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Shipping records suggest Intel's next-gen LGA1954 socket shares dimensions with existing LGA1851 sockets, hinting at mechanical cooler compatibility.

Elegoo has confirmed that full color printing is coming to the Centauri Series of FDM 3D printers by the 3rd quarter of 2025.

xMEMS is expanding its fan-on-a-chip platform to include active cooling solutions directly installed in SSDs.

Is the Royal Pretor 130 Thermalright's best yet? We go hands-on with its latest premium dual-tower air cooler, testing it with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Intel's Core i7-14700K CPUs!

The University of Edinburgh has shared a 3D-printed "soft robot" made by a team of theirs who claim it can walk off the machine that made it.

Market research and tech analyst firm IDC reckons that global PC sales will reach 274 million units in 2025.

New botnet campaign exploits legitimate system features to establish deep persistence while remaining virtually undetectable

We pit the Nvidia RTX 5070 and AMD RX 9070, two of the more affordable current-generation graphics cards you can buy, to see which is the best option.

The AMD Radeon AI PRO 9700 is expected to launch in China as the company's competitor to Nvidia's B20 AI chip.

At Computex 2025, Western Digital confirmed plans to begin mass production of HAMR-based hard drives in 2027, starting with 36TB, 40TB, and 44TB models.

The CEO of Anthropic has claimed AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs and spike unemployment by 20%.

Frore Systems launched its second-generation AirJet Mini solid-state cooling chip at Computex, delivering 50% greater heat dissipation in the same compact form factor.

China will ease rare earth export restrictions for domestic and European semiconductor firms, according to state media.

Silicon Motion is breaking Phison's monopoly in the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD market as over a dozen companies, including Micron, Crucial, Kingston, and Lexar, adopt its SM2508 controller.

ASMedia and Via Labs are working on their own USB4 v2 controllers, but don't expect them to come to market for at least 18 months.

A U.S. trade court has blocked President Trump's sweeping tariffs.

Nvidia reported a record-breaking Q1 FY2026 with $44.1 billion in revenue driven by strong AI and gaming demand, but its margins were significantly impacted by a $4.5 billion charge related to U.S. export restrictions on H20 GPUs.

TSMC reaffirmed that it will not use High-NA EUV lithography for its upcoming A16 and A14 process technologies, as Low-NA EUV tools combined with internal innovations provide sufficient scaling and performance benefits.

A consumer sent his Gigabyte Aorus Radeon RX 9070 XT Elite 16G to a store to upgrade its thermal solution.

AMD has acquired photonics firm Enosemi, highlighting a desire to push into photonics and to become a full software stack supplier in the datacenter, chasing Nvidia in both respects.

Microsoft is consolidating the update process in the new Windows Update orchestration platform which is now available in a private preview.

More time gaming and less time putting a PC together. The ABS Stratos Aqua packs both a 9800X3D and RTX 5080 for the best gaming experience.

Intel has added four new PCI IDs to the Linux Mesa graphics library, potentially signaling the upcoming release of a B770 graphics card.

TSMC will open its first European chip design center in Munich to support European developers with design technology co-optimization for both mature and advanced nodes.

Early Geekbench tests show AMD's RX 9060 XT is allegedly between 25% to 31% faster than the last-generation RX 7600 XT.

The Sandisk WD Black SN8100 is the dream drive everybody wants. It was worth the wait, now it just has to be worth the price.

An image of Intel's LGA9324 socket for next-generation Diamond Rapids processors from a thermal test board has emerged at Goofish.

Lian Li just released a PCIe 5.0 riser cable, giving Lian Li users a chance to upgrade their vertical GPU builds.

Nvidia is working on an 800V HVDC system, which would replace the current 412V AC used in most data centers.

A new report says production of Nvidia's GB200 is ramping up now that suppliers have tackled a series of issues with the manufacturing process.

Sparkle has confirmed the company is working on dual-GPU versions of the Intel Arc B60.

TSMC's demand for CoWoS material has cascaded to impact suppliers of BT substrate base materials, causing the memory market to react quickly to avoid shortages and other negative effects.

InWin showcased the IW-1650W, a secondary power supply with a 1,650W capacity that can power up to four high-end graphics cards.

A generational shift in favor of the B850 is expected to follow

In stock and available for under MSRP prices, AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D is cheaper than ever.

Battlefield 2042 introduces Secure Boot enforcement, requiring all players to have the security feature turned on to play the game. The change will prevent cheats from sneaking in during the Windows boot process.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 can now be bought for below MSRP in Europe.

A nice clear photo showing a Gigabyte RX 9060 XT PCB was snapped during a recent factory tour.

ASRock has reportedly identified that excessive PBO settings on their mid-range to high-end AM5 motherboards are leading to Ryzen 9000 CPU failures.

A highly impactful vertically integrated supercomputing giant may have just been born in China.

Save 40 on this 1440p Gigabyte monitor deal.

The new BIOS updates for Gigabyte TRX50 motherboards will make them compatible with AMD's latest Ryzen Threadripper 9000-series CPUs.

Panasonic has announced updates to its long-established Let's Note laptop series, and the VGA ports are gone.

Ultran demonstrated an overkill 28-way M.2 SSD card that offers unbeatable capacity and performance, but at a massive price.

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is expected to end production of DDR4 memory in favor of DDR5 by mid-2026.

By purchasing this tablet, I was able to get my phone back.

Microsoft has added PQC algorithms to Windows 11's latest canary build, a type of algorithm hardened against quantum computers. This update is Microsoft's first step at preparing Windows against attacks from quantum computers.

Former Intel employee Natalia Avtsin and hardware component supplier Yafim Tsibolevsky committed fraud to steal over $840,000.

A Redditor has recycled an old typewriter into what he calls a "gaming typewriter" by stuffing some PC hardware into the device.