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- September 30
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- Noctua's next-gen 140mm fans debut – NF-A14x25 G2s promise improved performance, deliver the same amount of brown
- Panther Cove will reportedly arrive with big IPC improvements, support for Intel APX
- Despite Intel's woes, the U.S. remains the revenue leader in the semiconductor industry
- Seasonic power supplies debut with OptiSink design to improve cooling — Opti Sink touts an 8X increase in thermal conductivity
- DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU
- Ryzen 9 9950X hits 7.54 GHz to break numerous world records — Zen 5 flagship raises the bar for 16-core CPUs
- Laptop packing RTX 4090 desktop weighs in at over 15 pounds — other specs include a Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB DDR5-6800, and Optane P5800 SSD
- AMD boosts Zen 5 official warrantied TDP to 105W, fixes Ryzen 9000 latency issue, launches 800-series chipsets
- DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action
- AMD unveils its first small language model, AMD-135M — AI performance enhanced by speculative decoding
- September 29
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- AI researchers demonstrate 100% success rate in bypassing online CAPTCHAs
- Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse
- Recent AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D price action suggests stock is running low ahead of a possible 9800X3D launch
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X die shot reveals massive CPU cores with huge caches
- The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly
- China makes AI breakthrough, reportedly trains generative AI model across multiple data centers and GPU architectures
- Huawei guns for Nvidia market share in China — Ascend 910C GPU customer sampling begins
- Intel motherboard partners begin to roll out Raptor Lake microcode updates to banish Vmin Shift Instabilities
- MSI overclocker confirms CUDIMMs work with AMD Ryzen 8000 and 9000 processors
- HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack
- September 28
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- Asus Z890 motherboards emerge at a U.S. retailer — pricing starts at $280 and goes over $1,000
- Raspberry Pi AI EYE camera regenerates pictures using an AI description
- MSI touts "true" Wi-Fi 7 support on X870 motherboards over the competition — MSI supports 320 MHz channel, while rivals are limited to 160 MHz
- Thermal Grizzly's nifty gadget can prevent Nvidia's 16-pin connector meltdowns — WireView GPU Pro features a GPU power monitor, connector detection, and temperature sensors
- Ryzen 9 9900X is on sale for $439, 12% below its MSRP
- Scalpers sell PlayStation 5 Pro 30th Anniversary preorders for over $3,000 — eBay postings show a 3X to 6X markup
- Intel Arrow Lake QS CPU pictured — 'Q33K' CPU is seemingly a Core Ultra 7 265K
- Researchers build a fully edible transistor using tooth-whitening pigments found in toothpaste
- Isambard 2, the world's first Arm-based supercomputer, retires after six years of service — Isambard 3 will tap Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchips
- Google unveils AlphaChip AI-assisted chip design technology — chip layout as a game for a computer
- September 27
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- Canon delivers first nanoimprint lithography tool to US institute backed by Intel, Samsung, DARPA
- Leaks confirm $810 Minisforum EliteMini AI370 mini PC with Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
- AMD X670E motherboard bug downgrades PCIe 5.0 SSDs to PCIe 1.0 speeds
- RTX 4090 Ti GPU bracket surfaces for $14 — the last remnant of the allegedly canceled Ada Lovelace flagship GPU
- Nvidia may release the RTX 5080 in 24GB and 16GB flavors — the higher VRAM capacity will come in the future via 3GB GDDR7 chips
- Microsoft describes Recall's new security features, says the feature is opt-in
- Nvidia RTX 5090 rumor claims PCIe 5.0, DisplayPort 2.1 UHBR20, and only a single 12V-2x6 power connector
- Questionable report claims Arm approached Intel to buy products group and got rejected
- HP tries resuscitating plummeting printer sales with AI-enhanced printing features — Perfect Output helps trim web pages and combines data
- Intel is on track to receive its $8.5 billion CHIPS Act award by year-end
- Lenovo Legion Go Gen Two and Go Lite handhelds accidentally named in USB-C dock specs slip up
- TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion
- DOJ reportedly probes Supermicro for accounting manipulations — alleged export violations to China and Russia also raise attention
- LG's China LCD plant sold for $1.5 billion — focus moves to OLED
- September 26
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- Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W — up to 21,760 cores, 32GB VRAM, 512-bit bus
- Sony launches two new InZone monitors — one is a $1,100 pro gaming display
- MEG X870E Godlike spearheads MSI's X870 army — included expansion card harnesses the performance of two PCIe 5.0 SSDs
- AMD EPYC Turin CPUs already on sale in China — unreleased Zen 5 chips useless without a microcode update
- Chinese Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU can't beat old Intel and AMD chips — Core i3-8100 and Ryzen 5 5600G come out on top
- Bendable non-silicon RISC-V CPU demoed running while wrapped around a pencil
- Two execs of China-based chipmaking tools producer resign to meet U.S. requirements
- AI-equipped light gun controller brings a retro title to the modern era — Play Time Crisis on modern TVs with low input latency
- Intel Arrow Lake CPUs up for sale on Chinese marketplace — $1,360 buys six mechanical samples
- Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W features mysterious 'Raspberry Pi RM2' Wi-Fi chip
- Nvidia will reportedly start Blackwell server deliveries in early December — the first servers will go to Microsoft
- Intel begins reducing real estate holdings worldwide — European HQ up for sale, leaving purpose-built Swindon site after more than 40 years
- World’s first 3D-printed hotel being prepared in Texas — 43 rooms and 18 homes to be built using an industrial-sized 3D printer
- SK hynix preps for Nvidia Blackwell Ultra and AMD Instinct MI325X with 12-Hi HBM3E
- Intel's share of the discrete GPU market drops to 0% as sales in the overall market increase
- The UnifyDrive UT2 is a portable NAS for creators on the go
- Intel finds root cause of CPU crashing and instability errors, prepares new and final microcode update
- September 25
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- Cloudflare switches to EPYC 9684X Genoa-X CPUs with 3D V-Cache — 145% faster than previous-gen Milan servers
- Samsung launches 990 Evo Plus SSDs: 5nm controller and 45% speed boost
- We benchmarked Intel's Lunar Lake GPU with Core Ultra 9 — overall performance improved, though driver concerns still remain [Updated]
- Winamp releases its source code on GitHub — but the legacy media player doesn't go full open-source
- Intel Arc Battlemage GPU slips past Arc A750 in new benchmark — G21 GPU surfaces with 20 Xe2 Cores up to 2.85 GHz and 12GB VRAM
- Ryzen 7 9800X3D rumored to arrive in October — leaker claims AMD is saving the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D for early 2025
- Avatar and Terminator director joins Stability AI board
- Raspberry Pi 5 powers the ultimate 'nostalgia machine' to bring 1980s television to 2024
- Polar Semiconductor receives $123M in CHIPS Act money — company named as the first CHIPS Act awardee
- People don't buy AI PCs because of AI — report shows the need for upgrades drives AI PC adoption
- Nvidia expected to produce 450,000 Blackwell AI GPUs in Q4 — potential $10B in revenue for the chipmaker
- You may not 'knead' the DataToaster 3000, but this custom NAS is the 'toast of the town'
- MSI is giving away 500GB spinning SATA drives with barebones systems in 2024
- Distributor claims that Nvidia has allegedly stopped taking orders on HGX H20 GPU processors
- Nvidia RTX technologies now supported in 'more than 600 games and applications' including GreedFall II: The Dying World
- September 24
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- Intel launches Gaudi 3 accelerator for AI: Slower than Nvidia's H100 AI GPU, but also cheaper
- Linux takes 4.76 days to boot on an ancient Intel 4004 CPU — CPU precedes the OS by 20 years
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 shines in Geekbench 6 benchmark — Strix Point has higher single-core performance than Core i9-14900HX but falls behind in muti-core
- Intel optimizes slimmed-down X86S instruction set — revision 1.2 eliminates 16-bit and 32-bit features
- The world’s first glass-based quantum photonic chip design and production facility opens in Milan
