We take a deep-dive into the past, present, and future of the ubiquitous PCIe standard, and look ahead at the challenges that await manufacturers when integrating PCIe 6.0 and beyond into real-world hardware.
The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto has circled back to a likely candidate, Adam Back, thanks to a New York Times article that draws striking parallels between the two. Back denies being Satoshi, saying it's all just a coincidence and confirmation bias on behalf of the reporter. The 40-page-long investigation goes over decades of evidence to try to prove otherwise.
Many of these job cuts are blamed on AI, but some experts say that it's actually caused by bad business decisions or corporate pivots. Still, they do not discount the disruption that AI will have on the job market, even as some companies buck the trend and hire more junior roles.
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally is the cheapest Windows-based PC gaming handheld you can get right now, but some technical hitches and a mediocre processor don't help it shine next to the Steam Deck OLED.
Taiwan's semiconductor industry alliance is urging the government to expand its strategic stockpiles of LNG and helium, find alternative suppliers, and restart nuclear power plants to ensure stability during times of crisis.
An epic deal over at HP's website is knocking over $1,600 off the price of this Omen Max gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5090, 9800X3D, 32GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD, all for just $3,808.69 if you purchase it with a monitor or a $39 accessory.
A premium Asus ROG Strix X870E motherboard, 9800X3D, 32GB Corsair Vengeance RAM, a free AIO cooler, and a copy of Crimson Desert are yours for just $1054.98
The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that Russian state hackers have been exploiting vulnerable small office and home office routers since 2024 to overwrite their DHCP and DNS settings
The Be Quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1200W combines exceptional build quality from CWT with Platinum-level efficiency and a comprehensive 10-year warranty, though its limited connectivity and premium pricing demand careful consideration.
Taiwan's National Security Bureau claims that China is intensifying efforts to steal semiconductor process technologies and other chip-related know-how from Taiwan as international restrictions get more severe.
Corsair has launched a new case customizer for its Frame 4000D that allows buyers to change almost anything about the enclosure, from the side panel to the front-panel I/O configuration.
Corsair has silently raised the prices on its AI Workstation 300 mini PCs. The top-end Ryzen AI Max+ 395 model is now $3,399, or $400 pricier than it was just a couple months ago. That increase comes amid spiraling RAM and storage prices thanks to the AI boom.
The macOS networking stack has a bug that creates a 49.7-day-long countdown to disaster that currently requires a reboot to fix, as discovered by AI service provider Photon.
Intel is working on its own neural texture compression with similar compression performance to Nvidia's counterpart. Best of all, Intel has a fallback version of its compression tech that will work with GPUs that don't come with Intel's XMX engine.
Anthropic's latest frontier AI model, Claude Mythos Preview, is so adept at finding software vulnerabilities that the lab is holding it back to allow companies and institutions to proactively patch their products against the 'thousands' of bugs it has already uncovered.
The 2TB SanDisk Extreme Pro UHS-II SD card costs $2,000, bringing its price per GB to nearly $1, making it more than four times more expensive than much faster microSD Express cards.
Zortos293 uploaded an open-source GeForce Now client to GitHub, allowing gamers to connect to Nvidia's service without being tracked by the tech giant.
The Asus Zenbook A16 is a lightweight housing for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, but comes with compromises in build quality and battery life.
A city councilor's home has been shot up for allegedly supporting a data center project in Indianapolis. Opposing neighborhood groups condemn the shooting, while the authorities have yet to determine who's behind the crime.
Save $200 on this awesome AMD build from iBuyPower, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD, all for just $2,049 right now.
Motherboards, who needs them? Not Breadboarding Labs, which recently drafted plans for a retro Intel 80386 (i386) PC build using solderless breadboards.
More than a dozen investors are pressuring Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet's Google to provide detailed data on water and energy consumption at their U.S. data centers.
Bartlett Lake, Intel's P-core only family of CPUs intended for edge and industrial use cases has been modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboards. At the moment, the flagship Core 9 273QPE with 12 Raptor Cove P-cores is posting around 33,000 points in Cinbenech R23, which is around the Core i7-14700 mark.
Bipartisan group of U.S. senators propose to impose blanket ban on export of advanced DUV lithography and etching tools to Chinese companies known to have worked with China's military, such as CXMT, Huawei, SMIC, and YMTC.
The MSI MAG A1200PLS PCIE5 delivers strong cold efficiency numbers and excellent build presentation, but a thermal weakness at high load, a questionable 80Plus Platinum claim, and a steep asking price temper an otherwise capable unit.
