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November 22
- AMD Hawk Point Refresh 'Ryzen 200' family allegedly leaked — Set to arrive in 2025 but lacks NPU for local AI Inference
- Asus RT-BE86U Wi-Fi 7 router review: Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 performance at tri-band prices
- Amazon flooded with fake $199 AMD Ryzen 9 9800X3D listings — searching for AMD’s top gaming chip yields fake results
- TSMC's 1.6nm node to be production ready in late 2026 — roadmap remains on track
- MPB coupons for November 2024
November 21
- Black Friday SSD and Storage Deals Live: Best Sales on Internal and External Drives
- SK hynix announces production of its 321-layer NAND flash — shipments will start in the first half of 2025
- Raspberry Pi 5 successfully accelerates LLMs using an eGPU and Vulkan
- AMD is allegedly readying budget hexa-core Krackan Point APUs — Hybrid 3+3 core "Zen 5 + Zen 5c" offering surfaces at Geekbench
- Flexispot's fabulous E7 standing desk drops down to $329 for Black Friday
- RTX 5070 Ti rumor points to 8,960 CUDA cores and 300W TDP — Blackwell GPU may use the same GB203 die as the RTX 5080
- China warns Japan over ramping semiconductor sanctions – threatens to block essential manufacturing materials
- Microsoft says Flight Simulator 2024 still suffers from access problems despite adding more server capacity to handle demand
- Nvidia warns of gaming GPU shortage this quarter, recovery in early 2025 — Chipmaker rakes in record profits as net income soars by 109% YoY
- Suspected undersea cable sabotage had ‘little-to-no observable impact’ on internet service and quality — Cloudflare says suspected sabotage incident mitigated with redundant design
- MSI MEG Ai1300P PCIE5 1300W PSU Review
November 20
- Microsoft only planned for 200,000 users for Flight Simulator launch, admits drastic underestimate led to database being overwhelmed
- D-Link has another security flaw with older equipment that won't be repaired — D-Link told users to replace outdated NAS last week
- Stalker 2 PC performance testing and settings analysis — another demanding game that uses frame generation and upscaling as a crutch
- Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050
- Nvidia's Blackwell AI GPU overheating issues are seemingly overhyped — semiconductor analysts reveal cooling issues have been mostly addressed
- Jaguar Shores is the successor to Intel's Falcon Shores AI accelerators — Gaudi ASICs and Xe-HPC GPUs united in a single lineup
- China's chipmaking champion soars amid country's push for self-reliance — SMIC's stock jumps 120% as semiconductor trade war intensifies
- Cerebras video shows AI writing code 75x faster than world's fastest AI GPU cloud — world's largest chip beats AWS's fastest in head-to-head comparison
- Rebootless updates come to Windows 11 Enterprise and 365 for security updates — Microsoft releases hotpatching for Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 and Windows 365 Preview Editions
- Bjorn is a Raspberry Pi-powered Tamagotchi-like network pen-testing tool
- Black Friday Monitor Deals Live 2024: Best Sales on Displays, Updated All Day
- Qualcomm's Snapdragon X PC processor to skip 2nd generation — Qualcomm previews Oryon 3, says Oryon 2 only intended for mobile chips
- Netgear Nighthawk RS600 router review: Lowering the price of entry point for tri-band Wi-Fi 7
- US sanctions freeze Huawei's Ascend AI chips on older 7nm process node that's eight years behind TSMC, stalling progress until at least 2026
- Danish Navy reportedly boards Chinese ship suspected in European undersea cable sabotage — Sweden’s Defense Ministry put freighter at the time and place of the disruption
November 19
- AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 memory for Microsoft Azure – CPU with 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 may be repurposed MI300C, four chips hit 7 TB/s
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 launch gets stranded on the runway (Updated)
- Nvidia introduces a new merged CPU and GPU AI processor — GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Superchip has four B200 GPUs, two Grace CPUs
- Toshiba stuffs an entire PC into a dot matrix printer — Toshiba Jimucon SJ-9500 packs a mysterious CPU, 8GB RAM, and two 240GB SSDs
- Prusa Announces New CORE One Flagship 3D Printer
- Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage
- MSI introduces Latency Killer to improve DDR5 latency on AM5 motherboards — feature reportedly reduces latency by up to 8ns
