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Updated 2026-02-08 02:15
Analyst firm raises alarm about EUV chipmaking tools — each consumes as much power as a small city, fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts by 2030
Leading-edge semiconductor fabs to consume 54,000 Gigawatts a year by 2030, which is more than some countries consume today.
MSI Cyborg 15 Review: An overly budget gaming laptop
MSI's Cyborg 15 is cheap, but its below-average performance and screen will make you wish you spent more.
SK hynix's superfast 1TB Tube T31 USB flash drive is now $61, hitting its lowest-ever price
SK hynix's Tube T31 is a best-in-class storage drive for just $61.
Steam game listings must now flag any kernel-level anti-cheat software integrations
Valve requires game developers to now explicitly mention if their game features anti-cheat tools that operate in the kernel.
SRAM scaling isn't dead after all — TSMC's 2nm process tech claims major improvements
TSMC's N2 fabrication process shrinks SRAM bit cell size, increases SRAM density to ~38 Mb/mm^2.
AMD's gaming-optimized Ryzen 7 9800X3D rumored to cost $479 — $30 price bump over prior-gen Ryzen 7 7800X3D
A leak suggests that AMD is eyeing an MSRP of $479 for its new Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor launching next week.
Ubisoft quietly launches blockchain RPG with playable NFTs priced up to $63K
Ubisoft launches free PvP blockchain RPG with NFTs priced as high as $63,000.
UALink Consortium poised to compete with Nvidia's NVLink — AMD and Intel-led group opens doors to contributor members
The Ultra Accelerator Link, or UALink, Consortium has officially incorporated, becoming a legal entity. The group, made up of AMD, Intel, Meta, Google, and other major tech players, seeks to create a standard to dethrone Nvidia's NVLink for server cluster communication.
Google now uses AI to write 25% of its new code — Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai underlines the company's role in the AI industry amidst strong Q3 24 financials
Sundar Pichai reports that artificial intelligence is responsible for writing 25% of Google's code.
Chinese mineral restrictions spur Australia to scavenge waste for new sources of chipmaking materials — country turns to mining waste for rare earths
Australian scientists are developing techniques to extract rare earth metals crucial to semiconductor manufacturing more efficiently from mining waste.
Supermicro's stock plummets 35% in one day as accounting firm resigns — storm brews after DOJ probe into manipulated finances
Supermicro's stock tanked 35% today after its accounting firm resigned, citing unreliable management and an inability to comply with company expectations and the law.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K cooling testing: How much does it take to keep Arrow Lake cool in MSI's MPG Gungnir 300R Airflow PC Case?
We tested Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K in MSI's MPG Gungnir 300R Computer Case to determine what coolers are best paired with Intel's new Ultra 9 CPU.
Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week
One week after its release, Intel's Core Ultra 200S series still has not sold a single unit on Mindfactory, Germany's largest online PC component retailer. While the chips have sold out on most American retailers, Mindfactory's provided numbers show that Intel sales have plummeted to nearly zero on Mindfactory.
Linux's true BSOD equivalent, DRM Panic, is now supported by the current AMD GPUs
Recent AMD GPUs now support Linux's BSOD equivalent.
Apple refreshes MacBook Pros with M4 Pro, M4 Max, and up to 24 hour battery life
Apple has refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup with its M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips.
TSMC is in a heated tussle with a golf course to build the most advanced 2nm chip plant on the planet
The Central Taiwan Science Park is having some issues with the land acquisition for its phase 2 expansion that will house TSMC's 2nm fab.
OpenAI reportedly builds custom AI chips as it embraces AMD — company also abandons plans to build its own fabs
OpenAI is advancing the development of an inference chip with Broadcom but abandons plans to build a fab network.
Ryzen AI 300 takes big wins over Intel in LLM AI performance — up to 27% faster token generation than Lunar Lake in LM Studio
A new AMD blog post shows off Ryzen AI 9 HX 375's performance on LM Studio, a desktop app for hosting powerful LLMs locally. The Ryzen chip handily beats the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V in a bevy of performance tests.
Cooler Master's unique Sneaker X gaming PC is on sale - save $690 if the shoe fits
If you're looking for something a little different, this sneaker-designed gaming PC from Cooler Master has been heavily discounted from its original $2,299 price tag.
'Jensanity' continues in Taiwan, Mini-Jensen Huang cosplayer sports massive Nvidia GPU for Halloween
The Jensen Huang Halloween costume shows his continued popularity on the island country of Taiwan.
Intel rolls out microcode fix for crashing 13th/14th Generation processors through the Linux Kernel
Intel's latest microcode fix for Raptor Lake CPUs is now available at the Linux Kernel level.
AMD rakes in cash with best quarterly revenue ever amid datacenter business rise, but gaming business craters
AMD records its highest quarterly revenue ever, but the modest guidance disappoints investors.
AMD says RDNA 4 GPUs are coming in early 2025 — RX 8000 will deliver ray tracing improvements, AI capabilities
AMD confirms RDNA 4 incoming in early 2025, bringing AI, graphics, and ray tracing improvements.
AMD research suggests plans to catch up to Nvidia using neural supersampling and denoising for real-time path tracing
AMD appears to have plans to use a neural network to perform denoising and reconstruct scene details. It's not yet available, but it sounds a lot like Nvidia's Ray Reconstruction feature in DLSS 3.5.
Nvidia's future Blackwell Ultra GPUs reportedly renamed to the B300 series
Nvidia will reportedly rename its Blackwell Ultra GPUs for AI and HPC to the B300 series to better differentiate them from existing offerings.
