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The cost of adopting the AM5 platform has dropped considerably with DDR5 RAM and CPUs becoming more affordable and today's motherboard deal on the Asus Prime X670-P WiFi for $135 makes it even easier.

China will adjust its civilian drone export rules from September 1. Starting from that date, policy changes will be enacted to prohibit the export of civilian drones that can be used for military or terrorist aggression.

Newegg launched its new CPU Trade-In Program today, adding it to its GPU Trade-In Program. The CPU program, like the GPU trade-ins, offers very low cash payments for trade-ins but is a near-guaranteed way to get cash for old hardware.

Th Adol Book 14-inch laptop from Asus features a puck that stores a fragrance dispenser, allowing it to smell good in your bag and when you're using it.

Ampere is adding a 512-core AmpereOne Aurora processor to its roadmap, and it also divulged pricing for its AmpereOne lineup.

Nvidia is about to start sampling of Blackwell GPUs for AI applications.

You can now see Best Buy listing for the Ryzen 9000 chips, and they show significantly lower launch prices compared to previous-generation Ryzen 7000 and Ryzen 5000 processors.

The U.S. intends to add 120 Chinese entities to its Entity List, to close loopholes that enable Chinese chipmakers to obtain American chipmaking tools.

AMD has released its new Ryzen 5000XT refresh today, consisting of two new SKUs, the Ryzen 9 5900XT with 16-cores and the Ryzen 7 5800XT.

Qualcomm has released a Mini PC Dev Kit for its highest-end Snapdragon X Elite chips, which happens to undercut the pricing of even some Snapdragon X Plus laptops.

Particle, well known to innovative businesses for its IoT platform-as-a-service, is launching an extremely powerful SBC with 5G connectivity and an on-board AI accelerator.

Arnov Sharma is using a Raspberry Pi 5 as the main board in his custom Raspberry Pi 400 project.

Though the Acer Predator Orion 5000's looks might not be for everyone, it delivers a Core i7 CPU and GeForce RTX 4070 Super at an affordable price.

The U.S. government approves shipments of wafer fab equipment to many Chinese fabs, other are banned. Question is, can those tools be installed in banned fabs?

To further drive the capabilities of 3D circuit fabrication, scientists from the National University of Singapore have developed a novel approach to direct ink writing 3D printing technology.

Intel sets launch date for Core Ultra 'Lunar Lake' processors.

According to sources familiar with Intel's plans for the future, the tech giant could be preparing to lay off thousands of its employees.

Sales of datacenter hardware and client PCs help to lift AMD's revenue.

DRAM and NAND flash revenue is expected to increase drastically in 2024 and continue to increase in 2025 thanks to increased demand in high revenue generating products such as HBM.

In the "let's see how far we can push this puppy" scene, Jeff Geerling has managed to max out the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU to a speedy 3.4 GHz.

AMD has confirmed that its Ryzen 5000 XT CPUs didn't suffer any delays, unlike its Ryzen 9000 series processors. The 5900XT and 5800XT will arrive this month.

Suitable for both coursework and some medium gaming, grab a new gaming laptop for under $1K ahead of the new school year.

AMD's latest iteration of its Ryzen AI Software, version 1.2, adds hardware support for five new chips, including Strix Halo and Kraken Point.

Dasung has made the Paperlike Color portable E Ink monitor available via its official U.S. web store. This 12-inch device with 2,560 x 1,600 pixels supplements the eye-friendly color e-ink screen appeal with a front light, touch screen functionality, and simple USB-C connectivity.

Yakroo108 is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to drive a custom YouTube subscriber counter that tracks subscribers in real-time for any channel.

Valve is updating SteamOS to fully support the DeckHD screen replacement for the original LCD Steam Deck, which predates Steam Deck OLED.

Dell has a winning effort to take on the entrenched players powered by Intel, AMD, and Apple CPUs.

Beyerdynamic's newest gaming headset features its studio-quality Stellar.45 drivers, but it's expensive for what is otherwise a fairly basic wired headset.

SK hynix just introduced its GDDR7 graphics memory chips intended for high-performance computing, AI processing, and more. It offers significantly improved speed and power efficiency, making it suitable for the next-generation GPUs slated to arrive late 2024 and early 2025.

Apple has revealed that it didn't use Nvidia's hardware accelerators to develop its recently revealed Apple Intelligence features. According to an official Apple research paper (PDF), it instead relied on Google TPUs to crunch the training data behind the Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models.

AMD has revealed the second iteration of its Fluid Motion Frames frame generation technology, which offers numerous upgrades over AFMF 1.

A rumor suggests RTX 4070 through RTX 4090 GPUs will face temporary supply shortages due to a quality control failure on a batch of Micron GDDR6X memory modules.

It's always handy to have a thumb drive on you, or at least within easy reach, for important backups, or ease of transportation. Team Group's 256GB C175 gives you plentiful capacity at a low $13 sale price.

Voultar made a kit that corrects and provides clean video output for the dual-chip version of the Super Nintendo console, thereby fixing a problem that has not been addressed for thirty-six years.

Lenovo has started to roll out its business-focused ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop, with promotional materials claiming the thin and light portable can deliver up to 29 hours of battery life.

Just days after saboteurs struck France's train network, unknown parties cut fiber optic bundles, affecting phone and internet service in several country regions.

Seeing the need to improve the energy-efficiency of AI applications, one research team from Minnesota may have cracked the code to lowering energy consumption by a huge amount.

A Spytech breach disclosed to TechCrunch prompts an expose.

Despite the loud color scheme, the disco floppy cleaner does seem quite effective

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X has been demonstrated breaking the Cinebench R23 (16 core) world record score. Bilibili tech influencer Ordinary Uncle Tony showcased his liquid nitrogen-fuelled feat, reaching a multi-threaded score of 55,327 points at a live event in China.

Amuse 2.0.0 Beta is a program meant to enable users generate high-quality images with AI models on modern AMD hardware-based PCs.

The Sabrent Rocket Nano 2242 targets specific host devices that use the M.2 2242 form factor, which until recently has been one of the less common options. It's a reasonably modern and capable drive, though oddly limited to only 1TB capacity for the time being.

Cinebench results of AMD's Ryzen 9900X, 9700X, and 9600X get published ahead of reviews.

This distraction-free word processor comes with a 5.2-inch eInk display, a hot-swappable mechanical keyboard, and enough battery to last a week of daily use.

An image of a Ryzen 9000 processor with incorrect product labeling has emerged, hinting at the reason for AMD's recent delay in its Zen 5 launch.

Right now at Amazon, you can find the Crucial T700 1TB gaming SSD for one of its lowest prices to date - just $153 instead of its usual $170.

Follow these tips to get Windows 11 to be more like Windows 10, complete with a different Start menu, taskbar and wallpaper.

Nintendo Kawaii, "the keychain Wii" and the first build to utilize a full "OMEGA trim", making it even smaller than previous record holders.

The Countering CCP Drones Act' which would ban all DJI drone sales in the U.S. has been shot down by the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee from its version of the NDAA.

Windows 11 now includes a handy right-click end task' feature which is accessed via any app's taskbar button. However, this quick-kill feature isn't enabled by default.