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The US Library of Congress has decided to immortalize the Windows 95 startup sound in the National Recording Registry.

China now considers wafer fabrication location as origin of chips, no matter where they were packaged or developed, which is good news for those outsourcing to Taiwan, but bad news for those who manufacture in America.

Pre-built systems in China are now arriving with Intel's IPO profiles, designed to enhance performance without voiding your warranty.

Pick up 32GB of DDR5 RAM for your gaming PC. Patriot's Viper Venom 6000MHz RAM is $79.

The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a powerful RTX 5080 laptop with a bright screen, but its AI is gimmicky and plastic shell leave something to be desired.

VideoCardz leaks renders of MSI's upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards.

Super performance, blazing speeds

xAI has reportedly built a 420 MW power facility to power the Colossus supercomputer that is set to expand to 200,000 GPUs and beyond.

Monash University has developed a water filter to catch PFAS used in chip manufacturing and other industries. The chip industry has been lobbying for years against any progress on legislating PFAS-use.

A startup is developing a laser-based cooling system using ultrapure gallium arsenide plates to target chip hotspots, but at high costs.

A new contest inspired by Google's Zentool challenges developers to modify AMD Zen CPU microcode to run RISC-V programs natively, but experts argue the goal is unfeasible.

A Steam Deck prototype has seemingly been sold for $2,000 on eBay, shown to feature different silicon than the retail units we have today.

Benchmarks of Nvidia's RTX 5090 in two games using DirectStorage GPU decompression reveal that the GPU has better performance consistency when toggling between CPU and GPU decompression compared to the RTX 4090.

This 360mm all-in-one CPU cooler takes a massive price cut. Keep your processor chilled for just $89.

Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Chinese companies linked to the military and surveillance sectors, raising national security questions amid Intel's ties with the U.S. defense industry.

Data from Canalys and International Data Corporation (IDC) suggest 2025 Q1 PC shipment increases are likely due to manufacturers striving to avoid initial tariff impacts.

Computer security researchers have been left scratching their heads after applying Microsoft's latest raft of Patch Tuesday updates - as an 'inetpub' folder has been left behind.

Onkyo's Creator Series speakers deliver capable audio in a mostly premium-looking package, with nearly every connectivity option you can think of, plus a built-in phono preamp, included (plastic) speaker stands, and ARC (HDMI) support on the GX-30ARC.

We have the first leaked benchmarks of Nvidia's upcoming budget RTX 5060 Ti, which is reported to launch in 8GB/16GB capacities.

Some folks were able to score RTX 50 series GPUs with deep discounts from Walmart.

U.S. gov't no longer plans to curb sales of Nvidia's H20 to China after Trump and Huang met in Mar-a-Lago to discuss Nvidia's investments in U.S.

U.S. tariffs are reshaping the global storage industry, hitting HDD and SSD makers the hardest due to their complex supply chain.

AMD has announced its Ryzen 8000HX line of processors, codenamed Dragon Range Refresh. The premium laptop processors will launch with products soon.

Trump says that he's suspending reciprocal tariffs on 75 countries, except for China, which gets even more import taxes.

Graphics cards, motherboards, and other PC parts may soon see steep price hikes as new U.S. tariffs of up to 104% target imports from China and Taiwan.

The U.S. imports 66% or more of several electronic consumer goods from China, and they're about to become more expensive.

Stanford's 2025 AI Index Report finds several key takeaways on the state of the AI sphere in 2025, including its rapid growth and causes for concern.

Beijing hit back against Trump's 104% tariffs by increasing its own taxes on U.S. imports to 84%.

A vulnerability targeting AMD CPUs that can execute unsigned microcode on your processor also affects AMD's Zen 5.

Corsair says the added play improves terminal alignment and reduces wear.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan lost around $5 million in value when Intel stocks dropped from around $24 per share to less than $19.

We put AMD's $600 Ryzen 9 9900X3D through our full gamut of benchmarks. It performs like fast 6-core CPU in a lot of games, which puts it behind both the 9800X3D and 9950X3D.

President Donald Trump claimed his threat of steep import tariffs pushed TSMC to boost its U.S. investment from $65 billion to $200 billion without government aid.

Intel is tightening supplier compliance policies to account for the significant amount of these metals used across its products and infrastructure.

A hardware leaker claims that Nvidia is supposedly purchasing GDDR7 chips from SK hynix in addition to Samsung.

U.S. gov't's tariffs and market uncertainties plunge Intel stock to 16-year low.

Doing business with Huawei may be particularly expensive as TSMC is facing a massive fine for 'unknowingly' supplying the blacklisted Chinese company with an AI processor.

Razer has seemingly halted direct laptop sales to the US from its website. This comes in the wake of major US tariffs sweeping the globe, and seems to be a likely response from many companies.

AMD's Dragon Range Refresh CPU family has had more details revealed thanks to a new Asus listing on a Chinese retailer.

The UALink Consortium has finalized the UALink 1.0 specification, enabling tapeouts of chips that support a high-speed, low-latency, industry-standard interconnect for AI and HPC accelerators in rack scale solutions.

Kioxia has completed the development of its next-generation PCIe 5.0 optical-based SSD. The new technology is being made for next-generation 'green' data centers that will be compatible with optical-based storage devices.

Everyone in the company is expected to use AI effectively.

The development of the FreeDOS marches onwards with an updated FreeCOM, Install program, and HTML Help system in version 1.4.

Ubuntu 25.04 brings several performance enhancements for AMD's EPYC Turin processors, providing 14% higher average performance and reaching up to 75% in some workloads.

A recent interview with Nintendo's Nate Bihldorff confirms that the new console will not utilize Hall effect sensors in its Switch 2 controllers, a sore spot for Switch's stick-drift sufferers.

A new lawsuit alleges that Google is spying on school children and harvesting their data to create profiles, due to the mandated use of Google hardware and software.

Google is making use of aggressive noncompete clauses and extended notice periods, leaving employees who wish to change track in limbo, claims former GoogDeepMinder Nando de Freitas.

Corsair's Frame 4000D promises modularity, but does it deliver otherwise? We test it with Intel's i9-14900K and Ocypus fans to determine if it performs well.