Blacklisted Huawei Uses Blacklisted Phytium CPU for New Desktop PC By Anton Shilov published 6 May 22 Huawei uses Phytium's eight-core D2000 CPU for entry-level desktop motherboard.
Shuttle Launches the XPC Slim DH670 Alder Lake Barebones By Mark Tyson published 5 May 22 The compact XPC Slim DH670 can fit up to a 16C/24T 12th Gen Core processor with 65W, and power up to four displays. Shuttle says it will be available soon.
Apple Sues Rivos Startup for Alleged Theft of Secrets By Anton Shilov published 3 May 22 Apple accuses stealth startup Rivos of poaching its engineers, stealing of confidential information.
Khadas VIM4 Raspberry Pi Competitor Has 8 Cores, Wi-Fi 6 By Mark Tyson published 28 April 22 It's set to release on May 10
TSMC Clarifies Apple's UltraFusion Chip-to-Chip Interconnect By Anton Shilov published 27 April 22 Cheaper interconnect, similar performance.
Prices of Used Semi Tools Soar as China Ups Investments By Anton Shilov published 20 April 22 Prices of chip production equipment set records on strong demand, aggressive procurement by Chinese companies.
Dell's Proprietary DDR5 Module Locks Out User Upgrades By Zhiye Liu published 18 April 22 Twitter user iGPU Extremist tweeted photographs of Dell's Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) for the upcoming Precision 7670 laptop.
Alibaba's 128-Core Armv9 Server Processor Available for Preview By Anton Shilov published 15 April 22 Alibaba's customers can now test drive 128-core Yitian 710 server SoC.
Apple Begins Testing M2-Based Macs, Reports Say By Anton Shilov published 15 April 22 New MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro are incoming, according to developer logs.
Mini Windows on Arm Desktop PC Launches at $229 By Anton Shilov published 8 April 22 Apcsilmic's Dot 1 Mini PC packs Snapdragon 7c, runs Windows 11.
Intel's Alder Lake 'Wall Street Canyon' NUC Exposed In New Leak By Mark Tyson published 3 April 22 Wall Street Canyon wants some Mac Studio action.
Ryzen-Powered Mini PC With eGPU Support Debuts At $499 By Mark Tyson published 2 April 22 However, the open-air dock needs a PC ATX or SFF PSU to power the GPU.
Razer Blade 15 (2022) Review: Premium Power By Matt Safford published 1 April 22 Still a great understated gamer with lots of ports, but the display could be brighter.
GPU-Z Gains Support for Arc Alchemist, RTX 3090 Ti, and RX 6950 XT By Anton Shilov published 25 March 22 Arc Alchemist, GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, and mobile Radeon RX 6000 GPUs now recognized by GPU-Z.
TSMC to Boost 4nm & 5nm Output by 25%: Ada Lovelace, Hopper, RDNA 3, Zen 4 By Anton Shilov published 24 March 22 As Apple, AMD, Nvidia, and MediaTek ramp up their N5 orders, TSMC needs more capacity.
Apple's M1 Ultra Benchmarked: 2.6X Slower Than AMD's Threadripper Pro 5995WX By Anton Shilov published 23 March 22 Apple's M1 Ultra CPU benchmarked: fast, but cannot beat 64-core monster .
Want to Upgrade a Mac Studio SSD? Not So Fast By Anton Shilov published 22 March 22 Apple's Mac Studio has modular SSDs, but it does not mean they are upgradeable. At least, not for now.
Xbox Cloud Gaming Comes to Steam Deck via Microsoft Edge By Mark Tyson published 18 March 22 And Microsoft has uploaded a support article to walk users through getting these beta software releases to work their magic on your Steam Deck.
Steam Deck Scalpers Are Back, This Time With Devices in Hand By Mark Tyson published 17 March 22 Order via Valve today for fulfillment "after Q3 2022," or pay triple the price. Some people will fuel the scalpers and choose option B.
Intel Subsidies for Ohio, Magedeburg Fabs Measure in Billions of Dollars By Anton Shilov published 17 March 22 Intel and Micron to substantiate government support for chip fabs in front of U.S. Senate next week.