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February 26
- Prototype RTX 50-series power connector designed to prevent melting with current overload alarm, per-pin sensing
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 series prices leak on Micro Center — starting at nearly $700 for XT versions
- Nvidia's Priority Access program reportedly kicks off, invitations sent out for RTX 5090 customers
- China accuses Taiwan of giving away chip industry to the US as a 'souvenir'
- China's mature chips to make up 28% of world production, creating oversupply — Western companies express concern for their survival
- The ultra-rare Ryzen 7 9800X3D now available delidded for $599 with two-year warranty
- Intel launches Xeon 6500/6700 processors with performance cores
- Samsung unveils 10th Gen V-NAND: 400+ layers, 5.6 GT/s and hybrid bonding
- Jim Keller joins ex-Intel chip designers in RISC-V startup focused on breakthrough CPUs
- Raspberry Pi powers custom cyberdeck inspired music player
- Upcoming driver to fix Nvidia RTX 50-series black screen and BSOD issues
- Prusa Goes to the Cloud with Optional “EasyPrint” Slicer
- Dr Lisa Su broadens AMD's developer credit program, opens up access to AI hardware for devs
February 25
- Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD boasts 14.8 GB/s read speeds, making it the world's fastest consumer drive
- AMD's latest hardware bundle includes Monster Hunter Wilds with select CPUs, GPUs, and laptops
- Framework moves into desktops, 2-in-1 laptops at 'Second Gen' event
- Micron unveils DDR5-9200 memory: 1γ process technology with EUV
- Imagination reveals new power-efficient DXTP GPU for laptops and mobile devices
- Intel has processed 30,000 wafers with High-NA EUV chipmaking tool
- Taiwanese authorities detain fishy Chinese freighter suspected of cutting undersea Internet cable
- Chinese CPU maker Zhaoxin rolls out DeepSeek support to all processors — entire product lineup now runs DeepSeek LLMs natively
- Trump wants tighter AI chip export restrictions but may face staffing shortage and other issues
- ASRock issues BIOS update to address Ryzen 9 9800X3D failures, warns of 'misinformation' about failures
- Argon40 teases the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 powered Upton One laptop
February 24
- Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive
- This Raspberry Pi Creeper robot is bringing our Minecraft nightmares to real life
- Argon40 teases new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 laptop prototype
- AMD 9800X3D 'failures/deaths' Reddit megathread indicates the vast majority may be happening on ASRock motherboards
- AMD breathes life into Ryzen 5000G family with six new chips — Cezanne with up to eight Zen 3 cores and 4.6 GHz boost clocks
- Apple says it will spend $500 billion in US over next four years as it faces down Trump tariffs
- RTX 4090M eGPU hits pre-sale for $1,260 — $1,000 cheaper than Asus's RTX 5090 mobile eGPU
- RTX 5080 with missing ROPs takes a 12% performance hit in synthetic benchmark
- World’s largest data center gets go-ahead from Korean govt — facility to require 3 GW of power
- China's rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink has the potential to challenge its reach by 2030, says report
- Leaked RTX 5070 benchmarks show mixed results against RTX 4070 Super, 18% slower than RTX 5070 Ti
- Intel ‘Value Pack’ CPUs roll out in South Korea — PC DIYers can save $7 with no-frills packaging
- Nvidia RTX 5080 suffers from similar missing ROP defect as 5090 and 5070 Ti: Report
February 23
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT performance estimates leaked: 42% to 66% faster than Radeon RX 7900 GRE
- This Raspberry Pi transparent display is made using a glass dome
- CS2 fans targeted by Streamjackers — viewers swindled out of crypto and Steam valuables
- Pong can now be played across 240 browser tabs — faviconic leverages tab favicons
- Security researcher finds vulnerability in internet-connected bed, could allow access to all devices on network
- Intel and Samsung Display cooperate to advance next-gen AI PCs into 'unchartered territory'
- Intel launches new 18A website, highlights milestones and specifications
