Zak Killian
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A fresh leak from familiar self-described "PC Tech Fan" 포시포시 (better known as @harukaze5719 on Xwitter) has revealed details about AMD’s upcoming Gorgon Point mobile APUs. The information comes from a Naver.com article covering an LG Gram × Ryzen launch event, where slides detailing AMD’s...
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If you, faithful Edge, Safari, or Firefox user that you are, have finally decided to give up your futile resistance and be assimilated into the all-consuming swarm of Google Chrome users today, you may have been met with this message on...
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Laptops are one of the most egregious product categories with regards to e-waste. Most laptops are made of almost completely proprietary components that are exclusive to that device, and the chips are generally BGA, meaning it's...
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Did you read our explainer on display technologies? If so, you'll already be well aware of the concept of PPI, or "pixels per inch," which is a more informative measure of "display resolution" than a static value like 1024×768. Typical PC...
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When you read that headline, it probably sounds like former Intel CTO and CEO Gelsinger's got a case of sour grapes. Of course, the man's far more mature and experienced than that. His comments came while speaking to the Acquired podcast...
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It's been six months (yes, really) since we were first introduced to the Zen 5 CPU architecture with the Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs, and it's been nearly a year and a half since AMD unveiled the Threadripper Pro 7000 series processors...
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AMD's just launched its Strix Halo high-end mobile APUs, but progress marches ever forward, and so it goes that we are now looking at leaks concerning the Strix successor, supposedly known as Medusa Point. Based on the Zen 6 "Morpheus" CPU...
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Imagine, for a moment, that you had a brand-new M.2 SSD rated for sequential transfers of over 15 GB/second. Obviously, it's the latest design, using four lanes of PCI Express 5.0 to achieve this immense throughput. Alternatively, it could...
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Building out the datacenters—or as NVIDIA calls them, "AI factories"—required for training and operating state-of-the-art AI models is extremely expensive. So much so that even hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft are going to have to...
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NVIDIA's Blackwell GB200 is an absolutely monstrous processor with up to 10 petaflops of dense FP4 tensor compute and 192GB of lightning-fast HBM3e memory delivering 8 TB/second of bandwidth per GPU. That number, though, that 192GB, is...
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Intel has achieved a significant early milestone in its Arizona semiconductor fabrication plant, with the first wafers successfully processed on its advanced 18A process node. This achievement, announced at the same time as its March 13th...
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If you're not a big gamer, you may have been perplexed at the recent preponderance of portable gaming PCs in handheld game system form. We could talk at length about why they've exploded in popularity *now*, but that's not why you clicked...
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The last few weeks for AMD have been pretty remarkable. The chipmaker is firing on all cylinders: the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D have arrived to universal praise, the Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" processors finally launched to wide acclaim...
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One by one, the barriers to gaming bliss on Snapdragon laptops are falling. Back in November, a new build of Windows brought support for Intel's Advanced Vector Extensions to the Prism emulator that is used to translate x86-64 program code...
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For decades, the semiconductor industry has been laser-focused on shrinking silicon transistors, but Peking University researchers believe the future might lie in changing materials entirely. In a newly published paper, the team presents a...
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The problem with introducing a new technology, whether it be an upscaler like FSR 4 or a hardware feature like AVX, is that you have to wait for software to make use of it. Except maybe not, in the case of FSR 4, thanks to the OptiScaler...
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Have you ever been sitting at your desk wishing you had room for an air purifier alongside all of your computer gear? No? Me neither, but those who have serious hay fever or similar allergies to airborne allergens likely already have such...
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If you were frustrated by an inability to doomscroll Xwitter on your lunch break, don't worry, you're not alone. The site has been suffering intermittent connectivity issues all morning. What's the deal? Did Musk forget to pay some bills?...
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Nevermind the fact that the overwhelming majority of consumer desktop tasks don't really scale past four to six cores—fanboys have accused AMD of "stagnating" much as Intel did in years past, by having its top-end Ryzen desktop CPUs max...
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We can talk until we're blue in the face about the actual effects of software piracy, but it's not hard to understand why companies like Electronic Arts and Nintendo get up in arms about it. Nintendo in particular has been highly...
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Update: 3/6/25 - 5:24 PM: We have just received an official statement from representatives at AMD on this matter, and it appears there's more to this story for sure. We have left the entirety of our previous coverage in tact below...
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The world's first "biological computer" has officially hit the market, marking what may actually be a significant breakthrough in AI technology. Developed by Australian company Cortical Labs, the CL1 fuses human brain cells with silicon...
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