Zak Killian
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While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches revealed that Nova Lake would have not...
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The PowerVia back-side power delivery network (BSPDN) technology that Intel pioneered with its 18A fabrication process is brilliant, because separating power lines from data lines offers tremendous benefits to chip designers in terms of...
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Whatever you think about the Steam Machine, the fact is it's launching into a brutal market for anyone trying to sell a gaming product. So brutal, in fact, that Valve has been unable to source the 8GB SODIMMs that it originally planned to...
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Chinese BiliBili creator Qiong Shuma CHANNEL (roughly, "Budget Tech Channel") put up a video this weekend titled "RTX 4080 for Just 2,300 Yuan? Unfortunately, It's the Mobile Version." The premise is exactly what you think, but there's a...
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The global AI boom has just triggered what may be the largest infrastructure investment in tech history. In late June, the South Korean government announced a staggering, coordinated initiative alongside memory chip titans Samsung...
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While Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 Plus CPUs are highly compelling across a wide range of applications, in the hard-core gaming market AMD's 3D V-Cache CPUs are largely untouched. It's been well-known for a bit now that Intel was taking a...
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Just when you thought the display industry had run out of ways to slice the refresh-rate pie, Philips comes along to tell us that dual-mode monitors are yesterday's news. Enter the new Evnia M4 lineup, specifically the 27M4N3500PT and its...
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Shenzhen firm GamePad Digital, better known as GPD, has been doing its thing since long before the Steam Deck existed. Indeed, while we tend to report on GPD's offerings in the same breath as companies like Ayaneo, OneXPlayer, and...
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It's curious to call this one a leak, exactly, since the original source is direct from AMD and live on the web, but here we go. AMD's Vishal Badole submitted a patch for the Linux Kernel that he describes as adding support for "a Low Power core type, in addition to the existing Performance...
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Many of our regular readers are probably familiar with AMD's Versal series of "adaptive system on chips," but for the uninitiated, Versal is primarily AMD's family of FPGAs. Calling them that is a bit reductive, however. They're...
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Don't think it's just the tech and finance worlds that have been subsumed by AI hype. Academia is also crazy for AI, publishing an untold number of papers all about the capabilities and potential of AI technology. Only, a lot of these...
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Here's a quick summary of what we've heard about Intel's next-generation Nova Lake CPUs: they're going to feature new architectures for both P-cores and E-cores, they're going to come with as many as 52 total cores, and the full load power...
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If you're bored, have some time to kill, and access to nearly any PC with an internet connection, you can now play Half-Life 2. At least, a rather janky, ugly, and legally dubious version of Half-Life 2, running entirely in a browser tab...
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IBM today announced what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, unveiling a new 0.7nm (7 angstrom) semiconductor process built around an entirely new transistor architecture dubbed "nanostack." The announcement is significant not only because it pushes semiconductor...
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We love handhelds around here, and no one more than me. We just dropped our full review of the new MSI Claw 8 EX AI+, and the performance numbers are absolutely wild. In our testing, its Intel Arc G3 Extreme processor completely dunks on...
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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+: MSRP $1,799 Intel's Arc G3 Extreme propels the new MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ to performance heights heretofore unknown to PC gaming handhelds, but it commands a precious price premium. Class-Leading Gaming Performance Versatile...
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It has been the question looming over the Gabecube since the specs were announced last year: how much? Well, now we know how much, and the answer is ... perhaps 'too much.' But that depends on your values, and what you're looking for...
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SK hynix just announced the delivery of its 12-layer HBM4E memory samples to major hardware clients, intensifying the competition to supply the memory backbone for future AI accelerators. The new fat stacks of RAM represent a significant...
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Valve's Steam Deck opened up the existing PC gaming handheld market to the mainstream and, in so doing, arguably created a whole new class of PC gaming devices. The Steam Machine probably isn't going to have the same impact on the market...
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MSI has officially opened retail listings for its hotly anticipated Claw 8 EX AI+ handheld, and the price tag is an eye-watering $1,799. While the device packs cutting-edge hardware, including Intel's brand-new Arc G3 Extreme processor...
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Intel is taking the fight directly to TSMC with its latest foundry milestone, signaling that its aggressive turnaround strategy is bearing real fruit. At the 2026 IEEE/JSAP Symposium on VLSI Technology & Circuits, the company announced...
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We know Intel and NVIDIA are cooking up something together because the two companies announced that they would last year when NVIDIA invested $5 billion USD into Intel. The announcement included the statement that Intel would "build and...
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