Zak Killian
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SK hynix just announced the delivery of its 12-layer HBM4E memory samples to major hardware clients, intensifying the competition to supply the memory backbone for future AI accelerators. The new fat stacks of RAM represent a significant...
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Valve's Steam Deck opened up the existing PC gaming handheld market to the mainstream and, in so doing, arguably created a whole new class of PC gaming devices. The Steam Machine probably isn't going to have the same impact on the market...
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MSI has officially opened retail listings for its hotly anticipated Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld, and the price tag is an eye-watering $1,799. While the device packs cutting-edge hardware, including Intel's brand-new Arc G3 Extreme processor...
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Intel is taking the fight directly to TSMC with its latest foundry milestone, signaling that its aggressive turnaround strategy is bearing real fruit. At the 2026 IEEE/JSAP Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits, the company announced...
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We know Intel and NVIDIA are cooking up something together because the two companies announced that they would last year when NVIDIA invested $5 billion USD into Intel. The announcement included the statement that Intel would "build and...
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As a software vendor, it's dangerous to be beholden to a single hardware vendor. That's why this latest move from Valve is pretty savvy; the company seems to have added some support for Intel's Arc GPUs to its customized Arch Linux...
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A couple of days ago, an old rumor resurfaced and making the rounds claiming Intel would take a page from AMD's playbook and launch "Raptor Lake Next", a new series of processors for the now-venerable LGA 1700 platform. The idea re-emerged...
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You've used a cheap laptop before, right? They're usually awful. Flimsy plastic everywhere, terrible screens, slow storage, unbearable keyboards, horrible trackpads. Intel wants to change all that by taking a hint from the phone market...
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It flew under the radar a bit, but one of the exciting announcements at Computex was AMD's new EXPO Ultra Low Latency standard for PC memory. This is, essentially, RAM that has been pre-qualified for operation at high speeds with...
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A couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA gave Linux blog Phoronix exclusive access to a Vera system to run a few benchmarks on it. Vera is of course NVIDIA's next-generation CPU intended to be paired with its Rubin GPUs, and it features the company's...
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You read that right: the latest leak claims that AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture could push Ryzen clock speeds beyond 6.5GHz while significantly increasing core counts across desktop and mobile products. This information comes, as...
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Intel's foundry ambitions may have just received their biggest validation yet. According to a report from The Information, Google has placed an order with Intel to manufacture more than three million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) in 2028...
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A Ryzen 9 7950X3D failure reported by a Taiwanese user is drawing attention after AMD allegedly denied the warranty claim despite the processor still being within its three-year warranty period at the time of failure. The incident first...
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If you're a hardware enthusiast, you're probably already aware that Intel's Independent Loading Mechanism or ILM, which is the retention clamp that holds the CPU in the socket, can cause CPU warping over time. Intel released a "reduced...
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Announced earlier this week at Computex, NVIDIA's RTX Spark has finally been revealed after what seems like years of leaks and rumors concerning the "N1/N1X". These chips are the consumer versions of the GB10 Superchip found in the NVIDIA...
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Essentially since the original Atom, there's been a big CPU core and a little CPU core architecture in parallel development at Intel. As a result, there has long been a weird overlap at the lower end of the market, where you could choose a...
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Intel's Arc Alchemist graphics cards were a credible effort, and the B-series "Battlemage" GPUs were fantastic for what they were. So naturally, we were looking forward to Intel's next discrete GPU release with high hopes. After all, the...
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To be frank, the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D is still a fantastic gaming processor to this day. You could pair a bleeding-edge GeForce RTX 5080 or Radeon RX 9070 XT with an older AM4 machine sporting a 5800X3D and lose virtually nothing in terms...
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There's been a lot of chatter recently about the fact that Intel's next-generation platform is expected to last for at least three CPU generations, and possibly four. Of course, you're still going to have to buy the next-generation...
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If you're struggling to justify new PC parts at current pricing, the top brass at SK hynix has some news for you, though you might want to take it with a healthy dose of salt. Speaking to reporters in Taipei, SK hynix Chairman Chey Tae-won...
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How's your monitor looking these days? Mine's getting pretty long in the tooth, and I'm pondering an upgrade. One such upgrade target might be the new Alienware AW3926QW, which is the company's new flagship gaming display. Dell promises...
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Intel brought along a pile of products to Computex, and while the one that got this writer most excited was the early announcement of the Arc G3 series, the company's data center group has some pretty darn big news, too. Today marks the...
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