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Updated 2024-11-23 19:45
AOC launches its first 240 Hz OLED ultrawide — $1,399 for the 44.5-inch Agon Pro AG456UCZD
The AOC Agon Pro AG456UCZD is AOC's first 240 Hz OLED Ultrawide, and boasts high DCI-P3 gamut coverage alongside the expected OLED monitor specs. Also certified for FreeSync Premium and G-Sync Compatible operation.
Google releases Chrome for Windows on Arm ahead of Snapdragon X Elite launch
Google has finally released an Arm64 version of Google Chrome, making a native version of the browser available ahead of the launch of Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors.
AMD to refresh socket AM4 with Ryzen '5000 XT' CPUs — two new iGPU-less Ryzen 8000-series processors also announced
AMD has unveiled new Ryzen 5000 XT refreshed CPUs for AM4, and two new Ryzen 8000 series CPUs for AM5 sporting disabled integrated graphics chips.
Huawei gains 11% in a down year for Chinese PC sales — Dell loses 44% market share
A recent report notes that the Chinese PC market has observed a significant loss in sales during 2023, except for Huawei which experienced 11% growth. Dell suffered the most with a 44% loss in sales.
YouTuber assembles single-slot low-profile Intel Arc A380 GPU using A310 cooler
Modder combines an Intel Arc A310 GPU cooler with an Intel Arc A380 GPU in order to mount it inside a MinisForum MS-01, which can only fit a single-slot GPU despite its PCIe 5.0 support.
Phison's new software uses SSDs and DRAM to boost effective memory for AI training — demos a single workstation running a massive 70 billion parameter model at GTC 2024
Phison demos a single workstation training a massive 70-billion-parameter AI model at GTC 2024. Such models normally require 24 GPUs to train, but Phison's aiDaptiv+ allowed them to accomplish the same task with only four GPUs.
Maxsun Terminator H770 YTX D5 Wi-Fi review: A dream for cable management
Maxsun's H770 YTX D5 Wi-Fi sports a unique new YTX form factor with most connectors on the rear. It's a well-rounded board with a budget price. Just be aware that there are fewer than 20 compatible chassis.
Working PCIe 6.0 connectivity demoed at GTC — Astera Labs' Aries retimers currently power Nvidia's HGX systems with eight H100 GPUs, likely future Blackwell systems, too
Astera Labs demoed working PCIe 6.0 connectivity using its Aries retimers that power Nvidia GPU platforms, among others.
South Korean Search giant Naver pivots away from Nvidia – Samsung will supply $752 million in AI chips instead
Naver, South Korea's top search engine provider, is shifting more of its hardware to Intel, and now Samsung, in efforts to avoid Nvidia's sometimes-gratuitous pricing.
Mysterious SiSoftware results show two new Intel Arc GPUs sporting 10 and 12 Xe-cores — possibly Battlemage, but clocks and L2 cache leave uncertainties
Recent SiSoftware results for two unknown Intel Arc GPUs have 'leaked,' but it's not clear if these are future Battlemage GPUs or if they're modified Alchemist solutions. Here's our take on the chips.
The best Amazon Big Spring deals — our favorite sales on PC components and accessories from all the major retailers
The Amazon big spring sale is here. Stock up on tech without breaking the bank, with deals from Amazon and other retailers.
Raspberry Pi hat camera views the world from your perspective
Jacob David C Cunningham is using a Raspberry Pi to power his hat clip camera-a first-person perspective image and video capturing device.
Asus launches ROG Strix XG27WCS gaming monitor – 27-inch VA panel cranks to 180 Hz
Asus has rolled out a new ROG Strix gaming monitor featuring a curved 27-inch 'Fast VA' panel. Highlights of the Asus ROG Strix XG27WCS are the max 180 Hz refresh rate and 1ms g2g response time, the wide color gamut and punchy contrast of the display, a plethora of Asus gaming features, plus a fully adjustable ergonomic stand.
Meteor Lake-PS CPUs will be the first chips to use Intel's LGA1851 socket
iBase MI1002 motherboard will sport Intel's LGA1851 socket, with support for the Core Ultra Meteor Lake-PS processors.
Tiny Corp decides to make both AMD and Nvidia versions of its TinyBox AI server - GeForce version is 67% more expensive
Tiny Corp appears to have decided whether or not to follow its original plan of using AMD GPUs, or switch to Nvidia GPUs to power its Tiny Box server. The muddled answer is that it will make both.