- Intel’s entire turnaround plan hinges on this one new chip family – Clearwater Forest pictured, Intel’s first 18A chip slated for high-volume manufacturing
- Intel Launches Granite Rapids Xeon 6900P series with 128 cores — matches AMD EPYC’s core counts for the first time since 2017
- Kioxia reportedly cancels October IPO plans — blames unfavorable market trends
- Start your free adventure with Hero Wars: Dominion Era - the number one browser game in the world
- Raspberry Pi Holdings outperforms investor expectations since watershed IPO
- Logitech launches MX Creative Console — a Stream Deck alternative with a dial for creatives
- U.S. House of Representatives aims to streamline fab projects after passing bill to ease federal environmental permits
- U.S. customers wake up to find Kaspersky antivirus sneakily replaced with UltraAV — switchover caught many users by surprise
- September 23
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- US government to ban Chinese hardware and software for connected vehicles: Report
- Seasonic's new power supply has enough juice and connectors to power four RTX 4090s
- Intel Razer Lake CPUs allegedly arrive after Nova Lake — Arrow Lake Refresh reportedly canceled
- Chip giants TSMC and Samsung reportedly mull building mega factories in the UAE
- RTX 4090 availability reportedly dwindling in Germany — low stock signals potential RTX 5090 debut this year
- MSI teases five upcoming motherboards with concealed connectors — Project Zero gets Intel and AMD 800-series motherboards
- iPhone 16 battery needs a good zapping to debond the adhesive — the process takes a minute and a half when using a 9V battery
- Intel might receive multi-billion dollar 'equity-like' investment from alternative asset manager Apollo
- AI takes YouTuber's voice — alleged offending videos have now been unlisted: Updated
- September 22
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- Modder hacks ChatGPT, other apps onto TI-84 calculator, creates 'The Ultimate Cheating Device'
- Microsoft Edge popup highlights performance-leeching extensions — UI allows for easy toggling of offending tools
- Jony Ive confirms he is working on an OpenAI hardware design project
- '5D' memory crystal claims to store data for eternity — the human genome has already been crammed onto a single small crystal
- Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer
- Firewire refuses to die, but needs help — as hardware becomes rarer, maintainer seeks volunteers for device testing
- September 21
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- Intel Lunar Lake CPU benchmarks reveal good power efficiency and GPU performance — Core Ultra 7 268V results show regressions in multi-core performance
- AMD's Strix Halo Zen 5 APU tested in Geekbench AI benchmark — Ryzen AI Max 390 sample falls behind Ryzen 7 7840HS
- Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 mini-PC goes on sale for $999 — $250 "discount" from the regular $1,249 listing price
- God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement
- Expensive Nvidia GPUs inspire 3D-printed Founders Edition-style piggy banks
- September 20
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- Qualcomm approached Intel about acquisition, report claims
- Microsoft now allows you to reprogram the Windows Copilot key, but there's a catch
- Some analysts believe Intel won't build out its German fab due to financial woes: Report
- RX 7800M-powered OneXGPU2 eGPU hits crowdfunding next week with an $839 early bird price
- Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
- Intel Core Ultra 200HX CPU specifications purportedly leaked — Arrow Lake-HX scales up to 24 cores and 5.5 GHz boost clock
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB
- AMD pushes Ryzen to the Max — Ryzen AI Max 300 Strix Halo reportedly has up to 16 Zen 5 cores and 40 RDNA 3+ CUs
- September 19
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- Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K packaging leaks: Updated
- Samsung starts mass producing its fastest SSD to date — PM9E1 Gen 5 M.2 drive with speeds up to 14.5 GB/s
- Sony's 30th anniversary PS5, PS5 Pro, and Portal evoke nostalgia
- Asus jumps on the "fish tank" PC case bandwagon — GT502 Horizon combines a militarized theme with lots of tempered glass
- TikTok owner ByteDance taps TSMC to make its own AI GPUs to stop relying on Nvidia — the company has reportedly spent over $2 billion on Nvidia AI GPUs
- Windows 11 24H2 will not arrive for non-Copilot+ PCs on October 8
