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LGA RIP: Modder Transforms Old Intel PC Into Coffee Coaster

Home News (Image credit: Cass Designs YouTube) As you can see in the video below, creator Cass 3D Designs turned his old PC motherboard into a coaster, with its LGA 775 socket and Intel chip front and center. When I retired my old PC from my student times, I cleaned it out and rebuilt it… Read more

XPG Gammix S50 Lite 2 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

Introduction ADATA is Taiwan’s largest manufacturer of flash storage and DRAM memory for computers. They have been at the forefront of SSD development for many years, bringing us famous SSDs like the SX8200, SX900, and S510. XPG is one of ADATA’s sub-brands and creates products optimized for the needs of gamers. The Gammix S50 Lite… Read more

Tesla’s new Model S will automatically shift between park, reverse, and drive

Tesla’s redesigned Model S and Model X will have a very unconventional and possibly controversial feature: automatic shifting between park, reverse, neutral, and drive (or PRND). There will be an option to change drive modes on the touchscreen, but CEO Elon Musk made the case for automatic switching on Twitter late Wednesday night. “Car guesses… Read more

Apple Wants More Macs in Businesses: Can It Take on Intel vPro, AMD Ryzen Pro?

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Having posted its all-time quarter record revenue of $111.4 billion this week, Apple is looking for ways to expand. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, sees selling Macs to businesses as one of the main growth opportunities for Apple, especially with the Apple M1 chip and its successors in tow. But with Intel appealing… Read more

iPhone 12s Pro with under-display Touch ID sensor

The iPhone 12s Pro gets a renewed screen with a smaller notch and an under-display Touch ID sensor. Renders show the new Apple smartphone in detail. New Apple smartphones are being released every year around September. The iPhone 12 series was introduced last year. Relatively minor changes are expected in 2021, therefore Apple may decide… Read more

LGA RIP: Modder Turns Old Intel PC Into Cute Coaster for Coffee

Home News (Image credit: Cass Designs YouTube) As you can see in the video below, creator Cass 3D Designs turned his old PC motherboard into a coaster, with its LGA 775 socket and Intel chip front and center. When I retired my old PC from my student times, I cleaned it out and rebuilt it… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico vs Arduino: Which Board is Better?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived, there was a sharp distinction between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems. The Pi is a Linux computer that boots up into a full operating system and the Arduino is a microcontroller that just runs one program at a time. With the arrival… Read more

AOC and others call for investigation into Robinhood’s GameStop freeze

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on Congress to investigate the Robinhood app after it banned small investors from buying stock in companies like GameStop. Over the last week, Reddit users have shorted the bemoaned video game retailer’s stock in what some are calling the “squeeze of a lifetime.” In a Thursday tweet, Ocasio-Cortez called Robinhood’s… Read more

Intel Bulks Up Engineering Leadership With Returning Technologist Sunil Shenoy

Home News (Image credit: Intel ) In yet another sign that Intel’s efforts to rebuild its engineering corps might be swift under the new incoming CEO, Intel announced today that Sunil Shenoy, a 33-year Intel veteran who left the company in 2014, will be returning to the company as the senior vice president and general… Read more

Leaked Benchmarks From Core i9-Powered iMac Surface

Home News (Image credit: Apple) A mysterious system packing a Core i9-10910 Comet Lake CPU and a (currently unheard of) AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT with 65GB of RAM has been spotted on an Ashes of the Singularity benchmark score. All data indicates this system could possibly be a prototype for the next generation iMac… Read more

Apple Patent May Hint at the Future of Its Chips: A Multi-Level Hybrid Memory Subsystem

Home News (Image credit: Apple) Apple has patented a hybrid memory subsystem that comprises at least two types of memory: a high-bandwidth low-density type of DRAM as well as a low-bandwidth high-density type of DRAM. The patent may provide a glimpse of how Apple sees the future of its system-on-chips. Naturally, the new patent will… Read more

Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra is first with new power efficient OLED display

Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, is its first phone to feature Samsung Display’s new power-efficient OLED panels. In a press release, Samsung says the new display consumes 16 percent less power thanks to a “just-developed organic material” that means “electrons flow faster and more easily across the display’s organic layer.” “In other words,”… Read more

AMD made a billion dollars more in Q4, and multiple billions in 2020

AMD is firing on all cylinders these days: it’s the guts of every modern PlayStation and Xbox, it has the desktop CPUs to beat, it’s nearly caught up to Nvidia in GPU performance (if not availability), and it’s about to challenge Intel in laptops as well — with its Ryzen 5000 mobile CPUs and RDNA… Read more

Intel Shows Off Monstrous Xe HPC GPU Die Shot

Home News (Image credit: Intel) We’ve known about Intel Xe Graphics for ages, and the integrated Xe LP variant has been shipping in Tiger Lake laptops since last fall. Raja Koduri, Intel’s senior VP of Architecture, Graphics, and Software, has tweeted various images of Xe HP chips in the past. Today, he posted a die… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000 Mobile ‘Cezanne’ SoC Deep Dive: Zen 3 Powers Into Notebooks

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD whipped the covers off of its Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ mobile chips at CES 2021, but today marks the official launch and AMD has unveiled the deep-dive details of the SoC that brings the Zen 3 architecture to the notebook market for the first time. The new chips will power… Read more