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Retro laptop powered by the Intel 8088 processor updated to v2.0 with Cirrus Logic VGA graphics — Book 8088 adds COM and LTP ports, too
The Book 8088 retro laptop has received a significant update in the graphics department, with Cirrus Logic VGA graphics on board. The makers added COM and LPT ports too.
AMD Fluid Motion Frames comes out of preview, claims up to 97% more FPS at 1080p in first full Radeon driver release
AMD Fluid Motion Frames is out of beta and is now a fully fledged feature for RDNA 2 and 3 graphics.
China warns that it may "react" to "hegemonic" treatment by the U.S. in 'Chip War'
China's ambassador in the Netherlands calls for enhanced dialogue between China and the European Union.
Game Boy Advance games can be recreated from the sound they make when they die, modder demonstrates
YouTuber TheZZAZZGlitch has proven that unique per-game GBA crash sounds contain all the data needed to create a bootable copy of the crashing game.
Get this RTX 4060 laptop gaming from Lenovo for under $1000
Back on sale, Best Buy has one of Lenovo's gaming laptop SKUs reduced in price to under $1000.
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super GPU roundup: several white models and a few sub-10-inch cards for compact PCs
We've put together a roundup of all RTX 4070 Ti Super models that we've seen so far from Nvidia's various AIB partners.
HP CEO justifies blocking third-party ink cartridges by claiming they can inject malware
HP CEO Enrique Lores gave an interview to CNBC where he was asked about the firmware bricking printers with third-party inks. The CEO said they're protecting their IP, but continued saying that third-party cartridges can inject viruses.
Samsung’s Hybrid 990 EVO SSD announced — world's first hybrid PCIe 4.0 x4 and 5.0 x2 SSD
Samsung announced the EVO, the world's first hybrid PCIe SSD with a PCIe 4.0 x4 and x2 PCIe 5.0 interface.
Creality Announces K1C 3D Printer's Launch Date, Pricing and Full Specs: New Flagship is a Beast
Creality spiffs up the K1 with cameras, air filter and more.
Framework Laptop 16 review: the Franken-notebook
The Framework Laptop 16 is the most customizable laptop we've ever seen with upgradeable graphics and a variety of input modules, but you could get more performance for the price in most gaming laptops.
120 Gbps Thunderbolt 5 and more PCIe 5.0 lanes coming to Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, Barlow Ridge controller debuts
A leak of internal Intel documents details that Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs will support Thunderbolt 5.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super review: More VRAM and bandwidth, slightly higher performance
We've tested the Asus RTX 4070 Ti Super TUF Gaming, a 'reference' model card with stock clocks, to see how the new Nvidia GPU with 33% more memory and bandwidth fares. The change to the AD103 GPU with additional shader cores results in the expected uplift, but the memory upgrades don't seem to matter as much in most games.
Intel Clearwater Forest Xeon chips appear in Linux patch - reveals CPU uses Atom Darkmont cores but no word on core count
Intel Clearwater Forest processors have made their first appearance in a Linux kernel patch and we see that they are set to make use of Atom Darkmont cores.
Leaked Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks are impressive — CPU performance slightly behind Ryzen 7000 non-X SKUs
Leaked Geekbench 6 benchmark results indicate that Ryzen 8000G APUs will be a touch slower than their non-X counterparts.
TSMC's average wafer price jumped 22% in one year — nearly all semiconductor industry growth now comes from more expensive products, not higher production volumes
The average selling price of TSMC's 300-mm wafers increased in Q3 due to rising shipments of 3nm chips to alpha customers, such as Apple.
Heads roll at MSI China after games deletion joke backlash – Asus enjoys trolling opportunity
MSI Gaming's social media team in China recently posted a joke about a neglected girl deleting her boyfriend's games, but the backlash was so strong that it replaced the team and had to make multiple apologies.
Chinese company develops transmission electron microscope for chipmaking industry
China's Bioland Laboratory develops transmission electron microscope.
How We Source Coupon Codes and How To Use Them
Find out more about Tom's Hardware's coupon pages, including how we source coupons, how to use codes, and what to do if a code doesn't work.
