ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from the Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest supercomputer By Sunny Grimm published 18 September 24 ORNL's Summit supercomputer sheds 32,000+ drives in its last stage of life.
Crucial brings P310 NVMe SSD to standard form factor — the 2TB QLC M.2-2230 king gets 2280 variant By Sunny Grimm published 17 September 24 Crucial's P310 NVMe SSD is getting a new variant. It is now available in the M.2 2280 form factor.
AOC releases a quartet of curved gaming monitors — new additions offer up to 280 Hz at 1440p for $399 By Sunny Grimm published 17 September 24 Four new monitors are hitting shelves, joining AOC's recent salvo of new products at keen prices.
Older YubiKeys compromised by unpatchable 2FA bug — side-channel attack is critical, but expensive and difficult to execute By Sunny Grimm published 4 September 24 Many two-factor authentication keys from Yubico have become vulnerable to a side-channel attack resulting in cloning 2FA keys, due to a weakness with integrated Infineon security chips.
5-foot-long mechanical RGB keyboard is fully functional — MCHOSE super-sizes its newest budget keyboard By Sunny Grimm published 4 September 24 Budget keyboard brand MCHOSE has seemingly super-sized a new keyboard model, the X75 V2. The 5-foot-long mechanical beast is fully functional and ranks among the few good-looking novelty keyboards.
Pentium processor turned into a Navajo weaving — Ken Shirriff finds a piece of CPU history By Sunny Grimm published 3 September 24 Marilou Schultz's flawless recreation of the Pentium is breathtaking
Intel CEO will reportedly present plans to cut assets at an emergency board meeting — chipmaker may put $32B Magdeburg plant on hold and sell off Altera By Sunny Grimm published 2 September 24 Pat Gelsinger's Intel woes continue.
Nvidia revamps GeForce RTX badge with AI slogan — new logo reads "GeForce RTX Powering Advanced AI" By Sunny Grimm published 2 September 24 Nvidia has updated its case badge for GeForce RTX graphics cards, including the new tagline "Powering Advanced AI." OEMs, including PNY, have already begun adopting the new branding.
Windows preview build teases searching your audio and video content — 'intelligent media search' referenced in newest build By Sunny Grimm published 1 September 24 References to the tool arrive through the Canary Channel.
MSI releases firmware with 105W TDP mode for Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X — multi-core performance boosted by up to 13% By Sunny Grimm published 30 August 24 The AGESA BIOS PI 1.2.0.1 is real and brings performance improvements.
Crucial's T500 4TB SSD fulfills company's promise from last year, adds capacity to great PCIe Gen 4 drive By Sunny Grimm published 29 August 24 One of our favorite SSDs finally available in a 4TB capacity
China invested $6.1 billion in a state data center project in two years — the "Eastern Data, Western Computing" project aims to utilize the country's undeveloped land By Sunny Grimm published 29 August 24 Xi's "Eastern Data, Western Computing" project seeks to harness the vast open spaces of western China.
AI makes Doom in its own game engine — Google's GameNGen project uses Stable Diffusion to simulate gameplay By Sunny Grimm published 28 August 24 Google Research spawns AI game generation.
Elon Musk shows off Cortex AI supercluster — first look at Tesla's 50,000 Nvidia H100s By Sunny Grimm published 27 August 24 Another of Musk’s new supercomputers makes headway.
Nvidia reportedly discontinues Steam's most popular gaming GPU — rumors claim the RTX 3060's days are numbered By Sunny Grimm published 3 August 24 Chinese forum Bobantang claims the end is finally here for RTX 3060
China's newest homegrown AI chip matches industry standard at 45 TOPS — 6nm Arm-based 12-core Cixin P1 starting mass production By Sunny Grimm published 31 July 24 New SOC uses Arm designs to give China AI PCs
Newegg launches CPU trade-in program with low payouts — $300 for a Core i9-14900K or $220 for a Ryzen 7 7800X3D By Sunny Grimm published 31 July 24 CPUs join Newegg's GPU Trade-In program
Tenstorrent's RISC-V-based Wormhole AI accelerators are available for pre-order today — pre-built workstations start at $12,000 By Sunny Grimm published 18 July 24 CEO Jim Keller says Blackhole is next, coming early 2025.
Gigabyte twists its RAM slots to fit 24TB of DDR5 sticks into a standard server — AMD EPYC sports an impossible 48 DIMMs in new configs By Sunny Grimm published 17 July 24 Gigabyte's R283-ZK0 motherboard fits two AMD SP5 server sockets on one board, and has to twist the onboard DDR5 memory slots to fit 48 DIMMs for 2 DIMM per channel operation.
AMD Radeon 880M iGPU 15% faster than last-gen 780M — Asus reveals Strix Point performance increase in 3DMark Time Spy By Sunny Grimm published 17 July 24 Asus product listings for new laptops containing the Ryzen AI 9 365 APU reveal the expected performance gains of the Radeon 880M integrated graphics over last-gen's 780M in 3DMark Time Spy.
Huawei's long-awaited Windows challenger will likely come to PCs this year — HarmonyOS Next makes the transition from phones to desktops and laptops By Sunny Grimm published 17 July 24 Huawei's developer website features more and more photos of a PC version of HarmonyOS Next, suggesting that the operating system will release its expected PC version by the end of the year.
Nvidia, Apple, and others allegedly trained AI using 173,000 YouTube videos — professional creators frustrated by latest AI training scandal: Report By Sunny Grimm published 17 July 24 No one accepts blame for breaking YouTube's ToS.
Ryzen 5 9600X listed for preorder on Amazon Canada — the steep $472 CAD price tag is no Prime Day deal By Sunny Grimm published 17 July 24 Granite Ridge pricing information begins to emerge.
$1,100 Meteor Lake-powered laptop features a removable camera — Honor MagicBook Art 14 also flaunts a 3.1K OLED 120 Hz display with 4,320 Hz PWM dimming By Sunny Grimm published 16 July 24 Why duct-tape your camera when you can lose it in your bag instead?
Ryzen 9 9950X overclocked to 6.7 GHz with LN2 — liquid nitrogen helps AMD’s newest flagship break previous world records By Sunny Grimm published 16 July 24 AMD’s Extreme Overclocking Team casually breaks WRs on newest release.