Despite US sanctions, China has enough AI processors to build the world's largest AI training cluster: Report
Despite export restrictions, enough AI processors have been smuggled into China to build world-class AI supercomputers. Workarounds including proxies and imports via other countries haven't stopped China from procuring large quantities of modern equipment.
Build your next PC in the panoramic NZXT H6 Flow PC case — on sale at its lowest-ever price
Reduced to its lowest-ever price, NZXT's H6 Flow can be a new, beautiful home to your PC components.
Intel Processor N-series CPU specifications leaked — Intel dishes up paltry clock speed improvements
Intel is preparing to refresh its Alder Lake-N series of processors, but it appears that the company will reutilize the same architecture with minor bumps in frequency.
RISC-V CPU demoed with RX 7900 XTX GPU in Debian Linux — AMD flagship GPU paired with Milk-V Megrez board and SiFive P550 cores
RISC-V firm Milk-V demonstrated that it can get AMD's RX 7900 XTX graphics card to work on one of its RISC-V boards.
Liquid vs air cooling: Do you need an AIO cooler?
Liquid or air cooling? Either option will move heat away from your CPU. This guide will explore whether an AIO cooler is the right choice for your build.
Apple's redesigned M4, M4 Pro-powered Mac Mini is just 5 x 5 inches, packs up to 14 cores, puts the power button on the bottom
The new Mac Mini is just 5 x 5 inches with the M4 and M4 Pro processors inside.
Russian court reportedly fines Google 2 undecillion roubles for blocking 17 state TV channels — equates to $20.5 decillion USD, Russian media report
RBC reports (Russian language) that the court fined Google "2 undecillion roubles" for blocking access to 17 Russian TV channels.
Chinese chipmaker's new 7nm CPUs reportedly outperform Intel's Raptor Lake — Loongson adopts "tock-tock-tick" strategy to close the gap with Intel
Chinese CPU manufacturer Loongson is purportedly closing the gap quickly to Western CPU manufacturers regarding raw performance.
Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet to enable the world's largest AI supercomputer — 200,000 Hopper GPUs
Elon Musk's xAI Colossus AI supercomputer with 200,000 H200 GPUs uses Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet to connect servers.
Elon Musk is doubling the world's largest AI GPU cluster — expanding Colossus GPU cluster to 200,000 'soon,' has floated 300,000 in the past
Billionaire Elon Musk boasts that his remarkable xAI Colossus data center is set to double its firepower 'soon.'
DreamHost Review: VPS and Shared Hosting Tested
We benchmarked a VPS and a shared hosting plan from DreamHost. This California-based provider covers the basics but has a lot of drawbacks.
You can now build Raspberry Pi Pico-powered Macintosh 128K with this $10 VGA kit
Action Retro shows off how to build a Macintosh 128K using a Raspberry Pi Pico and $10 VGA kit.
Intel celebrates significant progress at its Ohio Silicon Heartland fabs — basements completed and four superloads delivered
A new progress report from Intel highlights the team's new achievements in constructing its Ohio Fabrication site over the past few months.
Micron expands Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5 lineup with new overclocked kits — DDR5-6400 kits with Intel XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO support
Crucial Pro Overclocking portfolio now includes single DDR5-6400 memory modules and 32GB (2x16GB) memory kits.
TI-84 CE calculator demonstrated playing PC games, slowly — Plays Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster at 2FPS
A-rank Sonic X Shadow Generations gameplay is possible on...a TI-84 Plus CE?
Microsoft Corporate Vice President accuses Google of 'shadow campaigns' — blog claims a Google 'astroturf' group is discrediting Microsoft with competition authorities, policymakers, and the gen
Microsoft has publicly accused Google in a blog post for running campaigns in Europe designed to discredit Microsoft's cloud business
Indian firms secretly funneled AMD, Nvidia AI GPUs to Russia — sanctions reportedly skirted on hundreds of millions of dollars of hardware
India becomes the second-largest supplier of restricted technology to Russia as Indian companies shipped AMD's Instinct MI300X and Nvidia's H100 processors to Russia.
First in-depth look at Elon Musk's 100,000 GPU AI cluster — xAI Colossus reveals its secrets
YouTuber ServeTheHome was granted an inside look at Supermicro's side of the xAI Colossus supercluster. The 100,000 GPU server is operational thanks to simple-to-deploy systems and thousands of dollars of networking.
Now is a great time to pick up an Nvidia RTX 4070 12GB graphics card — back down to its lowest-ever price
This Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card has dropped back down to its lowest-ever price, but is now a good time to pick up a new GPU?
Lenovo Legion Go now down to just $499 — 8.8-inch behemoth undercuts Asus ROG Ally X and Valve Steam Deck OLED
Lenovo Legion Go is now seen for as low as $499.
Intel preps for PCIe 6.0 inferno with PCIe thottling driver for Linux — mechanism reduces SSD bandwidth when the drive gets too hot
Intel's work on developing a PCIe Cooling Driver for Linux users has reached a major milestone.
Pineboards' PoE+ HAT brings power and NVMe to your Raspberry Pi 5
Pineboards beats Raspberry Pi to the punch, again.
10 Raspberry Pi Halloween projects from 2024 that scared our socks off
These are Raspberry Pi Halloween projects from 2024 that we think are seriously creepy and worth adding to your haunted home this Halloween.
China tightens export controls on rare earth metals used for chipmaking — country now requires exporters to detail how they use restricted materials
China imposes new rules for exporters of rare earth metals, consolidating its dominance in the market.
Many RTX 50 series laptops may stick with previous-gen CPUs for 2025 — leaker claims affordable CPU product launches are becoming increasingly difficult
A new leak claims that RTX 50 series laptops launching next year will predominantly be equipped with previous-gen Raptor Lake and Zen 4 CPUs as new chips become more difficult to launch.
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