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Chinese tech companies are finding ways to combine GPUs from different vendors to help alleviate the AI GPU shortage caused by American sanctions. View the full article

MSI launches a new super high-end laptop on Chinese e-commerce site JD.com sporting the second-ever sighting of the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, making it the second-ever laptop with 3D V-Cache. The new model will be in the $3,000 range, with specs to match. View the full article

Two reputable hardware leakers claim that AMD has allegedly pushed the Ryzen AI 300 (Strix Point) launch to July 28, a day behind the Ryzen 9000 debut. View the full article

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 insider preview completely gets rid of the Copilot keyboard hotkey shortcut in an attempt to steer people towards a Copilot+ PC, which has a dedicated Copilot key on the keyboard. View the full article

IBM and Japan's AIST are joining forces to create a new quantum computer with 10,000 qubits. This new machine will have 75x more qubits than today's smartest quantum computers, putting it on a track of vastly increased correctness over today's quantum processing. View the full article

An old terminal from the early days of France Telecom's Minitel network was rescued from a fire and is being auctioned off as a piece of art. View the full article

Despite more than a year of warning, many Minecraft owners didn't upgrade their accounts to Microsoft accounts. As a result, they've lost access to a game they paid for. View the full article

PCI-SIG delays conformity tests for PCIe 6.0 and PCIe 7.0, which could slowdown adoption of these technologies. View the full article

A woman arriving in mainland China from Hong Kong was found to have 350 Nintendo Switch game cartridges stuffed into her bra. View the full article

At just $284 this is the lowest price the Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro has been. View the full article

Free-electron laser generated by energy recovery linear accelerator could be used for chipmaking, perhaps, in the long-term future. Perhaps. View the full article

The United States is on pace to add more investment into electronics manufacturing construction this year as it did from 1996 to 2023. The CHIPS Act is largely to credit for the meteoric growth. View the full article

Raspberry Pi's IPO is set to raise $689 million based on an offer price of $3.56 per ordinary share View the full article

The NZXT H7 Flow is a mid-tower ATX case with mesh panels for good airflow throughout the case and a tempered glass side panel for viewing what's inside, and at $84 is a great deal. View the full article

Adata's display at Computex includes a pair of new styles of CPU cooler, a line of interlocking fans, a new SFX power supply, and an SSD with intense cooling. View the full article

Teamgroup tests out fancy, innovative, perhaps questionable SSD cooling designs. View the full article

ASRock has introduced its motherboard lineup to support the AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs. View the full article

Adata looks set to jump on the handheld PC gaming bandwagon with a new device called the XPG Nia. The special features of the handheld are its upgradable RAM and storage – delivering a first for the industry. View the full article

Why would anyone use CAMM2 memory modules on a desktop PC? Because it is easier to cool down this memory module with liquid, MSI answers. View the full article

Whether it’s a soundbar or AVR with speakers, gamers have a better experience with great audio View the full article

Asetek, in partnership with Fabric8Labs, has announced a new AI-optimized cold plate that has been built with ECAM, a room-temperature 3D metal printing process that purportedly improves build quality compared to outgoing manufacturing techniques. View the full article

ASRock’s Z790I Lightning is a decently-quipped and reasonably priced Mini-ITX option. If you’re into memory overclocking, you’ve found one of the better for Intel’s current platform. So long as you don’t need a lot of USB ports or PCIe 5.0-capable M.2, it’s a solid SFF option. View the full article

This high-end wireless gaming headset from Corsair offers incredible audio reproduction and one of the best-sounding microphones on a headset - at $129 this headset should be on your shopping list. View the full article

Ahead of Computex 2024, rumors of the naming scheme for AMD's latest motherboard chipset hint that the company may skip straight from the 600 to 800 series. View the full article

Lenovo Legion Go seems to be getting a smaller sibling. View the full article

The last and final play for Intel Xeon Phi: Intel drops support for its MIC x86 processors. View the full article

Waveshare offers a development kit that provides cellular connectivity and compatibility with Raspberry Pi Zero HATs in a small form factor. View the full article

Seasonic's Focus GX-850 850-watt power supply is on sale at Newegg for just $94. View the full article

The Raspberry Pi IPO is set for June 2024 and hopes to raise $40 million View the full article

Galax unveils two new blower-style cards featuring Nvidia's RTX 4070 Super and RTX 4070 Ti Super GPUs, aimed squarely at professionals. View the full article

While exciting, Microsoft’s new requirements for PCs that do AI leave out anyone who bought an “AI PC” in recent months wishing that they’d waited. View the full article

Ajith Kumar B is using two Raspberry Pi Picos to power his dual clock project that has two separate displays. View the full article

The company is taking steps to make its warranty communication clearer for customers. But will that be enough to give Asus clients the service they deserve? View the full article

