Tag: hardware

Intel’s efforts to develop a PCIe throttling driver point towards a very hot Gen 6 future

Intel’s efforts to develop…

My biggest gripe with current PCs is excessive power consumption. Second to that is the heat generated by NVMe…
The best thing about Homeworld 3 is how well it runs on a PC with its 6-year-old recommended specs

The best thing about…

Homeworld 3 has spent many years in development but at long last, the third game in the 3D RTS…
AMD continues to chip away at Intel’s CPU market dominance, though the laptop market is still a tough market to crack

AMD continues to chip…

Intel has long held a commanding market share lead over AMD, but ever since the launch of first generation…
Homeworld 3 performance analysis: Surprisingly scalable but no ultra-high frame rates

Homeworld 3 performance analysis:…

It's been over twenty years since the last Homeworld game was released (and eight years since the remastered versions)…
Oracle will shop around for AI chips after adopting a policy of ‘chip neutrality’… but of course it’ll still buy the latest Nvidia GPUs

Oracle will shop around…

Oracle is looking beyond Nvidia for the chips it needs to power its AI datacenters. In what could be…
AMD’s gaming graphics business looks like it’s in terminal decline

AMD’s gaming graphics business…

I hate to say I told you so. But back in October I pondered whether AMD might give up…
US Commerce Secretary says if China seized TSMC it would be ‘absolutely devastating’ to the US economy, as it buys 92% of its cutting-edge chips from the Taiwanese manufacturer

US Commerce Secretary says…

TSMC's position as the world's largest chip manufacturer puts it in an enviable position in many ways, not least…
Despite being just a humble CPU socket, AMD ‘boldly suggests’ AM4 has ‘legendary status’

Despite being just a…

When it comes to grabbing headlines in technology, you normally expect it to involve new chips, architectures, power figures,…
These glorious little animations offer the best visual explanation of the benefits of SSDs over hard drives I’ve ever seen

These glorious little animations…

I wish I had access to this explainer from Planetscale back when I was learning how different storage technologies…
Watch out Intel and AMD, more Arm chips are coming to the PC

Watch out Intel and…

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip is one of the more intriguing prospects for the PC over the next 12…