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Arm’s ASR upscaler for mobile devices is finally available — Plugins planned for Unity and Unreal Engine

(Image credit: Arm) Months after announcement, Arm is finally making its ASR (Accuracy Super Resolution) upscaler open to developers to integrate into their games. At the GDC (Game Developer Conference) 2025, Arm promised pre-built and easy-to-integrate plugins for games developed using the Unity and Unreal Engine game engines by the end of the year. Arm’s… Read more

Maker builds Raspberry Pi ASCII camera, turning video frames into text-based imagery

There are some Raspberry Pi projects that are just so cool, you don’t have to bother to ask why someone would ever create them. In our opinion, some of the best Pi projects come from makers who ask, “Why not?” and that’s exactly what maker and developer André Esser has done with his latest creation…. Read more

Compal Adapt X modular laptop design wins award after taking a leaf from the Framework playbook

Leading laptop ODM Compal has won another iF Design Award 2025 for a quirky concept product. The Compal Adapt X is described as a modular laptop, and it is immediately quite clear it takes a leaf out of the Framework laptop playbook. It is also something of a hybrid / convertible, with the components being… Read more

The ‘Playstacean’ is a crab-u-lous PS One mod

A games console modder has revealed a crab-themed PS One creation dubbed the ‘Playstacean.’ GingerOfOz’s real-world remake of an artwork of the same name by Anh Dang, a concept artist on League of Legends, is crab-solutely stunning. It is a fully functional Sony PS One, as demonstrated in the video, but GingerOfOz humbly admits that… Read more

The week in chip news: Nvidia’s GTC 2025 blitz, new NVMe HDDs and watercooled SSD, Intel’s restructuring begins

(Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia’s GTC 2025, an annual event where the company lays out its roadmap of new products and vision for the coming year, created a flood of news as the company extended its roadmap out to a four-year horizon with plenty of mind-bendingly powerful new AI GPUs and systems. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang… Read more

Data suggests RTX 5090 prices are slowly stabilizing — The average selling price on eBay has dropped to $4,000

(Image credit: Nvidia) Since launch, Nvidia’s scarce GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been almost impossible to secure unless you’re willing to hand 2-3x the MSRP to scalpers. The same trend extended to other GPUs in the Blackwell family, reminiscent of the pandemic-struck days. A user at r/nvidia has aggregated data on RTX 5090 Founders… Read more

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti final specs and launch day allegedly leaked

(Image credit: Nvidia) According to a well-known hardware leaker, wxnod, Nvidia and graphics card makers will reportedly release the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards on April 16 at 9 p.m. to compete against the best graphics cards. Meanwhile, VideoCardz has allegedly received and published the final specifications of Nvidia’s first mainstream Blackwell-based GPUs today…. Read more

GPU compatibility dilemma as more high-end power supplies ditch 8-pin connectors in favor of new 16-pin

(Image credit: MSI) Since the 16-pin connector was introduced and later revised, melting adapters and PSU/GPU-side connectors on some of Nvidia’s mainstream GeForce gaming GPUs have been rampant. Two of MSI’s recently launched high-wattage PSUs interestingly feature two 12V-2×6 connectors while providing only one standard 8-pin connector (via OC3D). Unless you get a 12V-2×6 to… Read more

Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU is listed for $8,565 at US retailer — 26% more expensive than the last-gen RTX 6000 Ada

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Nvidia’s newly announced RTX Pro Blackwell GPU listings have gone live at Connections, a US-based IT retailer targeting enterprise customers. Prices start as low as $700 (via Videocardz). The retailer’s website also lists a wide array of unannounced Blackwell GPUs, like the RTX Pro 2000 and RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell,… Read more

‘Frequently returned item’ warning slapped on Snapdragon X-powered Surface Laptop 7 at Amazon

Amazon (via Windows Central)has flagged Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 7 as a “frequently returned item,” cautioning potential buyers to check customer reviews before purchasing. The label suggests that the device has a higher return rate than similar products, though Amazon does not specify the reasons behind it. One likely factor is the laptop’s use of Qualcomm’s… Read more

Chinese scientists create solid-state DUV laser sources for lithography equipment used in chip manufacturing

According to SPIE, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have created a solid-state deep ultraviolet (DUV) laser emitting coherent 193-nm light used for semiconductor photolithography in a lab. If the light source technology can be scaled, this device could be used to build lithography tools that make chips using advanced process technologies. However,… Read more

EU preps Chips Act 2.0 to stregthen semiconductor industry after original program reportedly flopped

(Image credit: TSMC) A group of European countries led by the Netherlands is setting the groundwork for the European Chips Act 2.0 after the original one failed to achieve its goal of strengthening the European semiconductor industry, reports Reuters. The group aims to deliver concrete proposals by summer to work closely with the European Commission…. Read more

AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC

Running large language models (LLMs) on PCs locally is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. In response, AMD is introducing its own LLM application, Gaia, an open-source project for running local LLMs on any Windows machine. Gaia is designed to run various LLM models on Windows PCs and features further performance optimizations for machines equipped with its… Read more

Enthusiasts report Gigabyte X870E Aorus Xtreme chipset temps exceeding 100°C

Gigabyte’s X870E Aorus Extreme AI TOP motherboard is suffering from high chipset temperatures, as suggested by several reports on Reddit. Chipset temperatures north of 100 degrees Celsius led a user to disassemble the motherboard, revealing poor heatsink contact on one of the two daisy-chained Promontory 21 chipsets. Now, if this does end up being a… Read more

‘Pi Tin’ retro gaming handheld is minty fresh thanks to a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

We love Raspberry Pi handhelds and they just keep getting cooler — in this case, it’s minty cool. Makers Jackw01 and Soaporsalad have created a really cool Pi-powered gaming handheld they call the “Pi Tin“. This tiny gaming handheld uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and is designed to fit in a case small… Read more