- Samsung, SK hynix, and TSMC set to overtake Intel in revenue in Q3
- Nintendo sues Palworld developers Pocketpair for patent infringement
- GPD Duo 13.3-inch dual-OLED screen laptop detailed in crowdfunder preview - top spec will cost you $1,860
- China's 3D NAND leader YMTC gradually switching to homegrown chipmaking tools
- Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents
- Datacenter chipmaker Ampere, once valued at $8 billion, explores possible sale: Report
- September 18
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- Asus's new triple-fan 4070 Ti Super is, somehow, SFF-Ready — Asus Prime unveils new OC AD102 GPU
- Fractal Design has a new mini-ITX case for $199 — Era 2 is the follow-up with improved airflow over the original Era
- Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab
- Lunar Lake laptop seemingly has 5 hours longer battery life than Apple M3 MacBook — Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i reaches almost 24 hours of video playback
- ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from the Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest supercomputer
- PS5 firmware update renders several games unplayable with severe graphics issues — this week, the best way to play PlayStation titles is on PC
- Ryzen 9000 CPUs drop 10% frequency executing AVX-512 instructions — Intel CPUs typically suffer from more substantial clock speed drops
- Intel's Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs reportedly support DDR5-10000 RAM — Arrow Lake-S takes advantage of CUDIMMs with clock drivers
- September 17
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- Final Fantasy XVI and God of War Ragnarok drop for PC this week — AMD has preview drivers, Nvidia shows benchmarks
- Intel outlines a plan to get back in the game: Pause fab projects in Europe, make the foundry unit an independent subsidiary, and streamline the x86 portfolio
- Crucial brings P310 NVMe SSD to standard form factor — the 2TB QLC M.2-2230 king gets 2280 variant
- AMD microcode improves cross-CCD latency on Ryzen 9000 CPUs — Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X cross-CCD latency cut in half to match previous-gen models
- Windows Media Player and Silverlight are losing legacy DRM services on Windows 7 and 8
- AOC releases a quartet of curved gaming monitors — new additions offer up to 280 Hz at 1440p for $399
- Alibaba cloud servers being 'carefully dried' after firefighter drenching last week
- Chinese scientists use Starlink signals to detect stealth aircraft and drones
- Intel confirms $3 billion award for Secure Enclave: 18A chips coming to U.S. military
- September 16
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- 6.3 GHz Ryzen 9 9700X beats 7.1 GHz Core i9-14900KF in liquid nitrogen AVX showdown
- Microsoft promises major performance improvements for modern Windows 11 apps
- Intel preps Royal Core and Cobra Core microarchitectures for next-gen CPUs
- China proposes mandatory red flags placed on all AI-generated content posted online
- Chinese company develops 65nm-capable lithography machine for domestic chipmaking — system still trails behind ASML and Nikon, though
- Twelve people sentenced for cryptocurrency heists and laundering — perpetrators stole up to $3.5 million
- Intel reportedly lost PlayStation 6 chip design contract to AMD in 2022 — the $30 billion deal was up for grabs
- AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines
- Battery chemistry advance promises to deliver 'smaller, lighter, and cheaper' Li-ion cells
- September 15
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- Advanced Nvidia AI GPUs get UAE G42 green light from U.S. authorities, says new report
- HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best
- Scientists print 3D metal parts in space for the first time — a key ability for long-distance long-duration missions
- Asgard launches world's first DDR5-9600 CUDIMMs — promising DDR5-10000+ modules are on the way
- Violent racing simulator turns force feedback up to 11 with an ejection seat — sim project debuts in crash and smash video
- Western powers make plans to secure submarine communications cables, excluding Chinese firms and technology
- Leaked Intel Core Ultra 5 245K CPU sample delivers double-digit multicore performance boost — no advantage seen in single-core testing, though
- Intel customer scores Core i9-14900K as a replacement for degraded Core i9-13900K — another received a $599 check for a fully working Core i9-13900K
