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Updated 2025-04-22 10:30
U.S. Department of Justice subpoenas Nvidia in AI antitrust investigation
U.S. Department of Justice formally subpoenas Nvidia and other companies in its AI antitrust investigation.
V-Color unveils DDR5 CUDIMM modules with RGB LEDs and up to 9200 MT/s
V-Color announces DDR5 CUDIMM modules for enthusiasts. It will have kits that provide up to 48GB of RAM with speeds up to DDR5-9200. There's currently no word on retail availability, however.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus now comes in 8-core variants
The Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core has slower multi-threaded performance, a lower-end GPU, and lesser camera support, but it should bring down prices for Snapdragon laptops.
Microsoft's Surface Pros with Snapdragon come to businesses
Microsoft is bringing its Snapdragon X-based Surface Pro and Surface Laptop to businesses, and adding 5G to the Surface Pro and Surface Pro 10.
Intel could be removed from Dow Jones due to stark stock price drop: Report
As Intel's market cap drops below $100 billion, the company's stock could be removed from the prestigious DJIA index.
Retro gaming enthusiasts demonstrate transmission of C64 games via YouTube — data rates appear to be around 30 bits per second
Two retro gaming enthusiasts decided download links were just too fast for their taste, so they developed a way to transmit the software using flashing dots and YouTube. Speeds appear to be very slow, at roughly 30 bits per second in a test video.
LG's UltraGear 32-inch 165Hz QHD Nano IPS gaming monitor is back to its lowest-ever price of $279
PIck up a large 32-inch LG UltraGear gaming monitor from Best Buy for just $279 - with a fast 165Hz refresh rate and QHD resolution for a great gaming experience.
Cooler Master's Shark X PC is up for pre-order with a jaw-dropping $6,999 price tag — a lot of money for a Core i7-14700F, 64GB RAM, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and 2TB SSD
Cooler Master has finally launched its shark-themed pre-built gaming PC, which it has already shown off twice at CES. The new Shark X has a Core i7 14700F and RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU.
Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X gaming performance don't benefit from a higher TDP — 105W TDP mode tested in three modern games
The 105W TDP option for the Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X was tested in three games to see if the higher power setting would improve gaming performance.
MSI's new productivity laptops boast Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Ryzen AI 300
MSI brought productivity laptops to IFA, with the latest chips from both Intel and AMD. There's also a single gaming laptop, the MSI Stealth.
Incase will launch rebranded "Designed by Microsoft" peripherals in Q4 2024
Microsoft Hardware lives on through a line of relaunched, rebranded hardware from Incase, "Designed by Microsoft."
Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder
Xiangdixian Computing Technology (XCT), the company behind China's homegrown Tianjun GPUs, is reportedly facing financial trouble after laying off employees and being sued by its shareholders.
Intel Core Ultra Series 2 comes to the Dell XPS 13
The Dell XPS 13 9350 uses Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 processor for up to 28W of performance and longer battery life, but the chassis is unchanged.
Intel launches Lunar Lake: claims Arm-beating battery life, world’s fastest mobile CPU cores
Intel finally revealed its performance benchmarks for its Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V-series processors, touting historic x86 power efficiency' coupled with the world's fastest mobile CPU cores and 30% faster gaming performance than competing processors.
Taiwan accuses Chinese chip manufacturing tool companies of poaching engineers from Taiwanese companies
Taiwanese intelligence says that Naura Technology and others illegally poach engineers from Taiwanese high-tech firms to boost the Chinese semiconductor industry.
Taiwan chip industry heavyweights form SiPhIA to energize the photonics industry
Over 30 Taiwanese tech industry heavyweights have formed a new Silicon Photonics Industry Alliance (SiPhIA), demonstrating that this branch of semiconductor development is getting serious attention. Leading semiconductor firms like TSMC, ASE, Foxconn, and MediaTek are in the new collective.
