The five-year-old Ryzen 7 5800X and its 2024 refresh, the 5800XT, are among the best-selling CPUs this holiday season despite being two generations behind Zen 5.
The Seagate Expansion 22TB external HDD delivers huge storage capacity at a steep discount, making it a compelling choice for users who need dependable, plug-and-play mass storage.
AMD is preparing a new flagship gaming chip, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, which is said to have 192MB of L3 cache thanks to its dual-cache design that will add 3D V-Cache across both CCDs. The CPU originally leaked months ago, but it has finally appeared on benchmarking databases PassMark and Geekbench, with amicable scores to boot.
Christmas might be over with, but it's time to secure yourself a Boxing Day tech deal. We've put together a list of the best discounts from retailers including Amazon, Currys, Argos, Very, and more.
Nvidia has reorganized its cloud computing group, further scaling back its ambitions to operate a public cloud service that would directly compete with Amazon Web Services.
LG is expanding its gaming monitor portfolio with the launch of UltraGear evo, a premium sub-brand that brings a 5K Mini LED monitor with 2,304 dimming zones, a curved 5K2K OLED ultrawide, and the worldβs largest 5K2K gaming display
According to a special report by the New York Times, the U.S. government is concerned about how China sits at the center of that ecosystem, controlling large portions of battery manufacturing and processing.
Intel Foundry has released a video of a multi-chiplet 2.5D/3D processor with a 10,296 mm^2 silicon footprint, including leading-edge technologies such as 14A and 18A.
Samsung brings maximum performance to one of its most colorful monitors with the Odyssey OLED G6 S27FG60. Itβs a 27-inch QD-OLED with 500 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR True Black 500, HDR10, HDR10+ and wide gamut color.
In what could only be described as an extremely timely Christmas miracle, a Redditor has received two full boxes of expensive, flagship SSDs worth $5,100, even though they paid for just two. A tale of Amazon's packaging error turned into relief amidst the ongoing component crisis.
Google is finally adding a much-awaited feature to Gmail, allowing to change your old @gmail addresses without needing to create a new account. After switching to a new Gmail, you'll receive emails on both addresses, and all your existing data will remain intact.
Framework is increasing the prices of its memory modules in response to market pricing once more. Also encourages its buyers to look for better deal elsewhere as the memory market crunch bites into the PC building industry.
Groq, a rival to Nvidia in the AI chip race, has entered into a non-exclusive agreement with the Green Team, with a deal valued at $20 billion, roughly $13 billion more than Groq's last evaluation. Nvidia will also hire the firm's founder and CEO, along with its President, as part of the biggest purchase it's ever made.
Arch Linux is one of the first Linux distros to officially axe Pascal GPU support after Nvidia cancelled support in July. Arch is now using the 590 Nvidia Linux driver as its default Nvidia driver, which lacks Pascal support.
What are you willing to do to get your hands on DDR5 memory these days? Whatever it is, it probably doesn't match the lengths these Russian modders are reaching by trying to build their own RAM. You can actually follow along with your own parts, along with a bit of time to solder the memory ICs to the PCB.
The adjustment comes as Chinaβs largest foundry runs near full utilization and faces sustained demand from domestic customers building inventories of memory and logic chips.
Starlink satellite 35956 suffered from a serious anomaly on December 17. It has been pictured largely intact, tumbling in space, but it will be weeks before it burns up in the Earth's atmosphere.
An innovative power supply that relocates modular connectors to the chassis side for superior cable management, delivering Cybenetics Platinum efficiency under a Gold-level marketing badge for builders willing to verify case compatibility.
This impressive Asus ROG gaming monitor, with a 4K resolution and HDR support, along with a decent 160Hz refresh rate, is back at its lowest ever price on Amazon for just $299.
SK hynix is expanding its U.S. presence with a new office in the Seattle metropolitan area, placing the worldβs leading HBM supplier within minutes of Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Researchers from Northeastern University discovered that PEDOT:PSS, which is typically used in medical research, breaks down into harmful microplastics.
The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage.
OLED screens, while the pinnacle of display tech today, still aren't perfect, and one area where OLED monitors in specific have struggled is text clarity. Either due to the unorthodox subpixel layout of these panels or the addition of a white subpixel, fringing around text has been a persistent issue, but LG has seemingly solved both at one go.
A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades.
