Zak Killian
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While Windows on Arm may someday grow to become a mainstream platform, it's not there yet, and so the NVIDIA RTX Spark is an idiosyncratic platform. Idiosyncratic hardware usually isn't well-suited for games. Yet, if games are produced...
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ASML and Intel Foundry announced today that a subset of Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake processors are now rolling off production lines utilizing the industry's first commercial High-NA EUV scanner. This is a pretty big deal...
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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs may end up relying far more heavily on Intel Foundry than previously believed, according to a new analyst report from KeyBanc Capital Markets and posted on X by @Alex_Intel_ and @intelfabs. While earlier...
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The memory ceiling for Apple Silicon is about to blow past the 128GB, 512GB, and even 1-terabyte marks, according to a new roadmap report from Bloomberg. The report claims that Apple is radically overhauling its chip cycle to prioritize...
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Samsung's LSI division has been building highly integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors for well over 15 years, so when rumors surfaced that said division is developing a new chip codenamed "Gaia," it's only natural to assume it would...
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If you've been looking longingly at the potent AI capabilities and amazing power efficiency of Intel's Core Series 3 processors and wishing you could have one of those parts on the desktop, then fret no longer, because Minisforum's new...
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Well, it's confirmed: Zen 6 is a go, and it's happening this month. In fact, it's happening in less than two weeks, as AMD CTO Mark Papermaster just confirmed to SiliconAngle's TheCube podcast at RAISE Summit 2026 that the new chips will...
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Intel has officially rolled out the first public beta of SuperClaw, an enterprise-focused hybrid AI platform designed to tackle what the chipmaker calls the "Agentic AI Trilemma." By this, Intel is referring to the industry-wide friction...
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While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches revealed that Nova Lake would have not...
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The PowerVia back-side power delivery network (BSPDN) technology that Intel pioneered with its 18A fabrication process is brilliant, because separating power lines from data lines offers tremendous benefits to chip designers in terms of...
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Whatever you think about the Steam Machine, the fact is it's launching into a brutal market for anyone trying to sell a gaming product. So brutal, in fact, that Valve has been unable to source the 8GB SODIMMs that it originally planned to...
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Chinese BiliBili creator Qiong Shuma CHANNEL (roughly, "Budget Tech Channel") put up a video this weekend titled "RTX 4080 for Just 2,300 Yuan? Unfortunately, It's the Mobile Version." The premise is exactly what you think, but there's a...
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The global AI boom has just triggered what may be the largest infrastructure investment in tech history. In late June, the South Korean government announced a staggering, coordinated initiative alongside memory chip titans Samsung...
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While Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 Plus CPUs are highly compelling across a wide range of applications, in the hard-core gaming market AMD's 3D V-Cache CPUs are largely untouched. It's been well-known for a bit now that Intel was taking a...
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Just when you thought the display industry had run out of ways to slice the refresh-rate pie, Philips comes along to tell us that dual-mode monitors are yesterday's news. Enter the new Evnia M4 lineup, specifically the 27M4N3500PT and its...
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Shenzhen firm GamePad Digital, better known as GPD, has been doing its thing since long before the Steam Deck existed. Indeed, while we tend to report on GPD's offerings in the same breath as companies like Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and...
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It's curious to call this one a leak, exactly, since the original source is direct from AMD and live on the web, but here we go. AMD's Vishal Badole submitted a patch for the Linux Kernel that he describes as adding support for "a Low Power core type, in addition to the existing Performance...
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Many of our regular readers are probably familiar with AMD's Versal series of "adaptive system on chips," but for the uninitiated, Versal is primarily AMD's family of FPGAs. Calling them that is a bit reductive, however. They're...
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Don't think it's just the tech and finance worlds that have been subsumed by AI hype. Academia is also crazy for AI, publishing an untold number of papers all about the capabilities and potential of AI technology. Only, a lot of these...
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Here's a quick summary of what we've heard about Intel's next-generation Nova Lake CPUs: they're going to feature new architectures for both P-cores and E-cores, they're going to come with as many as 52 total cores, and the full load power...
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If you're bored, have some time to kill, and access to nearly any PC with an internet connection, you can now play Half-Life 2. At least, a rather janky, ugly, and legally dubious version of Half-Life 2, running entirely in a browser tab...
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IBM today announced what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, unveiling a new 0.7nm (7 angstrom) semiconductor process built around an entirely new transistor architecture dubbed "nanostack." The announcement is significant not only because it pushes semiconductor...
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