobalFoundries & Texas Instruments
- Intel's performance-enhancing IPO program debuts in gaming PCs across China — overclocked performance with full warranty
- Custom MSI RTX 5060 Ti models surface with 16-pin power connectors and PCIe 5.0 x8
- Elon Musk’s xAI allegedly uses 'illegal' generators to power Colossus supercomputer facility
- Researchers make breakthrough in cleaning up the 'forever chemicals' used in chip manufacturing
- Cooling chips with lasers: Innovative cooling method removes heat precisely from hot spots, recycles heat into energy
April 10
- Chinese project aims to run RISC-V code on AMD Zen processors
- Rare Steam Deck prototype sold for $2,000 on eBay — Features a 6-year-old AMD Picasso APU with Zen+ and Vega
- Nvidia RTX 5090 apparently handles DirectStorage GPU decompression better than RTX 4090
- Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has invested in 600 Chinese firms, some linked to the Chinese military
- PC manufacturers race ahead of tariffs with rush shipments, Q1 market share booms as a result
- Windows Update drops empty 'intepub' folder in system, leaves users scratching heads after April update
- Leaked Geekbench results show RTX 5060 Ti 14% faster than Nvidia's previous gen — Matches aging 3070 Ti
- RTX 50 series GPUs selling below market price at Walmart returns aisle, multiple customers score great deals
- Trump reportedly suspends Nvidia H20 export ban plan after $1 million dinner with Jensen Huang
- U.S. tariffs to heavily impact HDD and SSD manufacturers, increasing costs
April 9
- AMD quietly announces Ryzen 8000HX series — Dragon Range Refresh arrives to replace AMD's top laptop CPUs
- Trump pauses most global tariffs for 90 days but increases China tariffs to 125%
- Are gaming GPUs subject to new U.S. tariffs? It isn't entirely clear yet
- Trump tariffs will hit consoles, monitors, and laptops hardest — U.S. imports 66% or more from China
- AI costs drop 280-fold, but harmful incidents rise 56% in last year — Stanford 2025 AI report highlights China-US competition
- China retaliates with 84% tariff on US imports in response to Trump's 104% tariff
- AMD Zen 5 CPUs also affected by microcode vulnerability — Granite Ridge, Turin, Ryzen AI 300, and Fire Range at risk
- Corsair confirms the slight wiggle room in its 16-pin connectors for Nvidia GPUs is by design
- Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan loses $5 million on his $25 million Intel investment as stock tumbles
- President Trump threatens TSMC with 100% tariff if it doesn't build in the U.S.
- Intel enforces strict tariff compliance for steel and aluminum shipments amid new U.S. tariffs
- Nvidia reportedly sources GDDR7 chips from SK hynix for RTX 50-series GPUs
- Intel's market cap plummets to 16-year low as stock rout continues
April 8
- TSMC faces $1 billion US fine for making chips for blacklisted Huawei
- Razer halts laptop sales to US consumers — this response to US tariffs could become commonplace
- AMD Dragon Range Refresh CPU specs confirmed via early retail listing — Ryzen 9 8940HX sees 100 MHz increase
- UALink has Nvidia's NVLink in the crosshairs — final specs support up to 1,024 GPUs with 200 GT/s bandwidth
- Kioxia optical-based PCIe 5.0 SSDs support cable lengths up to 40 meters — now they just need optical-ready data centers
- Shopify CEO: teams must prove AI can’t do a task before asking for new hires, resources
- FreeDOS 1.4 released with updated FreeCOM, Install program, and HTML Help
- AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' CPUs see 14% higher performance on average with Ubuntu 25.04 beta release
- Nintendo VP confirms Switch 2 Joy-Cons won't feature Hall effect sticks
- Google tools required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student
- Google accused of paying employees to do nothing for up to a year to stifle AI talent migration
- IBM boosts mainframes with 50% more AI performance: z17 features Telum II chip with AI accelerators
- China-exclusive RTX 5090D dominates in 3DMark benchmark records - Galax HOF edition eclipses RTX 5090 challengers
- Framework pauses U.S. sales of base Laptop 13 models due to tariffs — company says other vendors are pausing sales too, but not making announcements
- New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech
- Nvidia may avoid recent tariffs on its AI servers — 60% of Nvidia servers pass through Mexico, may be exempt from Trump tariff flurry
- Apple aims to beat the tariff cutoff, reportedly shipped five extra planeloads of goods from India to the U.S. in March
April 7
- Nvidia RTX 5090D GPU features a magnetic shroud and fans for easy maintenance
- HPE's unnamed 1,152-core system pushes Turbostat to support 8,192 cores in Linux 6.15
- TSMC and Foxconn hit hard in Taiwan following Trump's tariffs announcement
- Git turns 20 as we celebrate decades of open-source software distribution
- U.S. Gov't eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year, but tape isn't dead yet
- AMD RX 9070 vBIOS flash offers up-to 20% performance boost — modders claim OC beats 9070 XT
- China's rare earth export restrictions threaten global chipmaking supply chains
April 6
- WinRAR security flaw ignores Windows Mark of the Web security warnings
- Nvidia engineer breaks and then quickly fixes AMD GPU performance in Linux
- China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery
- Delidded AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D runs 23 degrees cooler
- Nvidia's PhysX and Flow go open source — Running legacy PhysX on RTX 50 may be possible using wrappers
- Another RTX 5090 connector melts down, reportedly taking a PSU with it
- AMD sets new supercomputer record, runs CFD simulation over 25x faster on Instinct MI250X GPUs
April 5
- You can now play a real-time AI-rendered Quake II in your browser — Microsoft's WHAMM offers generative AI for games
- Vaio touts 'tariff free' inventory for sale — Intel-powered laptops on sale while supplies last
- Compact RTX 4070 with an aluminum CNC-machined shroud is perfect for SFF builds
- 3D Gloop! Wants to Stick Customers to the Floor
April 4
- Pre-built PCs with unreleased RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 GPUs crop up at online retailers
- Chinese chipmaker Loongson's new laptop and industrial chips have higher core counts, better GPU
- Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary by letting Copilot see what you see
- Nintendo's Switch 2 pre-orders delayed by Trump tariffs — June 5 launch date still on schedule
- China strikes back at Trump with 34 percent tariff — bans some rare earth exports to the U.S.
