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Tests using both DLSS Frame Generation and AMD Fluid Motion Frames concurrently yield a doubling to tripling of performance, with some serious caveats about how useful this actually ends up being.

Chinese AI processor developer Biren gets $280 million from Guangzhou government-backed investors.

Testing shows that 20-year-old thermal paste performs similarly to new gunk. If you keep it well, then perhaps you don't need to renew your paste stocks over time.

The Z790 Nova is a new mid-range SKU that comes with six M.2 sockets, a unique black-on-blue/purple design, and all of the features you'd want, including Wi-Fi 7, a quality audio solution, robust power delivery and good all-around performance for under $300.

Amkor to build $2 billion advanced chip packaging facility in the U.S. primarily targeting Apple.

KerazyPete shows off their 10-year-old Raspberry Pi that's been running non-stop for more than 6 years using a decade-old OS install.

Japan wants prevent technology secret leaks from companies getting chip-related subsidies from the government.

Regardless of any sales events, Best Buy lowers the price on the Asus ROG Ally even further.

Microsoft has added a new UI update to its Xbox app that shrinks the left sidebar to save screen space. It was made specifically for small screens on handheld gaming devices, so the left sidebar doesn't get in the way of the main page.

This 2.5-pound laptop comes with everything you need to be productive, including 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD.

An open source NUC-based handheld gaming device called the NUCDeck has recently been completed. If you have any interest in crafting your own NUCDeck, YouTube videos and GitHub resources are available.

Microsoft is actively testing a new power-saving technique that kills off uncontrolled background applications that are consuming too much power.

Police in Taiwan have cracked down on counterfeit HDMI cable sales, raiding online sellers across the island.

Intel Core Ultra H Meteor Lake chips will power most of Dell's soon-to-be-released Alienware gaming laptops.

Nvidia's China-specific GeForce RTX 4090D will use a cut-down AD102 GPU, according to a leak, in order to comply with U.S. export rules.

The WD Black SN770M impresses with its top-tier performance for an M.2 2230 SSD solution while offering TLC at an ample 2TB capacity. It does skirt the limits with high power consumption and heat, though.

Jen-Hsun Huang is skeptical about massive semiconductor projects in the U.S., saying it will take the U.S. 10 to 20 years to have independent chip manufacturing.

Amazon Web Services to offer Nvidia-powered supercomputing infrastructure for generative AI, including 65 ExaFLOPS AI supercomputer.

Following the ban of Nvidia's RTX 4090 and other high-end Nvidia cards, many Chinese consumers are turning to AMD RX 7900 GPUs. This is causing a shortage for Chinese board partners that threatens to spill into 2024.

Alienware's m16 laptop and Aurora R15 Desktop both come with RTX 4090 GPUs and cost just a few hundred dollars more than the card alone.

Jeff Geerling has managed to get an external graphics card to successfully run on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Electronic Arts has filed a patent intent on allowing gamers to insert their AI-approximated voice into the main character of a gaming experience.

Nvidia is believed to be developing an alternative to the outgoing RTX 4090, dubbed the RTX 4090 D, that will be designed to meet the United State's export regulations so it can be assembled and sold in China.

Valve's Steam Deck has reclaimed its place as the top seller in the Steam Library thanks to the launch of the new OLED version and price cuts on the older LCD versions.

Apple pays Arm less than 30 cents per chip in royalties, according to a new report - adding up to less than 5% of Arm's sales.

Amazon revealed new Graviton4 processors for HPC and Trainium2 processors for AI workloads.

Prices for DRAM and NAND memory chips declined throughout 2022 and 2023, but after industry-wide production cuts, they're getting more expensive again.

Lenovo spared nothing designing the Legion 9i Gen 8 - its tremendous performance and high-end features are unmatched.

TCL no longer wants to design and produce its own display driver chips due to declining prices and tough competition.

A collaboration between Google and geothermal energy innovator Fervo uses modern oil/gas drilling techniques to harness round-the-clock clean geothermal energy.

In 2024, Intel will place $14 billion worth of orders with TSMC to fab 3nm Lunar Lake CPU tiles, per a report from semiconductor analyst Andrew Lu.

CXMT has unveiled China's first homegrown low-power memory. Xiaomi and Transsion are set to use CXMT's 12GB LPDDR5-6400 memory modules.

Nvidia is rumored to be working on 'Rubin' R100 and GR200 GPUs that are due in 2025. These will be AI and HPC focused parts.

Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders.

Nvidia has made a lot of great graphics cards since it first got into the business, and we've picked the best five GPUs of all time.

Nvidia is offering a new bundle deal featuring a 3-month subscription to both Xbox Game Pass and its own GeForce Now streaming service. The bundle is available for all RTX 40-series graphics card purchases for a limited time.

The CIA investigating whether a major AI cloud service provider, which uses Cerebras hardware, has major ties with China.

Germany vows to subsidize Intel and TSMC fabs despite a budget crisis, though Intel and Wolfspeed reportedly received firm fab funding commitments from the German government.

Ericsson is perhaps the biggest high-profile user of Intel's IFS business and has launched its first products that use chips manufactured on the Intel 4 node, beating even Intel's own Meteor Lake CPUs to market.

Microsoft's new ugly sweater for the holidays features the "Bliss" wallpaper from Windows XP

AMD's Ryzen 8040HS (Hawk Point) processors break cover with the first benchmark leaks, showing minor gains over 7040HS (Phoenix Point). The future CPUs are destined to fight Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs.

The Chinese hardware industry is getting creative in its attempts to work around U.S. sanctions and provide solutions for its AI and data center industry, repurposing used RTX 3080 GPUs with double the memory and blower-style coolers.

A customs and shipping database revealed an engineering sample of an Arrow Lake-H CPU sporting 14 cores with integrated graphics, presumably a midrange SKU.

SK Hynix readies 2.5D fan-out packaging for next-gen memory that combines wide I/O with low costs and eliminates TSVs.

Loongson's 3A6000 CPU is ready for prime time, and it has announced PC partners including a new Asus motherboard. The Chinese chip's performance is similar to Intel's Core i3-10100 CPU.

Ayaneo has launched its Retro Mini PC AM01 on IndieGoGo, and though it users older architecture AMD APUs, the pricing seems to be attractive.

Frore's experiment with an AirJet-cooled MacBook Air shows it can perform like a MacBook Pro.

Nvidia sold nearly half of a million H100s in Q3, says Omdia.