- Raspberry Pi 5 RAM-doubling upgrade demoed — going from 4GB to 8GB with the wave of a soldering iron
- 🔥 Black Friday deal: 1TB WD Black C50 SSD Xbox Series X|S expansion card down to $99, its lowest-ever price
- Google may be forced to sell its Chrome browser due to monopoly complaints — potential $20 billion sale if approved by a judge
- Two undersea internet cables connecting Finland and Sweden to Europe have been cut — EU leaders suspect sabotage
- Addlink G55 SSD review: More budget PCIe 5.0 love
- AMD adds LLVM support for the "GFX950" GPU, likely for MI325X or the upcoming MI355X accelerator
- This Raspberry Pi Pico-powered 'barcode beast' scans your CDs and plays your tunes via Spotify
- Nvidia sets up new social media channel to showcase AI applications for RTX PCs, intensifying speculation around a looming gaming CPU launch
- Ludicrous LAN Party House detailed — 22 hideaway gaming stations with RTX 4070 GPUs, a monstrous 20-server control room, and extensive networking setup
November 18
- Latest Valve Proton Experimental update enables DLSS 3 Frame Generation and fixes performance in dozens of games
- The PS5 Pro is surprisingly efficient — 30% performance uplift while operating at nearly the same power draw as the base PS5
- Elon Musk's xAI reportedly shifts $6 billion AI server order from troubled Supermicro to its rivals
- Intel Arc B580 "Battlemage" GPU boxes appear in shipping manifests — Xe2 may be preparing for its desktop debut in December
- Gamer receives free RTX 3060 GPU from Temu — user waits for other PC parts to arrive to see if the GPU is real
- How to send and receive BlueSky posts with a Raspberry Pi Pico W
- LG unleashes $999 OLED gaming monitor with lightning 480 Hz refresh rate — LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B features a 27-inch 1440p panel
- WD's massive, speedy 8TB Black SN850X SSD drops $50 below its previous all-time low price for Black Friday
- AMD-powered El Capitan is now the world's fastest supercomputer with 1.7 exaflops of performance — fastest Intel machine falls to third place on Top500 list
- Arrow Lake non-K CPU pricing surges up to 13% — Core Ultra 9 285 at $600, Core Ultra 7 265 at $416, and Core Ultra 5 225 at $261
- Teen 'swatter for hire' pleads guilty to making more than 375 swattings and fake mass-shooting and bombing calls
- AMD Phoenix CPU brings palm-sized SBC to life for up to $329 — NexT-SBC packs 32GB LPDDR5-6400 and triple M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD slots
- Maker creates thumb-sized Raspberry Pi USB-C Ethernet module using the RP2040
- ASRock launches almost 20 ATX 3.1 power supplies — capacities from 750W to 1,650W and 80 Plus certifications from Bronze to Titanium
- Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W Review: The early bird
- Chinese memory makers are dumping DDR4 memory on the market for less than reused chips — undercutting South Korean rivals' pricing by 50%
- Intel's Core 200 family poised to mix Arrow, Lunar, Meteor, Alder, and Raptor Lake parts — Arrow Lake-U CPUs rumored to offer Meteor Lake Refresh ported to Intel 3
- This Raspberry Pi 'Expanso Football' is a cool distributed compute cluster in a briefcase
- Dell ships first Nvidia Blackwell server racks — PowerEdge XE9712 servers are enterprise-ready
- SilverStone Extreme 1200R Platinum SFX-L PSU review
- Intel celebrates the arrival of MRDIMMs — a plug and play solution for ultrafast memory that offers double the memory bandwidth of standard DRAM
- OpenAI execs mused over Cerebras acquisition in 2017 — to mitigate predicted Nvidia supply woes
November 17
- Nvidia's data center Blackwell GPUs reportedly overheat, requiring rack redesigns and causing delays for customers
- China to spend billions on another fab offering mature nodes — YDME formed to operate new $4.6B facility
- AMD dominates chip sales on Amazon — top ten best selling CPUs all come from Team Red, Intel’s highest entry sits at 11th place
- Musk's concerns over Google DeepMind 'AI Dictatorship' revealed in emails from 2016 — communications released during the recent OpenAI court case
- Apple MacBook Air M2 laptop is now only $749 at Amazon
- Intel is reportedly planning a Battlemage SoC launch event in December — probably materializing before RDNA 4 and Blackwell
- Ryzen 7000 / 8000 random reboot virtualization issues fixed in last-minute Linux 6.12 patch
- Retro beige PC case goes from April Fools' joke to retail — SilverStone's sleeper PC with modern internals ships in Q1 2025
- Bug prevents M4 Macs virtualizing pre-Ventura macOS releases — user diagnosis difficult due to lack of error codes