- Technician warns against copper modding GPUs, fixes RTX 3080 with component damage
- RTX 5070 Ti manufacturing defect cuts performance by up to 10% — 88 ROPs vs 96 ROPs (design)
- Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan
February 22
- AMD appears unlikely to sell reference Radeon RX 9070, RX 9070 XT GPUs
- PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 'helper' to enable full performance
- Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected
- Ionic Wind explores ionized air for cooling servers, claims a 60% cost reduction
- Nvidia explains the missing ROPs — defective silicon in 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs
- Chinese chipmaker unveils Optane-like storage class memory
- Blown capacitor kills $2,799 Asus RTX 5090 GPU and damages motherboard
- ASE developing square packaging substrate tech to replace round wafers
- AMD is in talks to sell $4 billion AI server assembly plants
February 21
- Nvidia confirms it is investigating RTX 50-series BSOD and black screen troubles, no timeline for a fix
- Samsung extends LPDDR5 to 12.7 GT/s: Next-gen devices enjoy a nice speed boost
- Asus continues fragrant device trend with an aromatic mouse
- HP intentionally made customers hold for 15 minutes for telephone customer service, then quickly canceled it due to backlash
- Dual Raspberry Pi Picos power this portable mini PC
- Some RTX 5090s are shipping with missing ROP units, leading to less gaming performance: Updated
- RTX 4090 16-pin GPU adapter fights melting with active cooling, monitors temperature and power consumption
- Meta defends using pirated material, claims it's legal if you don't seed content
- Leaked AMD RX 9070 XT benchmarks see it match Nvidia's RTX 4070 in synthetic tests
- New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter
February 20
- Broadcom founder Henry Samueli to receive the IEEE's Medal of Honor award
- Grand Theft Auto V on PC is finally getting ray tracing and some graphics options
- RTX 5070 Ti restocks expected within 2-6 weeks, says UK retailer — All sold out on launch day
- Leaker claims Ryzen 9 9950X3D embargo lifts on March 11
- Microsoft CEO says there is an 'overbuild' of AI systems, dismisses AGI milestones as show of progress
- ASRock's new 'Pro X3D' motherboard named for the Ryzen CPUs it is designed for
- Google Cloud launches first Blackwell AI GPU-powered instances — 72-way GB200 with 72 B200 GPUs and 36 Grace CPUs
- Microsoft Xbox showcases an incredibly impractical AI model for 'gameplay ideation'
- Chinese-made gaming GPUs get up to 120% FPS boost — new drivers and stability fixes for MTT S80 and S70 cards
- Raspberry Pi Pico brings a 'WOPR' of a feature to a server rack
- Grok 3 used to clone Breakout game — fabled windows developer shares prompts and code
- Microsoft trims File Explorer's Recent, Favorites, and Recommended content in Europe
- Apple rolls out its C1 modem six years after buying in the technology from Intel
- Kioxia's new 10th gen 332-layer 4.8 GB/s 3D NAND flash is 33% faster than its 8th gen ICs
- Nvidia brings back scalper-beating Verified Priority Access program for RTX 50 Founders Edition GPUs
February 19
- Micron introduces 4600 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe client SSD, promises lower AI load times
- Asus launches Thunderbolt 5 RTX 5090 eGPU dock overseas for $2,200
- Musk announces Grok 3-powered xAI gaming studio to develop 'AI games' with photo-realistic graphics
- Eero launches new Wi-Fi 7 mesh routers starting at $169
- The Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 has been certified for 200 MHz clock speeds, up from 133 MHz
- AMD Ryzen 9900X3D & 9950X3D benchmarks surface with strong single-core uplift
- This Raspberry Pi map of Manhattan shows real-time subway train status
- HP buys Humane AI start-up for US$116 Million — halts sales, discontinues Ai Pin support, offers refunds
- Jim Keller says a 'great Intel' is worth $1 trillion, company would be sold at fire sale pricing if sold now
- Trump to introduce 25% and 'higher' tariff on imported semiconductors, timing unclear
- AMD could block the sale of Intel due to a cross-licensing agreement
- Building a chipmaking fab in the US costs twice as much, takes twice as long as in Taiwan