WD's leadership, now fully split from Sandisk, talks about its expectations for the future with industry analysts. We cover the full transcript of the press-only session right here.
YouTube's AI moderator acted on an errant DMCA takedown, affecting nearly every video that contained clips of the DLSS 5 trailer, including Nvidia's own YouTube video.
Listings for the 9950X3D2 have started to pop up at many different vendors, with some even listing preliminary prices. We found the CPU going for roughly $1,000 at two Canadian retailers, and just a smidge below that at a UK-based website. For context, the standard 9950X3D with 3D V-Cache on only one CCD launched at $699.
The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the DragonFire high-energy laser weapon will be installed on Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027, five years ahead of the original schedule.
The LG 27GS93QE-B is perfect for gaming, productivity, and media consumption, thanks to its versatile feature set. It's a 27-inch 1440p OLED monitor with an MLA+ panel so it's really bright at 1,300 nits (peak) and it has a 240 Hz refresh rate with support for both G-Sync and FreeSync, so it's really smooth, too.
Japanese researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to autonomously generate complex temporal signals using a real-time machine learning framework.
Wildcat Lake is Intel's upcoming family of low-budget and low-power CPUs intended for OEMs. We've already seen many leaks surrounding this family, but now a new product from Advantech has listed three SKUs in a datasheet for its MIO-5356 SBC. This confirms the specs from prior leaks and signals that a launch is due soon.
The latest Steam client update included an FPS data gathering component in Beta, allowing the platform to monitor your framerates and compare it with your hardware.
BenQβs DesignVue PD2770U is a flexible and capable professional monitor with a 27-inch IPS panel, 4K resolution, wide-gamut color, HDR10, a built-in calibrator, software control, and premium build quality.
A 42-core SKU from the upcoming Nova Lake-S CPU family has reportedly been upgraded to 44 cores by swapping the 6P+12E tile with an 8P+12E tile, allowing the chip to achieve symmetry across its dual-tile config. Those leftover 6P+12E tiles could now become locked variants with 144 MB of bLLC as a new 22-core SKU (6P+12E+4LPE).
Developers behind the open-source PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 claim that theyβve achieved a breakthrough in emulating the PS3's Cell Broadband Engine processor.
The Golden Saga Edition of the Redmagic 11 Pro is equipped with 24 GB of RAM and an even more robust liquid cooling system that can pull upwards of 45W while emulating Red Dead 2, delivering 50+ FPS. The phone costs around $1,700, but for that money, you're getting GTA V running at up to 100 FPS on a device that just happens to make calls, too.
The company behind the tiny box AI accelerator says that its macOS driver for Nvidia eGPUs has just been signed by Apple, making it a legitimate software for Macs and no longer needs workarounds to work with the device.
LinkedIn is understood to inject a JavaScript fingerprinting script on every page load that probes visitors' browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects detailed device telemetry.
Nvidia has just demoed its Neural Texture Compression technique again at a GTC talk, where it showed VRAM usage dropping from 6.5 GB to just 970 MB in a scene. NTC uses a neural network to decompress textures instead of standard block-based compression, reducing texture size and VRAM usage while also improving final image quality.
Sharge's Disk Pro pairs a snappy 10 Gbps SSD with a handy port hub and active cooling, all in a compact, eye-catching shell with a magnetic back. It's an impressive package for gamers and road warriors, but you'll pay a high price for all these features.
The Enermax Revolution III S 1000W features certified Platinum efficiency, good power quality, and an absurdly confident 13-year warranty, though its small cooling fan and peculiar cable layout create limitations that deserve attention.
Two new Rowhammer attacks for GPUs have been discovered that can cause bit flips in VRAM to gain arbitrary read/write access over it. These attacks target page files and the page directory that are otherwise protected from electrical disturbance by the driver. By "massaging" these data structures into vulnerable regions where a bit flip can occur, the attacker can access even the CPU memory.
Researchers from the Leiden University in The Netherlands used cutting-edge 3D printing technology to create these microrobots that measure just 0.5 micrometers across.
As hyperscalers seek efficiency and control from custom CPUs they build in house, they adopt Arm and 90% of servers running custom silicon will use the Arm ISA in 2029.
Via LA, the patent pool administrator for H.264/AVC, restructured its streaming license fees earlier this year, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap with a tiered system.
If youβre looking for a deal on a gaming PC, it tends to be cheaper these days to buy a prebuilt, and this deal from Newegg delivers a powerful RTX 5070 / 7800X3D for significantly less than it would cost to build the system yourself.
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