- GPD announces official pricing for its Pocket 4 mini-laptops — The $1,466 unit packs 12-core Ryzen AI HX 370, 64GB of RAM, 2TB SSD, and 144Hz 2.5K display
- Console repairer discovers groovy PS5 Pro heatsink structure — machined grooves thought to help prevent solder paste from leaking from the socket
- Ayaneo Pocket DMG classic GameBoy-styled handheld hits crowdfunding starting from $339
- Acer Predator X34 OLED Curved gaming monitor review: Extreme curve and performance
November 16
- World's second-largest GPU maker flees China on cusp of RTX 5090 launch to avoid US sanctions — Zotac, Inno3D, and Manli's GPU maker bails amid looming US GPU export controls
- Half-Life 2 gets a major 20th Anniversary Update and bundles Lost Coast with episodes —the game is now free on Steam until November 18
- Intel Arrow Lake T-Series CPUs show tiny improvement over prior-gen — 65W and 35W Core Ultra 7 265 and Ultra 7 265T CPUs are only 5% faster than Raptor Lake in CrossMark
- Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework
- Bitcoin launderer hands over $400 million as he heads to prison — offender sentenced to three years in prison for laundering money for drug dealers
- Asus dual-screen laptop with Arrow Lake-H CPU listed for close to $3,800 — new Zenbook Duo features Intel Ultra 9 285H, 32GB RAM, and 2TB SSD
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 could be banned in Russia, and players could face criminal charges — Russian government will evaluate whether the game contains anti-Russian sentiments or terrorism justification
- MSI X870E Godlike motherboard drops at an eyewatering $1,099 — AM5 motherboard unleashes DDR5 9000+ RAM, five M.2 slots, 10 GbE, and Wi-Fi 7 alongside two USB 4.0 40 Gbps ports
- Garbage truck driver finds a working 32-core Threadripper, RTX 2080 Ti gaming PC in the trash — the PC powered on after a good cleaning and a few days to dry
- GPU cooling supplier claims Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs will "seize the whole market starting in December" — Auras says key components like cold plates and manifolds already adopted by Nvidia and its AIB partners
- Raspberry Pi 5 teams up with Radeon GPU to run Doom Eternal with RTX on at 4K — the combo also tackles Crysis Remastered, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Forza Horizon 4
- Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD hits all-time low ahead of Black Friday
- Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Master Motherboard Review: ATX with 14 USB ports, incredibly fast memory support
November 15
- Wi-Fi 8 won't improve transfer speeds — but the new standard will enhance reliability and user experience
- Summit supercomputer gets virtual farewell on Zoom — supercomputer going full tilt until last possible moment
- Intel won't bring 3D V-Cache-like tech to consumer CPUs for now — next-gen Clearwater Forest Xeon CPUs will feature "Local Cache" in the base tile akin to AMD's 3D V-Cache
- HighPoint launches a 492TB external NVMe RAID storage solution smaller than a shoebox — five-inch devices come with eight Solidigm SSDs and 28 GB/s transfer speeds
- Maker builds Raspberry Pi-powered Rick and Morty watch to remotely control smart home
- U.S Department of Commerce finalizes $6.6 billion CHIPS Act funding for TSMC Fab 21 Arizona site
- Up your sound game with this amazing early Black Friday deal on Audioengine's A1-MR 60W desktop speakers — $99 for a limited time
- TSMC discovers unexploded bomb at Kaohsiung chip fab construction site — bomb has since been safely removed
- Corsair expects Nvidia's RTX 50 series will retain the 12V-2x6 power connector — Next-Gen GPUs could consume well over 450W of power
- HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 review: Convertible Copilot+
November 14
- Chinese GPU unicorn Moore Threads inches closer to IPO: Report
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 spotted at exhibition ahead of official launch
- GOG launches "Preservation Program" for porting and maintaining "Good Old Games" to modern PCs with 92 classic games
- TSMC reportedly delays Fab 21 opening ceremony in Arizona until January
- Intel Arrow Lake loses DLVR bypass "Power Gate" profile in latest 0x112 microcode — chipmaker says the change will prevent "accidental misuse"
- Updated: Two Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs burned out on X870 motherboards — vendor investigates the Ryzen burnout issues
- Corsair's H100i RGB 240mm AIO liquid CPU cooler with iCUE link is only $74 ahead of Black Friday — new all-time low price