- Nvidia to consume 77% of wafers used for AI processors in 2025: Report
February 18
- PhysX quietly retired on RTX 50 series GPUs: Nvidia ends 32-bit CUDA app support
- Chinese chipmaker claims new Loongson 3B6600 CPU could hit 13th-Gen Intel performance
- 12VHPWR adapters sporting heatsinks and thermal pads show how problematic the connector is
- DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise in the second half of 2025
- AMD's game-changing Strix Halo APU, formally known as the Ryzen AI Max+, poses for new die shots and gets annotated
- Retailer held RTX 5080 ransom unless buyer paid more after the sale had been completed
- DeepSeek GPU smuggling probe shows Nvidia's Singapore GPU sales are 28% of its revenue, but only 1% are delivered to the country: Report
- Multiple Raspberry Pi create 'wigglegram' 3D photos using this AI enhanced camera
- Leading DRAM makers may stop producing DDR4 and DDR3 by late 2025 — China memory makers flood the market with half-price memory
- Elon Musk's Grok 3 is now available, beats ChatGPT in some benchmarks — LLM took 10x more compute to train versus Grok 2
- Lenovo ThinkBook Flip AI PC with foldable rollable OLED display leaks ahead of MWC 2025
- Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
- Intel principal engineer bemoans potential TSMC takeover, touts company's 18A tech advantage
February 17
- No, Notepad for Windows 11 doesn't require you to use a Microsoft account — unless you're trying to use AI
- Modder crams LLM onto Raspberry Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical
- RTX 5080 is allegedly only 17% faster than RTX 5070 Ti, according to 3DMark benchmarks
- Melting RTX cables solution proposed — embed over temperature and current protection on each wire
- World's largest mobile LED screen is 767 inches, with a 4K resolution and a 3,840 Hz refresh rate
- Nvidia, SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron reportedly working on new SOCAMM memory standard for AI PCs
- Chinese scientists claim neural network tech unlocks 10,000X speedup in optical fiber bandwidth
- Raspberry Pi powers miniature 'Severance' MDR computer
- Chinese AI model DeepSeek is being integrated into smart TVs — Skyworth G7F Pro understands local dialects and generates multimedia content
- Interactive e-book brings choose your own adventure books to the 21st century
- Fujitsu celebrates 50 million laptops produced with one-off exquisite kumiko wooden lid model
- Leakers suggest AMD Strix Halo reviews dropping tomorrow — Asus ROG Flow Z13 launches February 25
- Sandisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap, has yet to reveal release date
February 16
- AMD exec sarcastically teases RX 90700.05XTXT Max GPU with 320GB of VRAM and '1.2 Gigawatts' power supply requirement
- Maker builds Raspberry Pi 'Pi Hub Development Kit' to help students learn
- Nvidia RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti surface in Zotac EEC filings
- Harvard team built a CMOS chip to map 70,000 synaptic connections between 2,000 rat neurons
- Intel 8th, 9th and 10th Gen processors absent from Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 CPU support list for new OEM systems
- TSMC and Broadcom explore deals to split Intel's foundry and chip design wings, says report
- RTX 5090 supplies to be 'stupidly high' next month as GB200 wafers get repurposed, asserts leaker
- Meta plans 50,000 km undersea cable to connect the U.S., Brazil, Africa, India, and Australia
February 15
- China-exclusive RX 7650 GRE is around 7% faster than a RTX 4060
- Trump is 'unlikely' to support TSMC running Intel's fabs — US gov't downplays chances of TSMC takeover
- Newegg reintroduces scalper-beating 'Shuffle' lottery for premium-priced RTX 5080s
- Nintendo Switch 2 reportedly hits the black market for $40,000
- 65W Core Ultra 5 230F matches 125W Core Ultra 5 245K in gaming
- US retailer lists RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT starting at $649 and $749 — March 6 launch date confirmed
- The 3DBenchy is Back
- Redditor snaps up early RX 9070 XT GPU for $950 — delivery date slated for March 10
- Nvidia H100 purse hits the market for $65,000
February 14
- Sandisk's upcoming PCIe 5.0 SSD fights throttling with 7W power
