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- December 30
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- AMD-powered Lenovo Yoga 7 at all-time low $599 — convertible laptop with Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU is $300 off
- NATO plans to build satellite links as backups to undersea cables — recent cable damage incidents shine spotlight on Project HEIST
- Chinese GPU maker reveals new workstation GPU for the domestic market — Moore Threads MTT X300 uses the same hardware as the gaming-focused MTT S80
- Finnish investigators discover anchor drag marks of “almost a hundred kilometers” in undersea cable damage case — anchor is allegedly missing from detained tanker
- WD's Black SN850X 4TB SSD is only $259 for a limited time - this is the perfect drive for installing all your new games
- Samsung's Galaxy laptop upgraded with fanless cooler, unlocking 50% more performance and 16% larger battery — Frore to demo solid state laptop cooling at CES 2025
- LG to showcase 'world's first bendable 5K2K gaming monitor' at CES 2025
- Nvidia finalizes acquisition of AI software firm Run:ai, takes software open source – company reportedly cost $700 million
- Intel opens pre-orders for Arrow Lake non-K 65W CPUs in China — Shipping is expected to commence on January 13 as Intel eyes a CES unveil next month
- APNX V1 Case Review: Fish-bowl design done right, with excellent thermals
- All-in-one machine recycles plastic bottles into 3D printer filament — PETFusion 2.0 launches on Kickstarter
- DRAM prices expected to decline in early 2025 impacting PC, server, and GPU VRAM markets
- EDATec Passive Coolers for Raspberry Pi 5 and 4 Review: Keeping Cool
- December 29
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- AI language model runs on a Windows 98 system with Pentium II and 128MB of RAM — Open-source AI flagbearers demonstrate Llama 2 LLM in extreme conditions
- MNT Reform Next open-source modular laptop crowdfunder goes live for $1,099
- This MSI Thin A15 RTX 4060 gaming laptop is now just $779 at Newegg
- Nvidia's defeatured H20 GPUs sell surprisingly well in China — 50% increase every quarter in sanctions-compliant GPUs for Chinese AI customers
- Get notifications on your keeb with Das Keyboards' 5QS for only $49
- Intel rumored to launch a 24GB Battlemage GPU for professionals in 2025 — Double the VRAM capacity of its Alchemist counterpart, targeted at AI workloads
- Huawei’s 1TB SSD shows up in South Korea for just $32 – QLC-based eKitStore Xtreme 200E promises high-end PCIe 4.0 performance
- Seasonic Focus GX ATX 3 1000W Gold PSU Review
- Human thought runs at just 10 bits per second, say Caltech scientists — that's why we are mostly single-taskers
- Intel's low-power Twin Lake NX50 series specs leak — All efficient core design based on Alder Lake silicon comes back for another lap
- Asus leaks its ROG NUC 2025 on social media ahead of CES debut — compact gamer-focused RTX 50 and Core Ultra 200 mini PC on the way
- Fractal Refine Review: Comfortably refined
- December 28
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- Chinese chipmaker Phytium sells over 10 million homegrown CPUs — Feiteng processors are primarily used in national projects and key local industries
- SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM — it claims to bring new chips to market 30% faster
- Nvidia RTX 5080 and AMD RX 9070 GPUs listed ahead of launch — Asus is reportedly readying a new "Astral" GPU lineup
- After 24 years of failure, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask's blue dog has finally won a race
- AI data centers reportedly cause power problems in residential areas — decreased power quality in homes near data centers causes reduced lifespan for electrical appliances
- Ergo Desk reclines with your chair, desktop tilts up to match the recline of your chair — 3-in-1 desk can be reserved for $450
- Get gaming with ABS' Kaze Ruby gaming PC powered by a powerful Nvidia RTX 4080 Super GPU - Save $500 on Newegg's After Christmas Sale
- RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 listed for $2,600 and $1,350 at Chinese retailer — leaked listing suggests Blackwell might see an eye-popping price hike, at least in China
- Take home this Asus TUF Gaming 34-inch curved FreeSync Premium gaming monitor for just $279
- Be Quiet Light Loop 360 review: The best AIO for Intel CPUs
- Arduino Plug and Make Kit Review: The Kit to start your journey
- AMD Zen 5 Fire Range CPU surfaces inside next-gen gaming laptop — Ryzen 9000HX chip seemingly wields 16 Zen 5 cores
- Putin's 'sovereign' gaming console projects detailed, one with a homegrown Elbrus CPU, the other a Chinese knockoff — Russian gov't admits they can't compete with PS5 or Xbox
- iStorage launches most advanced encrypted USB sticks available — 'world's first FIPS 140-3 Level 3' validated flash drives, pricing starts at $96 for 32GB
- TSMC's first new overseas fab in years begins to make chips — JASM coming online
- How to install a motherboard
- December 27
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- Lemontron, an open source, fully-portable 3D printer, has arrived— Can be transported in an empty filament box
- Blackwell GPU reportedly takes 3X to 4X longer to test than Hopper — more complex designs lead to skyrocketing test requirements
- Ryzen Z2 Go APU is allegedly exclusive to the Lenovo Legion Go S — chip reportedly offers four Zen 3+ cores, 12 CU RDNA 2 iGPU, and LPDDR5X-6400 support
- OpenAI switching to a for-profit company to raise more cash as it continues to lose money
- Gaming industry insiders say cutting-edge graphics cost too much to make for AAA games
- South Korea greenlights the world's largest semiconductor hub — half the size of Beverly Hills to house six fabs, three power plans, and fab suppliers
- Chinese AI company says breakthroughs enabled creating a leading-edge AI model with 11X less compute — DeepSeek's optimizations could highlight limits of US sanctions
- Minecraft server made to run on 63-year-old, pre-x86 COBOL coding language
- Incoming RTX 5090 could need massive power stages for possible 600-watt power draw – Nvidia’s next flagship GPU rumored to sport copious amounts of VRMs
- China releases Top 100 supercomputer list for 2024: No ExaFLOPS systems mentioned, obfuscation continues
- Got an Xbox for Christmas? Increase storage capacity to the max with this best-ever deal on a 2TB WD Black C50
- Gigabyte M27QA ICE 180 Hz QHD gaming monitor review: Solid performance with a unique look
- Microsoft warns of new Windows 11 installation media bug that blocks future security updates
- The Ayaneo 3 gaming handheld is more than a refresh — console will leverage up to 56 permutations of joystick, touchpad, D-Pad, and button modules
- December 26