- Intel’s postponement of the Magdeburg fab was made in “close coordination” with the German state — the company will reevaluate the project in two years to decide its final fate
- Apple M4 revitalizes decades-old iMac G4 — out with the PowerPC chip, in with the new Apple Silicon
- AI accelerator tinybox pro goes up for preorder for $40,000 — the device features eight RTX 4090s and two AMD Genoa EPYC processors
- RISC-V motherboard for Framework 13 laptops and mini-PCs starts at $199 – quad-core RISC-V CPU and 8GB of RAM included
- Chinese company trained GPT-4 rival with just 2,000 GPUs — 01.ai spent $3M compared to OpenAI's $80M to $100M
- Diamond-cooled GPUs are coming soon — startup claims 20C temp reduction, 25% more overclocking headroom as it seeks US govt funding for diamond-encrusted chip cooling solutions
- Intel takes down AMD in our integrated graphics battle royale — iGPUs are still nowhere near dedicated GPU levels but use much less power
- AMD claims the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is 75% faster than Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in gaming
- Microsoft releases official Windows 11 ISO for Arm devices — Extending support for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors
- Montech Sky Two GX Case Review: Hinged-door design for just $80
- Phison intros 'world's fastest' high-capacity 128TB SSD — Pascari D205V hits 3 million IOPS and 14,600 MB/s with PCIe 5.0
- NEC supercomputer combines Intel Xeon and AMD Instinct accelerators to nearly triple performance
November 13
- Softbank plans to build first Nvidia Blackwell-based AI supercomputer using x86 DGX B200 servers
- AMD is laying off 4 percent of its global workforce as it sharpens focus on AI
- Handy Raspberry Pi battery charger doubles as attractive desk clock
- Cooler Master launches a souped-up version of the Amazon Basics CPU cooler — Hyper 411 Nano hits the market for SFF builds
- Apple M4 Max CPU transcribes audio twice as fast as the RTX A5000 GPU in user test — M4 Max pulls just 25W compared to the RTX A5000's 190W
- Black Friday bargain: Lowest-ever price on Cooler Master's NR200P MAX mini-ITX case with an included 850W SFX power supply and liquid cooling
- TSMC sued for race and citizenship discrimination at its Arizona facilities (updated)
- Softbank once offered Jensen Huang a loan to buy Nvidia entirely — Nvidia CEO regrets not taking the loan
- Intel's Special Edition Core i9-12900KS plummets to all-time low $240 — get 70% off Intel's Alder Lake flagship 16-core chip
- Xbox gaming handheld is years away, Microsoft exec says
- AMD is purportedly preparing Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" APUs — Ryzen 7 255/260 set to replace the Ryzen 7 8745H/8845H series
- Solidigm reveals 122TB SSD, the world's highest-capacity drive for AI workloads — D5-P5336 offers unlimited write durability
- Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
- Nvidia's latest DLSS 3.8.10 version features only two presets: Preset E and Preset F — chipmaker trimmed the DLL file size by more than 50%
- AirPods Pro hacked using Faraday cage and microwave as a jammer to fool geofencing — enthusiast activates hearing aids feature in AirPods Pro in geoblocked India
- Valkyrie Syn 360 AIO Liquid Cooler Review: A strong AIO marred by beta-level software
- Global GPU market to hit $100 billion in 2024: JPR
- Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface
November 12
- This Raspberry Pi dashcam continuously records even when your car is off
- Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl and MSFS 2024 arrive next week — here are the system requirements and driver details
- Local and foreign chip manufacturers flee China, expand in Vietnam — companies move to Southeast Asia as US-China tensions simmer
- Researchers develop Python code for in-memory computing — in-memory computation comes to Python code
- Huawei develops massive 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device — first-gen MED drive targets warm and cold storage
- Nvidia offers Indiana Jones gaming bundle to super sales of aging RTX 40 series — RTX 4070 and higher GPUs eligible for the promotion
- Arrow Lake and Zen 5 motherboards should be getting cheaper soon — Asus files a slew of budget Intel and AMD boards with regulators
- Despite brutal price hikes on many products, VMWare makes Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro free for all users
- Acer Nitro V 15 review: Well-built budget system, but a bland screen
