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The Corsair HX1500i (2025) ATX 3.1 PSU offers premium power delivery with digital monitoring capabilities, outstanding performance, and impressive thermal design.

Support for FSR 4 officially expands to a total of 85 games

ASML has invested 1.3 billion in s Mistral AI allegedly in a strategic move to deepen its use of AI across lithography and chipmaking software.

Intel CFO David Zinsner confirmed that Intel could theoretically sell up to 49% of Intel Foundry without violating U.S. government agreements. However, the company is unlikely to do so due to ownership restrictions, partial fab control, and limited investor interest in the money-bleeding unit, which makes a full spin-off or IPO financially unattractive for now.

Permanent injunction bans modder Ryan Daly from selling or possessing devices that defeat Switch protection mechanisms.

Phoronix tests Windows 11 25H2 against 24H2, Ubuntu 25.10, and Ubuntu 24.0.3 LTS. But testing shows that 25H2 has no additional optimizations under the hood, matching 24H2 in performance.

Despite continuing hype around AI, and companies scrambling to keep up with manufacturing, a recent survey says that large companies have started to use AI less. The latest U.S. Census Bureau BTOS reveals that AI use among firms with more than 250 employees has a declined since June.

Sapphire expands its motherboard lineup with the Pure B850A WiFi and Pure B850M WiFi motherboards.

Appearance of the OneXGPU Lite with 'USB 5.0' surprises at the One-Netbook Fall Launch 2025 Event

The U.S. plans to replace Samsung and SK hynix's indefinite export permissions for chipmaking tools with annual site-specific licenses, a move that adds regulatory complexity but avoids disrupting memory fab operations in China and the global DRAM and NAND supply chain.

The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6's rollable OLED screen adds more vertical space using folding display technology, but it's very expensive.

The Decisioninator was designed and produced to 'optimize and automate' navigating the minefield with a gate signposted 'What do you want for dinner tonight?'

A factory in China has modded an RTX 5090 to sport an insane 128 GB of VRAM, quadruple the amount found in a regular 5090. They've achived so by using a custom PCB and prototype GDDR7 memory that currently no one makes. The card reportedly costs around 13,000 with expectedly limited availability.

The most innovative and interesting products that debuted at Berlin's big tech show.

TSMC has more than doubled its Arizona internship program, pulling in over 200 students from around 60 colleges this summer as it races to staff its advanced-node fabs outside Phoenix.

An engineer has tapped into Apple's LidAngleSensor MacBook API, adding a creaky door sound effect to his lid angle measurement app.

HP's Omen 16 Slim is a solid gaming laptop that allows you to jump the barrier into entry-level RTX gaming at a low cost. With a sleek design, beautiful 16-inch screen, fast refresh rate, capable cooling, it's great at games and can double as a daily machine for most.

Someone bought an Asus TUF RTX 4090 from eBay, and it wouldn't post. It is easy to see the problem with the cooler removed.

A new report from VirusTotal shows that more than 44 compromised SVG files went completely undetected by antivirus systems.

AMD's ROCm 6.4.2 software stack lists a non-existent Radeon RX 9060 XL GPU, likely a typo confusing internal 'Navi 44 XL' die naming with official product branding. But who knows?

Tokyo's renowned electronics shopping district was plunged into darkness on Friday due to a very rare power outage.

Creality plays catch-up with a color bedslinger.

Nvidia's new RTX 5090 and PRO 6000 GPUs are reportedly being plagued by a reproducible virtualization reset bug that can leave the cards completely unresponsive until the host system is physically rebooted.

With premium performance at a mid-range price point, the Deco BE68 is a superstar mesh router.

The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoft's August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn.

Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf.

The old Enermax gaming PC still has a few years left in it.

Intel has provided its first update for APO in 2025, featuring support for 15 new games and performance improvements of up to 14% recorded on its flagship Core Ultra 9 285K.

At IFA 2025, AMD delivered a less dramatic defense of its long-term strategy and outlined its vision for AI and the future of the PC.

SSDs are becoming increasingly affordable, and we've got just the deal for you from Western Digital. The WD_Black SN7100 is currently priced at only $0.05 per gigabyte on Amazon, where you can purchase its 4TB variant for just $210. It features speeds up to 7,000 MB/s along with a custom controller and flash from Sandisk.

A PC novice has shared details of their stunning $9 desktop DIY bargain and is looking for upgrade suggestions.

AMD has just launched the Ryzen 5 9500F in China, after weeks of leaks spoiled its arrival. The new Zen 5-based CPU features six cores and 12 threads, along with 32MB of L3 cache, all powered by a 65W TDP. AMD says it's at least 7% and up to 24% faster in games than the 7500F. However, it's priced higher.

Someone discovered an engineering sample of the Radeon AI Pro 9700 GPU with 32GB of VRAM and they're asking what to do with it.

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by authors over the use of pirated books in training its large language models.

The SAMA P1200 Platinum is a compact, value-oriented power supply unit that delivers solid performance with proven components and practical thermal management in an understated design.

The Seagate Exos M sets a new record for single drive capacity with new technology for extra power savings. However, the tech feels like more of the same in performance terms.

The user's Amazon Echo speakers used over 4 GB of data in a span of 24 hours, even if they weren't using them.

Amon said that Intel is not an option today," but left open the possibility for a future partnership, adding we would like Intel to be an option."

Broadcom has secured a $10billion deal to supply custom AI accelerators and rack-scale hardware to an undisclosed customer - widely believed to be OpenAI - signaling that the design has been validated and full-scale deployment is on track for late 2026.

Anthropic has updated its terms of service to block access to its Claude AI models for any company that's majority-owned or controlled by Chinese entities.

AMD holds the gaming performance crown for desktop CPUs. It wasn't always like that, and a dive into the history of how the current status quo came to be is wrought with a hard-fought battle between two titans.