RTX Remix, the tool being used to create Half-Life 2 RTX, enters open beta today — now anyone can remaster old DirectX 8 or 9 games
Nvidia's RTX Remix application is now available for everyone to use as the tool goes into its open beta phase. Everyone will now have a chance to create their own remasters of classic games full of new textures/assets and ray traced lighting.
Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers
Capcom has recently started patching certain titles in its catalog with "Enigma" DRM. Unfortunately, this is also rendering certain Steam Deck Verified Games unplayable, and sabotages the vibrant Capcom games modding scene.
Compact and powerful Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with RTX 4060 graphics gets a $550 price drop
Dropping a whopping $550 at Best Buy, the 2023 version of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is on sale for $1,049.
This may be the only RTX 4070 Super GPU without a 16-pin connector, but it won't come cheap — Maxsun's RTX 4070 Super iCraft uses two regular 8-pin PCIe power connectors
Maxsun's GeForce RTX 4070 Super iCraft graphics card features two 8-pin PCIe power connectors instead of the 16-pin power connector.
Researchers demonstrate liquid metal RAM, bringing us closer to flexible, implantable hardware – and to our Terminator 2 nightmares
Researchers from Tsinghua University in China have successfully introduced a fully-flexible liquid RAM, dubbed "FlexRAM". The future possibilities this raises include massive improvements in wearables, implants, and robotics.
China's chipmaking tool imports climb to $40 billion as the country chases semiconductor manufacturing self-sufficiency
China's semiconductor tool imports increased by 14% to $40 billion as the country tries to become its own chipmaker.
Raspberry Pi Powers ReBoi Game Boy Color Drop-in Kit
James Sargent has created a Raspberry Pi-powered drop-in kit for the Game Boy Color that uses two Pis and a custom PCB.
New Oklahoma data center can withstand 310 MPH winds and tornadoes — facility spans 65,000 square feet, promises 100% uptime
Tonaquint has begun redesigning a recently acquired EdgeX facility at Oklahoma City to withstand tornados while maintaining 100% uptime, serving several important workloads for multiple clients in the region.
The era of Nintendo Switch Flash Carts has arrived, potentially opening a new door for piracy
The first Nintendo Switch flash cart from MIG-Switch has arrived, but brings with it concerns for legitimate gamers buying used Switch titles in the future.
"Pokemon with guns" game Palworld sells 5 million copies, tops Steam most played in a single weekend
Palworld launched on January 19th, and became Steam's Most Played Game within the span of three days despite (or perhaps encouraged by) a simultaneous launch on Xbox and PC Game Pass. The game's rise hasn't come without controversy, though, for very Nintendo-shaped reasons.
Nvidia's laptop GPUs appear in desktop PC graphics cards in China — upping the power limits unleashes more gaming performance, but these cards come with risks
Mobile GPUs show up on desktop graphics cards once again in China, but these cards come with plenty of risks.
AMD's customers begin receiving the first Instinct MI300X AI GPUs — the company's toughest competitor to Nvidia's AI dominance is now shipping
LaminiAI receives AMD's first eight-way AMD Instinct MI300X systems and puts them to the test.
Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal
An RTX 4090 was sent to a repairer, but it turned out that beneath the exterior this was a 'fried' RTX 4080 PCB.
Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs might come without hyperthreaded cores — leak points to 24 CPU cores, DDR5-6400 support, and a new 800-series chipset
An alleged Intel document points to the core count of socketed Arrow Lake-S processors.
Nvidia's fabled Nintendo 3DS prototype has been leaked — Rare Gaming Dump reveals the MG20
Nvidia's MG20 Nintendo 3DS prototype was revealed in the Nintendo "Gigaleak". While Nintendo wouldn't officially opt for Nvidia hardware until the Switch, RGD's investigation points toward Nvidia's MG20 planting the seeds for Tegra.
Score a 4TB SSD for only five cents per GB — KingSpec 4TB PCIe 4.0 SSD now $181
The KingSpec XG7000 4TB SSD is available at Newegg for one of its lowest prices to date, just $181 instead of the usual $299.
