Leaked Asus Computex lineup teases ROG Ally upgrade, Snapdragon X notebooks, and gaming peripherals
No sign of the RTX 50 series though
Nintendo confirms it will announce a Switch successor by April 2025
It will be absent from June's Nintendo Direct event, though
"CPUs Don't Matter For 4K Gaming"... Wrong!
Something we hear a lot is that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. Without proper context, CPU benchmark data can be misinterpreted. Let us explain to you what's what with some hard data.
CPU overclockers hit a ceiling, and it happened about 17 years ago
The golden age of overclocking has long passed
The big picture: Intel recently invited two leading overclockers to its headquarters to discuss achieving the world's first 9 GHz CPU overclock. The duo of Pieter-Jan Plaisier (SkatterBencher) and Jon Sandström (ElmorLabs) also looked back at CPU frequency overclocking milestones along the way, highlighting an obvious wall that was hit roughly 17 years ago.
Apple's first hybrid iPad could launch in 2025, foldable iPhone in 2026
Get ready to sell your kidney
SSD Pricing Update, Q2 2024: A Rising Trend for Storage
Until last year, there was plenty of talk about declining SSD prices. However, as we showed a few months ago, that trend has reversed. The AI race has also become a factor for SSD and HDD pricing.
Samsung taps AI to design first 3nm mobile processor with Synopsys
Exynos chips could get a whole lot better
The Best 1440p Gaming Monitors: 1H 2024
For PC gamers not using the latest high-end GPUs, 1440p gaming monitors provide an excellent compromise for playing at high refresh rates without going 4K, which requires a ton more horsepower.
Courts sentence scammer to 6 years for operating a billion-dollar Cisco counterfeiting ring
In a nutshell: A judge has sentenced the CEO of 19 fraudulent tech firms to six years in prison on conspiracy and fraud charges. The Florida man headed up a scam that sold counterfeit Cisco networking equipment. Authorities estimate the criminal enterprise sold more than a billion dollars worth of gear.
AMD writes blog on 55 years of innovation at the company, mentions "AI" 23 times
Focusing more on the last few years
No reprieve for PC builders as skyrocketing metal prices set to impact component costs
Brace for jacked-up PC prices
AMD's next-gen Radeon GPUs might feature completely new ray tracing hardware
Is AMD getting serious about catching up to Nvidia in ray tracing?
New CopprLink standard extends PCIe reach over wire for 64GT/s connections
CopprLink for PCIe 7.0 technology at 128.0 GT/s is also in the works
Nvidia RTX 4090 can crack complex 8-character passwords in minutes
The Nvidia A100 can do it even faster
RTX 4090 owner says his 16-pin power connector melted at the GPU and PSU ends simultaneously
Despite the card's power limit being set at 75%
AMD's gaming revenue plunges 48% and might not recover until 2025
Fortunately, AMD has Zen 5 and Strix Point to look forward to later this year
April Steam survey sees another AMD card enter chart, Windows 11 gain more users
AMD also made up ground in the CPU section
Nvidia thinks its GPUs are better for onboard AI than NPUs
Company claims RTX GPUs perform AI tasks multiple times faster than NPUs
The US government is auctioning the Cheyenne supercomputer: 145,152 CPU cores and 313 TB of RAM
This 5.34-petaflops supercomputer could be yours
AMD's cancelled RDNA 4 GPU could have doubled the 7900 XTX's performance
A Radeon RX 8900 XTX would have featured 9 shader engines, 200 compute units, and up to 20 chiplets
Rumor mill: It has long been suspected that the Radeon RX 8000 series – AMD's next generation of graphics cards – will focus exclusively on affordable mid-range products. However, this wasn't always the plan. Newly unveiled code suggests that AMD canceled a flagship RDNA 4 model that might have directly competed with upcoming high-end offerings from Intel and Nvidia.
This techie created a GPU from scratch in under two weeks
Designing custom CPUs and GPUs has become something of a trend for hobbyists of late
In brief: Building your own graphics card is the kind of undertaking that most people wouldn't even dream of attempting. But for one enterprising engineer known as "adammaj" on X/Twitter, constructing a GPU from the ground up wasn't just a crazy idea; it was a challenge conquered in just two weeks, even "with no prior experience."
Intel CPUs Are Crashing and It's Intel's Fault: Intel Baseline Profile Benchmark
For years, we have highlighted Intel's loosely defined CPU power specs and the problems they pose for customers. The issue now is that some 13th and 14th-gen processors have started crashing.
Raspberry Pi adding new memory options to its compact Compute Module 4S boards
Greater computing power and more memory for industrial applications
Scammers are selling fake RTX 4090 graphics cards without GPU and memory chips
The used graphics card market is a hotbed of scammers
TSMC lays out roadmap for massive, kilowatt-class chip packages and terabit optical links
The company's solutions could use up to a whopping 120x120mm substrate in 2027