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November 14
- Chinese GPU unicorn Moore Threads inches closer to IPO: Report
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 spotted at exhibition ahead of official launch
- GOG launches "Preservation Program" for porting and maintaining "Good Old Games" to modern PCs with 92 classic games
- TSMC reportedly delays Fab 21 opening ceremony in Arizona until January
- Intel Arrow Lake loses DLVR bypass "Power Gate" profile in latest 0x112 microcode — chipmaker says the change will prevent "accidental misuse"
- Two Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs burned out on X870 motherboards — vendor investigates the Ryzen burnout issues
- Intel’s postponement of the Magdeburg fab was made in “close coordination” with the German state — the company will reevaluate the project in two years to decide its final fate
- Apple M4 revitalizes decades-old iMac G4 — out with the PowerPC chip, in with the new Apple Silicon
- AI accelerator tinybox pro goes up for preorder for $40,000 — the device features eight RTX 4090s and two AMD Genoa EPYC processors
- RISC-V motherboard for Framework 13 laptops and mini-PCs starts at $199 – quad-core RISC-V CPU and 8GB of RAM included
- Chinese company trained GPT-4 rival with just 2,000 GPUs — 01.ai spent $3M compared to OpenAI's $80M to $100M
- Diamond-cooled GPUs are coming soon — startup claims 20C temp reduction, 25% more overclocking headroom as it seeks US govt funding for diamond-encrusted chip cooling solutions
- AMD claims the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is 75% faster than Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in gaming
- Microsoft releases official Windows 11 ISO for Arm devices — Extending support for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite processors
- Phison intros 'world's fastest' high-capacity 128TB SSD — Pascari D205V hits 3 million IOPS and 14,600 MB/s with PCIe 5.0
- NEC supercomputer combines Intel Xeon and AMD Instinct accelerators to nearly triple performance
November 13
- Softbank plans to build first Nvidia Blackwell-based AI supercomputer using x86 DGX B200 servers
- AMD is laying off 4 percent of its global workforce as it sharpens focus on AI
- Handy Raspberry Pi battery charger doubles as attractive desk clock
- Cooler Master launches a souped-up version of the Amazon Basics CPU cooler — Hyper 411 Nano hits the market for SFF builds
- Apple M4 Max CPU transcribes audio twice as fast as the RTX A5000 GPU in user test — M4 Max pulls just 25W compared to the RTX A5000's 190W
- TSMC sued for race and citizenship discrimination at its Arizona facilities (updated)
- Softbank once offered Jensen Huang a loan to buy Nvidia entirely — Nvidia CEO regrets not taking the loan
- Xbox gaming handheld is years away, Microsoft exec says
- AMD is purportedly preparing Ryzen 200 "Hawk Point Refresh" APUs — Ryzen 7 255/260 set to replace the Ryzen 7 8745H/8845H series
- Solidigm reveals 122TB SSD, the world's highest-capacity drive for AI workloads — D5-P5336 offers unlimited write durability
- Elon Musk's massive AI data center gets unlocked — xAI gets approved for 150MW of power, enabling all 100,000 GPUs to run concurrently
- Nvidia's latest DLSS 3.8.10 version features only two presets: Preset E and Preset F — chipmaker trimmed the DLL file size by more than 50%
- AirPods Pro hacked using Faraday cage and microwave as a jammer to fool geofencing — enthusiast activates hearing aids feature in AirPods Pro in geoblocked India
- Global GPU market to hit $100 billion in 2024: JPR
- Micron unveils industry's first 60TB SSD with a PCIe 5.0 x4 interface
November 12
- This Raspberry Pi dashcam continuously records even when your car is off
- Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl and MSFS 2024 arrive next week — here are the system requirements and driver details
- Local and foreign chip manufacturers flee China, expand in Vietnam — companies move to Southeast Asia as US-China tensions simmer
