Zak Killian
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High-stakes Silicon Valley lawsuits are usually dry, legally cautious affairs fought through polite corporate PR statements, but OpenAI just threw out the rulebook with a scorching, highly irregular blog post that essentially accuses Apple...
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At the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026 conference in Santa Clara, memory titans SK hynix and Sandisk have formally released the first open technical specification for High-Bandwidth Flash (HBF) through the Open Compute Project...
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Modern microprocessors come stacked with processor cores. This is great for lots of reasons, but many of the most demanding tasks we run on PCs are highly latency-sensitive because they are held up by fundamentally serial (meaning they...
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If you were thinking about buying one of AMD's really quite excellent Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards, you'd better get on the ball and do it soon, because more price hikes are on the way. That's the word out of China; specifically, this originates on the Board Channels forums, which are...
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It got a bit buried in all the other announcements, but back at Computex in May, AMD announced EXPO Ultra Low Latency (EXPO ULL), a new classification of memory kits that not only run high transfer rates but also exceptionally low...
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Intel is famously protective of the keys to the x86 kingdom, making its latest strategic move both highly unusual and undeniably fascinating. According to a Reuters report from yesterday, the semiconductor giant is handing over the...
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Enthusiasts had been clamoring for an all P-core Raptor Lake, but one never materialized, at least initially. The company would eventually make such a CPU, the Core 9 273PQE, but it's esoteric and rare, and it doesn't actually offer much...
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f Intel's rumored desktop CPU with a surprisingly beefy integrated GPU is starting to look like a truly odd product. According to prolific leaker Jaykihn, the Nova Lake-S SKU with integrated 12-Xe GPU that we previously reported on will...
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You've probably read stories about China's home-grown CPUs and GPUs, which generally trail the world's leading designs in performance. That's in part due to Chinese chip designers lacking design history to iterate on, but it's also in part...
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If you read that headline and thought, "so?" then you're on the right track. AMD's Socket AM5 has already had a pretty good run, with four distinct processor families spanning two different CPU architectures and three different GPU designs inhabiting the socket. If we get two more CPU...
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Speaking to the BBC, Amazon's head of gaming Jeff Gattis said that he believes that gamers will give up their dedicated gaming machines (like gaming consoles and gaming PCs) in favor of streaming due to the rising cost of owning such...
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Hyper-Threading is what Intel calls its implementation of what is more academically known as "Simultaneous Multi-Threading" (SMT). This describes a method where a single processor core can interleave processing of two or more separate...
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Today's the day AMD is launching its Zen 6 processor architecture. However, unlike all previous new Zen core launches, this time around it's coming to servers first in the form of the EPYC 9006 series of CPUs. That's not all, though. AMD...
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Back in the day when Microsoft first released the Xbox, it wasn't shy about explaining the device. It was a custom Pentium III-based PC with NVIDIA GeForce 3 graphics and a severely stripped-down version of Windows 2000. We all wondered...
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In a recent newsroom post, Intel is making a case that might sound counterintuitive in an industry obsessed with TOPS, TFLOPS, and ever-larger GPU clusters, but which AI enthusiasts and server operators have known for a while: the most...
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NVIDIA just shared additional details regarding its upcoming Vera data center server processors at SIGGRAPH 2026, ahead of AMD's Advancing AI event which kicks off this week. The information offers a deeper look at the company's design...
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The early-2027 showdown between Intel's Nova Lake and AMD's Zen 6 promises to be a battle for the ages, so we're snapping up every scrap of information that we can about the performance of these two processor families. We already saw one leak from this very same processor, but it was...
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For better or for worse, Bethesda Game Studios is a part of Microsoft's Xbox division now, and no game publisher has seen more tumult in recent times than Xbox. As if to calm fans (and in the absence of a Fallout Day celebration this year...
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Sony has published a new international patent application detailing an improved cooling system for a future electronic device, and while the filing doesn't mention the PlayStation 6 by name, it's certainly the sort of technology that could...
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We have a fair bit of information on Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, including that the chips will top out at 52 cores and some 474W power draw, as well as what seems to be a fairly complete list of SKUs for the desktop family...
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The strength of open-source software is that it's open, which is to say that anyone can contribute to it. Sometimes, this also means that your project can attract persons with conflicting worldviews. No open-source project is bigger than...
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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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