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The USB Power Delivery (PD) Specification — everything you need to know about USB-PD
By Les Pounder published
Learn the secrets of the USB PD specification as we delve into how the specification has changed in over a decade of revisions

Here's why HBM is coming for your PC's RAM
By Luke James published
Premium Surging prices, diverted wafer capacity, and multi-year delays in relief are pushing memory out of reach for consumers.

Splave's Cave: Overclocking the Asus RTX 5090 Astral and setting the 3DMark Port Royal world record
By Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch published
Premium Overclocker Splave documents the trials and tribulations of overclocking the RTX 5090 Astral from Asus, resulting in a 3DMark world record.

Huawei Ascend NPU roadmap examined — company targets 4 ZettaFLOPS FP4 performance by 2028, amid manufacturing constraints
By Anton Shilov published
Premium Huawei eyes up extreme system-level scaling.

Why copper markets are feeling the pinch due to aggressive AI data center expansion
By Chris Stokel-Walker published
Premium Alongside energy, water and computer chips, the supply squeeze is being felt further up the chain, too.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580 Face Off: $249 graphics cards duke it out for budget gaming supremacy
By Jeffrey Kampman published
We put the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 vs Intel Arc B580 through an eight-round face-off to declare a winner.

The web's infrastructure has a concentration problem, exposing us all to crushing outages
By Chris Stokel-Walker published
Premium First it was AWS. Then Azure went down – and with it, large chunks of the web, apps and services we use every day. Are hypescaler cloud providers a victim of their own success?

Hands-on with Valve's new Arm-powered Steam Frame headset
By Matt Safford published
New Steam Frame headset is a “streaming-first” device designed to run VR games from your PC, but it can also play traditional PC games via its Arm chip, thanks to the Fex translation layer.
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