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- Ryzen 9 9950X3D purportedly surfaces with 5.65 GHz boost clocks — leaked specs inlcude 96MB 3D V-Cache on a single CCD and 170W TDP
- Lenovo readies self-charging Bluetooth keyboard with a solar panel, also preparing an AI travel kit for road warriors
- Chinese memory maker could grab 15% of market in the coming years, stoking price wars
- Finnish authorities board tanker suspected of damaging undersea cables — tanker is reportedly linked to Russia’s shadow fleet
- Relive surfing the original internet with new emulator — 34 years later, WorldWideWeb app commemorates the first web browser
- Hitting an all-time low, the 1TB WD Black SN770M is now just $82 - beef up your gaming handheld
- Japanese gov't under fire for funding native chipmaker Rapidus with $6.2 billion in COVID relief money
- Trump nominee favors ‘destroying TSMC’ fabs if China invades Taiwan — strategy designed to deprive China of key motivation to attack
- Gaming laptop leaks with RTX 50 GPU, 192GB RAM, and Arrow Lake-HX CPU — Clevo laptop has monster 18-inch 4K display and Thunderbolt 5 ports
- Nvidia's next-gen B300 GPUs have 1,400W TDP, deliver 50% more AI horsepower: Report
- Arzopa A1 15.6-inch Portable Monitor Review: Sub-$80 value with a kickstand and great audio
- Lenovo ThinkBook Plus with rollable screen leaks out — display expands from 14- to 16.7-inches with a user keystoke or gesture
- Nvidia's unreleased RTX 5090 pictured with huge GPU die, sports 32GB of GDDR7 memory
- Russian firm starts shipments of AI systems based on homegrown CPUs, but can't avoid using foreign GPUs
- December 25
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- Undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia experiences outage — capacity reduced to 35% as Finnish authorities investigate
- Chinese PCIe 5.0 SSD tested with speeds up to 14.5 GB/s — Zhitai TiPro9000 sports 5th Gen YMTC 3D NAND and SMI SM2508 controller
- Vendors push Intel's promised performance-boosting firmware for Intel Arrow Lake CPUs — 0x114 beta BIOS updates coupled with the new CSME version 1854v2.2
- Master your fighting games with the Victrix Pro FS ESports Fight Stick - now at its lowest-ever price
- Xreal One Review: X1 chip up Xreal’s game in the AR glasses segment
- ASML CEO says China is 10 to 15 years behind in chipmaking capabilities
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D drops to just $359 at Amazon — Secure the fastest Zen 4 gaming chip while supplies last
- Corsair Vengeance i7600 review: Premium performance
- Elon Musk's xAI raises $6 billion to build even more powerful AI supercomputers — Nvidia, AMD contribute to funding round
- Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 allegedly sport 16GB and 12GB of GDDR7 memory, respectively — Up to 8960 CUDA cores, 256-bit memory bus, and 300W TDP
- Leaked Nvidia RTX 5090 PCB design reveals massive GPU package and high-performance features
- Steam released a record number of games in 2024 — over 18,000 new titles were added to the platform
- Blur Busters releases authentic CRT simulator shader for high refresh OLED and LCD screens— 240 Hz+ OLED recommended for the best experience
- December 24
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- Grab a 1TB Gen 4 SSD for Christmas - MSI's Spatium M450 is down to just $44
- Xerox buys Lexmark for $1.5 billion — printer biz consolidation deal requires approval from US and Chinese regulators
- UK trials 'game changing' drone swarm killing weapon that costs 13 cents a shot — RFDEW uses radio waves to down drones
- Raspberry Pi Pico streams real-time video to Nintendo's Game boy Color
- Nvidia App performance issue gets 'fixed' with release 11.0.1 — but all it has done is turn off Game Filters by default
- AMD Strix Point-powered 3-in-1 OneXPlayer X1 Pro pre-orders live, starting at $1,399 — Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, a 2.5K 120 Hz touch display, and up to 64GB of RAM and 4TB of storage
- South Korea mulls creating 'KSMC' contract chipmaker to compete with TSMC, requires a $13.9 billion investment
- Alleged GALAX GeForce RTX 5080 box art surfaces online preceding next month's CES 2025 debut
- 'Twas The Night Before Tom's Christmas 2024
- Minisforum launches portable dual monitor at $231 — single USB-C cable connectivity option boosts the twin 15.6-inch FHD screen clamshell's appeal
- Asus ZenWiFi BT10 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Good multi-gig wireless performance, but still pricey
- Nvidia RTX 5080 mobile powered HP Omen 16 Max leaks ahead of CES 2025 — listing mentions a tasty new Intel Arrow Lake HX CPU, too
- Broadcom has no Interest in buying Intel: CEO says no one asked
- December 23
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- No more time for deliveries — last-minute gift ideas for the techie in your life
- Cirrus7 Incus is the first passively-cooled mini-PC to support Ryzen 7 9700X — miní-PC is also updated for Intel Raptor Lake
- Pick up this Logitech G203 budget gaming mouse for only $18 - an ideal stocking filler
- Radeon RX 9070 XT reference design purportedly revealed — RDNA 4 GPU emerges with black and a triple fan cooler design
- Console modder hunts down world's largest CRT TV — saves it from noodle restaurant demolition death half the way around the globe
- Geekom has sub-$500 Snapdragon, Strix Point, and Arrow Lake mini-PCs primed for CES 2025
- Vendor hints at mobile RTX 50 series GPU launch at CES 2025 — next-gen gaming laptops with mobile Blackwell GPUs and Intel Arrow Lake-H/HX or AMD Fire Range CPUs
- US Senate finds Commerce Department’s efforts to enact bans and sanction “inadequate” — investigation finds agency underfunded, must rely on voluntary compliance by chipmakers
- U.S. gov't launches probe into ongoing China dominance of legacy semiconductor market amid concerns of Chinese vendors flooding the market
- Asus claims its new world’s lightest Copilot+ laptop also boasts 32 hours of battery life — new Zenbook launches at CES 2025
- Be Quiet Light Base 600 LX Case Review: Innovative design, lackluster thermal performance
- December 22
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- Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched — device uses movement of ions to generate airflow without any moving parts
- Holding back China's chipmaking progress is a fool’s errand, says U.S. Commerce Secretary
- XPG's Dynamic BTF case offers a pegboard front panel — a holey design for a mix of convenient peripheral storage and fun
- AMD RDNA 4 GPUs will allegedly be rebranded RX 9000 — A mixture of new RDNA 3/RDNA 4 mobile GPUs and an RX 7000 refresh is expected to arrive at CES
- Samsung, Amkor, and TI finalize CHIPS deals: 2nm and advanced packaging coming to U.S.