HP delivers reference-quality color and speedy gameplay with the Omen 27qs G2. Itβs a 27-inch QHD IPS panel with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, MPRT, HDR400 and wide gamut color. It also brings superb video processing for super smooth motion.
Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company.
Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist β only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own.
A huge $650 saving means this MSI Aegis Z2 gaming PC, with an eight-core AMD Ryzen CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 2TB SSD, could be yours for just $1,649 right now.
U.S. export policy is colliding with the realities of globalized supply chains, reseller-driven distribution models, and explosive demand for AI accelerators in China.
In an attempt to keep prebuilt systems costs down and bypass a rocky supply chain, Maingear is offering custom build configurations where users provide their own RAM.
Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up.
Nvidia is preparing to deliver up to 80,000 H200 AI chips to China before the Lunar New Year holiday, marking the first time this level of silicon would be legally exported to the country since 2022.
Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards.
10 former Samsung employees are accused of leaking Samsung's 10-nm DRAM technology to CXMT, allegedly allowing the latter to achieve technological breakthroughs on stolen information.
In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers.
Intel's Fab 52 in Arizona is currently the most advanced chip production facility in America, but it has yet to reach its full 40,000-wafer capacity due to low 18A yields.
Conducted between late October and November, Operation Sentinel saw international law enforcement agencies shut down cybercrime infrastructure, decrypt ransomware variants, and prevent large-scale financial losses across the region.
AMD's dominance in the workstation segment is about to challenged once again with the Granite Rapids-WS lineup, which has now appeared on American retailer SHI. These early prices paint a competitive picture for Intel's forthcoming Xeons, and while they might not achieve core parity with Threadripper, their value proposition can't be dismissed just yet.
A passionate console modder has just built his own sized-up version of the Lego Game Boy, only this time it actually works and features a crazy impressive electroluminescent screen. The display has a CRT-like glow effect, but it's not simulated through shaders; rather, it's entirely natural and looks era-accurate.
ASRockβs X870 Taichi Creator is a good, sub-$320 AM5 motherboard. Its strong all-around performance and creator-focused features - like 10 GbE, ample slot spacing/dual PCIe 5.0 slots, and numerous USB ports- make it a top mid-range option, especially for those who need a lot of expandability
Take advantage of this Newegg deal on an ABS Cyclone Aqua gaming PC, which has dropped in price to just $999.99. This pre-built rig comes with a ten-core Intel Core i5-14400F CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of RAM.
A developer got fed up with the eyestrain brought about by 14 hours of reading software licenses, so he solved it by turning an old ePaper tablet into a secondary monitor.
TP-Link is offering a nearly 50% discount for its 5-port gigabit ethernet switch, allowing you to physically connect up to four devices to your home network for under $10.
In an extremely timely mix-up, someone on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit sent one of the sticks in their 96 GB kit of Corsair's Vengeance DDR5 for an RMA and received non-functional dummy RAM in return. Customer's real memory was worth at least $1000 while the decorative modules are just $35.
Chinese fabs are quietly extending the useful life and performance of older ASML deep ultraviolet lithography systems by upgrading key subsystems, as Beijing pushes to sustain advanced chip output.
Priced at under $590 right now, Lenovo's Legion Go S handheld with an AMD APU and running SteamOS is the best value alternative to the Steam Deck right now.
An acoustically-optimized power supply that prioritizes silence and efficiency over premium components, delivering impressive thermal performance and modern connectivity at a competitive price point.
In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna's Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify's library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It's essentially everything on Spotify packaged into torrents to be distributed illegally, analogous to how the group has made books available for free.
The dreams of an Atari Hotel are alive and kicking after the project was initially announced back in 2020 β the first venue is set for Phoenix, Arizona. The developers have returned with an update, and they're raising money to begin construction next year, lending you equity in the process if you choose to invest at least $500 in the project.
Shanghai Biren Technology has begun bookbuilding for a Hong Kong initial public offering aimed at raising as much ad US$624 million as Chinese AI chipmakers accelerate listings to fund expansion.
A 1.14 inch secondary display built around an ESP32, that receives video frames over Wi-Fi, and you could build your own for $10. Sounds like a fun weekend project
NIST has warned that several of its Internet Time Service servers could be providing inaccurate time following a failure of the primary atomic time scale at its Boulder, Colorado campus.
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