Leaker says RTX 50-series GPUs will require substantially more power, with the RTX 5090 TDP jumping by over 100 watts
Popular hardware leaker @kopite7kimi says that the RTX 5070 and RTX 5090 GPUs will require substantially more power than the previous generation. The 5070 will potentially match the 4070 Super at 220W, but the 5090 could see TGP of 550W or more.
The AMD Zen 5 Gaming postmortem: Larger generational gains than many reported, game-boosting Windows Update tested, Ryzen 5 7600X3D gaming benchmarks, too
We retested AMD's Zen 5 gaming chips to suss out the true generational gains in gaming performance, and then took both Intel and AMD chips through testing with the new game-boosting Windows update applied.
Intel to establish advanced chip R&D center in Japan — a collaborative venture with Tokyo's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Intel and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology to establish semiconductor R&D center to advance Japanese chip industry.
Raspberry Pi 5 powers personal cloud server in a custom laser-cut case
Michael Klements has created a cool Raspberry Pi 5-powered personal cloud server and made a slick laser cut case for it using an Omtech Polar.
Scientists create optically switchable photonic units, aiming to power the future of logic gates and microchips
A research team from the University of Bayreuth and the University of Melbourne have successfully used optical logic gates to read, write, and erase binary information, marking one of the first successful applications of light to input, process, and output data.
Pentium processor turned into a Navajo weaving — Ken Shirriff finds a piece of CPU history
This Navajo rug weaved in the likeness of the first Pentium die, a gift commissioned by Intel, is currently on display in the National Gallery of Art. Ken Shirriff, curator of online tech oddities, tracked down the history of Intel's relationship with the Navajo reservation.
Khadas lists modular Intel Lunar Lake AI mini-PC development kit for $1,199
Khadas has a new Lunar Lake development PC that can be connected to a variety of accessories including a GPU dock featuring a desktop RTX 4060 Ti.
Icy Dock unveils 4-bay M.2 adapter for PCIe 5.0 SSDs: up to 56 GB/s
Icy Dock reveals ExpressSlot MB204MP-B adapter for four M.2-2280 SSDs.
China spent more on chipmaking equipment than South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S. combined — $25B in investments in the first half of the year
A Nikkei report says that China bought more chipmaking tools than the U.S., Taiwan, and South Korea combined.
Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update
Windows 11's Recall AI feature cannot be disabled despite a toggle in the current version.
Intel CEO will reportedly present plans to cut assets at an emergency board meeting — chipmaker may put $32B Magdeburg plant on hold and sell off Altera
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is expected to meet with the board of executives this month to share potential plans on what to cut from Intel to turn around the company. Intel's Foundry wing will not be on the chopping block, but Intel's in-progress Magdeburg fab will likely be canceled.
Nvidia revamps GeForce RTX badge with AI slogan — new logo reads "GeForce RTX Powering Advanced AI"
Nvidia has updated its case badge for GeForce RTX graphics cards, including the new tagline "Powering Advanced AI." OEMs, including PNY, have already begun adopting the new branding.
Our favorite budget mechanical keyboard is only $24 this Labor Day
Down to its lowest-ever price, this Keychron C3 Pro mechanical keyboard is the perfect budget keeb.
TP-Link Archer GE800 Wi-Fi 7 router review: Gaming-focused with attractive pricing
TP-Link created a Wi-Fi 7 router that holds the line on pricing while dialing up performance to lead the pack.
RGB-infused direct die cooling block arrives for Intel LGA1700 CPUs — Thermal Grizzly claims six degrees Celsius lower temperatures
High-performance cooling specialist Thermal Grizzly has launched the Intel Mycro Direct-Die Pro RGB V1. This is a direct-die (delidded) CPU cooling block for liquid-cooled setups. Compared to its predecessor, this Pro' model, with the added sparkle of RGB lighting, delivers up to 6 degrees Celsius lower temperatures.'
