Hardware

Analysts and media contend that AMD is losing the confidence of laptop OEMs because of its focus on AI and data center GPUs.

Intel will get a $3.5 billion federal grant to make chips for military applications under the Secure Enclave program.

René Rebe, a 25-year Free and Open Source Software developer, was swatted live in the middle of a development stream.

AMD hid the information on the back of its packaging for the Ryzen 5 7600X3D that says that AMD processors are diffused and made in Taiwan.

Tech enthusiast Louwrentius says that turning off the NAS when unused likely helped the 24 4TB hard drives last ten years without any failures.

Intel's Xeon R1S CPU with 136 PCIe lanes could be a competitive choice for communications, edge, and high-performance storage platforms.

Larry Ellison talked about how he asked Jensen Huang over dinner to give him 131,072 Blackwell GPUs for the planned Zettascale Oracle Supercluster.

Crucial's old MX500 series SSDs are vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks. A fix or information on which firmware updates are impacted is unknown.

One of HighPoint's flagship cards for servers, the NVMe Gen 4 SSD7540, proves capable of operation while submerged in "an electrically non-conductive liquid", most likely mineral oil.

The Intel Core i5-14600KF is currently available at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date—just $277 instead of its usual $324.

Core Ultra 200 series CPU specifications have been purportedly finalized. Five SKUs will debut on launch day. Core counts remain the same, but clock speeds are dropping compared to Raptor Lake Refresh.

As most of AMD's money is earned from EPYC processors, AMD now calls itself a data center-first company.

As most of AMD's money is earned from EPYC processors, AMD now calls itself a data center-first company.

Italy's financial police dismantled a counterfeit game console and pirated games trafficking ring at an estimated value of around $52.5 million.

Noctua has finally resolved the rattling issues plaguing its new flagship NH-D15 G2 air cooler. This defect is no longer present in new production units, and current owners will be offered a full fix for defective units currently in operation.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V performs much better than the AMD Z1 Extreme with 12GB of RAM. However, when the AMD chips were matched with 16GB of RAM, they blew the 32GB Intel SoC out of the water.

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AMD FSR4 has been in the work for 9–12 months already, and will be fully AI-based for frame generation and frame interpolation. It sounds like it's being designed around handhelds first but should apply to laptops and desktops as well.

A $2 microcontroller and a little 3D printing will get you a Barbie doll-sized Apple IIe.

Shanghai Microelectronics Equipment patents key components of an EUV lithography tool.