Zak Killian
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Performance usually isn't a first-order concern when you're buying a single-board computer, but it definitely can have an impact on what sort of workloads you can run with your micro machine. If the performance of the Raspbery Pi 5 isn't...
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It is difficult to even comprehend the scale of modern photolithography. Current-generation manufacturing processes are described with terms like "2 nanometer" and "18 angstrom". Those numbers undersell the actual size of the logic gates...
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TSMC's next-generation N2 process has officially booked its first customers: Apple, MediaTek, and AMD, with NVIDIA reportedly paying a hefty premium to get pole position for A14. Notably absent from the confirmed list is Intel, which is...
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Remember Tensordyne, who promised to slash AI GPU power consumption with a new way of doing things? That entire pitch was basically predicated on the power predicament that the industry finds itself in. Put simply, there's just not enough...
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Japanese Twitter user Komenezumi (@komenezumi1006) purchased something quite curious: a GUNNIR "Intel Arc Sample1 TF 16G Graphics Card." What is it? Well, Windows and the Intel Arc drivers think it's a 16GB version of the Intel Arc A750...
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This week at the AI Technology Conference, NVIDIA unveiled Rubin CPX, a GPU designed specifically for massive compute to chew through dense AI context processing in the company's Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX systems. One of the curious features...
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Did you hear about intel's latest CPU? No, not the Arrow Lake refresh -- that's not out yet. It's the Core i5-110. That's right: the brand-new Intel Core i5-110 is in fact an LGA 1200 Comet Lake processor from 2020 that has been re-branded...
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Lenovo Legion Go S (Ryzen Z1E / 32GB / SteamOS): $829 as tested, starting from $499 Lenovo's second-generation Go handheld is the first third-party device to ship with Valve's Linux-based SteamOS operating system. Excellent SteamOS...
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A thesis that the author has been pondering for months now—ever since we reported on the Ryzen 5 5600G's surprisingly competent gaming chops—is the idea that computers have been 'fast enough' for a while now, and even enthusiasts might...
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Intel execs have made some strong statements about its Nova Lake processors, including that they expect the chips to recover the "leadership" position in the desktop PC market, and based on the leaks we've seen, it might just do that...
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Before diving in, have you read our coverage of Vera Rubin NVL144 from GTC this year? If not, go back and check that out, because it will provide important context for today's announcements from NVIDIA. If you're pressed for time, here's...
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About a year ago, an AI startup known as Recogni announced a patented number system for AI math, known as Pareto. Pareto is a logarithmic system, meaning that it stores numbers using their logarithmic representation rather than their...
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When you embark on a paradigm shift like Intel's heterogeneous CPUs, you are necessarily going to cause some weirdness with software that doesn't expect such a configuration. Enter Intel's Application Performance Optimization, or APO. This...
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It's not hard to understand why so many websites have turned to AI generation. With just a few sentences as a prompt, you can easily generate pages and pages of sensible-seeming text on almost any topic. That's exactly the problem, though:...
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Strictly speaking, based on what we've been told, the answer to the question in the headline is "yes." While official information regarding AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 (or 'UDNA') graphics architecture is incredibly sparse on the ground...
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The sector of the PC market showing the greatest growth for many years past has continually been the gaming group. So it goes that at IFA 2025, Lenovo is showing off a solid selection of Legion gaming gear, starting right off with the...
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Valve's original Steam Machine concept failed mainly because the software wasn't ready yet. That is demonstrably not the case anymore, as Linux-based machines are now able to run the majority of Windows gaming software with no compromises...
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Today's news isn't strictly news, but a second source is reporting the same thing that was rumored before, so we're going to cover it now. The short version is that AMD's Zen 6 processors are said to be using TSMC's N2 fabrication process...
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If you've read our previous reporting on Intel's upcoming Nova Lake processors, you'll be well aware that the latest rumors have described the desktop CPUs as being tile-based designs rather similar to AMD's chiplet processors, utilizing...
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Zotac's Zone handheld, launched last year, was an interesting device, with an 800 cd/m² HDR AMOLED display and dual touchpads like the Steam Deck, and it also made use of standard AMD Ryzen laptop chips instead of the handheld-targeted...
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In a groundbreaking experiment, engineers at the University of Pennsylvania successfully demonstrated the possibility of transmitting quantum data over commercial fiber-optic networks using the same Internet Protocol (IP) that powers...
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On Wednesday and Thursday this week, Deutsche Bank Securities hosted its 2025 Technology Conference in Dana Point, California. At the conference, Intel's Chief Finanical Officer David Zinsner participated in a 'fireside chat' where he was...
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