Tag: hardware

Remember Intel’s ex-CEO saying he’d ‘bet the whole company’ on 18A? A South Korean outlet says the yields are just 10%, although Intel says otherwise

Remember Intel’s ex-CEO saying…

Another day, another “bad news for Intel” story. In a year of dismal financial results, disappointing desktop chips, internal…
Almost 80,000 Amazon-exclusive Anker speakers were just recalled due to fire safety concerns

Almost 80,000 Amazon-exclusive Anker…

If you bought a cheap Anker speaker on Amazon last year, you might want to check its serial code,…
Micron signs a deal to acquire a chip foundry in Taiwan for $1

Micron signs a deal…

As the memory supply crisis rages on, manufacturers are continuing to scale up operations in a bid to meet…
Preem: This face-changing LED mask looks like it’s been teleported straight from Night City, and it does a decent Doom Marine too

Preem: This face-changing LED…

I miss Cyberpunk 2077. Having spent the end of last year happily rampaging through Night City in what is…
Shifting corporate priorities, Superalignment, and safeguarding humanity: Why OpenAI’s safety researchers keep leaving

Shifting corporate priorities, Superalignment,…

A number of senior AI safety research personnel at OpenAI, the organisation behind ChatGPT, have left the company. This…
Microsoft says 64 GB is the ‘ideal spec’ for Flight Simulator 2024 but I’ve tested it with 96 GB, and it makes a big difference

Microsoft says 64 GB…

When Microsoft released the system requirements for its latest iteration of Flight Simulator, there was probably a worldwide intake…
Check out your gaming PC’s storage chops with 3DMark’s new DirectStorage benchmark

Check out your gaming…

If you’ve just bought a shiny new gaming PC or an ultra-fast SSD in the Black Friday sales, then…
‘I’ve been waiting over 4 hours in the cold’: Zipcar’s Black Friday-related car sharing outage left some users locked out of their rides like leg-using chumps

‘I’ve been waiting over…

You might have seen bike share schemes in some cities—you know, the ones you can unlock, ride around, and…
Intel partners with Acer once again for the new generation of Arc GPUs but it’s not just gamers they have their eye on

Intel partners with Acer…

Acer is once again linking arms with Intel for their new Nitro Arc B-Series graphics cards. Two cards have…
Our first ‘official’ look at the new Lenovo Legion Go S shows that, unlike the original, it should be a bona fide mainstream handheld

Our first ‘official’ look…

We’ve heard talk of new Lenovo Legion Go handhelds for a few months, but until now we’d had nothing…