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It has been discovered that AMD was able to shrink Sony's custom PS5 Zen 2 CPU by 35% compared to normal Ryzen CPUs by chopping off parts of the CPU that aren't needed for gaming.

AMD unveiled FSR 3.1 at GDC, upgrading the API so that you can use FSR Frame Generation with DLSS or XeSS upscaling, potentially providing for improved image quality on non-AMD GPUs. The first game to support the new version will be Ratchet and Clank.

Developer and maker LeoDJ has shared his design for the DongleHider+, which can fit up to three dongles inside and offers an outer-facing USB Type-A connector.

The world of extreme gaming monitors grows by one with Lenovo's Legion R45w-30. It's a 45-inch DQHD VA curved panel with 5120x2160 pixels, 170 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It's like a window to your favorite games.

IDC: Out of 259.5 million PCs sold last year, 44 million units were designed for gaming. And sales of gaming PCs will be growing in the coming years.

After being banned in China, the A800 is finally seeing new use in the form of HP's upcoming Z workstations for AI.

Today at Amazon, you can pick up the Samsung 49-inch Odyssey G9 curved gaming monitor for one of the lowest prices we've ever seen for the monitor since it first launched.

MediaTek's Dimensity Auto Cockpit CX-1, CY-1, CM-1 and CV-1 pack Armv9-based CPUs and Nvidia's next-generation GPU.

45 additional members join the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to enable next-generation connectivity for AI and HPC applications.

Neuralink's first documented human patient uses the brain interface to control a PC, and explains how it works simultaneously in live testing footage.

SK hynix showed off its upcoming PCIe 5.0 Platinum P51 SSD at GTC 2024, which should go on sale later this year. It's a fully in-house design for the NAND and controller, which makes it different from every other Gen5 SSD currently available.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new OLED technology that can potentially kill off OLED burn-in for good.

Alibaba continues to flex its RISC-V muscle, expects to roll-out datacenter-grade RISC-V CPU this year.

In a press Q&A at GTC 2024, Jensen discussed AI generated content including Sora and suggested that we could start seeing fully generated games within the next ten years.

Bambu Labs provides the electronics required for 3D printing a fully-functional wireless charger

The latest version of Adafruit's Python for microcontrollers sees enhanced audio and graphics functions and a means to rename user-created USB HID devices.

Following the trend of previous South Korean RRA certifications, the certification of a new "XDK Console" points toward the upcoming release of a new Xbox console later this year.

Iceberg Thermal IceFLOE coolers deliver value with budget pricing, low noise levels (for an AIO), good thermal performance, and an industry-leading seven-year warranty.

Steelcase's Karman is a comfortable mesh task chair with a weight-activated frame that moves with your body and adapts to your posture.

Samsung intends to offer Mach-1 AI processor that promises to combine low power and high performance.

Nvidia plans to start shipments of Blackwell GPUs for AI this year, but admits that volumes may not be high.

Tiny Corp continues to publicly grumble about issues it is having with its AMD-based TinyBox system. In the latest flare-up, Tiny Corp has hinted at abandoning AMD GPUs to explore Intel, or even Nvidia hardware. A deadline of the end of the week was mentioned.

The paper "Encoding terahertz holographic bits with a computer-generated 3D-printed phase plate", available publicly on Nature.com, details a method of creating holographic storage with 3D printing and FOSS software.

The DeepCool AS500 Plus CPU air cooler is available at Amazon for just $44, down from its usual rate of $69.

Coinciding with Nvidia's incredible surge in value over the last 12 to 18 months, CEO Jensen Huang has gained significant star power. This and Nvidia's AI dominance attracted celeb A-listers like George Lucas, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Trevor Noah, Ashton Kutcher to attend GTC 2024.

Nvidia's Big Blackwell gaming GPU to use TSMC's custom 4NP process technology with increased transistor density.

Intel and the U.S. Commerce department have agreed on preliminary terms to provide the chipmaker with $8.5 in funding, as well as $11 billion in loans and a separate tax credit to bolster US production on leading edge nodes like Intel 18A.

An Ubisoft Paris team using Nvidia's Audio2Face and Inworld AI's LLM have made Neo NPC, which uses AI to back NPC interactions with human players.

High manufacturing cost of Nvidia's GB200 will make its list pricing particularly high. If you can get it separately.

A startup has emerged from stealth mode, heralding its development and fabrication of a prototype superconducting processor for AI. Extropic says it can create AI accelerators that are 'many orders of magnitude faster and more energy efficient than digital processors (CPUs/GPUs/TPUs/FPGAs).'

AMD has unveiled expanded Work Graph functionality by adding draw calls and mesh nodes. This lets the GPU control draw calls and mesh shaders independently from the CPU.

The Assassin 4S improves on its predecessor in most ways, but it carries a high price tag.

The Noctua NH-D12L is a familiar cooler that's back in black.

Wim Dewijngaert has created a virtual pinball machine using an Arduino Nano RP2040 to handle the button input.

Researchers have developed a new 3D printing technology that recycles wood waste material. According to a recently published research paper, the new methodology results in 3D-printed objects with the texture, appearance, thermal stability, and smell of natural wood.

A computer repair shop detailed how it fixed an RTX 4090 that had a burned PCIe slot and got it running like new.

Although a PCIe version of the H100 already exists, an adapter board allows the SXM model to fit into x16 PCIe slots.

Headed by cofounder and previous CEO of Cyanogen, Kirt McMaster, a new entrant into the Gaming OS and PC Handheld scene enters the fray.

Suppliers of chipmakers postpone or scale back their U.S. plants due to rising costs and uncertainties.

G.Skill now offers the Trident Z5 in white color, so does the DDR5-6400 C32 memory kit perform as well as it looks?

Samsung's new service reportedly targets AI developers with growing storage requirements.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang swapped out his usual black leather jacket for a lizard-embossed biker jacket from Tom Ford's SS 2023 menswear line.

Researchers from a variety of institutions have found a naturally occurring unconventional superconductor, miassite. Only impurities have thus far masked this mineral's true nature, but lab testing and synthesis reveal its true potential.

After building chipmaking fabs, TSMC reportedly considers an advanced chip packaging facility in Japan.

Nvidia revealed its upcoming Blackwell B200 GPU at GTC 2024, which will power the next generation of AI supercomputers and potentially more than quadruple the performance of its predecessor. Here are all the details on the new family of data center and AI products.

Nvidia announced that TSMC and Synopsys have begun using the performance-boosting cuLitho software in production.

According to a report by a New York-based firm, China has made significant gains in cryptocurrency profits in 2023, despite China imposing a ban on Cryptocurrency. The gains enabled the nation to be in the fourth highest position, behind the US, the UK and Vietnam.

Software makers can now fine tune their programs for AMD's upcoming Ryzen and EPYC processors based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture.

A modder was able to upgrade the memory system of a Radeon RX 5600 XT Red Devil from its 6GB 192-bit stock configuration to 16GB and a wider 256-bit bus.

CEO Jensen Huang is expected to announce some new AI-focused GPUs.