Windows 11 squeezed into a mere 100MB using text-only trick — Tiny11 maker NTDEV takes Windows install image challenge to the extreme
Tiny11 maker NTDEV demos his skills by making the smallest Windows 11 image ever, distilling it to below 100MB. Since this offers just text-only mode, many of its GUI functions have been stripped. It is the bare minimum install to have a functional operating system.
Intel's Granite Rapids listed with huge L3 cache upgrade to tackle AMD EPYC - software development emulator spills the details
Intel's SDE tool receives an update alluding to a boosted L3 cache spec on Intel's next-gen Granite Rapids Xeon CPUs. This uplift in L3 cache should net a boost in AI workloads, as well as certain productivity workloads reliant on fast memory access.
New memory card uses DNA to store your data — Biomemory's card costs $1,100 to store one kilobyte of data
French startup Biomemory commercializes a storage technology that stores data within dried, manipulated DNA strands. Claimed to be first to market, the 1,000 Euros per kilobyte of storage is undeniably expensive.
Asus ROG Swift PG248QP 540 Hz gaming monitor review: Raw speed and performance
Asus' ROG Swift PG248QP breaks new ground with a 540 Hz overclock. Also packed into this 24-inch TN FHD panel is Nvidia's G-Sync Processor with Latency Analyzer and ULMB 2. The image is enhanced by HDR and wide gamut color.
Raspberry Pi 5 squares off against a scrawny Intel CPU — Intel N100 quad-core Alder Lake-N chip proves to be a strong competitor
Explaining Computers looks at the Raspberry Pi 5 and how it compares to his N100 mini PC.
Pimoroni NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5 Review: NVMe for Me
Pimoroni has released its own version of the M.2 HAT board for the Raspberry Pi 5. NVMe Base can work with NVMe SSDs from 2230 to 2280 and provides a welcome speed boost for the fastest Raspberry Pi yet!
ASRock prepped two new exotic Radeon GPUs that'll be hard to find — China-exclusive Radeon RX 7900 GRE comes in Steel Legend and Challenger flavors
A pair of new ASRock RX 7900 GRE graphics cards were spotted through an online retailer, featuring Steel Legend and Challenger models.
SSD overclocking yields big performance gains — overclocked SSD controller and NAND may lead to premature degradation or data loss, though
Youtuber Gabriel Ferraz shows he can overclock an SSD by increasing the clock speed of the NAND and its controller with some tools. Despite certain limitations due to the interface, he achieved some exciting results, including power consumption and overall efficiency.
Dell 32-inch 1440p USB-C gaming monitor drops to $249 at Dell
The Dell G3223D gaming monitor is currently available for its lowest price - just $259, down from its usual rate of $299.
I survived a scary Blue Screen of Death, the dreaded Kernel Security Check Failure. Here's how.
After some investigation, I found an easy fix to this perplexing Windows error.
OpenAI's Sam Altman raising billions to build AI chip empire: Report
Chief executive of OpenAI raises funds to build fabs to make in-house designed chips.
Samsung reportedly trials second-gen 3nm chip production -- full ramp of SF3 node coming later this year
Samsung reportedly starts trial production on SF3 node, which contradicts the company's official SF3 status.
AMD removes Taiwan branding from CPUs, says change wasn't made to appease China
AMD will no longer mark its chips as made in Taiwan, a change that many theorize was made at the behest of China.
GPD shoves Ryzen 7 8840U into Win Max 2 handheld -- NPU upgrade will improve AI workloads, but not gaming performance
GPD has unveiled a new model of the Win Max 2 handheld gaming PC sporting an upgrading CPU in the form of AMD's new Ryzen 7 8840U processor. Benchmarks reveal it is barely any quicker than the 7840U in CPU tasks.
ASRock's new AMD entry-level gaming GPUs look enticing — custom Radeon RX 7600 XT GPUs with boost clock speeds up to 2,810 MHz
ASRock revealed the Radeon RX 7600 XT Steel Legend and Radeon RX 7600 XT Challenger graphics cards.
Custom Raspberry Pi Pico project supports Ethernet over USB-C
Maker and developer Alan has created a Raspberry Pi Pico board that supports Ethernet connections over USB C.
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