Zak Killian
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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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While some would like to see themselves as Robin Hood-type, well-intentioned opportunists, it has long been known that there is no honor among thieves. Case in point: today's story, where a man named Raivo Plavnieks was trying to raise...
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If you're planning to have a cutting-edge chip manufactured in late 2025 or early 2026, you're probably looking at TSMC, because the only other company operating a fab at a similar node is Intel, and Team Blue canceled acceptance of...
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Intel's Arc B770 is, so far, a story of potential greatness that ultimately ends up in a blank page. We'll spoil the story for you: today's leak is yet another data point proving that the GPU definitely exists, but we've still heard...
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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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