Zak Killian
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Intel is gearing up for a major leap in integrated graphics performance with its upcoming Panther Lake processors, powered by the next-generation Xe3 architecture. While the company's new Talking Tech video, "The Road to Panther Lake,"...
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Now look, we're not going to lie to you: if you're trying to find a GeForce RTX 5090 for $1100 like that guy on Reddit, we can't help you. But, if you're trying to find a reasonably priced graphics card in a sea of scalpers and scammers, then we can hook you up for sure—with the help of...
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Borderlands 4 got you feeling like it's time for a system upgrade? Looking ahead to future path-traced titles and want to make sure your system is up to snuff? Or simply staring longingly at those Amazon Big Deal Days prices and wondering...
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When's the last time you saw a dual-GPU video card? Probably back around Computex, when MAXSUN was quietly showing off its Intel Arc Pro B60 Dual, which is exactly what it sounds like: two Arc Pro B60s, replete with their own 24GB of GDDR6...
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Discord's latest security screw-up is exactly the kind of nightmare privacy advocates have been warning about since platforms started demanding government IDs for "safety." The company confirmed this week that a breach at one of its...
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AMD has fully AI-powered frame generation on the way with its FSR Redstone project, but that's not here yet. In the interim, the company has something interesting: the option to customize "Fast Motion Response" within its "Fluid Motion...
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For years now, folks have been using Rufus to bypass Windows 11's onerous installation requirements. Got a system without Secure Boot or a functional TPM? No problem! Some buzz was going around that this was no longer possible with Windows...
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Imagine your building not just protecting you from the elements, but also storing electricity. MIT researchers just gave that idea a major push with a new version of "electron-conducting carbon concrete," or ec³. The material now stores...
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Among chip nerds, Jim Keller is a name that needs no introduction, but if you aren't familiar, he's a veteran from the days of Digital Equipment Corporation. He contributed directly to the DEC Alpha, the AMD K7 and K8 cores powering the...
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The core principle of a tiny-yet-powerful AI workstation with real Blackwell GPU chops is enticing to a lot of developers and enthusiasts. That's exactly what's interesting about NVIDIA's DGX Spark, powered by the GB10 Grace Blackwell...
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AMD's socket longevity has always been a strong point for the company. AMD supported Socket 7 longer than anyone, and aside from a few missteps (with Slot A and later, some of the APU sockets), the company has typically tried to offer at...
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Home automation is one of those things that's both much older than people think—the foundations were laid in 1966—and yet still quite controversial in the era of cloud-based everything. Typically, your response to modern smart home...
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Intel's graphics division has been busy shaking up its driver strategy over the past month, and the news cuts both ways. On the one hand, Intel has pulled the plug on day-to-day support for the integrated graphics in several recent Core...
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AMD's chiplet architecture has not really changed in a fundamental way since the introduction of the Ryzen 3000 processors based on the Zen 2 architecture back in 2019. The move to Socket AM5 necessitated a new cIOD or "client I/O die", but it's still connected to the CCDs, or Core Complex...
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At Tokyo Game Show 2025 last week, MSI was proudly showcasing a new GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Ventus model with a unique feature: a rear-mounted 12V-2x6 connector that's inverted, facing downward, to minimize cable flex caused by the side of...
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In case you've been out of the know for a bit in tech, Qualcomm just announced a family of new mobile processors last week at its Snapdragon Summit event, including its Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile CPUs as well as its second-generation...
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Multi-billion dollar cash injections from NVIDIA, Japanese tech giant (and Arm owner) Softbank, and even the United States federal government haven't stopped Intel from seeing suitors willing to stuff more money into its pockets. According...
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In case you missed our other coverage from Snapdragon Summit 2024, new second-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite chips for Windows on Arm laptops, as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5—Qualcomm's fastest mobile parts ever—are on the way. The...
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HP Z2 Mini G1a (Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 / 128GB / 2TB): $5,021 as tested, starting at $1,299 HP's latest Z workstation packs 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, discrete-class GPU horsepower, and 128GB of RAM into a compact package barely bigger than an ATX...
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If you weren't there, it's hard to understand just how disruptive 3dfx and its Voodoo graphics cards were. At the time, simply displaying textured polygons at interactive frame rates was an achievement. When the original Voodoo came out...
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Let it never be said that tariffs don't work. In a bid to avoid tariffs and satisfy customer requirements for "made in the USA" parts, MediaTek is purportedly pondering a deal with TSMC to have some of its chips created in TSMC's fabs...
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OpenAI and NVIDIA have signed a letter of intent for what may just be the largest single investment in AI compute infrastructure to date: a plan to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems dedicated to training and running OpenAI's...
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