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iBase MI1002 motherboard will sport Intel's LGA1851 socket, with support for the Core Ultra Meteor Lake-PS processors.

Tiny Corp appears to have decided whether or not to follow its original plan of using AMD GPUs, or switch to Nvidia GPUs to power its Tiny Box server. The muddled answer is that it will make both.

Next-gen GPUs are almost certain to leverage GDDR7 memory, and SK hynix and Samsung showed their GDDR7 devices at GTC 2024. 16Gb chips are already in full production, with higher capacity and faster chips coming next year.

As announced by its Ministry officials in December 2023, China will no longer be using chips made by AMD and Intel for government PCs and servers as a response to the sanctions imposed by the United States. In its place, the officials will switch to home-made options, despite challenges.

The EM105 gets a lot right and is only let down by its included stand.

A leaked Socket SP5 motherboard spec sheet reveals faster memory bandwidth for upcoming Zen 5-based Epyc "Turin" CPUs.

We've benchmarked the PC release of Horizon Forbidden West on 22 graphics cards, including most current generation cards along with a few representatives of previous generation hardware. The game runs decently on mainstream hardware at 1080p and medium settings, but the higher settings can quickly tank performance on cards with less than 8GB of memory, and 12GB is necessary for 4K at maximum settings.

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Something that almost killed Intel is now patented in China. But it remains to be seen how viable it will be.

Microsoft has published a performance-optimizing patent for ray-tracing, that is designed to reduce the memory footprint of workloads via an RT level of detail system.

As required by EU sanctions, Microsoft will soon stop all the cloud computing services it provides to Russian-based organizations and businesses.

A Steve Jobs signed Apple Computer business card has achieved an astonishing $181,183 at auction. Boston-based RR Auctions sold this 'highly coveted' computer history artifact which was listed as an 'extremely rare, perfectly graded Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer business card from circa 1983.'

Corsair's M75 Wireless is a symmetrical gaming mouse with thumb buttons on both sides. For all the left-handed gamers who want more than two buttons and a scroll wheel.

The SZBox S69 Mini PC offers a Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU with Radeon 680M graphics, and two DDR5 SO-DIMMs, supporting up to 64GB RAM and combined internal M.2 storage up to 8TB.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has publicly invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to tour his firm's semiconductor fab lines. In a post on the Twitter/X social media platform, Gelsinger said he was thinking of Musk when he was awarded the $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding, earlier in the week.

AliExpress sells the Topton N9, a motherboard that leverages Intel's Kaby Lake G processors and offers NAS users up to eight high-speed 2.5G Ethernet ports.

Asus reveals pricing and maximum performance configurations of its upcoming ROG NUCs, which will include up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU and discrete RTX 4070 GPU.

AMD has provided an overclocking update to its RX 7900 GRE and increased the maximum memory overclocking limit by 22.8%.

The customs officers of the Shangai Pudong International Airport confiscated 44 graphics cards from a smuggler who tried to pass through the green channel, hoping to evade any charges or laws prohibiting such large imports.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU is available today at Walmart for just $189 instead of its usual $229.

Irdeto, makers of Denuvo, continue to draw ire as they announce TraceMark for Gaming to eliminate modern game leaks as we know them.

ComputerBase has re-tested Nvidia's GTX 1060, RTX 2060, RTX 3060 12GB, and RTX 4060 to check out the generational performance differences in modern titles.

Broadcom develops mysterious AI processor of gargantuan dimensions.

New management at Williams was shocked after finding this F1 team had been relying on Microsoft Excel for the crucial car build workbook.

The Codex R2 very audibly aced our gaming benchmarks.

A mine in North Carolina is 'the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers', and if it closed, the 'catastrophic' disruption to the semiconductor business would be felt for years.

Archaeologists working at the site where Intel plans to develop a multi-billion series of chip fabs in Germany have discovered prehistoric burial mounds. The state heritage office press release doesn't mention any potential delays, saying that work will complete next month.

Micron demonstrates 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCRDIMM modules for Intel's Granite Rapids processors.

Samsung's PBSSD as a Service will use custom-built servers and will be available to service providers.

Yingren (aka InnoGrit) has announced the YRS820, a high-end PCIe 5.0 controller for consumer SSDs based on the RISC-V architecture.

Former UPS employee gets caught stealing $1.3 million worth of Apple merchandise. The perpetrator used most of the money to buy a $630,000 home and pay off his $60,000 car.

Several of Semicon China's U.S.-based sponsors skipped the conference, as did companies like Micron and ASML.

Robert Elder is using a Raspberry Pi to operate his precision movement stage used for taking up-close video shots of microchips.

While it won't work in every case, Corsair's RM750x Shift PSU shifts the power connectors to the side, making building and upgrading much easier. Its current Amazon sale price of $89 is the lowest it's ever been.

UL Solutions is introducing a Stable Diffusion benchmark to its Procyon software next week.

Qualcomm, in a victory for Arm CPU architecture and especially itself, point toward competent gaming performance in x86 applications on its upcoming X Elite-based laptops.

The Dell S2421HS has dropped to one of its lowest prices ever, just $99 down from its usual rate of around $159.

We recently got the opportunity to visit Micron's largest and most advanced DRAM manufacturing facility. The visit impressed us on many levels: the scale of the fab, the advanced manufacturing technologies and techniques being used, and getting to look behind the scenes at the cutting-edge Taichung A3.

Termed the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster, SK hynix's upcoming quadruple fab complex will be the largest in the world.

41 years after its initial launch, the Notepad tool finally gets spellcheck, but only in Windows 11.

Yesterday at the AMD Beijing AI PC Innovation Summit, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F iGPU-less processors were quietly revealed.

The Lexar Play SSD is an M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 SSD designed for use in portable devices like the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally. It's fast, efficient, and priced right, but currently only comes in a 1TB capacity.

These Alder Lake chips are a couple of generations old, but they offer plenty of pop.

Gigabyte's Aorus FO32U2P is the flagship, offering a 4K panel and support for DisplayPort 2.1.

The latest GeForce driver reportedly ushers in support for GeForce RTX 4060, GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, and GeForce RTX 4070 with different dies from the original.

Intel has provided yet another graphics driver update with substantial performance improvements for its Arc GPUs. Performance has improved by up to 174% depending on the title, and Intel has introduced game support for four new and existing titles.

Nvidia buys Micron's HBM3E supply for calendar 2024 and 2025.

At an event in China earlier today AMD shared its AI PC ecosystem plans confirming 'Strix Point' chips will combine the charms of Zen 5, RDNA 3+, and XDNA 2 processing.