- Researchers develop Python code for in-memory computing — in-memory computation comes to Python code
- Huawei develops massive 72TB SSD-tape hybrid storage device — first-gen MED drive targets warm and cold storage
- Nvidia offers Indiana Jones gaming bundle to super sales of aging RTX 40 series — RTX 4070 and higher GPUs eligible for the promotion
- Arrow Lake and Zen 5 motherboards should be getting cheaper soon — Asus files a slew of budget Intel and AMD boards with regulators
- Despite brutal price hikes on many products, VMWare makes Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro free for all users
- Hackers bury malware in new ZIP file attack — combining multiple ZIPs into one bypasses antivirus protections
- Intel Core Ultra 5 225H delivers 14% better single core and 16% improved iGPU performance than Meteor Lake per early benchmarks — the CPU still falls short of its Lunar Lake counterparts
- LG working with Jim Keller on new ‘Affectionate Intelligence’ processor
- Nvidia App reaches version 1.0 milestone and exits beta — GeForce Experience and Control Panel now deprecated
- Japan readies ambitious $65 billion plan to revive homegrown semiconductor manufacturing — Expects economic return of over $1 trillion
- Intel's top scientist wins Lisa Su Award — Dr. Ann Kelleher honored for years of technical prowess
- U.S. lawmakers ask top fab tool makers about their sales to China
November 11
- Valve drops limited edition white Steam Deck OLED
- This custom Raspberry Pi voice assistant is built around ChatGPT
- Preliminary specifications for Intel's 65W and 35W Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake S CPUs leaked
- Open source, single-PCB HIDman adapter lets peripherals to easily interface with old PCs that don't support USB
- Bitcoin skyrockets to an all-time high of over $84,000 — a euphoric surge in investments from Trump's presidential win
- Raspberry Pi 5 overclocked to 3.6 GHz by ScatterBencher — but exotic cooling didn’t help push clocks any faster than air
- AMD Ryzen 9000 pricing freefalls, hits all-time lows — Micro Center slashes up to 28% off Zen 5
- Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades
- Pizza Hut's new pizza warmer uses the PlayStation 5's heat to keep your pizza hot — you can 3D print the new PIZZAWARMR for free
- Adding ceramic powder to liquid metal thermal paste improves cooling up to 72% says researchers
November 10
- Enthusiast demos motherboard socket pin replacement — hot air, tweezers, and a steady hand
- UserBenchmark suggests you buy the i5-13600K over the Ryzen 7 9800X3D — says AMD drives sales with 'aggressive marketing' rather than 'real-world performance'
- Downed Russian drone used at least 30 chips from Western companies — silicon from Xilinx, TI, Marvell, Micron, and others found in the wreckage
- Take a seat — standing desks aren't better for you, says new study
- Super tiny Raspberry Pi RP2040 RGB LED matrix display hits Kickstarter
- U.S. ordered TSMC to halt shipments of advanced AI processors to China: Report
- 8BitDo Retro Mechanical Keyboard gets full size 108 key version — numpad devotees can also choose between NES and Famicom colorways
- LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors
- Taiwanese law prevents TSMC from producing 2nm chips overseas, Taiwanese govt official confirms
- AMD Strix Halo 'RDNA 3.5' iGPU rumored to launch under the Radeon 8000S branding — Up to 40 CUs and support for LPDDR5X-8000 memory
November 9
- Computing industry legend Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL ‘You’ve got mail,’ passes away at 74
- Mac Studio lookalike packs a Core i9-14900KF CPU and RTX 4090 Laptop GPU — the FEVM FN60G rocks a 3.8-liter chassis that's slightly smaller than the Mac Studio
- D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models
- Microsoft persuades Mail and Calendar users to migrate to Outlook — Mail and Calendar app will cease to work after December 31
- This Raspberry Pi-powered chess board robot moves pieces automatically
