Zak Killian
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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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It's not clear how widespread this issue actually is, but some users—and not just crazy overclockers—have definitely experienced a problem where AMD CPUs fail in spectacular fashion, scorching the bottom of the CPU package and the socket...
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DLSS Swapper is an application that allows you to replace older DLSS versions with newer ones in games that never got updated with the latest models. It's arguably somewhat unnecessary now that NVIDIA's official App allows you to do this...
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Many leaks and rumors have pointed to the existence of a handheld version of the PlayStation 6. If that sounds insane, think about it this way: Nintendo proved that one machine can provide compelling experiences both in the hand and hooked...
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Here's the actual story for today: well-known leaksman Kepler_L2 posted up some diagrams of his own creation that purport to depict the configurations for AMD's next-generation discrete GPUs. There are four diagrams in total, depicting...
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Unfortunately, we aren't on the ground at Hot Chips 2025, and it's unfortunate, because Intel dumped a whole bunch of details about its upcoming Clearwater Forest high-core-count Xeons at the conference. Here are the key metrics: up to 288...
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Intel's Panther Lake is the company's next-generation series of mobile processors that will succeed Arrow Lake in the mid-range "H" class as well as Lunar Lake in the odd "V" in-between power class. We won't be seeing Panther Lake products...
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Japanese serial leaksman 188号 just posted up two mobile CPU roadmaps: one for Intel CPUs, and one for AMD. Chalk this one up as half-leak, half-rumor, because these clearly aren't official slides from Intel or AMD, but rather seem to be...
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We love tiny Chinese system vendors here at HotHardware. Companies like Ayaneo, Beelink, Geekom, and GPD make some wild, wonderful, and wacky hardware that's just fun to play with because they often push the boundaries of what's possible...
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Let's talk about what "open-source" means, because it can get a little confusing. Big software projects have a lot of components, and "going open-source" doesn't always mean that every single component's source code is released. That's...
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In 2025, there are a great many reasons you might want to consider an external GPU for your laptop or handheld gaming system. It's not just about gaming anymore. Of course, the GeForce RTX 5090 is the fastest graphics card in the world...
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