Next-gen GPUs likely arriving in late 2024 with GDDR7 memory — Samsung and SK hynix chips showed chips at GTC
Next-gen GPUs are almost certain to leverage GDDR7 memory, and SK hynix and Samsung showed their GDDR7 devices at GTC 2024. 16Gb chips are already in full production, with higher capacity and faster chips coming next year.
China blocks Intel and AMD CPUs for government offices and servers, plans to switch to domestic-made alternatives
As announced by its Ministry officials in December 2023, China will no longer be using chips made by AMD and Intel for government PCs and servers as a response to the sanctions imposed by the United States. In its place, the officials will switch to home-made options, despite challenges.
Eyoyo EM105 10.5-inch portable monitor review: Tiny in stature, big on value
The EM105 gets a lot right and is only let down by its included stand.
Leak suggests AMD's upcoming 'Turin' Zen 5 CPUs will support 4TB of RAM at 6000 MT/s
A leaked Socket SP5 motherboard spec sheet reveals faster memory bandwidth for upcoming Zen 5-based Epyc "Turin" CPUs.
Horizon Forbidden West PC port analysis: Another game that can exceed 8GB VRAM use
We've benchmarked the PC release of Horizon Forbidden West on 22 graphics cards, including most current generation cards along with a few representatives of previous generation hardware. The game runs decently on mainstream hardware at 1080p and medium settings, but the higher settings can quickly tank performance on cards with less than 8GB of memory, and 12GB is necessary for 4K at maximum settings.
How to Add Custom Shortcuts to the Windows 11 or 10 Context Menu
Add links to your favorite programs or sites to the right-click menu.
SMIC and Huawei could use quadruple patterning for China-made 5nm chips: Report
Something that almost killed Intel is now patented in China. But it remains to be seen how viable it will be.
Microsoft aims to boost ray-tracing performance in VRAM-constrained scenarios — patent describes a new level of detail system for RT effects
Microsoft has published a performance-optimizing patent for ray-tracing, that is designed to reduce the memory footprint of workloads via an RT level of detail system.
Russian businesses get shut out from Microsoft cloud services at the end of this month – new EU sanctions come into effect
As required by EU sanctions, Microsoft will soon stop all the cloud computing services it provides to Russian-based organizations and businesses.
Steve Jobs signed Apple Computer business card achieves over $180,000 at auction — about 14X more expensive than an unsigned card
A Steve Jobs signed Apple Computer business card has achieved an astonishing $181,183 at auction. Boston-based RR Auctions sold this 'highly coveted' computer history artifact which was listed as an 'extremely rare, perfectly graded Steve Jobs-signed Apple Computer business card from circa 1983.'
Corsair M75 Wireless Review: Buttons on both sides
Corsair's M75 Wireless is a symmetrical gaming mouse with thumb buttons on both sides. For all the left-handed gamers who want more than two buttons and a scroll wheel.
The Sibolan SZBox S69 Ryzen Mini PC is made in a 'Power-Ranger' choice of colors — but older hardware and pricing means this isn't a superhero
The SZBox S69 Mini PC offers a Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU with Radeon 680M graphics, and two DDR5 SO-DIMMs, supporting up to 64GB RAM and combined internal M.2 storage up to 8TB.
Intel CEO Gelsinger proposes a fab tour for Elon Musk — could be an attempt to win orders from Tesla, other Musk companies
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has publicly invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to tour his firm's semiconductor fab lines. In a post on the Twitter/X social media platform, Gelsinger said he was thinking of Musk when he was awarded the $8.5 billion in CHIPS Act funding, earlier in the week.
This NAS motherboard has more 2.5G Ethernet ports than USB ports — Topton N9 comes with eight 2.5G Ethernet ports
AliExpress sells the Topton N9, a motherboard that leverages Intel's Kaby Lake G processors and offers NAS users up to eight high-speed 2.5G Ethernet ports.
Asus ROG NUC has a $1,629 starting price — entry-level SKU comes with Core Ultra 7 155H CPU and RTX 4060 GPU
Asus reveals pricing and maximum performance configurations of its upcoming ROG NUCs, which will include up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU and discrete RTX 4070 GPU.
AMD lifts memory overclocking limitations on RX 7900 GRE — new Adrenalin driver increases limit to 3,000 MHz
AMD has provided an overclocking update to its RX 7900 GRE and increased the maximum memory overclocking limit by 22.8%.