- September 14
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- Lexar's latest SD 8.0 card is too fast for its own good — potentially DOA since no current devices exploit the card's 1,700 MB/s speeds
- AMD EPYC CPU hacked onto B650 motherboard, hits 6.6 GHz with liquid nitrogen — $159 EPYC 4124P shows immense overclocking potential
- AMD’s laptop OEMs decry poor support, chip supply, and communication — OEM complains the company has "left billions of US dollars lying around" due to poor execution: Reports
- Intel cleared to get $3.5 billion to make advanced chips for Pentagon — Secure Enclave program ushers leading-edge CPUs to the military
- Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream — perps remain unidentified
- AMD hides Taiwan branding on Ryzen CPU packaging as it preps new chips for China market release — company uses black sticker to erase origin information
- 71-TiB NAS with twenty-four 4TB drives hasn't had a single drive failure for ten years — owner outlines key approaches to assure HDD longevity
- Intel preps Xeon R1S CPUs with 136 PCIe 5.0 lanes — Granite Rapids rumored with up to 80 cores for single-socket platform
- Elon Musk and Larry Ellison begged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for AI GPUs at dinner
- September 13
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- Crucial MX500 SSD firmware susceptible to buffer overflow security vulnerability
- HighPoint's blazing-fast 8-slot NVMe Gen 4 RAID card is now compliant with immersion-cooled server environments to boost efficiency and reliability
- Intel Core Ultra 200 CPU specs allegedly leaked — Arrow Lake tops out at 24 cores and 5.7 GHz boost clock at 250W
- CEO Lisa Su says AMD is now a data center-first company — DC is now 4X larger than its gaming sales
- Italian authorities bust a $52 million video game trafficking ring — criminals smuggled pirated games and bootleg consoles from China
- Noctua eliminates 'Rattlegate' on the NH-D15 G2 — CPU cooler no longer makes rattling noises during operation
- Intel Core Ultra 7 258V beats AMD Z1 Extreme in DX12 gaming benchmark [Updated]
- AMD plans for FSR4 to be fully AI-based — designed to improve quality and maximize power efficiency
- This tiny 3D-printed Apple IIe is powered by a $2 microcontroller
- China's SMEE files patent for an EUV chipmaking tool — tool aims to break the shackles of ASML export restrictions
- Microsoft uses automated robots to disassemble and recycle HDDs — company typically shreds two million hard drives per year
- U.S. Govt pushes Nvidia and Apple to use Intel's foundries — Department of Commerce Secretary Raimondo makes appeal for US-based chip production
- North Korean hackers target Python devs with malware disguised as coding tests — hack has been underway for a year
- Researchers build AI-powered security systems that predict criminal behavior, claim 82.8% accuracy in predicting felonies with CCTV monitoring
- Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
- September 12
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- 'Cyberpunk 2077' finally gets FSR3 frame gen for non-RTX GPUs — it's not FSR 3.1, but it works with basically any graphics card
- Bigger and cheaper SSDs are coming thanks to Samsung — chipmaker starts mass producing 9th-gen 280-layer QLC V-NAND
- Blacklisted Chinese AI GPU champ Biren preps for IPO at $2.19B valuation
- Researchers built a molecular film that stores 16,384 states — and used it to create an analog computer that works like a brain
- High-end Intel Z890 motherboards will support up to DDR5-9200 RAM — 64% higher than the rumored Arrow Lake native support for DDR5-5600
- Samsung's yield issues reportedly delays Taylor fab launch to 2026
- BOE and Intel's Winning Display reduces power consumption by 65% using AI-driven 1 to 120 Hz dynamic refresh
- Summit supercomputer set to be retired in November — it was the world's most powerful back in 2018-19
- U.S. gov may green light export of Nvidia's advanced AI processors to Saudi Arabia: Report
- September 11
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- Nvidia and Oracle team up for Zettascale cluster: Available with up to 131,072 Blackwell GPUs
- MSI's X870 boards get GPU power boost for PCIe slots with new power connector — ATX 3.1-ready motherboards have an extra connector to feed power-hungry GPUs and multi-GPU setups