Allen 'Splave' Golibersuch sets a new PyPrime 32B world record with a Core i9-11900K overclocked to 7 GHz and DDR4-3914 memory. View the full article

Weibo is looking to build its first handheld gaming PC with Intel's next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs, making the OEM service provider the first company seriously looking at Lunar Lake in the handled PC market. View the full article

Gigabyte's ultrawide QD-OLED panel gaming monitor is reduced in price to $969, saving $130 whilst it's on sale. View the full article

Intel put out 41 security advisories this month on Patch Tuesday, including a CVSS level 10.0 vulnerability in an Intel AI software tool. View the full article

SiPearl upgrades its Rhea processor with more cores, but then delays it to 2025. View the full article

Forget the days of trying to figure out how to transfer petabytes of data in a timely fashion. Gryf makes that carry-on friendly. View the full article

A Canadian customer highlights his experience with Asus service to get the RTX 4090's 12VHPWR connector replaced, only to receive a quote for CAD 3,758 quote for a graphics card originally purchased for CAD 2,799. View the full article

Maxsun has a new Anime-themed B760 Micro-ATX motherboard featuring a white theme with Anime-inspired color accents and graphics. View the full article

The U.S. government has revoked export licenses for select processors for PCs and smartphones — Intel and Qualcomm can no longer ship to Huawei. View the full article

Alienware’s AW3225QF ups the ante for QD-OLED desktop monitors with a 32-inch curved 4K panel that runs at 240 Hz with Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, Dolby Vision and wide gamut color. View the full article

Samsung accelerates construction of glass substrates pilot line, plans to start test production in Q1 2025. View the full article

MS-DOS 4's open source release gets a branch confirmed to work on the seminal IBM PS/2. View the full article

PCI-SIG develops new cable standards for PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 interconnections at 32 GT/s and 64 GT/s. View the full article

Nvidia recently hosted an event highlighting the advantages of RTX GPUs in a number of applications, including content creation and gaming. It also took some time to disparage the idea of Intel and AMD promoting "AI PCs" that only offer 45 teraops of performance, saying that's only enough for basic AI workloads. View the full article

Shebin Jose Jacob is using a Raspberry Pi to operate his AI-powered stethoscope that listens for signs of heart disease and more. View the full article

Additional details about Tesla's Dojo SoW emerged at TSMC's North American Technology Symposium. View the full article

Ubuntu 24.04 has not had the smoothest of starts for the Raspberry Pi with users logging installation issues that the team are now investigating View the full article

An engineer has shared his journey in 'building a GPU from scratch with no prior experience.' As with his prior project of designing a CPU from scratch, Adam Majmudar took just two weeks to complete this cerebral feat. View the full article

12 Razer fans got tattoos to prompt the company's CEO to make the Razer Toaster a real product. Five years later, they're all still waiting. View the full article

Snapdragon X Series View the full article

A great power supply deal for any mid-range gaming PC. View the full article

ASML begins to ship its High-NA EUV lithography system to the second customer View the full article

Asus’ ROG Swift PG49WCD delivers maximum color from a 49-inch 32:9 curved OLED panel. With DQHD (5120x1440) resolution, 144 Hz, Adaptive-Sync and HDR10, it has a stunning picture with the widest color gamut I’ve yet measured from an OLED. View the full article

Intel's top-tier Core i9-14900KF processor is on offer at Newegg for an all-time low price. View the full article

The U.S. Commerce Department halts CHIPS funding for R&D facilities. View the full article

Mike Tan is using a Pico to power this wireless scoreboard that uses individually addressable LED strips and a remote control to receive updates. View the full article

Seagate has listed the latest BarraCuda 530 PCIe 4.0 SSD on the company's website. View the full article

Due to insatiable demand for the world’s most advanced microchips, TSMC is on a hiring spree. Successfully surfing wave after wave of tech industry trends, the contract chipmaker aims to swell its ranks from 77,000 to 100,000 over the next few years. View the full article

The Samsung Odyssey G32A gaming monitor is now just $179 at Amazon, down from its usual rate of $279. View the full article

Reliable leaker Tom Henderson has confirmed that new performance leaks surrounding the upcoming PS5 Pro are real. The new console will reportedly boast 45% greater rendering performance than the PS5. View the full article

NASA's supercomputing capabilities are insufficient for its tasks, leading to oversubscription and overburdening. An internal audit recommends transiting from CPUs to GPUs. View the full article

Linux's mitigation for the RFDS security vulnerability in Atom-based CPU cores will cost users a little bit of performance. View the full article

Acer equips its Predator Bitfrost Radeon RX 7900 GRE with an oversized cooling system. View the full article

Samsung has announced its next ARM-based laptop, known as the Galaxy Book4 Edge, that will arrive with Qualcomm's new Apple M2 destroying Snapdragon Elite X with 12 Oryon performance cores. View the full article