- Hackers bury malware in new ZIP file attack — combining multiple ZIPs into one bypasses antivirus protections
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225H delivers 14% better single core and 16% improved iGPU performance than Meteor Lake per early benchmarks — the CPU still falls short of its Lunar Lake counterparts
- LG working with Jim Keller on new ‘Affectionate Intelligence’ processor
- Nvidia App reaches version 1.0 milestone and exits beta — GeForce Experience and Control Panel now deprecated
- Our favorite productivity mouse, Logitech's MX Master 3S drops to $78 for a limited time
- How To Use AMD Ryzen Master
- Japan readies ambitious $65 billion plan to revive homegrown semiconductor manufacturing — Expects economic return of over $1 trillion
- Intel's top scientist wins Lisa Su Award — Dr. Ann Kelleher honored for years of technical prowess
- Enermax PlatiGemini 1200W ATX 3.1 + ATX12VO PSU Review
- U.S. lawmakers ask top fab tool makers about their sales to China
November 11
- Valve drops limited edition white Steam Deck OLED
- Best Graphics Cards for Gaming in 2024
- Best Wi-Fi Routers 2024: High-Speed, Low Cost Choices for Wi-Fi 6, 6E and 7
- Best SSDs 2024: From Budget SATA to Blazing-Fast NVMe
- This custom Raspberry Pi voice assistant is built around ChatGPT
- Preliminary specifications for Intel's 65W and 35W Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake S CPUs leaked
- Open source, single-PCB HIDman adapter lets peripherals to easily interface with old PCs that don't support USB
- Bitcoin skyrockets to an all-time high of over $84,000 — a euphoric surge in investments from Trump's presidential win
- Raspberry Pi 5 overclocked to 3.6 GHz by ScatterBencher — but exotic cooling didn’t help push clocks any faster than air
- AMD Ryzen 9000 pricing freefalls, hits all-time lows — Micro Center slashes up to 28% off Zen 5
- Gigabyte MO34WQC2 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: Colorful, fast, and smooth
- Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
- Pizza Hut's new pizza warmer uses the PlayStation 5's heat to keep your pizza hot — you can 3D print the new PIZZAWARMR for free
- Expand your gaming handheld storage to 2TB with Crucial's tiny M.2-2230 P310 SSD - now at its lowest-ever price
- Adding ceramic powder to liquid metal thermal paste improves cooling up to 72% says researchers
November 10
- Enthusiast demos motherboard socket pin replacement — hot air, tweezers, and a steady hand
- UserBenchmark suggests you buy the i5-13600K over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D — says AMD drives sales with 'aggressive marketing' rather than 'real-world performance'
- The Seagate 2TB Xbox Storage Expansion Card SSD is just $199 at Amazon
- Downed Russian drone used at least 30 chips from Western companies — silicon from Xilinx, TI, Marvell, Micron, and others found in the wreckage
- Take a seat — standing desks aren't better for you, says new study
- Super tiny Raspberry Pi RP2040 RGB LED matrix display hits Kickstarter
- U.S. ordered TSMC to halt shipments of advanced AI processors to China: Report
- 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard gets full size 108 key version — numpad devotees can also choose between NES and Famicom colorways
- LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors
- Taiwanese law prevents TSMC from producing 2nm chips overseas, Taiwanese govt official confirms
- How to run a local Linux web server running in a Windows 11 window
- AMD Strix Halo 'RDNA 3.5' iGPU rumored to launch under the Radeon 8000S branding — Up to 40 CUs and support for LPDDR5X-8000 memory
- Top 10 Best 3D Printers for 2024: Find the Perfect Machine For You
- NZXT Kraken Elite 360 RGB Review: The best on the market – and priced like it
November 9
- Computing industry legend Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL ‘You’ve got mail,’ passes away at 74
- Mac Studio lookalike packs a Core i9-14900KF CPU and RTX 4090 Laptop GPU — the FEVM FN60G rocks a 3.8-liter chassis that's slightly smaller than the Mac Studio
- D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models
- Microsoft persuades Mail and Calendar users to migrate to Outlook — Mail and Calendar app will cease to work after December 31
- This Raspberry Pi-powered chess board robot moves pieces automatically
- Intel reportedly denies RMA for crashing Core i9-14900K CPU due to liquid metal thermal paste usage — liquid metal erased the markings and serial number on the CPU
- 34-inch WQHD 165 Hz curved gaming monitor is selling for under $200