- AMD introduces AFMF 2 & VGM tech to boost Ryzen AI 300 CPU gaming performance — AFMF 2 offers up to 78% higher frame rates in Cyberpunk 2077
- AMD silently launches RX 7800M GPU — mobile Navi 32 with 12GB of VRAM
- Intel Z890 motherboards reportedly ship with the Intel Default Profile by default — alternative profiles are allowed but only selectable by the user
- Intel partner offers refund for faulty Core i9-14900K CPU due to lack of stock — affected user sells off Intel hardware and switches to AMD
- Intel Alder Lake-N CPU powers new Linux tablet PC — Juno Tab 3 features N100 CPU, 12GB RAM, and 512GB SSD for $699
- Oracle will use three small nuclear reactors to power new 1-gigawatt AI data center
- Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench
- Iodyne launches external SSD with Frore's AirJet cooler for sustained 3GB/s performance
- Russia to spend $660 million to strengthen its Internet censorship infrastructure: Report
- Toshiba launches CMR 24TB and SMR 28TB HDDs for data centers and hyperscalers
- September 10
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- AMD's Krackan Point APUs land in early 2025 for budget notebooks — Krackan Point-powered Copilot+ laptops may start at $799
- Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake desktop CPU launch reportedly delayed to October 24
- Next-gen Chinese GPU touts RTX 2080-level performance — Loongson claims 9A2000 is up to 10x faster than the 9A1000
- Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets
- PS5 Pro confirmed — New PlayStation will cost $699.99 on November 5 with larger GPU and PSSR Upscaling
- Rambus announces HBM4 memory controller for AI GPUs — controller enables up to of 2.56 TB/s per HBM4 memory stack across a 2048-bit memory bus
- Chinese chipmaker teases “world-leading” performance of next-gen 7nm CPU — 3B6600 rocks eight LA864 cores clocked at 3 GHz
- Intel’s CHIPS Act fund delayed by officials — Washington reportedly wants more information before disbursing billions of dollars
- MNT Reform Next open source modular hardware laptop sequel unveiled — expected to hit Crowd Supply soon
- TSMC's first High-NA EUV litho tool to begin installation this month say industry insiders
- TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report
- Arrow Lake desktop CPU prices won't rile enthusiasts according to Canadian e-tailer listings
- Raspberry Pi updates 'bumpin sticker' with whatever song you're currently playing
- Apple Intelligence coming to Apple Silicon-based Macs, advanced iPads, and iPhones
- September 9
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- Micron ships production-ready 12-Hi HBM3E chips for next-gen AI GPUs — up to 36GB per stack with speeds surpassing 9.2 GT/s
- AMD Instinct MI300A data center APU underperforms against mainstream CPUs in Geekbench — MI300A submissions show lower performance than a Core i5-14600K
- Apple's A18 and A18 Pro processors powers the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro — and Apple Intelligence
- Acer enters retail PC power supply market — Predator GX850 850W ATX 3.0 SFX PSU arrives with 80 Plus Gold certification
- AMD announces unified UDNA GPU architecture — bringing RDNA and CDNA together to take on Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem
- MSI's new 1500R ultrawide Modern MD342CQP series features 120 Hz VA 1440p panel, 98W USB Type-C PD
- Asus Dual GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 hits U.S. e-tailers but is more expensive than some GDDR6X models
- September 8
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- China vexed at expansion of ASML chip tool export controls, reveals ministry statement
- Thermal Grizzly's direct die liquid cooling product problem has been found and fixed — withdrawn cooling block reissued with RGB
- Old $20 Nvidia GeForce GT 730 graphics card upcycled into $1,024 plastic handbag
- AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs: Jack Huynh talks new strategy against Nvidia in gaming market
- Thermaltake confirms 71 CPU cooler models are fully compatible with Intel LGA1851 — ready for your next-gen Intel Arrow Lake PC build
- Lexar rolls out the world’s first stainless steel SD cards to join its Armor storage family
- Researchers snoop data from air-gapped PC's RAM sticks by monitoring EM radiation from 23 feet away
- September 7
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- AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2 gets an update with new stability fixes — the driver also brings optimizations for Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2
