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The pains of Intel: From CPU design and process technology challenges to internal clashes and political pressure

The pains of Intel: From CPU design and process technology challenges to internal clashes and politi...

3 hours ago 3

I created a convenient PC repair kit that I can take on the road — these are the tools that have come in handy when I'm PC problem-solving away from home

I created a convenient PC repair kit that I can take on the road — these are the tools that have com...

3 hours ago 4

Trump may allow Nvidia to ship hobbled current-gen Blackwell AI GPUs to China — U.S. gov't would get 15% of related revenue, China firms would get access to far faster GPUs

Trump may allow Nvidia to ship hobbled current-gen Blackwell AI GPUs to China — U.S. gov't would get...

4 hours ago 4

Undervolted Zotac RTX 5090 reportedly catches fire during Battlefield 6 session

Undervolted Zotac RTX 5090 reportedly catches fire during Battlefield 6 session

4 hours ago 3

My PC won't shut off this ugly red RGB light — my motherboard has become my biggest aesthetic annoyance

My PC won't shut off this ugly red RGB light — my motherboard has become my biggest aesthetic annoya...

4 hours ago 4

Get $400 off the latest Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop — RTX 5060 and Ryzen 9 CPU portable drops to just $1,400

Get $400 off the latest Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop — RTX 5060 and Ryzen 9 CPU portable drop...

5 hours ago 4

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part of 'CoreAI' team

GitHub folds into Microsoft following CEO resignation — once independent programming site now part o...

6 hours ago 6

Former Intel CEO lays out radical plan to rescue the company — Suggests outing Lip-Bu Tan and asks for $40 billion investment from Nvidia, Apple, and others

Former Intel CEO lays out radical plan to rescue the company — Suggests outing Lip-Bu Tan and asks f...

6 hours ago 6

SK hynix wants you to buy s’more HBM4 to satisfy your high-tech cravings — company's X account compares cutting-edge stacked memory to summer treat

SK hynix wants you to buy s’more HBM4 to satisfy your high-tech cravings — company's X account compa...

6 hours ago 6

Quad-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available in retail, though

Quad-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available i...

7 hours ago 3

Ryzen 7 5700X3D reportedly reaches 'end-of-life' — AMD's last eight-core Zen 3 3D V-Cache CPU ends production

Ryzen 7 5700X3D reportedly reaches 'end-of-life' — AMD's last eight-core Zen 3 3D V-Cache CPU ends p...

7 hours ago 4

Don't buy a DualSense Edge if you're after a premium PS5 controller; the Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded is better in almost every way

Don't buy a DualSense Edge if you're after a premium PS5 controller; the Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded is...

8 hours ago 3

I've played every game in the Mafia series – here's why Mafia: The Old Country left me wanting more

I've played every game in the Mafia series – here's why Mafia: The Old Country left me wanting more

8 hours ago 3

SK hynix projects HBM market to be worth tens of billions of dollars by 2030 — says AI memory industry will expand 30% annually over five years

SK hynix projects HBM market to be worth tens of billions of dollars by 2030 — says AI memory indust...

9 hours ago 4

Nvidia unveils 2U RTX Pro 6000 servers at SIGGRAPH — double shot of Blackwell power comes to smaller rackmount form factors

Nvidia unveils 2U RTX Pro 6000 servers at SIGGRAPH — double shot of Blackwell power comes to smaller...

9 hours ago 4

Nvidia introduces compact Blackwell professional graphics cards — RTX Pro 4000 SFF and Pro 2000 GPUs arrive at SIGGRAPH 2025

Nvidia introduces compact Blackwell professional graphics cards — RTX Pro 4000 SFF and Pro 2000 GPUs...

9 hours ago 4

Google's AI could be tricked into enabling spam, revealing a user's location, and leaking private correspondence with a calendar invite — 'promptware' targets LLM interface to trigger malicious activity

Google's AI could be tricked into enabling spam, revealing a user's location, and leaking private co...

10 hours ago 5

Nvidia and AMD reportedly sharing 15% of their China GPU revenue in exchange for export licenses — 'unprecedented' export revenue sharing deal may have been struck

Nvidia and AMD reportedly sharing 15% of their China GPU revenue in exchange for export licenses — '...

10 hours ago 6

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expected to visit Trump to address China links — duo tipped to have 'wide-ranging' conversation to address national security concerns

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan expected to visit Trump to address China links — duo tipped to have 'wide-rangi...

11 hours ago 6

Scientists 3D print titanium fuel tank for space travel — world's first to pass critical durability test

Scientists 3D print titanium fuel tank for space travel — world's first to pass critical durability ...

11 hours ago 6

Back in stock, this MSRP-priced RTX 5080 OC is the 2nd most powerful GPU available and is now just $999 for the overclocked variant

Back in stock, this MSRP-priced RTX 5080 OC is the 2nd most powerful GPU available and is now just $...

12 hours ago 6

Rumored $599-$699 MacBook could be in the works — 12.9-inch model with iPhone 16 Pro SoC tipped for Q3 2025 production

Rumored $599-$699 MacBook could be in the works — 12.9-inch model with iPhone 16 Pro SoC tipped for ...

13 hours ago 6

Adaptec announces new RAID card that supports up to 32 NVMe PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 SSDs — offers up to 291GB/s read speeds at full capacity

Adaptec announces new RAID card that supports up to 32 NVMe PCIe 4.0 and 5.0 SSDs — offers up to 291...