- RX 9070 XT Red Devil packaging recommends a 900W power supply — AMD's Frank Azor confirms custom cards with lower wattage requirements
- Arm to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports
- Intel Panther Lake-H CPU hits max turbo power of 64W — mobile chips' leaked specs point to substantial power draw
- TSMC and Intel rumors stoke Taiwanese fears of losing its 'Silicon Shield'
- Elecrow's Raspberry Pi powered CrowPi 3 educational kit offers plenty of scope for learning
- WD's new HDMR tech to enable record-breaking 100TB+ drives
- White House reviewing CHIPS Act awards, upcoming payments possibly delayed
- Raspberry Pi Dune Weaver table draws images in sand using magnets
- Nvidia will be ‘late’ with RTX 50 laptop GPUs say supply chain sources
- RTX 5070 Ti retail listings appear in EU and US — Some models nearly double MSRP
- Western Digital to unveil 44TB HAMR HDDs in 2026, 100TB in 2030
- New EU packaging regulations spark misplaced fear of CPUs ditching stock coolers
- An 'unfortunate incident' hits latest Ubuntu 24.04 point release
February 13
- Anti-Lag 2 removed from Spider-Man 2 PC port due to game crashes on Radeon GPUs
- AMD announces RX 9070 event on February 28, shoots down rumors of 32GB model
- Nvidia's RTX 5090 power cables may be doomed to burn
- Nvidia's new WHQL driver squashes some game-crashing bugs, adds support for Avowed and Civ VII
- Official RTX 4090 power cable found melted by reviewer 2 years later — card functioned fine despite hidden melted connector
- Nvidia confirms RTX 5070 Ti release date for February 20, starting at $749
- US gov't pushing TSMC and Intel to create joint venture in the US: Report
- Maker creates Raspberry Pi-powered thermal fusion night vision goggles
- Increased Linux kernel timer frequency delivers big boost in AI workloads
- RX 9070 XT leaked specs point to 4,096 shaders and 16GB VRAM — 3.1 GHz boost clocks and PCIe 5.0 support
- Data hoarders race to preserve data from rapidly disappearing U.S. federal websites
- AMD's beastly 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ matches the RTX 4060 laptop in leaked 3DMark tests
- Musk claims Grok 3 is 'outperforming' rivals, with full release imminent
- AMD gained consumer desktop and laptop CPU market share in 2024, server passes 25 percent
- Intel's 18A and TSMC's N2 process nodes compared: Intel is faster, but TSMC is denser
- RTX 5080 power cable allegedly melts at PSU — Redditor reports another 50-series failure
- SanDisk's new High Bandwidth Flash memory enables 4TB of VRAM on GPUs, matches HBM bandwidth at higher capacity
February 12
- Emojis can be hacked to hide data or messages, unicode Characters also susceptible
- Intel Xeon Granite Rapids-W CPU specs allegedly leaked — up to 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes and eight-channel memory support
- Cable maker advises against using old 12VHPWR cables with RTX 50-series GPUs
- RTX 5070 allegedly delayed until early March to counter AMD RX 9070 launch
- Third Ryzen 7 9800X3D burnout case appears, kills the CPU, and damages the motherboard socket
- RTX 5090 cable melting issues haven't been replicated — testers assess various power supplies and cable types
- China will likely reduce purchase of chipmaking tools this year as homegrown toolmakers ramp up
- This Raspberry Pi AI pizza clock tells the time one slice at a time
- Trump administration declares 'most powerful' AI chips will be built in America
February 11
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 and 5090 prototypes exposed — development and testing cards had four 16-pin power connectors
- AMD kills 'Golden Rabbit Edition' GRE branding, renames it 'Great Radeon Edition'
- PassMark sees the first yearly drop in average CPU performance in its 20 years of benchmark results
- Nvidia confirms RTX 50-series laptops will be available for pre-order starting February 25
- Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, claiming AMD has vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severity security bugs [Updated]
- OpenAI and Broadcom to finalize custom AI processor in the coming months say industry sources
- RTX 5090 cable overheats to 150 degrees Celsius — Uneven current distribution likely the culprit