- Gorilla Glass maker Corning is set to receive $32 million under the CHIPS and Science Act
- M4 Mac Mini SSD modded from 256GB to 1TB — modder solders higher-capacity NAND to the removable SSD module
- AMD Strix Point CPU powers upcoming Ayaneo 3 gaming handheld — device sports up to Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU and 7-inch OLED screen
- Raspberry Pi SSD Review: Speedy, yet safe
- South Korean engineer smuggled out shopping bags full of secret SK hynix docs to give to Huawei
- Lenovo Legion R25f-30 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Premium speed and response at a low price
November 8
- Intel announces Arrow Lake fix coming within a month — Robert Hallock confirms poor gaming performance is due to optimization issues
- Best Ultrabooks and Premium Laptops 2024
- Best Gaming Laptops 2024: Tested, benchmarked and reviewed
- Best AIO Coolers 2024
- Best CPU Coolers 2024: AIO and Air Coolers
- US Congressman accuses SMIC of making 7nm chips for China, violating U.S. sanctions
- TSMC to stop supplying advanced AI processors for all of its China customers: Report
- Buggy Windows Update starts automatically 'upgrading' Windows 2022 servers to Windows Server 2025
- LG's 45-inch UltraGear OLED curved gaming monitor drops by $700
- ASE to bolster North American semiconductor supply chain — new packaging and test facility in Mexico expected to hire 500 engineers and technicians in first year
- Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale
- Ryzen 7 9800X3D gutted to get a look inside AMD’s gaming champion — die shot reveals CPU cores and 3D V-Cache
- Both Trump and Biden expected to attend TSMC's Arizona fab grand opening ceremony — Fab 21 opens in December
- Crucial T500 4TB SSD review: More of a good thing
- This Raspberry Pi automatically archives a stack of Amiga floppy disks
- Intel engineer's Linux patch would alert users of outdated microcode — Flagging the system as vulnerable
- ID-Cooling FX360 INF Review: Budget-Friendly with low noise levels
- AMD's desktop PC market share skyrockets amid Intel's Raptor Lake CPU crashing scandal — AMD makes biggest leap in recent history
November 7
- Lian Li's DK07 mechanized standing desk PC case debuts at $1,399 USD — room inside for dual EATX PCs
- 3D-printed Mac Mini enclosure makes the tiny PC look like the world's cutest Mac Pro
- Chipmakers race to get CHIPS Act dollars before White House changeover — TSMC and GlobalFoundries finalize applications, facilitating payouts
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D completely sold out in Europe — pre-orders sell out incoming shipments before they hit shelves
- Scalpers sell Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs for up to $1,000 — Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out of stock at major U.S retailers
- Hexgears Immersion A3 TKL Review: How low can you go?
- Sub-Zero Ryzen 7 9800X3D hits 1,400 FPS+ at 6.9 GHz — new gaming champion destroys Valorant frame rates with liquid nitrogen
- MSI MPG A1000G PCIE 5 PSU Review
- It's not a typo, this 2024 model HP Victus gaming laptop is only $429 - but there is a slight catch
- Nvidia squeezes GeForce Now users for more cash with 100-hour monthly playtime limit — Nvidia will charge $5.99 for 15 extra hours for the Ultimate tier and $2.99 for the Performance tier
- Intel Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs rumored to arrive next month — ahead of AMD RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell
- The Best CPU for Gaming in 2024
- Unannounced Ryzen 9 9950X3D dominates Ryzen 7 9800X3D in Factorio benchmark — Ryzen 9000X3D flagship up to 18% faster than current fastest gaming CPU
- Intel CEO reminds investors it provides TSMC with chipmaking equipment — Gelsinger emphasizes that TSMC is a strategic partner
- Intel slapped with class action lawsuit for Raptor Lake CPU instability issues — chipmaker accused of consciously selling defective chips
- Where to buy AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D — the new king of gaming CPUs
- Mac Mini (M4 Pro) tested: Tiny titan
- MacBook Pro (16-inch, M4 Pro) Review: Running up the score
- MacBook Pro (14-inch, M4) review: Nano-texture niceness
- Raspberry Pi Pico W drives custom cardiography signal-measuring device
- TSMC founder once asked Nvidia CEO Jensen to be TSMC's CEO — upcoming Morris Chang biography shares the details
- Apple has allegedly approached Foxconn and Lenovo to build AI servers based on Apple Silicon
- Raspberry Pi announce $12 USB 3 hub to add more ports to your Pi
