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AMD has released its Adrenalin Edition 24.6.1 drivers, including expanded support for FSR 3.1, the production launch of Radeon Anti-Lag 2 in Counter-Strike 2, and a few other features.

Hori releases officially-licensed Steam Controller successor, which mixes some features of the Deck controller with a modern gamepad shell.

Asus has debuted yet another iteration of the RX 6600 Dual, dubbed the Dual V3. The new RDNA2 card boasts a refreshed shroud design that is smaller than its predecessors, reducing the card's size to 2.1 slots in thickness.

With collaboration between three research institutes, researchers found a way to utilize current fiber optic and internet infrastructure to achieve up to 402 Tb/s data rate by simply switching to new bandwidth leveraging widely used amplifiers.

Lenovo puts Loongson's 3C5000 and 3A6000 CPUs into its datacenters.

AI training and optimization leader Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard, with a host of new and edited trials to put LLMs through their paces. Variants of Alibaba's Qwen LLM hold the 1st, 3rd, and 10th spots.

Open Sora running on an RTX 3090 can only generate a four second 240p video before it hits it memory limits. It also takes a minute to create the video, with a 24fps frame rate. You'll need a lot more VRAM for longer, higher resolution videos.

These are the best portable monitors to ponder if you're looking to expand real estate for your laptop.

Microsoft is finally bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to less expensive devices, via Amazon's 4K Fire Sticks.

North Carolina State University researchers have developed an unorthodox computing design that uses the Japanese art of Kirigami.

China Mobile announced what it calls a 'super' SIM card, so called thanks to the single RISC-V CPU core onboard running at a blazing 120 MHz. Like many IoT solutions, the use-case of a smarter SIM card is not immediately apparent.

Two become one when you grab this deal on an Alienware Aurora R16 desktop gaming PC and add an Alienware AW3423DWF OLED monitor on top. Save a combined $700 off of both products.

Lucas Fernando is using AI and a Linux PC to read Naruto hand seals, project

Huawei enters client SSD market with PCIe Gen4 Kunling eKitStore Xtreme 200 drives.

Microsoft is forced to stall the forced rollout of the buggy Windows 11 2023 Update.

PC DRAM and VRAM will grow between 3% to 8% due to increased production pressure on HBM and data server memory.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V performs better than the previous-generation Intel Core Ultra 5 125H, despite having a lower TDP.

Verity Systems gives the MediaGone 500 SSD & Flash Shredder a heavy discount.

Loongson has announced that samples of its 3C6000, 3D6000, and 3E6000 server chips have been successfully taped out and tested, and that production is on track for Q4 2024 releases.

Micron reiterates its plans to use EUV for high-volume DRAM production next year as it starts pilot production on a 1-gamma node.

The US PC market seems healthy four years following the start of the pandemic and the many chip shortages during and since.

Frore launches waterproof AirJet Mini Sport active cooling system for IP68 devices like smartphones.

Intel unveils optical compute interconnect chiplet, industry's first fully integrated optical I/O solution that enables up to 4 Tbps connectivity.

EDA tools from Cadence, Siemens, and Synopsys now support Intel's EMIB interconnection technology.

Korean telecom company KT Corporation sent malware to its subscribers who use Webhard's Grid Service peer-to-peer sharing program to hide their files and stop them from using the service.

Maker and developer Kian Ryan has created a set of custom arcade cabinets using one of our favorite SBCs, the Raspberry Pi 4.

A pair of AMD scientists will present their findings on neural texture block compression next week at EGSR in London. The research is very similar to Nvidia's ongoing work with neural network-based texture compression first announced last year.

The Pimoroni PicoVision incorporates two RP2040 microcontrollers, offering plenty of computing power to run the OG Windows 1.01 version.

Nvidia's Omniverse is growing in popularity, researchers are now using Nvidia's 3D platform to view 3D-stacked chip designs in full 3D to help detect thermal and electromagnetic issues that might be present in the chip design.

A pair of Geekbench listings reveal new performance numbers for Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake Ultra 7 268V with 8 cores. The chip's core count disadvantage over Meteor Lake shows in Geekbench's multi-core results.

Christie's is set to auction off a DEC PDP-10 mainframe, similar to what Gates and Allen used to build the Altair BASIC - the first product Microsoft ever built.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D offers a great mix of gaming and productivity prowess at its lowest-ever pricing of just $329.

Benchmark scores leak for AMD Ryzen 9 9950X.

Elimination of matrix multiplication from LLM processing can massively increase performance-per-watt with the correct optimizations, researchers from UC Santa Cruz demonstrate. It remains to be seen how applicable this approach is for AI in general.

A patch that introduces NUMA emulation could bring better performance to the Raspberry Pi 5 and other ARM64 devices.

We've tested four different CPUs and GPUs, spanning the past seven years of PC hardware, to show how different upgrade paths can perform. That's full benchmarks of 16 different hardware configurations to help you plan for your next gaming upgrade.

The Neo6502pc is part classic computer or gaming emulator and part modern single-board computer, allowing easy use of USB devices like a keyboard, mouse, or gamepad with vintage software like that found on the Apple II.

Minimum laptop RAM capacity is slowly inching to 16 GB as Microsoft requires it for its Copilot+ certification, but MacBooks that start at 8 GB still hold back the jump.

Etched took a gamble that the transformer AI architecture will take the AI world by storm, and it looks like that will pay off soon with its Sohu AI processor.

AMD's MI300X was tested by Chips and Cheese, looking at many low-level performance metrics and comparing the chip with rival Nvidia H100 in compute throughput and cache intensive benchmarks. Scaleout performance unfortunately wasn't tested, which is far more important for data center hardware, and there are plenty of other questions raised.

Taiwan will remain the world's largest manufacturer of logic semiconductors for at least another eight years, according to the director of the Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute.

An MSI product sheet and leaked GPU-Z screenshot point to a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super with the AD102 silicon. It shouldn't affect performance as it has the same specifications, but the larger die could help with cooling.

For headless operation of your Raspberry Pi or access when away from its location, the updated Raspberry Pi Connect service now supports older boards and remote shell access.

AMD's flagship MI300X super AI GPU was tested in Geekbench 6, posting the fastest ever result in an increasingly meaningless GPU benchmark. It's 19% faster than Nvidia's RTX 4090, which in turn beats the H100 PCIe by 13%. This is clearly just for 'fun' as Geekbench 6 isn't designed to evaluate enterprise-grade AI GPUs.

Crucial's T700 SSD is a Gen 5 drive with hyperfast read/write speeds of 12400/11800MB/s and is now at its lowest-ever price.

Qualcomm's flagship Snadragon X Elite X1E-84-100 is on par with M2 in single-thread workloads and with Apple's M4 in multi-thread workloads in PassMark.

AMD reveals that unnamed individuals are seriously considering building an AI "supercluster" with over a million AI GPUs.

Companions can appear on the left or right side of the Start menu. Third party developers make them.

Pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies are the number one consumers of this tech, but other industries are taking notice.

The new NZXT H7 Flow's design has undergone some changes, adding room for more fans and a new mesh front panel.