- Intel Arrow Lake non-K 65W CPU box packaging leaked — Bulky design alludes to included stock cooler, likely arriving next month at CES
- Cat themed fur-wrapped tri-mode keyboard now available for $240 — Petbrick 65 launches in Calico and Odd-eye, but more breeds are on the way
- Intel Game On Graphics Driver addresses Battlemage bloopers – Arc B580 fixes and known issues are the highlights of the latest update
- ID-Cooling Frozn A620 GDL Review: Eye-catching gold bling without ARGB
- ASML reportedly cancels orders for the Lego EUV machine set — the kit is only available to ASML employees [Updated]
- December 21
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- Engineers enable quantum communication over existing fiber optic cables — new research shows data transmission using quantum teleportation is possible in parallel with a classical network at specific wavelengths
- Arm will seek a new trial against Qualcomm
- AMD B850 motherboard pricing leaks at Amazon's overseas store — Gigabyte B850 boards listed between $240 and $308
- $1,600 aluminum Icebreaker keyboard breaks the bank — sports metal chassis, keycaps with 800 micro-perforations, and VIA support
- Intel Arc B580 GPU with two M.2 slots smiles for the camera — Maxsun GPU offers storage expansion for two PCIe 4.0 SSDs
- Lexar Play 4TB SSD review: Another good SSD for your PS5
- Qualcomm wins legal battle over Arm — chipmaker didn't violate Arm's chip licensing agreement
- December 20
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- US gov't set to ban Huawei intermediary Sophgo over AI chip supplies — partnership skirted US chip sanctions
- Newly Resurrected Shapeways Acquires Thangs in Surprising Announcement
- Micron's HBM4E heralds a new era of customized memory for AI GPUs and beyond
- Cherry Xtrfy M64 Pro Wireless Mouse Review: Plug-and-play
- ASRock Challenger Arc B570 lands in the hands of user a month before launch — Reportedly sips just 10W of power at idle and runs a handful of games despite no official driver support
- Core Ultra 9 285K is faster in Linux than in Windows – flagship Arrow Lake chip is 6 to 8% faster on average in Linux
- Grab two of SK hynix's superfast Tube T31 1TB Flash drives for just $109 - techy stocking fillers for the holidays
- New AI accelerator slots into an M.2 SSD port — MemryX launches $149 MX3 AI Accelerator Module capable of 24 TOPS
- Japanese company makes $16 USB-C cable that rotates 360 degrees — cable is approximately 3 feet long and offers 240W power delivery and USB 2.0 transfer speeds
- Underwater footage raises suspicions of undersea cable sabotage as European authorities board Chinese ship for investigation
- AI PC revolution appears dead on arrival — 'supercycle’ for AI PCs and smartphones is a bust, analyst says
- China's CXMT begins producing DDR5 memory — first China-made DDR5 sticks reportedly aimed at consumer PCs
- Intel ex-CEO Gelsinger and current co-CEO slapped with lawsuit over Intel Foundry disclosures — plaintiffs demand Gelsinger surrender salary earned
- December 19
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- PlayStation 5 Pro specifications thoroughly explained, 'FLOPflation' debunked by PS5 system architect Mark Cerny
- Intel terminates x86S initiative — unilateral quest to de-bloat x86 instruction set comes to an end
- A perfect holiday gift for the racing-sim enthusiast in your life - Thrustmaster's T248 racing wheel hits an all-time low
- Nvidia RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 gaming PCs listed prematurely for $7,539 and $4,399 at a retailer — Blackwell meets Arrow Lake to power upcoming Predator Orion 7000 PCs from Acer
- US Department of Commerce finalizes $458 million grant for SK Hynix to build Indiana packaging plant — plans to lend an additional $500 million for Lafayette project
- AMD's 'Golden Rabbit' GPU reportedly hits 'end of life' status — Radeon RX 7900 GRE is no longer available at any retailer
- 'World's first' open-source Armv9 motherboard surfaces — Radxa Orion O6's pricing starts at $200 for the 8GB RAM model
- Intel Wildcat Lake CPU tooling surfaces in shipping manifests — reportedly adopts next-gen Cougar Cove and Darkmont cores, Intel 18A node
- Mystery second hard drive maker gears up to start producing laser-powered HAMR HDDs — either WD or Toshiba preps to release new recording tech
- DJI narrowly escapes U.S. drone ban, for now — company has one year to demonstrate its products don’t pose a national security risk
- Elon Musk hints at building stripped-down Gmail alternative — billionaire first revealed Xmail intentions back in February
- Tachyum releases a 1,600-page performance optimization manual despite continued tape-out delays and no actual silicon
- Rapidus is first Japanese company to install ASML's cutting-edge EUV machine — chipmaking tool for 2nm chips expected to be operational in early 2025
- Nvidia may postpone volume ramp-up of Blackwell machines: TrendForce [Updated]
- U.S. gov't removes China's chip toolmaker AMEC from the list of 'military companies'
- Asus ROG Strix Z890-A Gaming WiFi motherboard review: Snazzy snow owl
- Qualcomm CEO expected to save $1.4 billion in Arm royalties by purchasing Nuvia, assumed Snapdragon X chips would be a massive hit
- Chinese GPU designers received key technologies from British company Imagination Technology: Report
- December 18
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- Intel announces Arrow Lake performance fix is now available — another update coming next month
- MSI opens its first laptop manufacturing facility in India — MSI bets big on India's explosive projected demand for high-performance laptop devices
- Intel lists the Core 200H mobile CPU lineup based on an aging Raptor Lake design — Core 200H sports up to 14 cores and 5.8 GHz boost clocks
- US could ban best-selling TP-Link routers over national security concerns — TP-Link routers tied to Chinese government-backed cyberattacks
- Indiana bakery still using Commodore 64s originally released in 1982 as cash registers — Hilligoss Bakery in Brownsburg sticks to the BASICs
- Add a super cheap 27-inch Samsung S3 S33GC productivity monitor to your setup for only $79
- AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows the majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon
- Intel’s newest B580 GPU underperforms last-gen Arc Alchemist card in Linux benchmarks – likely due to early teething pains
- High demand for Intel's Arc B580 as retailers receive weekly restocks — demand outstrips supply for the new $249 GPU champion
- Get gaming with this $1,099 pre-built iBUYPOWER desktop PC
- Hyte Keeb TKL Review: Unique aesthetic and ultra-smooth switches
- Russia plans EUV chipmaking tools that it says will be cheaper and easier to build than ASML's — country outlines new roadmap to smaller chips
- Qualcomm says its Oryon CPU cores have 1% or less of Arm's original technology — cores in Snapdragon X PC chips are almost entirely custom
- GlobalWafers inks $406 million CHIPS Act deal to make 300mm wafers in the U.S.
- December 17
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- Arm vs. Qualcomm trial begins — Arm demands that the patent-infringing Nuvia designs be destroyed
- China developing critical chipmaking supply chains — photoresist ecosystem emerges for ArF and KrF lasers
- Inno3D hints at Neural Rendering and Advanced DLSS technology for Nvidia's next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs — DLSS 4 may debut with Blackwell
- China kicks off homegrown Bluetooth alternative — Star Flash is set to take over consumer electronics in the country
- Elon Musk prioritizing humanoid robot advances, says TSMC CEO — TSMC will supply the chips if the price is right
- Russia using homegrown Raspberry Pi-like computers in nuclear facilities — Elbrus ES3 certified for use in critical applications
- EDATec CM5 Active Cooler Review: A Cool Deal
- Wireless mouse receiver is a mini dock with HDMI output and USB Type-C
- AMD Strix Halo-powered laptop appears at retailer — Asus ROG Flow Z13 2-in-1 laptop listed on Belarus website
- Seagate launches 32TB Exos M hard drive based on HAMR technology – Mozaic 3+ drives are the world’s first generally available HAMR HDDs
- Nvidia's new $249 AI development board promises 67 TOPS at half the price of the previous 40 TOPS model
- Nvidia RTX 5080 allegedly adopts faster 30 Gbps GDDR7 modules, delivering 960 GB/s of bandwidth — The remaining Blackwell lineup is expected to stick with slower 28 Gbps memory
- Nvidia has a fix for up to 15% gaming performance loss caused by the Nvidia App — disabling feature restores performance
- AOC Agon Pro Porsche Design PD49 49-inch OLED gaming monitor review: High style and even higher performance
- Raspberry Pi powers sentry turret straight out of the 'Portal' franchise
- Framework's new dual M.2 module boosts laptop max storage to 32TB — Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay is only $39
- December 16
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- China's dual 16-core Hygon CPU server rack barely outperforms a quad-core Skylake Core i7-6700HQ mobile CPU in Geekbench AI
- We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app (Updated)
- The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Snapdragon X Elite drops to $799 — get yourself a shiny new laptop for the holidays
- Crucial discontinues the popular MX500 SSD to make way for next-gen drives — SATA III SSD retires after seven years
- Linux 6.13-rc3 fixes expensive CPUID handling on Sapphire Rapids CPUs — an issue resulting in Skylake CPUs being 4X faster for CPUID-related updates
- Zotac accidentally lists RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 family weeks before launch — accidental listing seemingly confirms the RTX 5090 with 32GB of GDDR7 VRAM
- Pricing for key chipmaking material hits 13-year high following Chinese export restrictions — China's restrictions on Gallium exports hit hard
- 3dfx VoodooX custom project aims to modernize the classic GPU — latest update showcases a 'Christmas design' white PCB
- UK's Wolfhound mobile laser weapon exhibits 100% drone zapping success in field trials
- SK hynix Beetle X31 (2TB) review: a solid, snazzy scarab
- PowerColor Radeon RX 8000 'Reaper' series rumored to debut at CES 2025 next month
- Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard PC has been modded with an NVMe M.2 slot leveraging the device's conspicuously empty PCB header
- December 15
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- The Samsung 990 Pro 4TB heatsink edition is now only $289 at Amazon
- Today is 3D graphics pioneer 3dfx's 24th death anniversary – platform still inspires gamers, enthusiasts, and makers long after Nvidia acquired the assets
- A new PCB design can boost heat dissipation by 55x – copper coins placed under heat generating components drop temps drastically
- 'Shockingly real' AI Santa is free to use, will put Mall Santas everywhere out of jobs
- Ventiva's Ionic Cooling Engine has no fans but is quieter, higher performance, and more efficient than Frore AirJet according to TechTuber teaser
- Entire Intel Core 200 laptop lineup leaks out — Intel prepping to launch 22 new mobile CPUs next month at CES 2025
- Dual Intel Arc B580 PC details shared — they will be used alongside an Nvidia Titan Xp for fast FluidX3D simulations
- BenQ Zowie XL2566X+ 400 Hz 25-inch gaming monitor review: Raw performance for esports
- December 14
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- Nintendo Switch 2 design seemingly leaked by carrying case maker — similar aesthetics but with a larger screen and Joy-Cons
- Elon Musk reportedly wanted OpenAI to be a for-profit entity but has now sued to block the move
- PlayStation 5 transformed into a laptop for $2,750 — Chinese modders made Sony's console more portable with a 17.3-inch 4K display weighing over 9 pounds
- There's a budget GeForce GPU selling in China that not even Nvidia knew it made — RTX 4010 turns out to be a modified RTX A400 workstation GPU
- How to enable XMP to improve RAM speeds
- Intel Arrow Lake-H and AMD Krackan Point laptops emerge at retailers — preliminary listings indicate that manufacturers are gearing up for launch next month
- Fnirsi HS-02 Review: Keep soldering on!
