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If you're looking for a second screen or a starting point for a new budget-friendly gaming setup, the Acer Nitro ED270U at only $149 is amazing value for a 27-inch, 170 Hz, QHD gaming monitor.

The NZXT Life 2 Symm is a wired, ultra-lightweight gaming mouse that weighs just 2.05oz (58g). It's a comfortable, versatile mouse that feels responsive for both gaming and general use, but it's not otherwise very exciting.

China and Japan boost grants to TSMC as it builds new fabs and expands capacities.

Nvidia has released a few updates for GeForce Now. It has introduced day passes into its pricing structure giving gamers 24-hour access windows into its premium streaming tiers, and a variable refresh rate support in the form of "Cloud G-Sync".

An enthusiast overclocker has obtained a Core i9-14900KS and showcased delidding it for better temperatures.

Sanwa Supply has released a USB foot pedal with three buttons that can be programmed to input as any key.

After nine years, AMD is finally updating its FreeSync requirements spec sheet. The new requirements are substantially greater than what they were previously, now AMD is enforcing a 144Hz refresh rate limit for 1080P and 1440P monitors.

Researchers have developed ArtPrompt, a new way to circumvent the safety measures built into large language models (LLMs). According to their research paper, chatbots such as GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude, and Llama2 can be induced to respond to queries they are designed to reject using ASCII art prompts generated by their tool.

Intel will reportedly get a $3.5 billion investment from the U.S. government to ensure a steady supply of chips for military applications.

AMD posted a tutorial detailing how users can get an AI chatbot running on Ryzen CPUs and Radeon GPUs. It's surprisingly straightforward.

Clem Mayer from Element 14 has turned a Raspberry Pi Pico into GPU and shows off how it works in a video recently shared to YouTube.

Revitalize your desk space or gaming setup with the introduction of a shiny new gaming mouse pad, and do it for just $10.

Maingear's refreshed North Series system comes with the newer North XL chassis, featuring more room than ever before.

Combining a unique wood-and-mesh front and lots of airflow-focused features at an affordable price, Fractal's North case stands out both in design and airflow performance.

Apple's 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Airs with M3 are portable, light, fanless laptops with bright displays and comfortable keyboards and trackpads. But as usual, you'll have to pay quite a bit to upgrade them beyond their base models.

SEMI Europe calls for clear and unified export control rules, international partnerships, simplified investments and ongoing dialog with European legislators.

After a call with AMD, AI startup Tiny Corp says it's 70% confident that Radeon GPU firmware will be made partially open source or more.

The Dutch government is working on a plan to prevent ASML from leaving the country.

The employee got a lot of offensive images and so did we.

Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti 16GB can be found for $419, while AMD's RX 7700 XT is selling for as low as $409.

Huawei's mysterious new OceanStor Arctic magneto-electric storage device promises high storage capacities at low power consumption.

Falling to an all-time low price on Amazon, you can sound out a great deal on this 2.1 speaker setup from SteelSeries.

The NAND flash market saw 24.5% higher revenue in Q4 than it did in Q3, signaling that demand and prices are still rising.

CyberPowerPC's use of standard components combined with a 3-year warranty should put the Gamer Xtreme on your radar

Adata will now be using a special type of coating that it claims can provide better heat dissipation on its PCB as high as 8 degrees on its Lancer Neon RGB and Lancer Neon RGB DDR5 memory kits which will made available during Q2 2024.

Jon Peddie Research published its Q4 2023 report on discrete graphics cards, showing the market is recovering steadily.

The Raspberry Pi 5 runs hot, but Argon's THRML Active Cooler has the power to cool your Pi. But, is it any better than the official cooler?

Tachyum vows to start shipments of pre-production Prodigy-based servers in Q1 2025.

AMD Lisa Su has stepped in to soothe the publicly voiced concerns of AI server startup Tiny Box. Tiny Corp. has been experiencing issues with its Radeon RX 7900 XTX systems, which seek to democratize PetaFLOPS-class performance for artificial intelligence.

Adding HDMI 2.1 features support to open-source Nouveau driver for Nvidia's GPU hardware is not going to be too challenging, says contributor.

Pimoroni announce a "coming soon" for its NVMe Base Duo. Now there are two NVMe slots for your Raspberry Pi 5

Windows Subsystem for Android was a huge disappointment and proved that people don't need

JEDEC has published the specifications for the GDDR7 memory standard, which will likely replace GDDR6 memory in the next-generation GPUs when they arrive next year. As you might expect, there will be higher speeds and bandwidth, up to 192 GB/s per device.

Sony shared the system requirements its upcoming PC port of Horizon Forbidden West. Nvidia took the opportunity to note that the game will have day-zero support for DLSS 3, and also released a new game-ready driver for Thaumaturge.

Arctic launched its Freezer 36-series CPU air-coolers for Intel LGA1851 and LGA1700 sockets, as well as AMD AM4 and AM5. The upcoming Arrow Lake processors will use LGA1851 and are expected to go on sale later this year.

The Nvidia GTX brand will finally be fully discontinued, as the last GTX 16-series chips are reportedly now in AIB partner hands. This marks the end of a 19-year run for the GTX name, with RTX only in the foreseeable future.

Nab a great budget gaming monitor for only $199 in this Dell deal.

Samsung has reportedly changed the name of its process technologies, and resigned contracts with customers. The former '3nm' SF3 node has been renamed to the '2nm' SF2 production node, and we assume further name changes will be forthcoming.

Market research firm Omdia predicts Nvidia will make $87 billion from its datacenter GPUs in 2024, compared to $34 billion in 2023.

Ryzen 7000 struggled and Threadripper 7000 soared in workstation builder Puget System's 2023 Hardware Trends.

Taiwan's Wistron has revealed its new Dynamic Airflow system, based on the concept of a Hinge Auto-Extension, in a series of laptop renders. The images show that when a user opens up a clamshell laptop the rear 'shelf' heat module gets extended to boost airflow.

AMD faces a setback to sell its latest Instinct MI309 AI and HPC GPU to Chinese entities.

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a premium, compact gaming PC with a bright OLED screen and lots of ports, but fans of the line may be surprised to see a lesser GPU than they are used to.

A team of researchers from Peking University plan to reproduce Open AI's Sora text-to-video service, with the help of the open source community.

Nintendo defeats Nintendo Switch emulation in the form of a joint filing, with the emulator's developers agreeing to $2.4 million awarded damages.

Software engineer Cal Bryant created his own fan/pump control software in Python that can read and manipulate the fan and pump speeds of his Kraken X53 AIO.

Traveling_fred is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to power a replica of the time circuits found in Doc Brown's DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future.

AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster confirmed in an interview that it is working on an AI upscaler for gaming. This could be the next major update for FSR.

Intel posts video showing the arrival and installation of its cutting-edge High-NA lithography machine.