Category: Hardware

November 16, 2023

The Raspberry Pi 5 introduced a new PCIe connector to the traditional “Model B” form factor, but as yet there are no official M.2 SSD HAT boards that can make use of it. Community efforts from luminaries such as Arturo182 […]

November 15, 2023

Western Digital denied that some of its SanDisk Pro and other external SSD fail because of a hardware problem, as stated by the head of Attingo, a data recovery company, last week. In a statement released to PetaPixel, Western Digital […]

November 14, 2023

AMD and Graz University of Technology researchers have disclosed a new vulnerability in AMD CPU called CacheWarp, or CVE-2023-20592 (via ComputerBase). This attack exploits a security feature in EPYC server CPUs that’s supposed to make them resistant to hacks. The […]

November 13, 2023

Nvidia is introducing a new top-of-the-line chip for AI work, the HGX H200. The new GPU upgrades the wildly in demand H100 with 1.4x more memory bandwidth and 1.8x more memory capacity, improving its ability to handle intensive generative AI […]

November 10, 2023

According to Mercury Research (via Tom’s Hardware), AMD gained 5.8 percent unit share in desktops, 3.8 percent in laptops, and 5.8 percent in servers. In terms of revenue share, Team Red gained 4.1 percent in desktops, 5.1 percent in laptops, […]

November 9, 2023

Neowin reports that Microsoft’s latest Windows Server 2022 update, KB5031364, is triggering blue screens of death on VMware ESXi hypervisors running on AMD’s EPYC server CPUs. Microsoft confirms that the issue is partially related to Virtualization Based Security (VBS) being […]

November 8, 2023

Microsoft and Oracle have announced a multi-year agreement on a cloud collaboration for AI inferencing. The Redmond tech titan will essentially rent some cloud computing capacity from the database giant, providing Bing’s AI conversational engine with a much-needed power increase. […]

November 6, 2023

Goodbye, 13-inch MacBook Pro. I will not miss your cramped screen and Touch Bar. Hello, 14-inch M3 MacBook Pro, the new entry-level Pro on the block. In many ways, this MacBook is my “what could’ve been.” Earlier this year, fed […]

November 6, 2023

Driven by government subsidies and support, China’s domestic developers of electronic design automation tools (EDA, or software used for designing integrated circuits and circuit boards), are witnessing a surge in sales, and can therefore increase their R&D investments. After the […]

November 1, 2023

A few months after unveiling the 3A6000 CPU, Loongson is now enjoying new reviews that seemingly vouch for the processor’s prowess and performance levels. Chinese site MyDrivers took the Loongson 3A6000 CPU for a spin, confirming that the chip can […]

November 1, 2023

Researchers from Tsinghua University, China, have developed an all-analog photoelectronic chip that combines optical and electronic computing to achieve ultrafast and highly energy-efficient computer vision processing, surpassing digital processors. Computer vision is an ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence focused on […]

October 31, 2023

The 24-inch iMac is finally getting a refresh. At its “Scary Fast” event, Apple announced a new M3 version of the iMac that is supposedly two times faster than its over two-year-old M1 predecessor. What’s really new this time around […]

October 30, 2023

Trick o’ treat! Apple dropped some new M3s! The Apple October 2023 event, also known as the “Scary Fast” live stream, dropped four iDevices this spooky season while introducing a new generation of chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max. […]

October 26, 2023

Hussam Amrouch has developed an AI-ready architecture that is twice as powerful as comparable in-memory computing approaches. As reported in the journal Nature Communications, the professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) applies a new computational paradigm using special […]

October 26, 2023

The ARMs race has begun! With Apple’s third-generation ARM-based Apple M3 silicon just around the corner, Qualcomm announced its competing solution, Snapdragon X Elite for Windows laptops. The SoC promises excellent performance, extreme efficiency and will arrive in the PC […]

October 23, 2023

Nvidia and AMD are both reportedly planning to launch Arm-based CPUs for Windows-based PCs. Reuters reports that Nvidia has started designing Arm-based CPUs in what could be a major expansion of Microsoft’s Windows on Arm work. Nvidia and AMD could […]

October 20, 2023

Intel has just announced a new initiative dubbed the AI PC Acceleration Program, which aims to provide resources to software and hardware vendors, enabling them to create AI-powered features that can utilize its upcoming Core Ultra mobile chips, code-named “Meteor […]

October 20, 2023

The HEP research project has presented an open, flexible design for a security chip. The project, “Hardening the value chain through open source, trusted EDA tools and processors (HEP),” uses open source, free components and tools to manufacture a chip […]

October 13, 2023

Enjoying Starfield on GeForce Now, where the cloud gaming service is one of the best ways to play? Starting November 1st, it’ll cost you $6 more in Canada, £2 more in the UK, or an additional €2 in Europe per […]

October 11, 2023

Canalys posted its quarterly report on the global PC market, and the results are bringing a glimpse of hope after a rough start of the year. According to the data, PCs shipped between July and September 2023 were 65.5 million, […]