- Overclocking Arrow Lake: How I set world records, plus simple tips to push your Core Ultra to the limit
- US to patch loopholes that allow China to buy banned AI GPUs from other countries — new regulations include national quotas on GPU exports and a global licensing system
- TSMC shares deep-dive details about its cutting edge 2nm process node at IEDM 2024 — 35 percent less power or 15 percent more performance
- Qualcomm fires back at Intel's claims of high laptop return rates — the company says Snapdragon X PCs are within 'industry norm' for returns
- December 13
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- Intel tempers expectations for next-gen Falcon Shores AI GPU — Gaudi 3 missed AI wave, Falcon will require fast iterations to be competitive
- Minisforum's AM5 mini-PC gets Ryzen 9 9950X upgrade for $919 — adding 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD pushes the price tag to $1,199
- Nvidia revives LAN party after 13 years to celebrate RTX 50-series GPU launch — GeForce LAN 50 is a 50-hour LAN party across four different cities
- Where to buy the Intel Arc B580 — all the different models currently available
- Raspberry Pi lights up a synchronized neighborhood holiday light show
- HDMI 2.2 is set to debut at CES 2025 — the new standard brings higher resolutions, refresh rates, and bandwidth
- AI GPU clusters with one million GPUs are planned for 2027 — Broadcom says three AI supercomputers are in the works
- Samsung's 990 Evo Plus SSD matches its recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale price - massive 4TB capacity for $239
- Intel Panther Lake samples with flagship 18A node have been powered on at eight customers — Co-CEOs dispel rumors regarding poor silicon health
- Netgear Orbi 970 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Excellent performance with a price tag that’s tough to swallow
- Intel's co-CEO claims retailers say Qualcomm-powered PCs have high return rates, points to new competitors with Arm chips coming in 2025
- Nvidia teases RTX 50 Blackwell Gaming GPUs for launch next month — The Witcher IV's first cinematic trailer likely leveraged the upcoming RTX 5090
- ASRock Z890 Taichi Lite Review: Slimmed down Taichi for the mid-range
- AMD's fastest quad-core CPU gets tested — EPYC 4124P plays games at well over 60 FPS
- Sovol SV06 ACE Review: Affordable and Speedy
- Intel executive says spinning off manufacturing unit is an 'open question'
- December 12
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- Windows 11 Mixed Reality support revived for Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S headsets
- Kickstarter campaign claims its $39 AI-powered PlayStation 5 add-on reduces exhaust temps by up to 9 degrees C
- Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all invest in light-based communication networks powering next-gen chips — Ayar Labs gets $155 million in funding
- Fanless Ryzen 9 9950X seemingly outperforms the same liquid-cooled chip in Cinebench R23 — flagship Zen 5 CPU hit 95ºC at full load
- AMD to release the Krackan at CES — CPU rivals Intel Lunar Lake in new benchmarks, Ryzen AI 7 350 takes on the Core Ultra 7 258V
- The world’s smallest arcade machine fits in the palm of your hand — Arduino microcontroller powers tiny Pong arcade machine
- US targets China's solar dominance with 50% tariffs on solar wafers and polysilicon — tungsten products will see a 25% increase
- Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2W transforms broken Sony PlayStation 4 controller into a retro games console
- Nvidia denies cutting GPU supplies to China — chipmaker fires back at 'recent false rumors' aired on social media
- Intel Arc B580 review: The new $249 GPU champion has arrived
- Chinese Hygon 16-core chip trades blows with AMD Threadripper 1950X in Geekbench — Chinese chipmaker continues to leverage AMD's Zen 1 architecture
- MSI MEG Maestro 700L PZ Case Review: Big and Luxurious
- Synopsys announces Ultra Ethernet and UALink IP to power the next-generation of AI datacenters
- Huawei sticks to 7nm for latest processor as China's chip advancements stall
- Google's Gemini 2.0 AI agents are being trained to offer gameplay advice and suggestions
- December 11
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- Supreme Court shuts down Nvidia appeal — cryptomining class action suit will proceed
- Fujitsu flaunts massive 144-core Monaka Arm chip — 2nm and 5nm chiplets, 3D-stacked CPU cores over memory
- LG stops making Blu-ray players, marking the end of an era — limited units remain while inventory lasts
- Razer's high-end Huntsman V2 Analog gaming keyboard drops to an all-time low of $79 at Woot
- Valve now sells refurbished Steam Deck OLED for 20% cheaper than brand new — 512GB model for $439 and 1TB model for $519
- Custom Raspberry Pi 5 case rebuilds Pi 5 open loop into the hyper-compact case with the loop still intact — system stays below 43ºC at max load
- Chinese businessman shows off sanctions-busting NVIDIA AI GPUs he bought despite US ban — 200 H200 GPUs skid past US sanctions
- Intel's latest Arrow Lake CPU firmware reportedly offers little to no performance gains — users test the microcode ahead of launch on the ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF
- Sony PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 now natively supports Arm64 architecture — including Raspberry Pi 5
- BadRAM attack breaches AMD secure VMs using a Raspberry Pi Pico, DDR socket, and a 9V battery
- AMD nearly beats 30X power efficiency goal a year early — AMD's new AI servers are 28.3 times more efficient than 2020 versions
- Marvell develops custom HBM memory solutions — interface shrinks and higher performance on the menu
- Testing the impact of liquid cooling on Intel’s Core Ultra 7 265K using the Tryx Panorama 240
- TSMC founder says Intel has neither a strategy nor a CEO
- December 10
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- 30-year-old Pentium FDIV bug tracked down in the silicon — Ken Shirriff takes the microscope to Intel's first-ever recall
- Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.2 claims to improve Arrow Lake performance by up to 33%, theoretically matching the Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Empyrean Technology gives control to CEC after U.S. blacklisting — China’s top developer of chip design systems hands reins to state-owned firm
- Nvidia reveals detailed ray tracing differences, promotes DLSS 3 for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- Gaming GPU sales plummet 14.5% in third quarter — Nvidia's RTX 5000-series launch looms large
- Researchers develop memory that functions with temperatures over 1,100°F — nonvolatile electrochemical memory works even on the hottest planet in our solar system
- Nvidia could face massive $1 billion fine over antitrust violations in China — Nvidia's Mellanox acquisition is in Beijing's crosshairs
- Lam Research unveils Dextro, a maintenance robot for fabs
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W uses AI to make infinite flower paintings on an e-ink display
- Retro-style gaming monitor will hit the market for $200 — the display features a 1080p VA panel with a 180 Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync support
- TSMC posts strong year-on-year revenue growth of 34% despite month-to-month slowdown — foundry pulls in $8.5B in revenue for November 2024
- Microsoft allows Windows 11 to be installed on older, unsupported hardware but specifically nixes official support — minimum requirements for full compatibility remain unchanged
- China's 504-qubit quantum computer chip marks a new domestic record — will be globally available via the cloud
- PNY launches new PCIe 5.0 SSDs that bring the entry level down to $99 – CS2150 1TB costs $99 and offers over 10GB/s in reads
- Mysterious AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ Pro 395 Strix Halo APU emerges on Geekbench — processor expected to officially debut at CES 2025
- Google claims its new Willow quantum chip can swiftly solve a problem that would take a standard supercomputer 10 septillion years
- Klevv CRAS C925 SSD Review: Competent but uninspiring
- December 9
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- Alarming amount of Texas Instrument chips found in Russian-based weapons in Ukraine — Russian military using third parties to purchase U.S-made chips
- Aoostar AG02 eGPU dock with OCuLink support and 500W PSU announced for $219
- China levels anti-trust charges against Nvidia – country accuses chipmaker of violating anti-monopoly regulations, examining the $7 billion Mellanox acquisition
- Fanless audiophile PC sells for close to $30,000 — music server features dual Xeon 10-core CPUs, 48GB RAM, 280GB Optane SSD, and 2TB secondary storage expandable to 24TB
- Ryzen Master now supports EXPO profile enablement without a system restart — the new version also drops support for Zen and Zen+ Threadripper CPUs
- Gelsinger fires back at recent stories about 18A's poor yields, schools social media commenters on defect densities and yields
- Windows 11 for Arm can run natively on specific Android smartphones — the test device heats up very fast, and battery life substantially decreases
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang accused of $8 billion tax dodge by U.S. newspaper — his remaining family would be the beneficiaries of this estate tax avoidance
- Intel Arc B580 trades blows with the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in early benchmarks — B580 beats A580 by up to 30% in OpenCL and Vulkan workloads
- ASRock launches a trio of OLED gaming monitors for demanding gamers — lineup offers refresh rates from 240 Hz to 480 Hz and response times of 0.3 ms
- Fish tank PC case sales explode in 2024 — Korean retail data claims tenfold growth for this style of chassis
- DaMAgeCard SD Express card vulnerability leverages the privileged access that PCIe provides — bypasses traditional software-based security mechanisms
- Raspberry Pi Monitor Review (Updated): Well-built portable monitor that works with any HDMI-capable device
- Raspberry Pi 500 Review: The keyboard is the computer, again
- December 8
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- Microsoft preparing Lunar Lake Surface and Surface Pro laptops for 1Q25, says report – new Surface Laptop Studio and an 11-inch Surface also on the horizon
- Camouflage eSports monitors launched by JAPANNEXT – but you probably won't see them in stores
- Zero-day Windows NTLM hash vulnerability gets patched by third-party — credentials can be hijacked by merely viewing a malicious file in File Explorer
- Russian Ex-ASML employee indicted for stealing critical trade secrets — currently in custody, faces 20-year Netherlands entry ban
- Acer Swift 16 AI 3K OLED Intel Lunar Lake laptop drops down to $899
- Intel XeSS 2 DLL files leaked days before launch — Frame Generation and Low Latency libraries surface at Nexus Mods
- U.S. House set to vote on $3B funding for the replacement of Chinese telecoms equipment — but swapping out all the Huawei and ZTE equipment will cost more
- TP-Link Deco BE5000 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 for less than $300
- Windows 11 battery indicator revamp delivers color coding and more pixels
- NATO plans to deploy sea drones to monitor and protect undersea cables — Admiral expects drone fleet patrols to begin from June 2025
- December 7
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- Intel looks beyond silicon, outlines breakthroughs in atomically-thin 2D transistors, chip packaging, and interconnects at IEDM 2024
- iFixit now sells genuine Xbox replacement parts but at ridiculous prices — $599 for an Xbox Series X motherboard when a new console costs $499
- US govt says Cisco gear often targeted in China's Salt Typhoon attacks on 8 telecommunications providers — issues Cisco-specific advice to patch networks to fend off attacks
- Legendary video game developer imagines a future where GPUs don't need PCs — John Carmack envisions a GPU with Linux onboard, so you would just add power and a display
