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Updated 2025-09-19 21:15
Efabless shuts down, fate of Tiny Tapeout chip production projects unclear
The fate of the Tiny Tapeout TT08 and TT09 chip production projects is now unclear, as production enabler Efabless has shut down.
Windows 11 Task Manager update will show accurate CPU utilization, align with industry standards
Microsoft just released a Dev and Beta Channel that updated Task Manager to ensure that the way it calculates your CPU utilization is more accurate.
Defective RTX 5080 takes up to 11% performance hit in gaming — Larger impact at higher resolutions
Testing by Gamers Nexus reveals that RTX 5080s with missing ROPs can lose up to 11% performance in games.
'Fire the Intel board and rehire Pat Gelsinger,' argues former Intel CEO Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett suggests that dividing up Intel is the wrong move to take right now, especially as it just had a breakthrough in chip technology.
SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless Review: More buttons - less weight
There aren't that many MMO mice on the market with massive amounts of programmable buttons in comparison to FPS mice, SteelSeries has provided some big-brand competition to the Razer Naga, Corsair Scimitar, and Logitech G600 in the form of the Aerox 9 Wireless MMO/MOBA mouse.
Asus ROG Strix 27-Inch QHD IPS monitor is only $199 at Amazon
Right now at Amazon, you can find the Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS 27-inch QHD gaming display for one of its lowest prices to date.
DeepSeek brings disruption to AI-optimized parallel file systems, releases powerful new open-source Fire-Flyer File System
DeepSeek's 3FS file system is now open-source and is a no-brainer for AI-HPC model training, boosting efficiency and training more data-driven models.
Nvidia Hotfix arrives to address black screen issues remaining after Thursday's driver release
Nvidia Hotfix arrives to address black screen issues missed in Thursday's driver release and related to DP-connected monitors.
RTX 5070 appears on Best Buy at MSRP — Asus Prime listed for $549.99 days before official launch
Best Buy puts up a listing for the RTX 5070 a few days before its official availability date, and it's at MSRP.
AMD VP teases RDNA 4 compatibility with ROCm, but doesn't reveal official launch date
AMD's VP of AI Software has addressed concerns about RDNA 4's readiness with ROCm, demonstrating a live sample and teasing day-one support.
Google's newest moonshot delivers internet by firing lasers through the air — Taara project upgrades to tiny 13mm photonic chips placed 1km apart
Taara, Google's current underdog project run by its X research lab, seeks to replace fiber optic cables with above-ground light transmitters.
HP says 90% of products for the U.S. will be made outside of China by October
HP expects the vast majority of products sold in the U.S. to be made outside of China, Dell plans to pass costs increased to end users, if it cannot mitigate.
Angry Miao claims new gaming mouse offers ‘infinite battery’ — premium tri-mode mouse maker makes dubious claims
Angry Miao boasts that its new premium tri-mode gaming mouse offers infinite battery' but it looks like it really offers extremely fast charging.
Drop CSTM80 Review: Highly, easily customizable
Drop's CSTM80 keyboard is designed to be customized, with an easily replaceable top plate, but it also looks and sounds great out of the box.
Former Intel directors strongly oppose TSMC takeover, call for Intel fabs spinoff
Former Intel directors say TSMC fabs takeover is a terrible idea, but fab spinoff to a consortium of companies is a good idea.
AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries
Startup Mark Engineering has revealed the Mark 1, a Titanium bookmark with a screen, which can offer AI-powered insights into your reading habits.
AMD's software stack remains a weak spot — ROCm won't support RDNA 4 at launch
When RDNA 4 GPUs arrive, AMD will not offer official support for them with the ROCm software stack. This follows AMD's trend of imperfect ROCm support for its consumer graphics cards.
Intel delays $100 billion Ohio chipmaking site to next decade: First fab now coming online in 2030
Intel delayed launch of Ohio fabs from 2025 to 2027 - 2028, then delayed them again to 2030 - 2032.
Nextorage launches 4TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSDs — three models on sale starting at $249
Nextorage just launched three new SSD models in the U.S., with the storage drives getting a 40 to 50% discount on Newegg for a limited time.
Sapphire does the unthinkable and puts 16-pin power connector on an RX 9070 XT
Sapphire's new RX 9070 XT Nitro+ is the first AMD GPU to sport a cableless design with the latest 16-pin power connector. It is also the first RX 9070-series GPU we've seen so far sporting the connector.
AMD RDNA4 Navi 48 is 25% denser than Nvidia Blackwell GPUs — 53.9 billion transistors in a die smaller than GB203
Sitting at 357 mm^2 and with 53.9 billion transistors, Navi 48's density runs circles around RDNA 3... and Nvidia's Blackwell competition, at least in theory.
Ayaneo Flip DS and Flip KB aren't dead after all — Ayaneo claims a misunderstanding
Ayaneo Flip KB and Flip DS are abruptly un-canceled following a "clarification" from Ayaneo.
Get TP-Link's superfast 2.5Gb 8-port switch for only $109 — Upgrade your LAN
Flaky WiFi setup? TP-Link's 2.5Gb 8-port switch is on sale for just $109.
AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs start at $549: Specifications, release date, pricing, and more revealed
AMD's RDNA 4 architecture and RX 9000-series GPUs launch March 6, beginning with the mainstream to high-end 9070 and 9070 XT. The new chips come with significantly improved ray tracing and AI hardware and should provide Nvidia's RTX 50-series some much-needed competition.