14 hours ago 5

I tested Free Download Manager, oOne of the finest download managers around

I tested Free Download Manager, oOne of the finest download managers around

14 hours ago 8

CT scan peels back the layers of time to reveal the engineering within Intel’s iconic 386 CPU — exposing intricate pin mapping, hidden power planes, and more

CT scan peels back the layers of time to reveal the engineering within Intel’s iconic 386 CPU — expo...

15 hours ago 7

I tested FrostWire a free, open-source torrenting solution with impressive download speeds and an extensive content library

I tested FrostWire a free, open-source torrenting solution with impressive download speeds and an ex...

16 hours ago 5

The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is on sale for all-time low $949 at Amazon

The Asus Vivobook 16 Flip Laptop is on sale for all-time low $949 at Amazon

1 day ago 19

New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’ — chip and power spikes plague new version 141.x

New local AI integration into Firefox spurs complaints of ‘CPU going nuts’ — chip and power spikes p...

1 day ago 31

Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried PCB traces give up for good in unsuccessful repair attempt

Dead RTX 4090 gets cooked beyond salvation — VRAM swap and multiple signal patch jobs fail as buried...

1 day ago 31

Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative features went live this week

Microsoft brings AI-powered assistance to gaming — Copilot Gaming (beta) and Copilot 3D creative fea...

1 day ago 18

China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid them — says chip is ‘neither environmentally friendly, nor advanced, nor safe’

China state media says Nvidia H20 GPUs are unsafe and outdated, urges Chinese companies to avoid the...

1 day ago 10

I reviewed this paper-thin portable monitor - and I still can't believe it sports a 16:10 3K OLED panel

I reviewed this paper-thin portable monitor - and I still can't believe it sports a 16:10 3K OLED pa...

1 day ago 22

Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world actively a worse place to live' — Linux honcho puts dev on notice for late submissions, too

Linus Torvalds calls RISC-V code from Google engineer 'garbage' and that it 'makes the world activel...

1 day ago 16

Self-taught modder builds completely transparent Game Boy Color circuit board that actually works — PCB looks stunning when matched with fully transparent shell

Self-taught modder builds completely transparent Game Boy Color circuit board that actually works — ...

1 day ago 10

Intel's Nova Lake mobile specs leaks out, top end HX variant to feature 28 CPU cores and 4 Xe cores — Entire lineup is reportedly limited to a single compute tile

Intel's Nova Lake mobile specs leaks out, top end HX variant to feature 28 CPU cores and 4 Xe cores ...

1 day ago 8

Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero day hack requires manual update to fix

Newly discovered WinRAR exploit linked to Russian hacking group, can plant backdoor malware — zero d...

1 day ago 19

Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring — compatibility and reliability issues could increase over time

Major Intel Linux driver projects are dying due to Intel layoffs and corporate restructuring — compa...

1 day ago 6

AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’

AWS user’s data returned ‘because one human being inside AWS decided to give a damn’

1 day ago 19

I’ve just found a couple of travel tripods that surprise and excite me in equal measure, while the video version is truly something special

I’ve just found a couple of travel tripods that surprise and excite me in equal measure, while the v...

1 day ago 21

I’ve used the Shot Scope G6 for a bunch of rounds, and its simplicity and accuracy make it an easy entry-level golf watch to recommend

I’ve used the Shot Scope G6 for a bunch of rounds, and its simplicity and accuracy make it an easy e...

1 day ago 25

I reviewed this ultra-portable laptop and it's so light I practically needed a paperweight to keep it from blowing away

I reviewed this ultra-portable laptop and it's so light I practically needed a paperweight to keep i...

1 day ago 23

Battlefield 6 reaches record half a million+ concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the franchise — 520K+ open beta surpasses every Call of Duty ever in player count

Battlefield 6 reaches record half a million+ concurrent players on Steam, an all-time high for the f...

2 days ago 19

Seagate's monstrous BarraCuda 24TB hard drive on sale for only one cent per gigabyte — drops back to Prime Day pricing at $250

Seagate's monstrous BarraCuda 24TB hard drive on sale for only one cent per gigabyte — drops back to...

2 days ago 18

AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day

AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser a...

2 days ago 33

I tested the Samsung Galaxy XCover7 Pro and discovered a robust and reliable device that opened my eyes to the capabilities of rugged phones

I tested the Samsung Galaxy XCover7 Pro and discovered a robust and reliable device that opened my e...

2 days ago 19

I’ve just tested Dyson’s multi-talented purifying fan heater, and it has some neat tricks, but I think there’s a better-value option

I’ve just tested Dyson’s multi-talented purifying fan heater, and it has some neat tricks, but I thi...

2 days ago 18

Blizzard's ex-CEO says Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" Call of Duty this year because the franchise has "gone downhill" — calls it a victory for players as COD "won't be lazy" anymore

Blizzard's ex-CEO says Battlefield 6 will "boot stomp" Call of Duty this year because the franchise ...

2 days ago 12

California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to “monopolize the generative AI market”

California man sues Microsoft for discontinuing Windows 10 — says company is doing this to “monopoli...

2 days ago 13

Retailer ships RTX 5090 with missing GPU and memory chips to customer — defaced GPU took over a year to ship

Retailer ships RTX 5090 with missing GPU and memory chips to customer — defaced GPU took over a year...

2 days ago 20

Fully working PC fished out from a dumpster and rehabbed — trash-binned system can still run Linux and light games

Fully working PC fished out from a dumpster and rehabbed — trash-binned system can still run Linux a...

2 days ago 10