- Black Friday is over, but this 34-inch curved QD OLED WQHD gaming monitor is still available for $569
- Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan — S12038-4K 120mm fan adds an extra fan in its center to cool its central shaft
- Valve preps mysterious 'Fremont' SteamOS device powered by AMD Ryzen processor — potential Steam Box may sport a Hawk Point CPU with Zen 4 and RDNA 3 graphics
- Intel Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids CPU gain preliminary support in popular monitoring utility
- Weak demand prevents Amazon from deploying AMD's Instinct AI accelerators in the cloud — the company plans to strengthen its portfolio with Nvidia Blackwell GPUs (Updated)
- Broadcom unveils gigantic 3.5D XDSiP platform for AI XPUs — 6000mm² of stacked silicon with 12 HBM modules
- AMD confirms Ryzen 7 9800X3D stock will improve soon — chipmaker says more processors are being shipped weekly
- How to use SSH to connect to a Linux terminal on your web hosting service
- Quest 3S Review: Most of the same thrills as the Quest 3 for $200 less
- December 6
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- Huawei preps new Kunpeng CPU with HBM — unannounced Kunpeng Arm server chip matches Intel and AMD's tech
- Team builds Raspberry Pi smart cane to help the visually impaired
- Geekom QS1 Pro mini-PC wields Snapdragon X Elite 4 GHz CPU and up to 64GB LPDDR5-5600
- Ryzen Z2G CPU reportedly powers new $650 gaming handheld — Lenovo Legion Go S packs 8-inch display, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD
- China fires back at Trump’s 10% tariff proposal with a 20% price cut on domestic products — Beijing's policy will negatively affect chipmakers, including Nvidia and Intel
- Chinese companies are reportedly reluctant to adopt homegrown chips — domestic solutions are technologically too far behind
- Maxsun makes a GPU with two built-in M.2 SSD ports — Intel Arc B580 graphics card leverages unused PCIe lanes on the PCIe x16 slot
- Supermicro to help Musk scale xAI supercomputer to a million GPUs — Supermicro will set up local operations in Memphis to facilitate operations
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 PC performance testing and settings analysis — we tested 23 GPUs, the game is even more demanding than its predecessor
- US lawmakers fire back at government's chip sanctions against China, alleging glaring loopholes that let China access the latest technology
- Crucial P310 (2280) SSD Review: Same great taste, but with a new look
- Seagate's HAMR HDDs qualified by customers — volume shipments imminent
- December 5
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- Intel appoints two new board members with semiconductor backgrounds following Gelsinger exit
- Polysoft offers $849 8TB SSD upgrade module for Mac Studio — reverse-engineered SSD vastly undercuts Apple's $2,220 price
- Nvidia bids goodbye to GeForce Experience — Nvidia App officially replaces it in the latest driver update
- TSMC is reportedly in talks with Nvidia to make Blackwell GPUs in Arizona — Blackwell silicon needs to be shipped back to Taiwan for assembly
- Valve publishes Powered by SteamOS brand guidelines — logo readied for third-party hardware bundled with this Linux-based OS
- 3DMark gets new DirectStorage benchmark — GDeflate measures transfer rates from NVMe SSD to GPU VRAM
- Jobs eviscerated at Chinese Arm chip design firm in wake of restrictions from TSMC — lack of access to 7nm node could cause 150 employees to be laid off
- Scientists develop the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, offering a 5,000-year lifespan — the device uses radioactive decay to generate low power levels
- With this Raspberry Pi powered mask you can 'become anyone' hidden behind 2,960 LEDs
- Intel says Arc Xe4 Druid GPUs are already in the works — Software optimization is the only remaining step for Xe3 Celestial as it approaches launch with Panther Lake
- USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG pen testing cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller
- Elon Musk plans to scale the xAI supercomputer to a million GPUs — currently at over 100,000 H100 GPUs and counting
- Bitcoin crosses $100,000 milestone as incoming U.S. administration looks increasingly crypto-friendly
- Intel co-CEO David Zinsner says 'core strategy remains intact' — Intel will continue to be a products and foundry company
- AWS building ExaFLOPS-class supercomputer for AI with hundreds of thousands homegrown Trainium2 processors — AWS forges a path without Nvidia GPUs
- December 4
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- Meta turns to nuclear power for AI training — asking for developer proposals for small modular reactors or larger nuclear solutions
- Noctua shares a fan grill design that drops noise levels — 3D print your own 120mm fan grill like the one on the Seasonic x Noctua 1,600W power supply
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle requirements may put your PC in a museum — minimum requirements include ray-tracing GPU and a Core i7-10700K
- Shareholders pay up as Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger is reportedly set to depart with a $12 million golden handshake
- Intel's new Arc GPU naked in unsanctioned teardown pics — B580 has Nvidia Founders Edition-inspired cooler, BGM-G21 die surrounded by 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory
- The world's first Snapdragon X Elite mini-PC is in the works — Geekom teases new QS series mini-PCs with Snapdragon X Elite CPU
- Exclusive AMD partner reportedly hops on Intel's Arc bandwagon — new Onix brand is seemingly affiliated with Sapphire
- Pineboards announces Modulo series for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and 5
- Hands-on: Xreal One Series AR glasses announced with custom X1 spatial chip, more customization, and wider FOV
- Microsoft reiterates that it will not lower Windows 11 requirements — A TPM 2.0 compatible CPU remains "non-negotiable" for all future Windows versions