- Microsoft Copilot is now fully integrated with Windows 11 and Windows 10
- RTX 4060 is now the top GPU on Newegg despite ludicrous $500 price tag
- Trump says that chip tariffs are starting 'very soon'
- G.Skill unveils first 128GB DDR5-8000 memory kit and ultra-fast DDR5-9000 64GB options
- Trump's tariffs on chipmaking tools could make U.S.-made processors more expensive
- Intel discontinues Unison app for connecting PCs and smartphones
April 3
- Intel and TSMC agree to form chipmaking joint venture: Report
- PC prices up at least 20%: Trump Tariffs may hurt U.S. system integrators most
- Dell's $35 AlienFX cable kit makes Alienware Area-51 desktop compatible with third-party motherboards
- Windows 11 Enterprise machines can now get updates while you work—no reboot required
- Windows 11 local account workaround discovered just as Microsoft closes previous loophole in Insider Build
- Nvidia confirms Nintendo Switch 2 SoC's AI, ray tracing features, keeps real specs to itself for now
- Seven RTX 5090 GPUs power AI server worth over $30,000 — over 4000W of power and 224GB of memory in a single frame
- China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU
- Bitcoin miners front-running tariffs by scrambling to ship thousands of machines before penalties hit
- Trump administration exempts computer chips and copper from sweeping tariffs, but only for now — report says chip tariffs coming later
- RX 9070 GRE is reportedly in development to provide an affordable entry point into RDNA 4
- Nintendo Switch 2's support for MicroSD Express standard will hurt your wallet: Here's why
- Nintendo Switch 2 developers confirm DLSS, hardware ray tracing, and more
- Trump creates U.S. Investment Accelerator to manage CHIPS Act and 'negotiate much better deals'
- Intel refreshes iconic brand with 'That's the power of Intel Inside' campaign
April 2
- Chinese tech giants boosted Nvidia GPU purchases by 4x to 6x during Q1
- Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal technical data necessary to build 28nm-capable fabs
- Defective RX 9070 XT card with pitted silicon surface runs extremely hot — report indicates it's unclear if this was an isolated incident
- AMD pins Ryzen 9000 'failures' on compatibility issues — BIOS update recommended to avoid boot problems
- RTX 5080 laptop GPU beats RTX 4090 counterpart — delivers 10% less performance than RTX 5090
- President Trump's 25% tariff on aluminum sparks concerns over rising PC enclosure and GPU costs
- Amazon reserves RTX 5070, RX 9070 XT GPUs as Amazon Prime exclusives, to the dismay of scalpers
- Chinese DRAM maker reportedly mulls DDR4 hike prices
- Nintendo Switch 2 will release June 5 priced at $449 with 4K support in docked mode, mouse functionality, and a Chat button
- Puget Systems says it will absorb PC tariff costs for now, but will increase prices when it becomes inevitable
- Lightmatter unveils high-performance photonic 'superchip', claims world's fastest AI interconnect
April 1
- Arm aims to capture 50% of data center CPU market in 2025
- Lip-Bu Tan's first speech as Intel CEO focuses on innovation and working with foundry customers
- Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours
- Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips
- Rapidus to begin trial production of its 2nm process this month — Japan gets closer to cutting-edge silicon manufacturing
- Retailer clarifies RTX 5090 'B-stock' listing with missing ROPs was a system error
- Asus drops teaser for Xbox 'Kennan' handheld — reveals sneak peek days before Switch 2 launch
- Snapdragon X exclusive Copilot+ features begin trickling through to modern x86 Windows 11 PCs
- GlobalFoundries mulls UMC takeover in effort dubbed 'Project Ultron'