- AMD X870 motherboards listed overseas start at $350 — premium X870E models may retail close to $800
- Zen 5 CPU performance is unaffected by Inception mitigation
- Intel Core Ultra 200K CPU pricing exposed by overseas retailer — Arrow Lake priced up to 8% higher than Raptor Lake Refresh
- Best of IFA 2024: New CPUs, new laptops, and more
- September 6
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- Micro-ATX chassis just 16 liters in size supports quad-slot GPUs and 280mm liquid coolers
- AMD's Z2 Extreme CPU for next-gen gaming handhelds will arrive in early 2025
- Nvidia's AI GPUs are cheaper to rent in China than in the US — $6 per hour for eight Nvidia A100 GPUs
- RTX 3050 A laptop GPU is a hairline behind the RTX 3050 Ti laptop GPU in OpenCL benchmark — A GPU with an Ampere name but Ada silicon on the inside
- Musician charged with wire fraud after using thousands of bots to stream AI music to earn millions in royalties
- Qualcomm reportedly explores buying portions of Intel's PC client business
- Dutch government retakes export control over ASML's fab tools
- Sony allegedly teases PlayStation 5 Pro in 30th anniversary promo, shape matches earlier leaked renders
- Khadas announce updated Mind 2 range with Intel Meteor Lake CPUs
- U.S. gov't proposes new export controls targeting China and other 'adversaries'
- Raspberry Pi Pico converts Paw Patrol toy into arcade controller
- September 5
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- Maker 3D prints giant 'Benchy' sailboat and takes it out on the water
- AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X3D is no longer exclusive to the U.S. — the latest 3D V-Cache chip is now available in Germany for €329
- Intel Xeon W-3595X 60-core CPU overclocked to 5.80 GHz — 1 GHz over the default 4.8 GHz boost clock
- Next-gen Intel Core Ultra 300 CPU specs reportedly leaked — Panther Lake-H could feature up to 18 cores and 12 Xe3 Celestial GPU cores
- Diamond-based quantum accelerators to be integrated into Oak Ridge National Laboratory's HPC
- Mobile RX 7800M GPU beats desktop RX 7700 XT GPU in vendor benchmarks — RX 7800M is also faster than the RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
- Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing
- The SavePoint M.2 2230 SSD enclosure attaches to your handheld device and features power loss protection
- FBI warns crypto industry as North Korea ramps up raiding campaigns — provides advice to likely targets
- Lenovo’s Lunar Lake-powered X1 Carbon Aura Edition weighs just 2.16 pounds
- Lenovo's new AI-powered Yogas and IdeaPads use Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen AI 300
- Lenovo’s Auto Twist AI PC IFA concept has a motorized hinge that can follow you around and close itself via voice command
- Russia bypasses sanctions and obtains spare parts for decades old ASML chip making machines: Report
- Nvidia RTX 50-series Blackwell designs and specifications expected to be finalized this month — RTX 5080 rumored to have 400W TGP
- September 4
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- Nvidia denies it got subpoena from the U.S. DOJ in AI antitrust investigation
- Older YubiKeys compromised by unpatchable 2FA bug — side-channel attack is critical, but expensive and difficult to execute
- Intel announces cancellation of 20A process node for Arrow Lake, goes with external nodes instead, likely TSMC [Updated]
- 5-foot-long mechanical RGB keyboard is fully functional — MCHOSE super-sizes its newest budget keyboard
- Asus launches NUC 14 Pro AI with dedicated Copilot button — Lunar Canyon NUC supports up to a Core Ultra 9 288V, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 7
- Samsung updates its laptop lineup with the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 — an ultra-lightweight laptop powered by the latest Intel Core Ultra 200V CPUs
- xAI Colossus supercomputer with 100K H100 GPUs comes online — Musk lays out plans to double GPU count to 200K with 50K H100 and 50K H200
- Asus brings Intel Lunar Lake to Zenbook and Vivobook S14
- Microsoft adds Copilot+ support for new CPUs — AMD Ryzen AI 300 and Intel Core Ultra 200V chips receive new AI experiences
- Broadcom reportedly disappointed with Intel 18A process technology — spokesperson confirms evaluation is still in process
- Acer's new Swift Laptops include Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm chips