- Intel reportedly denies RMA for crashing Core i9-14900K CPU due to liquid metal thermal paste usage — liquid metal erased the markings and serial number on the CPU
- Gorilla Glass maker Corning is set to receive $32 million under the CHIPS and Science Act
- M4 Mac Mini SSD modded from 256GB to 1TB — modder solders higher-capacity NAND to the removable SSD module
- AMD Strix Point CPU powers upcoming Ayaneo 3 gaming handheld — device sports up to Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU and 7-inch OLED screen
- South Korean engineer smuggled out shopping bags full of secret SK hynix docs to give to Huawei
November 8
- Intel announces Arrow Lake fix coming within a month — Robert Hallock confirms poor gaming performance is due to optimization issues
- US Congressman accuses SMIC of making 7nm chips for China, violating U.S. sanctions
- TSMC to stop supplying advanced AI processors for all of its China customers: Report
- Buggy Windows Update starts automatically 'upgrading' Windows 2022 servers to Windows Server 2025
- ASE to bolster North American semiconductor supply chain — new packaging and test facility in Mexico expected to hire 500 engineers and technicians in first year
- Intel resumes free coffee and tea for its employees — $100-million-per-year program partly reinstated to boost employee morale
- Ryzen 7 9800X3D gutted to get a look inside AMD’s gaming champion — die shot reveals CPU cores and 3D V-Cache
- Both Trump and Biden expected to attend TSMC's Arizona fab grand opening ceremony — Fab 21 opens in December
- This Raspberry Pi automatically archives a stack of Amiga floppy disks
- Intel engineer's Linux patch would alert users of outdated microcode — Flagging the system as vulnerable
- AMD's desktop PC market share skyrockets amid Intel's Raptor Lake CPU crashing scandal — AMD makes biggest leap in recent history
November 7
- Lian Li's DK07 mechanized standing desk PC case debuts at $1,399 USD — room inside for dual EATX PCs
- 3D-printed Mac Mini enclosure makes the tiny PC look like the world's cutest Mac Pro
- Chipmakers race to get CHIPS Act dollars before White House changeover — TSMC and GlobalFoundries finalize applications, facilitating payouts
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D completely sold out in Europe — pre-orders sell out incoming shipments before they hit shelves
- Scalpers sell Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs for up to $1,000 — Ryzen 7 9800X3D is out of stock at major U.S retailers
- Sub-Zero Ryzen 7 9800X3D hits 1,400 FPS+ at 6.9 GHz — new gaming champion destroys Valorant frame rates with liquid nitrogen
- Nvidia squeezes GeForce Now users for more cash with 100-hour monthly playtime limit — Nvidia will charge $5.99 for 15 extra hours for the Ultimate tier and $2.99 for the Performance tier
- Intel Arc Xe2 Battlemage GPUs rumored to arrive next month — ahead of AMD RDNA 4 and Nvidia Blackwell
- Unannounced Ryzen 9 9950X3D dominates Ryzen 7 9800X3D in Factorio benchmark — Ryzen 9000X3D flagship up to 18% faster than current fastest gaming CPU
- Intel CEO reminds investors it provides TSMC with chipmaking equipment — Gelsinger emphasizes that TSMC is a strategic partner
- Intel slapped with class action lawsuit for Raptor Lake CPU instability issues — chipmaker accused of consciously selling defective chips
- Raspberry Pi Pico W drives custom cardiography signal-measuring device
- TSMC founder once asked Nvidia CEO Jensen to be TSMC's CEO — upcoming Morris Chang biography shares the details
- Apple has allegedly approached Foxconn and Lenovo to build AI servers based on Apple Silicon
- Raspberry Pi announce $12 USB 3 hub to add more ports to your Pi
November 6
- Outlook users beware — Classic Outlook is currently crashing when you open more than 60 emails at once
- Huawei trying to poach TSMC employees with 3X salary
- Minisforum's Surface-like 3-in-1 laptop becomes more affordable — V3 SE features an older Ryzen CPU, less RAM, and lower-specced screen than the V3