EVGA power supply allegedly kills 22TB of customer storage — revised model from RMA had a different pin layout and killed all SATA-powered devices
EVGA accidentally blew up 22TB of customer storage after it failed to ship updated cables with a power supply the customer RMAed.
Chinese smuggler tried to slip 44 tattered RX 580 GPUs through customs
The customs officers of the Shangai Pudong International Airport confiscated 44 graphics cards from a smuggler who tried to pass through the green channel, hoping to evade any charges or laws prohibiting such large imports.
The hexa-core AMD Ryzen 5 7600 5.1 GHz processor has dropped to $189
The AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU is available today at Walmart for just $189 instead of its usual $229.
Denuvo DRM maker cracks down on game leakers with new tech — TraceMark for Gaming puts a watermark on games to unmask the source
Irdeto, makers of Denuvo, continue to draw ire as they announce TraceMark for Gaming to eliminate modern game leaks as we know them.
Gen-over-gen performance uplifts are getting smaller with Nvidia's mid-range GPUs — GTX 1060, RTX 2060, RTX 3060, and RTX 4060 retested in 2024
ComputerBase has re-tested Nvidia's GTX 1060, RTX 2060, RTX 3060 12GB, and RTX 4060 to check out the generational performance differences in modern titles.
Broadcom shows a gargantuan AI chip — XPU could be the world's largest chip built for a consumer AI company
Broadcom develops mysterious AI processor of gargantuan dimensions.
Formula 1 management shocked team used Excel for 20,000-part inventory, now replacing 'impossible to navigate' sheet
New management at Williams was shocked after finding this F1 team had been relying on Microsoft Excel for the crucial car build workbook.
MSI Codex R2 desktop PC review: Air-cooled, mainstream gaming
The Codex R2 very audibly aced our gaming benchmarks.
The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina
A mine in North Carolina is 'the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers', and if it closed, the 'catastrophic' disruption to the semiconductor business would be felt for years.
Intel's Germany chip fab site yields discovery of 6,000-year-old burial mounds — no word yet about potential construction delays
Archaeologists working at the site where Intel plans to develop a multi-billion series of chip fabs in Germany have discovered prehistoric burial mounds. The state heritage office press release doesn't mention any potential delays, saying that work will complete next month.
Micron shows massive 256GB DDR5-8800 memory sticks — High-capacity double-height 20-watt MCRDIMM modules come in different flavors
Micron demonstrates 256 GB DDR5-8800 MCRDIMM modules for Intel's Granite Rapids processors.
Samsung details petabyte SSD subscription service, uses custom-built servers
Samsung's PBSSD as a Service will use custom-built servers and will be available to service providers.
China-made RISC-V PCIe 5.0 SSD controller promises competitive performance — up to 14.2 GB/s without a fan
Yingren (aka InnoGrit) has announced the YRS820, a high-end PCIe 5.0 controller for consumer SSDs based on the RISC-V architecture.
Former UPS employee stole $1.3 million in Apple merchandise — used proceeds to buy a home, pay off his Audi
Former UPS employee gets caught stealing $1.3 million worth of Apple merchandise. The perpetrator used most of the money to buy a $630,000 home and pay off his $60,000 car.
US chip toolmakers skip Semicon China conference they sponsored amid ongoing trade war
Several of Semicon China's U.S.-based sponsors skipped the conference, as did companies like Micron and ASML.
Raspberry Pi spins precision movement stage for beautiful up-close microchip videos
Robert Elder is using a Raspberry Pi to operate his precision movement stage used for taking up-close video shots of microchips.
Corsair's RM750x Shift PSU with side-mounted power cables is down to $89, its lowest-ever price
While it won't work in every case, Corsair's RM750x Shift PSU shifts the power connectors to the side, making building and upgrading much easier. Its current Amazon sale price of $89 is the lowest it's ever been.
Procyon AI image generation benchmark uses Stable Diffusion — UL to release new benchmark on March 25
UL Solutions is introducing a Stable Diffusion benchmark to its Procyon software next week.
Unlike Apple's chips, Qualcomm's X Elite Arm CPU will run Windows games just fine using x64 emulation — native ARM64 code will give best performance
Qualcomm, in a victory for Arm CPU architecture and especially itself, point toward competent gaming performance in x86 applications on its upcoming X Elite-based laptops.
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