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The New Year earthquake in Japan could have consequences for PC component supplies. Toshiba announced it had closed a NAND facility while safety assessments are being completed.

LaCie's Rugged Mini SSD shrinks its iconic drive design and sticks a fast SSD inside. It's one of the fastest USB drives we've tested in most of our tests. But those who often dump massive files onto their drives may want to look elsewhere.

Willis, AKA Blue Scuti, has become the first human to play Tetris NES (NTSC) to its killscreen. He was also the first to reach Level 157, culminating in the 'biggest achievement in the 34-year history of the pro classic Tetris scene.'

Samsung intends to make its chip fabs human-less by 2030, says report.

Intel vows to disclose its post-5N4Y roadmap at its IFS Direct Connect event in February.

A mysterious new GPU was spotted on X, that we suspect might be a new Hopper variant. There's also a small chance this could be the RTX 4090 Ti/Super that was reportedly canceled.

The SEMI World Fab Forecast report predicts that China will lead the global semiconductor industry expansion in 2024.

Palit is reportedly bringing back the KalmX sub-brand and will introduce a new fanless and passively cooled RTX 3050 6GB graphics card.

A recent test of Intel's Core Ultra 7 155H reveals that Meteor Lake may have regressed in IPC compared to Raptor Lake. It's a limited view of performance, but indicates Intel may have prioritized other aspects of the chip's design.

The Steam Deck was projected to hit three million sales by the end of 2023, and based on the Steam Hardware Survey, the RTX 4090 somehow sold even more units - as did most other RTX 40-series desktop GPUs.

LG teased its vacuum tube 'DukeBox' speaker system, which combines a modern transparent OLED panel with old audiophile tech - no word on potential pricing, though we're sure Duke Nukem wants one.

Downing from Downing's Basement has created an air hockey table from scratch that uses two Raspberry Pi boards to play air hockey and Doom!

ASML can no longer sell its Twinscan NXT:2050i and NXT:2100i DUV lithography systems to Chinese clients. The impact isn't expected to be significant, given existing restrictions.

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 5 8600G APU was tested in two Geekbench 6 GPU benchmarks, showing similar performance to Nvidia's seven years old GTX 1060.

Due to a lack of security patches and support on these obsolete operating systems, Steam officially announced it no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

A purported photo of an Intel Core i9-14900KS processor has been shared online, but close study shows inconsistencies in the engraving typography.

An incredibly early release of 86-DOS has been found, imaged, and shared on the Internet Archive. This is an important find as it is a direct ancestor to PC DOS and MS-DOS.

The 2023 version of the Asus ROG Strix G16 gaming laptop featuring the RTX 4060 GPU is now on sale for $1,549.

An alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, the Geniatech XPI-3566-Zero offers more RAM, onboard storage and a faster CPU, so why do I feel like it missed the mark?

Russian retailer Citilink lists three unreleased GeForce RTX 3050 6GB graphics cards from Nvidia partner Palit.

The Lenovo G27-20 monitor is available at Newegg for $129, one of its lowest prices to date, down from its recommended price of $279.

The Corsair MP600 Core Mini provides good-enough performance with high power efficiency. This makes it a great upgrade for the Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, and other portable devices that require shorter M.2 SSDs at high capacity.

The Downfall developer's hacked Steam account was used to change the mod installation file and embed 'Epsilon Information Stealer' in an attempt to get passwords and cookies from unsuspecting gamers.

TSMC is set to formally open Japan's most advanced semiconductor production facility capable of making 28nm chips in late February.

Researchers from Nanyang Technology University in Singapore were able to get AI chatbots to generate banned content by training other AI chatbots, with the ability to bypass any patches rolled out by respective AI developers.

Chinese spy balloons made use of connectivity supplied by an American internet service provider, according to a new report shared by NBC News citing insider sources.

Glorious' new Model D 2 Pro 4K/8K features the brand's new 26K sensor and polling rates of up to 8,000 Hz (wired).

The SK hynix Platinum P41 2TB SSD is available at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date when you use promo code SKLAST27 before checking out.

Tiny11 Core receives an update to its arm64 branch after ten months, bringing it in line with Windows 11 Version 23H2. The Core branch intended only for development purposes can be configured to run on highly low-spec devices.

Sapphire has unveiled a new RX 6750 GRE, the Black Diamond Edition, explicitly aimed at system integrators and the Chinese market.

Jason Rogers has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his retro gaming watch project, which has already reached its funding goal with plenty of time to spare.

Asus has launched a series of new beta BIOS updates, featuring support for AGESA update 1.1.0.1. The new AGESA update is expected to feature support for AMD's upcoming Ryzen 8000G APUs.

An EEC listing from Gigabyte indicates that AMD's RX 7600 XT is coming and could have up to 16GB of memory.

Nvidia released its first WHQL driver to support RTX 4090D, specifically to comply with Sanctions imposed by the United States government, with game-ready support for two games.

From monitors to docking stations, these will make your desktop setup.

Zhaoxin aims to boost single-thread performance by enabling preferred cores support.

Argon Forty's latest case is all about the Raspberry Pi 5 and it provides great active and passive cooling in a desirable form factor. But can it keep the Raspberry Pi 5 cool, even under the stress of an overclock?

Intel Meteor Lake Arc Graphics is pit against its predecessors in a benchmarking run from Phoronix, showing the gen-over-gen improvement in both iGPU performance and iGPU power efficiency from Intel.

A Spanish retailer has published several listings of new Raptor Lake Refresh non-K CPUs, revealing pricing data of the new chips.

The Micron 3500 borrows technology from the retail Crucial T500 to provide high performance with good power efficiency in a client NVMe SSD. It still stumbles a bit with sustained performance, but on the whole it's a great PCIe 4.0 drive.

A report from TrendForce anticipates a 50% increase in NAND flash prices in the near term, which will further boost SSD prices.

Gigabyte's Aorus displays a mysterious " Coming Soon" graphics card at CES 2024.

Russian retailer has a placeholder for upcoming Palit RTX 40 Super series cards, which gives some details, including the RTX 4070 Super with two memory variants - 12GB and 16GB GDDR6X

A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.

Lenovo has released an AMD co-branded USB flash drive as a 'finger skateboard.'

A Geekbench 5 result for the Core i5-14450HX has appeared, and the performance is equal to the Core i5-13400.

Maker Samith uses a Raspberry Pi to help protect crops from troublesome wildlife using AI to detect specific animals and send alerts when one is spotted.

LG refreshes its Gram series of laptops and adds a new series of Gram Pro laptops, which also include a 2-in-1 configuration directly comparable to other "hybrid" laptop/tablet designs.