A computer engineer and tech enthusiast has converted his Crucial BX500 512 GB SSD from quad-level cell to single-level cell NAND, reducing capacity to 120GB in the process. Then he checked for endurance and performance benefits.
Chinese vendor Xianyu appears to be flipping older Arrow Lake-S engineering samples for $14 each. You can buy one, but you won't have a motherboard to put it in.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claims the Chip War is not meant to restrict or hold back China, ignoring real-world impacts on Chinese industry and the claims of other U.S. lawmakers.
Nvidia has a new RTX 4070 variant coming, this one using AD103 silicon rather than the usual AD104 GPU. The RTX 4070 (AD103) will apparently have over 40% of the potential GPU cores disabled, along with one memory controller.
YouTube maker Nerdforge puts a coffee grinder and maker inside of a working PC, allowing the user to get fresh roasted coffee from inside of their computer.
vPCBs, which are PCBs built with a sustainable and recyclable vitrimer polymer, debut. This contrasts with traditional PCBs which are 'basically impossible to recycle.'
An engineer has shared his journey in 'building a GPU from scratch with no prior experience.' As with his prior project of designing a CPU from scratch, Adam Majmudar took just two weeks to complete this cerebral feat.
The U.S. Congress presented a bipartisan bill that will prevent DJI from selling new drones - effectively banning them in the consumer and commercial space - citing national security and CCP sponsorship reasons.
The city government in Beijing has outlined plans to subsidize companies that buy Chinese-made processors. Its draft policy has a strong emphasis on GPUs, as they have been most badly affected by US export controls
Intel issues a state regarding stability issues concerning 13th and 14th Generation CPUs on 600-and 700-series motherboards made by respective manufacturers.
The Dutch government may ban ASML from servicing high-end wafer fab tools in China, but the outgoing ASML CEO says this will not be a major problem for earnings.
Manor Lords was the most wishlisted game on Steam prior to its launch today. We've tested the initial early release version on a collection of 25 graphics cards to see just how much GPU horsepower you'll need to run the game well.
Loongson revealed two domestically made CPUs for China's mainstream market due to independent research and development, having its IPC matching with Zen 3 and Intel Comet Lake CPUs.
Listings of Ryzen 8000F Series CPUs with their iGPUs and NPUs disabled appear on Funtech and PC-Canada, with some pricing, ahead of a confirmed global release.
With shipments of AI-capable PCs taking shape, Canalys estimates that AI-enabled PCs will command a 60% share by 2027, with industry-leading players from hardware and software integrating it on a rapid phase.
Gigabyte and MSI have officially addressed stability concerns with Raptor Lake i9 processors. Gigabyte has provided new beta BIOS updates addressing the issue while MSI has provided a new tutorial on how to fix stability problems.
With a price of around $650, the Apex Encore is a premium motherboard focused on overclocking and pushing your hardware to its limits. It also looks good, performed well in our tests, and is a solid, albeit expensive, daily driver even if you don’t overclock.
Microsoft has released the MS-DOS 4.00 source code, binaries, disk images, and documentation. The source code, which is nearly 45 years old, has been released under the MIT license, allowing tinkerers free rein.
Igor's Lab prototypes and develops an easy thermal paste applicator for various use cases. The applicator applies paste in a fixed grid on the entire CPU for optimal performance and no concerns about misapplying paste.
In an attempt to make its users aware, Microsoft will be overlaying a watermark on PCs with Windows 11 24H2 which will not have compatible CPUs using SSE 4.2 instructions as its native apps use it for AI.
Sabrent’s new Rocket 4 SSD is a DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 drive and a welcome update to its popular Rocket NVMe 4.0. It’s better in every way, from performance to power efficiency to being single-sided for laptops.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered the world's first DGX H200 computer to OpenAI's CEO and president, continuing a trend of connecting OpenAI with bleeding edge AI compute power.