- Acer’s shows off “DualPlay” laptop with controller that pops out of the touchpad
- Acer brings blazing fast 600 Hz, 520 Hz FHD gaming monitors to IFA
- Acer Nitro Blaze 7 gaming handheld with Ryzen 8040 revealed at IFA
- Raspberry Pi-powered RescueTap automatically alerts caregivers in an emergency
- Intel allegedly has 'stock availability issues' for Core i9-13900K and 14900K CPUs (Updated)
- Intel says defect density at 18A is 'healthy,' potential clients are lining up
- U.S. Department of Justice subpoenas Nvidia in AI antitrust investigation
- V-Color unveils DDR5 CUDIMM modules with RGB LEDs and up to 9200 MT/s
- Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus now comes in 8-core variants
- Microsoft's Surface Pros with Snapdragon come to businesses
- Intel could be removed from Dow Jones due to stark stock price drop: Report
- September 3
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- Retro gaming enthusiasts demonstrate transmission of C64 games via YouTube — data rates appear to be around 30 bits per second
- Cooler Master's Shark X PC is up for pre-order with a jaw-dropping $6,999 price tag — a lot of money for a Core i7-14700F, 64GB RAM, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and 2TB SSD
- Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X gaming performance don't benefit from a higher TDP — 105W TDP mode tested in three modern games
- MSI's new productivity laptops boast Intel Lunar Lake and AMD Ryzen AI 300
- Incase will launch rebranded "Designed by Microsoft" peripherals in Q4 2024
- Chinese GPU-maker XCT, once valued at $2.1B, is on the verge of collapse — shareholders now suing founder
- Intel Core Ultra Series 2 comes to the Dell XPS 13
- Intel launches Lunar Lake: claims Arm-beating battery life, world’s fastest mobile CPU cores
- Taiwan accuses Chinese chip manufacturing tool companies of poaching engineers from Taiwanese companies
- Taiwan chip industry heavyweights form SiPhIA to energize the photonics industry
- Leaker says RTX 50-series GPUs will require substantially more power, with the RTX 5090 TDP jumping by over 100 watts
- The AMD Zen 5 Gaming postmortem: Larger generational gains than many reported, game-boosting Windows Update tested, Ryzen 5 7600X3D gaming benchmarks, too
- Intel to establish advanced chip R&D center in Japan — a collaborative venture with Tokyo's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Raspberry Pi 5 powers personal cloud server in a custom laser-cut case
- Scientists create optically switchable photonic units, aiming to power the future of logic gates and microchips
- Pentium processor turned into a Navajo weaving — Ken Shirriff finds a piece of CPU history
- Khadas lists modular Intel Lunar Lake AI mini-PC development kit for $1,199
- Icy Dock unveils 4-bay M.2 adapter for PCIe 5.0 SSDs: up to 56 GB/s
- September 2
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- China spent more on chipmaking equipment than South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S. combined — $25B in investments in the first half of the year
- Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional — a glitch made it appear so in the Windows 11 24H2 KB5041865 update
- Intel CEO will reportedly present plans to cut assets at an emergency board meeting — chipmaker may put $32B Magdeburg plant on hold and sell off Altera
- Nvidia revamps GeForce RTX badge with AI slogan — new logo reads "GeForce RTX Powering Advanced AI"
- RGB-infused direct die cooling block arrives for Intel LGA1700 CPUs — Thermal Grizzly claims six degrees Celsius lower temperatures
- Palit and Gainward release 'Nvidia SFF-ready' Infinity 3 and Python 3 Nvidia RTX 4000 series GPUs
- Windows 11 skips past 50% market share milestone in latest Steam survey
- Intel Panther Lake processors could pack up to 16 cores, maximum of four performance cores according to leak
- September 1
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- Windows preview build teases searching your audio and video content — 'intelligent media search' referenced in newest build
- AMD 128-core Zen 5-based EPYC 9755 'Turin' tested: 2X faster than 128-core predecessor
- This Raspberry Pi Pico drives tiny level crossing lights for a model train
- 'Mindblowing' fake AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip investigated — buyers beware
- Texas resident used Apple AirTags to discover plastics taken to Houston recycling centers aren't being recycled