Tag: hardware

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden slams Nvidia RTX 5080 as ‘a monopolistic crime against the consumer’

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden…

Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who in 2013 leaked classified documents to the press revealing the existence of an extensive US…
It looks like there will be no new Intel desktop CPUs until 2026 now that next-gen Nova Lake is officially a 2026 product

It looks like there…

Intel won’t launch a new desktop CPU until 2026. That’s the clear implication from comments made this week by…
Intel nixes its next-gen AI GPU but still has plans to take on Nvidia

Intel nixes its next-gen…

Fair to say Intel’s GPU plans don’t always go to, er, plan. During Intel’s latest earnings call for highly-remunerated…
Jen-Hsun Huang’s net worth dropped by a reported $20,800,000,000 after DeepSeek fears shook the AI market to its core earlier this week

Jen-Hsun Huang’s net worth…

China-based AI startup DeepSeek caused the tech market to wobble earlier this week, as the release of its open-source…
eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $2000, occasionally framed

eBay users are getting…

Another graphics card launch filled with bots, scalpers, and 300% markups. Nvidia’s hotly anticipated GPUs, the RTX 5090 and…
This Minecraft creation blots out the sun for the villagers below, they surely praise it as God, but we know it really to be a functioning 32-bit computer with 2 kB of RAM

This Minecraft creation blots…

Building a computer is one thing. Designing a computer from scratch is another. Doing both of those things in…
Intel says next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips on its new 18A silicon are still on track for later this year but things are more complicated on the desktop

Intel says next-gen Panther…

Intel has been talking numbers this week with the announcement of some reasonably positive financials for the final quarter…
Somehow, some way, Edge has over 30% market share in the US on Windows—and has taken share for over 3 years

Somehow, some way, Edge…

For years now, whenever I get my grubby little mitts on a shiny new Windows system, the first thing…
Nvidia’s latest 572

Nvidia’s latest 572.16 driver…

What a couple of days. The build-up, the sleeping in tents, the stock and pricing anticipation, then the actual…
Asus says its easy-peasy PCIe slot causes ‘no damage that would affect functionality’ following claims of excessive wear, but says it’ll cover any damage

Asus says its easy-peasy…

Following last week’s report of excessive wear on a graphics card’s contact pins, suggested to be the result of…