Palit and Gainward release 'Nvidia SFF-ready' Infinity 3 and Python 3 Nvidia RTX 4000 series GPUs
Both Palit Group-owned brands Palit and Gainward have released new RTX 40 series graphics cards to comply with Nvidia's SFF-ready standard, while both brands use the same design with triple fan cooling.
Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey
Microsoft's Windows 11 operating system strode past a major market share milestone in August. The newest version of Windows gained an impressive 3.36% market share, according to the newest Steam Hardware Survey data, to reach 50.81% share.
Intel Panther Lake processors could pack up to 16 cores, maximum of four performance cores according to leak
Panther Lake's top configuration to feature up to four high-performance cores and up to eight efficiency cores
How to Control your Raspberry Pi Camera using a web UI (Updated)
Take full control of your Raspberry Pi camera module with this simple to install, and easy to use web interface.
Windows preview build teases searching your audio and video content — 'intelligent media search' referenced in newest build
Windows Insider Canary Channel build 27695 brings with it references to an "intelligent media search" function. If users opt in, the tool would train an AI model on all audio and videos on your device and make them searchable from Windows search.
This Alienware Aurora R16 gaming desktop is now only $1,899
This gaming desktop from Alienware is currently available for one of its lowest prices to date - just $1,899 instead of its usual $2,199.
AMD 128-core Zen 5-based EPYC 9755 'Turin' tested: 2X faster than 128-core predecessor
AMD's 128-core EPYC 9755 is two times faster than 128-core EPYC 9754 processor in a compression/decompression benchmark.
This Raspberry Pi Pico drives tiny level crossing lights for a model train
Brendan McGrath is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to operate his little level crossing lights for model train projects.
'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated — buyers beware
TechTuber Der8auer has highlighted the plight of one of his fans who was scammed into buying a fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor. The expert overclocker talks viewers through some of the outward signs that this chip was a fake, which could prevent others for falling for scams like this.
Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled
A Houston resident discovered that their recyclable trash isn't being processed when the AirTags they used to track the recyclables show them sitting in a private open-air lot.
Hands-on with MSI’s MAG Pano 100L PZ PC case and Project Zero Motherboard
Project Zero and MSI's MAG Pano 100L PZ prove an effective combo, making creating eye-catching builds and cable management easier than ever before.
Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 Review: Slim, powerful, but needs refinement
Despite its compact design, the Predator Helios Neo 14 offers solid gaming performance.
Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs are unaffected by crashing issues — Vmin Shift Instability issue only impacts 13th and 14th Gen CPUs
Intel releases an official update on its 13th and 14th Generation Core CPU instability issues and claims that future Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs are unaffected.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus octa-core CPU benchmarks leaked — decent CPU prowess but terrible GPU performance compared to 10-core variant
The 8-core Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 benchmark results show a 5% drop in single-core and 20% drop in multi-core performance versus the 10-core version. However, its GPU score took a massive hit, tanking performance by about 50%.
Another Radeon RX 8000 GPU spotted in transit — Navi 44 XL GPU hints that RDNA 4 may mimic RDNA in product segmentation
The lifecycle of AMD's new (but still unannounced) GPU continues, and now we're seeing the low-end version move in shipping manifests.
Blacklisted Huawei posts record profits despite U.S. sanctions — Chinese tech giant raked in $7.7B in net profit in 1H 2024
Huawei seems to be adapting to U.S.-imposed sanctions as it posts record profits.
Dell 27-inch 4K IPS FreeSync monitor drops to all-time low price of $199
Right now, at Amazon, the Dell S2721QS is available for its lowest price to date-just $199 instead of its usual $299.
Ayaneo officially enters the U.S. gaming market — $399 Next Lite and $999 Kun now available at Best Buy
Ayaneo launched the Ayaneo KUN and Next Lite in Best Buy, allowing gamers to buy them directly from the retail giant.
Pimoroni Pico Jumbo Review: Giant Pico Board that Uses Alligator Clips
Need a 3.5 times larger Raspberry Pi Pico 2? Pimoroni has just the thing.
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