- Elon Musk-led group of investors makes nearly $100 billion bid for OpenAI
- Intel's head of datacenter and AI unit leaves to lead Nokia
February 10
- Trump tariffs reportedly spark display panel stockpiling from monitor manufacturers
- Vendor puts an on-and-off switch on a AMD X870 motherboard to enable easy GPU removal
- AMD CEO Lisa Su joins board of Arabian AI university
- Custom RTX 5090 water block drops GPU temps by 30C
- Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site
- Valve clarifies ban on in-game advertising on Steam
- Core Ultra 9 275HX beats AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 mobile chip by 7% in PassMark — 34% faster than the i9-14900HX
- French retailer suggests Nvidia will launch the RTX 5070 Ti on February 20
- This Raspberry Pi ADS-B plane tracker features a weather station with tons of cool features
February 9
- First credible report of RTX 5090 FE with melted connector appears — third-party cable likely cause
- Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
- Meta develops 'hat' for typing text by thinking — uses AI to read brain signals for keypresses
- RTX 4090 liquid cooled with 12,000 BTU air conditioner, RTX 5090 up next — GPU runs at 20C
- Lenovo hybrid 2D/3D curved monitor and nine new laptops have leaked — MWC 2025 lineup exposed
- Nvidia RTX 5060 claimed to feature just 8GB of VRAM — the 5060 Ti may get 8GB and 16GB flavors
- Russian drone operators reportedly received explosive headsets — plans dashed by packaging
February 8
- Fraudulent hard drive scandal deepens at Seagate: Clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
- Nvidia's new tech reduces VRAM usage by up to 96% in beta demo — RTX Neural Texture Compression looks impressive
- Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc
- Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D listed at $699 and $599, same prices as last-gen
- Maker builds cool Raspberry Pi Home dashboard with an old touchscreen monitor
- Newegg blames tariffs for RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 price hikes, but then walks it back
- Nvidia is investigating RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 instability issues
- TSMC bans more chip sales to China due to stricter U.S. export sanctions
- MediaTek is conducting impact simulations to prepare for U.S. tariffs
- Zotac is selling RTX 50-series GPUs directly to customers to thwart scalpers
February 7
- RTX 5090D tested with nine-years-old Xeon CPU that cost $7 — it does surprisingly well in some games, if you enable MFG
- Threadripper 7000 is the most reliable CPU as per Puget Systems stats — Nvidia RTX Ada Generation GPUs have the lowest failure rates
- Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake CPU specs break cover — leak suggests up to 16 CPU cores and 180 total AI TOPS
- Arm to let Qualcomm keep its architecture license but may ask for a retrial on the Nuvia issue
- ASRock feels the heat as it moves manufacturing out of China to counter U.S. tariffs
- Leaked RTX 5080 laptop GPU benchmarks show a 20% performance gain in Time Spy
- This Raspberry Pi slim cyberdeck uses two Raspberry Pis
- Intel's Nova Lake CPU reportedly has up to 52 cores — Coyote Cove P-cores and Arctic Wolf E-cores onboard
- Asus and MSI hike RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPU prices by up to 18%
- AMD's China-specific RX 7650 GRE slots in between RX 7600 and 7600 XT
- Minimal Linux OS runs in a 6MB PDF document in Chrome — LinuxPDF leverages RISC-V emulator
- Intel's vacant CEO spot rumored to be filled by Tom Caulfield — abrupt GlobalFoundries shakeup sparks speculation
February 6
- Asus China compensates and assists owners with damaged GPUs due to PCIe Q-Release Slim mechanism — confirms revision on the way
- EVGA closes its official forums and transitions to Reddit
- Valve shoots down rumors of RDNA4-based Steam Console — it routinely tests new hardware that isn't put into its own devices
- This Raspberry Pi portable cyberdeck is straight out of a sci fi movie
- Doom runs on an Apple Lightning to HDMI dongle — SoC inside adapter has enough power for smooth gameplay
- Asus rolls out golden RTX 5090 for buyers with deep pockets — ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition for the Middle Eastern market
- Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all
- Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP
- Qualcomm claims it owns 10% of U.S. Windows PC retail market for devices priced $800 and up
- Bill Gates says Intel has lost its way, hints that 'brave' Pat Gelsinger exited too soon
- Intel data center CPU sales hit the lowest point in 13 years
February 5
- Apple rumored to kick off M5 chip production using TSMC performance-enhanced 3nm node
- Huawei manages to pull $118 billion in revenue despite strict U.S. sanctions and restrictions
- USPS had ceased accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong late Tuesday, potentially affecting numerous PC parts — service was restored by early Wednesday
- Hardware leaker claims RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs will use 8-pin power connectors
- Raspberry Pi Pico Spacewar controller brings vintage space combat to the 21st century
- Moore Threads GPUs allegedly show 'excellent' inference performance with DeepSeek models
- AMD CEO confirms the RX 9070 series will arrive in early March — Promises 4K mainstream gaming
- Adafruit's Fruit Jam is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 powered, credit card sized computer
- AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
February 4
- G.Skill intros 96GB DDR5-6800 CL32 and 32GB DDR5-6400 CL28 memory kits for Intel-based machines
- China reopens antitrust probe into Google, Nvidia, and Intel may be next
- AMD patches a critical microcode vulnerability affecting Zen 1 to Zen 4 EPYC CPUs
- AMD is rumored to hold an RDNA 4 launch event later this month — RX 9000 GPUs still planned for March
- From toilets to chips — Toto's electrostatic chucks are becoming a crucial element of modern fabs
- Korean retail RTX 5090 spotted for sale in China — Chinese shoppers plunder Japan and Taiwan, too
- Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined
- U.S. RTX 50 laptop pricing starts from $1,899 for an RTX 5070 Ti toting Asus ROG Strix G16
- DeepSeek research suggests Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance
February 3
- Intel receives $536 million payment from EU following antitrust fine reversal
- RTX 5090 gaming laptops listed overseas starting at $3,780
- Japan tightens chipmaking export controls amid US-China tech tensions
- Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications
- Engineer turns old 3D printer into a tattoo gun that you definitely shouldn't use at home
- Tech enthusiasts brace for Trump tariff price hikes on new components
- Modern Discord hacked into Windows 95 and 98, slimmed down version keeps core functionality intact
- Japanese RTX 50 retailer apologizes for lottery-fueled mayhem — unruly crowd caused injuries, damaged nearby kindergarten
- RTX 5090 cable melting claim debunked — Investigation points at prior RTX 4090 FE cabling usage
- Nvidia counters AMD DeepSeek AI benchmarks, claims RTX 4090 is nearly 50% faster than 7900 XTX
February 2
- DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts
- Intel heralds XeSS passing the 150 games milestone, but only two titles support XeSS 2.0
- RTX 5090 orders could take up to 16 weeks to fulfill at major UK retailer, shop stops taking pre-orders
- Nvidia RTX 3090 sent in to repairer was missing the GPU and all its memory chips
- Verbatim pledges 'stable supply of optical disks' after Sony Japan's recordable Blu-ray exit
- Intel Core Ultra 7 255H lands 32% faster than the 155H in PassMark's single-core benchmark
February 1
- RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 may arrive in March to steal AMD's spotlight — Chaintech hints at higher Average Selling Prices
- RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
- Backdoor uncovered in China-made patient monitors — Contec CMS8000 raises questions about healthcare device security
- Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
- Incredibly tiny pressure-sensitive mouse can be latched onto a keychain like a sleek car remote
- AMD rumored to launch the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D alongside RDNA 4 GPUs in late March
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and President Trump met to discuss AI policy, DeepSeek, and hardware export controls