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Montech’s Heritage Pro case is like a designer handbag for your Micro ATX PC
Montech’s Heritage PC case combines leather, glass and steel in a Micro ATX form factor, with a focus on airflow. It’s a niche design flex for sure, but if you’re into designer handbags and high-end gaming or content creation, this might just be ...
2025-01-18 14:00
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RTX 5090 beats RTX 4090 by 36% in the Blender benchmark — RTX 5090D is 40% faster than RTX 4090D
Benchmarks for the RTX 5090 and the 5090D were leaked to the Blender benchmark database, showing the cards are modestly faster than the RTX 4090.
2025-01-18 13:50
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Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and previous-gen chips
We tested Intel's fix for its lackluster 'Arrow Lake' Core Ultra 200S and found it doesn't have any meaningful impact.
2025-01-18 12:00
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Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal
Microsoft 365 personal plans get a $3 price hike with the addition of Copilot.
2025-01-17 19:42
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Custom RTX 5090, RTX 5080 listed for up to $2,800 and $1,400 overseas — initial pricing exceeds MSRP
Early listings for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 suggest their prices might be higher than initially expected.
2025-01-17 19:40
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Analysts halve Nvidia Blackwell cabinet shipment forecasts for 2025 — prediction contrasts AI boom
Industry analysts have slashed their 2025 GB200 NVL72 shipment projections by 50%, but the industry expects an explosion of AI hardware shipments.
2025-01-17 19:36
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GlobalFoundries to expand New York fab — announces new $575 million advanced packaging and photonics facility
GlobalFoundries is investing around $575 million to construct an advanced packaging and silicon photonics facility at its Malta, New York site.
2025-01-17 19:35
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Elgato's Stream Deck+ is now $169 at Amazon - Save $30 on this content creation peripheral
Streamline your content creation with Elgato's Stream Deck+, now only $169 from Amazon.
2025-01-17 19:09
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AM5 copper guard stops you from making a mess on your Ryzen CPU — also improves heat dissipation
Japanese PC accessory Ainex offers a copper AM5 plate guard to prevent you from messing up your PC build with too much thermal paste.
2025-01-17 19:06
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AMD preps 32-core and 64-core Threadripper 9000 CPUs — Shimada Peak resurfaces once again
A shipping manifest reveals the core counts for AMD's upcoming Threadripper 9000 (Shimada Peak) processors, which the Zen 5 architecture will power.
2025-01-17 18:59
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RTX 5090 exhibits 27% higher CUDA performance than RTX 4090 — exceeds 500K points in Geekbench
The RTX 5090 has surfaced in Geekbench, showcasing a 27% uplift in synthetic scores versus the RTX 4090.
2025-01-17 16:06
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This Raspberry Pi handheld emulator looks like a Nintendo Switch but it can play many more games
Maker BBoHK has created a Raspberry Pi CM5-powered handheld that looks like a Nintendo Switch but is capable of emulating retro games.
2025-01-17 15:35
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Bureaucracy and distance mean TSMC's U.S. fabs may always be behind Taiwan
TSMC says it is close to impossible to ramp up a leading-edge node in the U.S. and bureaucracy and distance are to blame
2025-01-17 14:54
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Thermalright Grand Vision 360 Review: It’s not a competition, it is a massacre (again)
Thermalright’s Grand Vision 360 is a surprisingly strong AIO cooler. Check out the review for our results with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs.
2025-01-17 14:20
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PCIe standards group releases draft specification for PCIe 7.0 — full release expected in 2025
PCI-SIG just released PCIe 7.0 specifications draft version 0.7, and it expects to finalize the standard this year.
2025-01-17 13:14
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Apple joins UALink Consortium for open-standard AI accelerator interconnections
Apple could be finally entering AI hardware game as it joins UALink development.
2025-01-17 12:06
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TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 mass produces 4nm chips at a higher price than Taiwan
TSMC confirms Arizona Fab 21 is making chips in volume, charges higher prices than Taiwanese fabs.
2025-01-17 11:48
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Nvidia's RTX 5090, 5080 reportedly have the same L1 cache size per SM compared to RTX 4090, 4080
L1 and L2 cache specs have been revealed for the RTX 5090 and 5080 featuring only a minor improvement over the RTX 4090 and 4080.
2025-01-16 20:29
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China investigates whether CHIPS and Science Act harms its chip companies
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce alleges that U.S. subsidies to semiconductor industry harm government-funded Chinese chipmakers.
2025-01-16 20:16
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Maker turns Raspberry Pi into a wireless USB flash drive for an embroidery machine
The Feral Engineer has created a wireless USB flash drive for his embroidery machine to avoid plugging a flash drive in every time he wants to use a different file.
2025-01-16 19:42
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