November 6
- Outlook users beware — Classic Outlook is currently crashing when you open more than 60 emails at once
- Huawei trying to poach TSMC employees with 3X salary
- Minisforum's Surface-like 3-in-1 laptop becomes more affordable — V3 SE features an older Ryzen CPU, less RAM, and lower-specced screen than the V3
- Nintendo officially confirms Switch 2 is backward compatible with Switch games
- This Raspberry Pi axe bass from 'Adventure Time' is fit for a 1,000 year-old vampire queen
- Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company by market capitalization — Chipmaker dethrones Apple for the second time this year
- CPU-Z adds support for Ryzen 9000X3D, Arrow Lake CPUs, and CUDIMMs
- Get your hands on one of our favorite 3D printers, the Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro, for just a smidgen over $200
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Review: Devastating Gaming Performance
- AMD unveils AMD OLMo, its first 1B-parameter LLM with strong reasoning
- Sony patents a dedicated rewind button to save us when we suck at gaming
November 5
- Kioxia forecasts a tripling in demand for NAND memory by 2028 — could further impact SSD pricing
- Research team uses the human body to power wearables — addresses major obstacle of conventional batteries
- Samsung's 990 Pro 2TB SSD drops to $149 ahead of Black Friday
- Best Motherboards 2024 for Gaming, by Socket and Chipset
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series reportedly launching 'soon' — but all indicators continue to point to a January 2025 reveal
- Sapphire launches Pulse B650M motherboard with just two DIMM slots — the $112 AM5 motherboard supports RAM up to DDR5-7400 and higher
- AMD silently bumped up memory specifications for Ryzen AI 300 CPUs — Strix Point now supports LPDDR5X-8000 as opposed to LPDDR5X-7500
- Over 200 days after its official closure, the last user of Nintendo Network's online servers finally disconnected after a 3DS system crash
- Intel postpones Magdeburg fab until 2029 to 2030 — German subsidies to Intel could go back to the federal budget
- MIT unveils ultra-efficient 3D nanoscale transistors that could revolutionize future electronics
- SMART Modular Technologies readies the T6EN series of hardware-level Self-Encryption SSDs with a conformal coating — SSDs made for aerospace, defense, and other industrial applications
- This Raspberry Pi Pico Fallout-inspired T-45 power armor helmet is ready for battling radroaches
- Corsair MP700 Elite SSD review: The retail, budget PCIe 5.0 SSD of choice is officially here
- Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285H 45W mobile CPU falls short of its Lunar Lake brethren in leaked Geekbench 6 single-core benchmark
- Nvidia asked SK hynix to accelerate HBM4 chip delivery by six months, says report
- SK hynix announces the world's first 48GB 16-Hi HBM3E memory — Next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs and UFS 5.0 storage are also in the works
- For the first time ever, AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
November 4
- Nintendo Wii turned into a sleeper gaming PC, complete with GameCube ports — powered by AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon 680M graphics
- MSI's extreme RTX 4090-powered gaming laptop is $200 off
- AMD-powered OLED handheld aims to rival the Steam Deck OLED — Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 runs Black Myth: Wukong at 50-60 FPS with 1080p low settings
- Asus launches triple-fan RX 6750 GRE Megalodon GPU – midrange RDNA 2 GPU still plentiful even in late 2024
- Best Raspberry Pi Accessories of 2024
- Best RP2040 Boards 2024
- Best Stemma QT, Grove Add-Ons for Raspberry Pi and Arduino 2024
- The Best Raspberry Pi Cases 2024
- Best microSD Cards for Raspberry Pi 2024
- Best Raspberry Pi HATs 2024: Expansion Boards for Every Project
- Best Raspberry Pi Pico Accessories and Add-Ons 2024
- Best Soldering Irons and Stations 2024
- Tested: OS update solves Raspberry Pi’s age-old YouTube frame-rate problem.
- The Shores of Bell — Doom is now playable on Nintendo's $99 alarm clock
- Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades — Windows 10 still has the stronghold on the PC market
- AMD’s China-exclusive lineup of prebuilt PCs gets Ryzen 7 9800X3D upgrade – some models come with GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs
- HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy 2024: Here's all the hard disks we've tested over the past couple of years ranked by performance.