- Nintendo officially confirms Switch 2 is backward compatible with Switch games
- This Raspberry Pi axe bass from 'Adventure Time' is fit for a 1,000 year-old vampire queen
- Nvidia becomes the world's most valuable company by market capitalization — Chipmaker dethrones Apple for the second time this year
- CPU-Z adds support for Ryzen 9000X3D, Arrow Lake CPUs, and CUDIMMs
- AMD unveils AMD OLMo, its first 1B-parameter LLM with strong reasoning
- Sony patents a dedicated rewind button to save us when we suck at gaming
November 5
- Kioxia forecasts a tripling in demand for NAND memory by 2028 — could further impact SSD pricing
- Research team uses the human body to power wearables — addresses major obstacle of conventional batteries
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series reportedly launching 'soon' — but all indicators continue to point to a January 2025 reveal
- Sapphire launches Pulse B650M motherboard with just two DIMM slots — the $112 AM5 motherboard supports RAM up to DDR5-7400 and higher
- AMD silently bumped up memory specifications for Ryzen AI 300 CPUs — Strix Point now supports LPDDR5X-8000 as opposed to LPDDR5X-7500
- Over 200 days after its official closure, the last user of Nintendo Network's online servers finally disconnected after a 3DS system crash
- Intel postpones Magdeburg fab until 2029 to 2030 — German subsidies to Intel could go back to the federal budget
- MIT unveils ultra-efficient 3D nanoscale transistors that could revolutionize future electronics
- SMART Modular Technologies readies the T6EN series of hardware-level Self-Encryption SSDs with a conformal coating — SSDs made for aerospace, defense, and other industrial applications
- This Raspberry Pi Pico Fallout-inspired T-45 power armor helmet is ready for battling radroaches
- Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes
- Intel Core Ultra 9 285H 45W mobile CPU falls short of its Lunar Lake brethren in leaked Geekbench 6 single-core benchmark
- Nvidia asked SK hynix to accelerate HBM4 chip delivery by six months, says report
- SK hynix announces the world's first 48GB 16-Hi HBM3E memory — Next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSDs and UFS 5.0 storage are also in the works
- For the first time ever, AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space
November 4
- Nintendo Wii turned into a sleeper gaming PC, complete with GameCube ports — powered by AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS and Radeon 680M graphics
- AMD-powered OLED handheld aims to rival the Steam Deck OLED — Ryzen 9 AI HX 370 runs Black Myth: Wukong at 50-60 FPS with 1080p low settings
- Asus launches triple-fan RX 6750 GRE Megalodon GPU – midrange RDNA 2 GPU still plentiful even in late 2024
- The Shores of Bell — Doom is now playable on Nintendo's $99 alarm clock
- Windows 11 gains momentum with over 35% market share as Microsoft pushes for upgrades — Windows 10 still has the stronghold on the PC market
- AMD’s China-exclusive lineup of prebuilt PCs gets Ryzen 7 9800X3D upgrade – some models come with GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs
- Asus rolls out rugged USB-C SSD enclosure that delivers transfer speeds up to 20 Gb/s — TUF Gaming A2 SSD is IP68 water- and dust-resistance, meeting U.S. MIL-STD-810H standards
- These Raspberry Pi Zero-powered AR goggles were made from scratch
- Clever coder crams a Solitaire game onto a single Nintendo GBA e-Reader card
- FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code
- Intel CEO complains 'this is taking too long' after investing $30B but receiving zero CHIPS Act funding
November 3
- Asus 'Turbo Game Mode' arrives on its AM5 motherboards — second CCD and SMT toggles arrive for up to a 35% performance boost on X3D chips
- Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM — plus 2GB DDR5 system RAM
- Asus WRX90 motherboards reportedly support 3D V-Cache Override — Will next-gen Threadripper 9000 "Shimada Peak" CPUs have an X3D counterpart?