LaCie Rugged SSD Pro5 Review: Fastest external storage – if you’re on an M4 Pro or Max Mac
LaCie's Thunderbolt 5 drive is the fastest we've tested - but you may want to skip it even if you have TB5
Skype to finally be shuttered in May, 22 years after its August 2003 launch: Updated
Skype to be sunsetted in Q3 2025.
Pineboards Modulo Series Review: All the extra features for your Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and 5
Three new carrier boards for your Compute Module 5 and the older Compute Module 4 which bring Raspberry Pi 5 accessories to the CM5, and PoE before Raspberry Pi releases its version.
OpenAI has run out of GPUs, says Sam Altman — GPT-4.5 rollout delayed due to lack of processing power
Sam Altman says that OpenAI has to stagger the release of GPT-4.5 due to GPU shortages. The new model has higher processing demands and there aren't enough GPUs for OpenAI to deploy model access to lower tier subscribers yet.
Singapore police bust major ring smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China-based DeepSeek: Report
China-based Deepseek illegally obtains Nvidia GPUs from Singapore, claim new media reports.
Nvidia gaming GPUs an afterthought as AI generates mountains of cash — RTX 50-series shortages mentioned, not explained
Nvidia just hit a record year in revenue, with data center sales bringing in most of the money. However, it seems that the gaming segment is being ignored in favor of its AI business.
Microsoft Copilot gets its own app for the Mac
Mac users can get access to Microsoft's AI.
Asus' 5-Star ROG Strix 27-inch QHD XG27ACS 180Hz gaming monitor drops to $199 — with Monster Hunter: Wilds for free
Grab this great Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS monitor deal and also claim a free copy of Monster Hunter: Wilds for just $199.
Ayaneo Flip DS & KB was canceled mid-production — only some units exist, the rest won't come
Ayaneo's much-anticipated Flip DS and Flip KB AMD Ryzen handheld PCs were canceled mid-production.
Raspberry Pi 5 powers retro-futurism 1980s cyberdeck with custom milled keypad and wood finish
Nicholas LaBonte is using a Raspberry Pi to power this custom cyberdeck handheld complete with custom-milled keys and wood finishing.
Framework Desktop's Noctua fan and Cooler Master heatsink pried off, Strix Halo exposed
iFixit was able to remove the cooler from a Framework Desktop engineering unit, showing off Strix Halo under the custom cooler.
Nvidia confirms Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin GPUs are on track for 2025 and 2026 — post-Rubin GPUs in the works
In March, Nvidia plans to reveal more information about the Blackwell 300-series and Vera Rubin GPUs at its upcoming GTC conference.
Phison and Lonestar launched cornerstone of lunar data center into space last night — lands on the moon in early March
Phison has collaborated with Lonestar Data Holdings to launch and establish a data center on the moon.
New Nvidia GeForce driver addresses RTX 50-series GPU black screen issues
Through a new game-ready driver update, Nvidia has fixed black screen issues on RTX 50-series GPUs.
Apartment buildings broken into with phone in minutes — IoT-connected intercoms using default creds vulnerable to anyone with Google
A wide list of apartment complexes using IoT-connected intercoms still use the default logins from their manuals, making them easily accessible by bad actors.
Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 breaks four world records — Pushed beyond 3.45 GHz with 35 Gbps VRAM
Asus' ROG Astral RTX 5090 has managed to beat four world records while leading two single-GPU benchmarks.
FBI identifies North Korea as source of $1.5 billion ByBit hack
The FBI has traced the ByBit crypto exchange hack to a group of North Korean hackers.
IDC cuts PC sales forecast, blames Trump tariffs and AI PC hurdles
PC sales set to grow in 2025, but not as significantly as initially thought, according to IDC.
Nvidia enjoys $130B annual earnings despite gaming segment 'supply constraints'
Nvidia posts record-breaking revenue, makes bold predictions amid skyrocketing demand for AI GPUs.
Amazon's Ocelot quantum chip uses 'cat qubits' to 'reduce error correction by up to 90%'
Amazon AWS announces and showcases Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip touting a cheaper solution to qubit-accelerated error correction.
Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work
Developer Dmitri Mitropoulos has managed to get Doom running inside of Typescript Types, after a year-long effort, resulting in three and a half trillion lines of types.
Prototype RTX 50-series power connector designed to prevent melting with current overload alarm, per-pin sensing
A Chinese user has developed a prototype 16-pin connector that can determine if a certain pin is drawing too much current, preventing connector meltdowns.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 series prices leak on Micro Center — starting at nearly $700 for XT versions
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and non-XT GPU prices leak on Micro Center website.
Nvidia's Priority Access program reportedly kicks off, invitations sent out for RTX 5090 customers
The first report of a Priority Access member getting an invitation from Nvidia to buy an RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been published. Nvidia is sending out emails to at least some Priority Access members an invitation to purchase either an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 at MSRP.
Turn up your storage with this 8TB WD Black SN850X SSD at an all-time low price
Western Digital's massive 8TB WD Black SN850X SSD drops to a new all-time low price.
China accuses Taiwan of giving away chip industry to the US as a 'souvenir'
China claims Taiwan's leadership is 'selling out' Taiwan's industry by making them tools for diplomatic manoeuvring.
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