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Intel Offers $2 Billion for RISC-V Chip Startup SiFive: Bloomberg

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to Bloomberg’s sources, Intel has offered $2 billion for startup chip designer SiFive, though neither company has officially acknowledged the offer. SiFive is the leading designer of chips based on the open source RISC-V architecture that has coincidentally attracted much more interest in the wake of Nvidia’s ongoing acquisition… Read more

Pack 12 M.2 SSDs Into Your DVD Bay With Icy Dock’s New Enclosure

Home News (Image credit: IcyDock) Icy Dock this week announced a new M.2 enclosure that can house up to 12 M.2 SSDs and is the size of a single, 5.25-inch optical drive bay. You can install the ToughArmor MB872MP-B directly into your best PC case — if you still have a case that even supports external… Read more

Here’s a List of All the RTX 3070 Ti Cards You Can Dream About Buying

Home News (Image credit: Inno3D) With the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, we’re collecting information about all of the partner cards that have launched or will launch soon. We have listings from seven companies, ranging from top-end liquid cooling models to budget-friendly cards. The RTX 3070 Ti, is Nvidia’s latest mid-range to… Read more

Asus’ Gundam-Themed PC Components Hit The U.S. Market

Home News Asus Z590 WiFi Gundam Edition (Image credit: Asus) In a collaboration with Sunrise and Sostu, Asus announced last year a special lineup of PC components inspired by the Gundam anime series. While the products were originally specific to the Asian region, they have now made their way over to the U.S. market. Asus… Read more

Average GPU Pricing Skyrockets as Market Quadruples to $12.1 Billion, Report Says

Home News (Image credit: MSI) Discrete GPU suppliers for desktop PCs nearly quadrupled the cash they raked in during Q1 2021 compared to this time last year. That’s due to the skyrocketing increases in average selling prices (ASPs), according to Jon Peddie Research. Nvidia retained its leadership and outsold its rival AMD four-to-one in the discrete… Read more

Google Uses AI to Design Chips, Creating Machine Learning Ouroboros

Google researchers published a new paper in Nature on Wednesday describing “an edge-based graph convolutional neural network architecture” that learned how to design the physical layout of a semiconductor in a way that allows “chip design to be performed by artificial agents with more experience than any human designer.” Interestingly, Google used AI to design… Read more

Partner RTX 3070 Ti Cards Reach up to $1,000

Home News (Image credit: Newegg) The RTX 3070 Ti is out, and at this point, it almost feels like official retailers (or maybe Nvidia’s AIB partners) are scalping us, too. It’s not uncommon to see new graphics cards going for over twice their MSRP on eBay and other aftermarket sites on launch day, but now… Read more

Raspberry Pi Bot Trades Crypto While You Sleep

Home News (Image credit: GooseRepresentative1) Looking for an open-source cryptocurrency trading solution? GooseRepresentative1 has got you covered with this automated, Raspberry Pi self-trading cryptocurrency bot project! The best Raspberry Pi projects make life easier and this bot definitely earns its keep. According to GooseRepresentative1, you miss every shot you don’t take and sleeping takes away… Read more

Apple iOS 15 will feature a new ‘Spatialized Stereo’ mode

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Apple made several major Apple Spatial Audio announcements at its WWDC developer conference this week, but it seems to have held back a key feature, reports 9to5Mac. On Wednesday a Reddit user spotted a new function called ‘Spatialized Stereo’, hidden in the iOS 15 beta. The feature is said to… Read more

Thermaltake ARGENT M5 Wireless RGB Review

Introduction Founded in 1999, Thermaltake is a PC case, power supply, and peripherals company based in Taiwan. The ARGENT M5 Wireless RGB is part of an entire line of products consisting of a mouse bungee, mouse pad, headphones, headphone stand, and a wired variant of the M5 RGB. Capable of either wired, 2.4 GHz, or… Read more

Watch the first gameplay trailer for Elden Ring, coming January 21st 2022

Elden Ring, the long-awaited action RPG made in collaboration between FromSoftware and writer George R.R. Martin, has finally shown new signs of life. We got a surprise trailer today at the end of the Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live event as well as a release date. January 21, 2022 is when you’ll be able to… Read more

Among Us is getting a hide and seek mode, visor cosmetics, and a fifth map

Among Us is getting a new hide and seek mode, visor cosmetics, achievements, and a fifth map, developer Innersloth announced at Summer Game Fest on Thursday. However, there wasn’t a date shared for any of those updates, so it’s not clear when you might be able to check them out for yourself. In a blog,… Read more

Uber offers to pay for drivers’ health insurance, and then yanks it away

Uber mistakenly sent out an email to some of its drivers and delivery workers last month offering to cover some of their health insurance costs — only to revoke the offer two weeks later. On May 26th, an email from Uber with the enticing subject line “It’s a great time to get health coverage” appeared… Read more

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a fantasy game starring Andy Samberg and Wanda Sykes

Borderlands developer Gearbox and 2K Games announced a new fantasy shooter called Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on Thursday at Summer Games Fest. It has an all-star cast, including Andy Samberg, Will Arnett, Wanda Sykes, and Ashly Burch. The new game is set to launch in early 2022. At the event, Burch, who voices Tiny Tina in… Read more

Death Stranding is getting a director’s cut on PS5

Hideo Kojima stopped by this year’s Summer Game Fest to announce a surprise: Death Stranding is not only coming to the PS5, but it’ll be an enhanced director’s cut of the game. Unfortunately, there’s no real detail about the new version, but an early glimpse hinted at some additional stealth elements, similar to Kojima’s work… Read more