- Asus rolls out rugged USB-C SSD enclosure that delivers transfer speeds up to 20 Gb/s — TUF Gaming A2 SSD is IP68 water- and dust-resistance, meeting U.S. MIL-STD-810H standards
- Best Raspberry Pi Projects: November 2024
- These Raspberry Pi Zero-powered AR goggles were made from scratch
- Clever coder crams a Solitaire game onto a single Nintendo GBA e-Reader card
- FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code
- Intel CEO complains 'this is taking too long' after investing $30B but receiving zero CHIPS Act funding
- Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Review: A Touch of class
November 3
- Asus 'Turbo Game Mode' arrives on its AM5 motherboards — second CCD and SMT toggles arrive for up to a 35% performance boost on X3D chips
- Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM — plus 2GB DDR5 system RAM
- Asus WRX90 motherboards reportedly support 3D V-Cache Override — Will next-gen Threadripper 9000 "Shimada Peak" CPUs have an X3D counterpart?
- This Raspberry Pi Nerf blaster is insanely over-engineered
- Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in
- Microsoft claims timber-built datacenters can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 65%
- Intel reportedly scaling back R&D teams in Israel — several hundred talented staff will be laid off
- Valve Engineer's AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228% on RDNA 2 GPUs
- AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker — but no Radeon card makes the top 30 list
- This MSI 27-Inch curved gaming monitor has dropped to its lowest price ever at Newegg
- TSMC rumored to receive High NA EUV machines from ASML this year
- Gigabyte G6 review: A swing and a miss
- AWS CEO estimates large city scale power consumption of future AI model training tasks — 'an individual model may require somewhere between one to 5GW of power'
- How to unlock the new Labwc Wayland Compositor in Raspberry Pi OS
- Windows Server 2025 supports CPUs packing two to 192 cores — CPU support list spans Pentium chips to Xeon and EPYC parts
November 2
- Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover
- Apple's M4 Max is the single-core performance king in Geekbench 6 — M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X
- Make spruces up Agetec arcade stick with two Raspberry Pi Picos
- Cooler Master has so many leftover Shark X cases that it's selling them at $4,300 a piece in Japan — the case is admittedly cheaper than the $7,000 pre-built PC that Cooler Master was offering
- Ryzen 9000 CPU prices plummet in anticipation of the holiday season — Zen 5 discounts range from 10% to 23% off
- Sealed AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU stands the test of time — 22-year-old single-core "Thoroughbred" relic has never been turned on outside the factory
- Nvidia to replace Intel in Dow Jones Industrial Average — Intel's 25-year reign has come to an end
- The best Black Friday 2024 deals
- GlobalFoundries fined $500,000 for restricted chip exports to Chinese firm on U.S. entity list — chipmaker shipped $17 million worth of silicon wafers to China’s SJ Semiconductor
- Ryzen 9 9900X has dropped to an all-time low price at Amazon
- Dr. Jensen Huang — Nvidia CEO to receive an Honorary PhD in engineering from a Hong Kong university
- Enthusiast builds a 3D printer that uses a hot glue gun — heavily modified Dremel glue gun surprisingly good at printing objects
- AI-powered Minecraft runs without a game engine — game rendered in real-time at a continuous 20 FPS
- Turtle Beach Kone II Review: Big but surprisingly comfortable
- Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 13 1300W Power Supply Review
November 1
- Lunar Lake's integrated memory is an expensive one-off — Intel rejects the approach for future CPUs due to margin impact
- Arrow Lake CPUs can still get bendy despite revamped socket — specialized contact frame flattens chip, claims to lower temperatures by up to 6C
- TeamGroup DDR5-7200 C32 CAMM2 promises performance speeds over 100 GB/s — memory manufacturer aims for DDR5-9000
- Intel outlines plan to break free from TSMC manufacturing — 70% of Panther Lake at Intel fabs, Nova Lake almost entirely in-house
- Super-lightweight operating system boots off a 1.44MB floppy disk — KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC
- ChatGPT-5 won't be coming this year — OpenAI CEO reveals company is focusing on existing models
- Chinese researchers build military AI using Meta’s open-source Llama model — ChatBIT allegedly performs at around 90% of the performance of OpenAI GPT-4 LLM
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 outperforms Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in LLM performance — Team Red provided benchmarks show a strong lead of up to 27% in LM Studio
- Intel says it will miss its AI goals with Gaudi 3 due to unbaked software — Intel's $500 million AI goal unachievable as competitors rake in billions
- Cadence says its AI-driven chip design tools provide a process node's worth of performance gain, but without moving forward to a new node
- This Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Groovebox is ready to jam
- The humungous 8TB WD Black SN850X SSD crashes to a new all-time low price
- Corsair RM750x (2024) PSU review
- Minisforum launches $559 RX 7600M XT OCuLink eGPU docking station for mini-PCs
- Intel lost $16.6 billion in Q3, reports $13.3 billion in revenue