- This Raspberry Pi Nerf blaster is insanely over-engineered
- Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in
- Microsoft claims timber-built datacenters can reduce its carbon footprint by up to 65%
- Intel reportedly scaling back R&D teams in Israel — several hundred talented staff will be laid off
- Valve Engineer's AMD Linux RADV Vulkan driver fix boosted an FSR2 demo sample app by 228% on RDNA 2 GPUs
- AMD's RX 6600 is the most popular Red Team GPU among Steam gamers, by a whisker — but no Radeon card makes the top 30 list
- This MSI 27-Inch curved gaming monitor has dropped to its lowest price ever at Newegg
- TSMC rumored to receive High NA EUV machines from ASML this year
- AWS CEO estimates large city scale power consumption of future AI model training tasks — 'an individual model may require somewhere between one to 5GW of power'
- Windows Server 2025 supports CPUs packing two to 192 cores — CPU support list spans Pentium chips to Xeon and EPYC parts
November 2
- Intel might be too big to fail — Washington policymakers are already discussing potential solutions if the chipmaker cannot recover
- Apple's M4 Max is the single-core performance king in Geekbench 6 — M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X
- Make spruces up Agetec arcade stick with two Raspberry Pi Picos
- Cooler Master has so many leftover Shark X cases that it's selling them at $4,300 a piece in Japan — the case is admittedly cheaper than the $7,000 pre-built PC that Cooler Master was offering
- Ryzen 9000 CPU prices plummet in anticipation of the holiday season — Zen 5 discounts range from 10% to 23% off
- Sealed AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU stands the test of time — 22-year-old single-core "Thoroughbred" relic has never been turned on outside the factory
- Nvidia to replace Intel in Dow Jones Industrial Average — Intel's 25-year reign has come to an end
- GlobalFoundries fined $500,000 for restricted chip exports to Chinese firm on U.S. entity list — chipmaker shipped $17 million worth of silicon wafers to China’s SJ Semiconductor
- Dr. Jensen Huang — Nvidia CEO to receive an Honorary PhD in engineering from a Hong Kong university
- Enthusiast builds a 3D printer that uses a hot glue gun — heavily modified Dremel glue gun surprisingly good at printing objects
- AI-powered Minecraft runs without a game engine — game rendered in real-time at a continuous 20 FPS
November 1
- Lunar Lake's integrated memory is an expensive one-off — Intel rejects the approach for future CPUs due to margin impact
- Arrow Lake CPUs can still get bendy despite revamped socket — specialized contact frame flattens chip, claims to lower temperatures by up to 6C
- TeamGroup DDR5-7200 C32 CAMM2 promises performance speeds over 100 GB/s — memory manufacturer aims for DDR5-9000
- Intel outlines plan to break free from TSMC manufacturing — 70% of Panther Lake at Intel fabs, Nova Lake almost entirely in-house
- Super-lightweight operating system boots off a 1.44MB floppy disk — KolibriOS lets you do simple tasks and even play games on your legacy PC
- ChatGPT-5 won't be coming this year — OpenAI CEO reveals company is focusing on existing models
- Chinese researchers build military AI using Meta’s open-source Llama model — ChatBIT allegedly performs at around 90% of the performance of OpenAI GPT-4 LLM
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 outperforms Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V in LLM performance — Team Red provided benchmarks show a strong lead of up to 27% in LM Studio
- Intel says it will miss its AI goals with Gaudi 3 due to unbaked software — Intel's $500 million AI goal unachievable as competitors rake in billions
- Cadence says its AI-driven chip design tools provide a process node's worth of performance gain, but without moving forward to a new node
- This Raspberry Pi Pico 2 Groovebox is ready to jam
- Minisforum launches $559 RX 7600M XT OCuLink eGPU docking station for mini-PCs
- Intel lost $16.6 billion in Q3, reports $13.3 billion in revenue