Zak Killian
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Folks who aren't of a certain vintage may not actually recall that, nearly a decade ago, Valve attempted to launch a home-console-like experience with the "Steam Machines," small form-factor PCs running Linux and meant for living-room PC...
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Intel is teaming up with EA for its annual Gamer Days promotion, and this time the freebie is a big one: EA's upcoming Battlefield 6. Starting August 25, buyers of select Intel Core CPUs and Arc graphics cards will get the latest DICE...
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If you're really opposed to the existence of hybrid CPUs, you could buy an Intel chip and disable the E-cores, but that really dumpsters your multi-core performance. What if Intel made a CPU like it used to, and like AMD does: with a...
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Researchers at UC Davis, working in collaboration with the BrainGate consortium, have unveiled a breakthrough brain-computer interface (BCI) that restores speech for people who have lost the ability to speak. The system was successfully...
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Intel Foundry needs external customers, as the company claims that if it doesn't find more, it may have to "pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes." That could explain why the company posted a video today on its YouTube channel showing off "Deer Creek Falls", a new...
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When we reviewed the MSI Claw 8 AI+, we were quite fond of the device's performance and battery life. It was generally on par with the ASUS ROG Ally X, although some benchmarks gave a glimmer of potentially superior performance. On paper...
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One of the greatest strengths of building an AMD-based machine in the last eight years has been AMD's fantastic support for Socket AM4. Socket AM5 looks much the same, with at least one more generation of CPUs coming to the DDR5-based...
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The foremost Dutch tech site, Tweakers, is reporting that AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X3D has now reached End-of-Life (EOL). That means that any stock remaining in the channel is what's left, so if you want one of these chips, you'd better pick it...
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At SIGGRAPH 2025 today, Arm pulled the wraps off Neural Super Sampling (NSS), its first AI-driven upscaling technology designed for mobile GPUs. It's the debut application of "Arm neural technology," a planned set of features for future...
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Back at Computex, Intel announced a trio of Pro GPUs based on its Battlemage GPU architecture—the same that powers the popular Arc B570 and B580 GPUs. One of those cards was essentially an Arc B580 with 24GB of VRAM onboard, and one of them was a dual-chip version of the same. The third card...
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Ever since Meta found success with the Quest series of standalone VR headsets, the company's Reality Labs Research division—the artists formerly known as Oculus—really haven't produced a device after the fashion of the Rift, the Index, or...
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Without a press release, blog post, or even a tweet to mark the occasion, AMD has quietly added a new workstation GPU to its Radeon PRO lineup: the Radeon PRO W7400. This card slots into the company's W7000 series as an even-lower-power alternative to the two-year-old W7500. With a...
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A Reuters report yesterday claims that Intel is struggling with poor yields on its next-generation 18A manufacturing process, and the state of the manufacturing chain is bad enough, allegedly, that it might jeopardize the launch of Panther...
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A curious detail of OpenAI's popular AI models—like the GPT-4o model used in ChatGPT—is that despite the name, OpenAI's models are overwhelmingly not open-source. OpenAI has now released two new open-weight large language models, however...
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Intel's first socketed microprocessors came in a dual in-line package (DIP) with 40 connectors. The i486 used a variety of sockets, but the most popular had 237 contacts. AMD's "Socket A" for the legendary Athlon CPUs had 462 contacts. Modern CPUs need a whole lot more connectivity, which is...
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When we tested the MSI Claw 8 AI+ featuring Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V, we found the Lunar Lake chip to have less-consistent, but overall slightly better performance versus AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Given that, it should be no surprise that...
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A new name in the laptop space, AIM, is 'AIM'-ing both high and low. That is, high in ambition, and low in price. You see, the company has announced plans to release a gaming laptop powered by AMD's top-of-the-line Ryzen AI Max+ 395...
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We're broadly of the opinion that Intel's Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) doesn't really get its due. Most people seem to be unaware that XeSS runs not only on Intel's own graphics processors, but also on any recent AMD and NVIDIA GPU. The key...
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Unsurprisingly, Micron is first out of the gate with a PCIe 6.0 SSD—and it's coming in hot. The company just unveiled a new lineup of data center drives built on the G9 NAND tech that first appeared in the 2600, and leading the charge is...
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When we initially heard rumors about AMD's Strix Halo processors, we were dubious. When AMD announced those chips as the Ryzen AI Max 300 family, we were cautiously optimistic. We didn't become true believers in the design until we tested...
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Tired of dead zones and sluggish connections when everyone in the house is online? Netgear's latest Orbi 370 Wi-Fi 7 mesh system might be exactly what you need to supercharge your home network. Right now, there are some excellent...
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Dell 14 Premium and 16 Premium Laptops: As tested, $2099 (14") and $2799 (16") Minimalist elegance, stunning displays, and quiet operation are among the top features of Dell's new 14" and 16" Premium laptops, which succeed Dell's venerable...
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