- AMD seemingly confirms Radeon RX 8600 and RX 8800 GPUs via ROCm Github update
- TSMC's N2 process has a major advantage over Intel's 18A: SRAM density
- Nvidia, flush with cash, looks to acquire new talent through mergers and acquisitions
- China's largest chip industry associations say it's unsafe to buy US chips — warnings come in the wake of new US sanctions
- Intel's next CEO could be Lip-Bu Tan, a former member of the board who reportedly clashed with Gelsinger about strategy
- Biostar X870E Valkyrie Review: Still improving, still a ways to go
- December 3
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- This dazzling Raspberry Pi Christmas light show is incredible
- Apple Touch Bar turns into a $119 standalone gadget — Flexbar features a 10-inch aluminum body with a 2K AMOLED display that communicates with a USB-C cable
- Discrete GPU sales dip while Nvidia continues to dominate — iGPUs increase while discrete GPUs decline
- Game played on a 3D dental scanner with an old Intel CPU and AMD GPU — up to 700 FPS on Counter-Strike: Source
- Seasonic x Noctua turn to keychain merch after their successful 1,600W power supply collab
- RTX 4060 Ti transformed into a 65W GPU with a passive mod — a downclocked GPU and VRAM reduces power consumption from 160W to 65W
- Chinese chip firms say a new round of US sanctions won’t stop China’s chip industry — Chinese government responds with its own export restrictions anyways
- Two internet cables connecting Sweden and Finland suffered damage — one caused by construction, the other still under investigation
- MSI's new Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ bring Intel Lunar Lake performance to handhelds
- AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT has a 220W TDP according to Seasonic's online PSU calculator — two 8-pin power plugs required, it says
- Intel announces the Arc B580 and Arc B570 GPUs priced at $249 and $219 — Battlemage brings much-needed competition to the budget graphics card market
- FSP Hydro G Pro 1000W ATX 3.0 PSU Review
- Samsung prepares to unveil 10th generation V-NAND with 400+ layers — ready to power future PCIe 5.0 and 6.0 SSDs
- Purported TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers (Updated)
- December 2
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- Corsair's 3000D and 4000D series cases are on sale for Cyber Monday, starting as low as $59
- Get 32GB of high-speed DDR5-7200 C34 RAM for $97 on Cyber Monday — or spend an extra $11 for RGB
- The 4TB Samsung 990 EVO Plus can be yours for $239.99 — pay just 6 cents per gigabyte with a 28% discount this Cyber Monday
- The Asus ROG Strix G16 RTX 4060 (2024) gaming laptop is only $1099
- WD Red Plus 10TB NAS HDD hits its lowest-ever price point for Cyber Monday — Just $146
- Seagate Ironwolf Pro 20 terabyte hard drive is 2-cent-per-GB on Cyber Monday — $329 HDD has a five-year warranty, three years of free data recovery service
- Billion Electric 4G/LTE routers patched to plug catastrophic CVSS level 10 severity flaw
- Cooler Master's 4K 160 Hz monitor is 75% off — 27-inch mini LED panel hits all-time low $200 for Cyber Monday
- Lunar Lake-equipped Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition drops to a historical low of $930 — Lenovo slashes price by 32% this Cyber Monday
- The Best Cyber Monday hard drive deals include 20TB capacities at $0.02 per GB
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires, effective immediately — two co-CEOs step in
- U.S. ratchets up sanctions to curtail China's AI and military tech — no more HBM memory for China
- You can now get a 240mm liquid cooler with LCD display for under $100 - Corsair's AIO hits record low price for Cyber Monday
- In a bid to compete with Nvidia, Jeff Bezos and Samsung invest $700 million in AI chip startup Tenstorrent
- Corsair Vengeance i7500 gaming desktop is a Cyber Monday bargain at $1,359 with 14600KF and Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU
- December 1
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- AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D, the best AM4 gaming CPU available, is just $199 for Cyber Monday
- The Alienware AW3423DWF QD-OLED, our best ultrawide gaming monitor, is now only $649 for Cyber Monday
- Get the most affordable RTX 4050 laptop for just $599 — The Acer Nitro V 15 plunges to an all-time low this Cyber Monday
- WebScreen is a compact webcam-sized AMOLED second screen for those without the room or inclination to use multiple monitors
- Graphics card repairer laments 'catastrophic failure' of customer's RTX 4090 volt mod and thermal paste overdose
- Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB at all-time low $224 — less than $16 per terabyte, five-year warranty, three-year free data recovery
- Score 10 terabytes of speedy storage for an all-time low $170 — Seagate BarraCuda Pro has five-year warranty, two years of free data recovery services, and exceptional performance
- Seagate's 14TB External HDD is still available for just 1 cent per gigabyte
- The Samsung Odyssey G5 WQHD curved gaming monitor at all-time low $299 for Cyber Monday
- This 32GB RAM kit is selling for an all-time low, great for an AMD system upgrade — T-Force 32GB DDR5-6000 memory kit with good timings available for $87
- These four portable monitors are at all-time low prices for Black Friday Weekend: Get a second screen for your PC or console for as little as $49 before Cyber Monday
- ASML made a $230 Lego kit version of its $380 million semiconductor tool — world's first High-NA EUV machine immortalized in small form for your mantle
- Update your AMD gaming PC with this $99 RAM Kit — 32GB DDR5-6000 Corsair Vengeance only for Cyber Monday
- Linux AMD patch fixes glacial boot times for some Zen 1 and 2 computers — time saved ranges from seconds to multiple minutes
- Open-source OpenWrt One router released at $89 — 'hacker-friendly device' sports two Ethernet ports, three USB ports, with dual-band Wi-Fi 6
- Intel Arc B580 GPU exposed by reviewer as Intel and AIBs subtly tease Battlemage's Dec 3 launch