German publication Computerbase compares the Moore Threads MTT S80 and S30 graphics cards against some entry-level products, including AMD's Ryzen 8000G lineup. View the full article

Electricity prices are set to jump in Taiwan, and semiconductor-making 'super consumers' will face some of the steepest increases, say reports. This obviously could lead to major chip price increases. View the full article

You can now upgrade to a 4K monitor for only $179, making enjoying a UHD screen on your desk more accessible. View the full article

Gaming monitors level up when they’re like Acer’s Predator X27U. A 27-inch OLED panel delivers infinite contrast at QHD resolution with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and wide gamut color. Once you see it in action, the price doesn’t matter. View the full article

YouTuber Wulff Den was able to achieve burn-in on his Steam Deck OLED after 1,500 hours in a high-brightness stress test. View the full article

Falling to an all-time low price on Amazon, you can sound out a great deal on this 2.1 speaker setup from SteelSeries. View the full article

Retired Windows developer and successful YouTuber Dave W Plummer has revealed that his work on Zip folder integration in Windows paid for a little red Corvette. View the full article

Nvidia has made it illegal to run CUDA software using translation layers on other platforms with its latest licensing agreement. This move appears to specifically target ZLUDA along with some Chinese GPU makers. View the full article

We always prefer to see the price of GPUs go down rather than up. It's nice to see multiple GPU board partners lower the price on some of its RX 7700 XT SKUs. View the full article

Biden administration urges developers to use memory-safe programming languages to safeguard against future cybersecurity incidents View the full article

Chip and memory manufacturer Fujian Jinhua was found not guilty on economic espionage charges. View the full article

AMD has confirmed to the YouTube channel Hardware Unboxed that the extremely limited overclocking of the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a bug, and a fix is coming. View the full article

ASML and Intel achieve first light on wafer milestone with ASML's Twinscan EXE:5000 lithography system for the first time. View the full article

EKWB is taking the reins of Intel's canceled Cryo Cooling Technology and is providing its own software updates to its Delta TEC water block. View the full article

Arctic just released its new Liquid Freezer III lineup of AIOs featuring custom mounting mechanisms for Intel and AMD CPUs. Arctic is relying heavily on these mounts and is not offering default mounting brackets for LGA 1700, AM4 or AM5 as a backup. View the full article

Powered by a quad-core RISC-V CPU, the Sipeed Lichee Console 4A is an interesting option for open source development on the go. View the full article

AMSL's High-NA lithography machine to cost more than twice as much as existing Low-NA tools. View the full article

Microsoft has subtly confirmed that Windows 12 will not be coming out this year. All of its new Canary and Dev Channel Insider Preview Builds now carry the Windows 11 24H2 moniker. View the full article

Samsung has issued an update to its Magician Software SSD tool after a 'high severity' vulnerability, allowing local users higher privilege file access, was found. View the full article

This CR isn’t the printer you asked for, but it might be the one you need. View the full article

Corsair set to relocated assembly of its boutique Origin PCs from Florida to Georgia. View the full article

Intel's Bartlett Lake-S is coming to network and edge equipment, claims new leak. View the full article

Leveraging the NPUs present in Intel's newest Intel Core Ultra CPUs, the Windows 11 DirectML developer preview has added support for Intel's AI-tailored hardware. View the full article

The Akko MOD007B-HE PC is a stylish keyboard that offers great-feeling switches with rapid trigger, customizable actuation, and more at a good price. It’s not quite a Wooting, but it's still worth a look. View the full article

Newegg Refresh is the company's new in-house refurbishment program for GPUs, PCs, Apple devices, monitors, and more. View the full article

You can now pick up the Huntsman V2 analog optical switch keyboard for $119, saving 52% on its original price. View the full article

AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 5700X3D was recently tested in Geekbench 6 featuring performance very similar to the 5800X3D. View the full article

Intel and UMC have announced a partnership that will see UMC's 12nm tech used to produce chips in Intel's fabs. View the full article

Google has settled ahead of the scheduled closing arguments in Singular Computing’s $1.67 billion AI tech patent trial. However, it still insists it didn't use SIngular's technologies, and the settlement sum wasn't revealed. View the full article

Nvidia's RTX Remix application is now available for everyone to use as the tool goes into its open beta phase. Everyone will now have a chance to create their own remasters of classic games full of new textures/assets and ray traced lighting. View the full article

AMD will no longer mark its chips as made in Taiwan, a change that many theorize was made at the behest of China. View the full article

ASRock revealed the Radeon RX 7600 XT Steel Legend and Radeon RX 7600 XT Challenger graphics cards. View the full article

Maker and developer Alan has created a Raspberry Pi Pico board that supports Ethernet connections over USB C. View the full article