Tag: hardware

Three lucky folks in India can win the dubious honour of buying an RTX 5080 GPU at Nvidia MSRP

Three lucky folks in…

In a true sign of the times, one benevolent retailer in India is kindly granting three lucky customers the…
Get ready to argue with your weird Uncle on Facebook again

Get ready to argue…

Starting next week Facebook users in the United States should start to notice a slight change to their doomscrolling…
Group allegedly trying to smuggle Nvidia Blackwell chips stare down bail set at over $1 million

Group allegedly trying to…

The things people will do for Nvidia’s extremely limited Blackwell chips; besides surrounding tech stores by waiting in line…
This gaming PC build smashes together the very latest components but if I did it again, I’d do it differently

This gaming PC build…

It’s funny really; Nvidia’s getting a lot of stick right now (and rightly so) for its erroneous reporting and…
Nvidia says it’s sold twice as many RTX 50-series cards as RTX 40-series in the first 5 weeks

Nvidia says it’s sold…

Some dude with a mighty ‘tache once said, “there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” The latter is what…
Here comes Intel’s new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su

Here comes Intel’s new…

Intel has a new CEO: Lip-Bu Tan. Once a member of Intel’s board of directors, Tan joins from his…
Return of the gigahertz wars: New Chinese transistor uses bismuth instead of silicon to potentially sock it to Intel and TSMC with 40% more speed

Return of the gigahertz…

Silicon has dominated the chip industry as its foundational material since, well, forever. But now researchers at Peking University…
‘This is essentially a fraudulent project’: Some scientists are firing shots at Microsoft’s recent quantum computing claims

‘This is essentially a…

Last month I reported that Microsoft claims its new quantum chip is powered by an ‘entirely new state of…
OpenAI is working on a new AI model Sam Altman says is ‘good at creative writing’ but to me it reads like a 15-year-old’s journal

OpenAI is working on…

Ever since I was a wee sapling, I wanted to be a writer. The goal was originally to become…
So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel’s ailing chip fabs?

So, wait, now TSMC…

In the on-again, off-again saga of TSMC’s supposed designs on Intel’s chip factories, there’s a new twist. Reuters reports…