Nintendo Switch 2's support for MicroSD Express standard will hurt your wallet: Here's why By Sayem Ahmed published 3 April 25 The Nintendo Switch 2 uses a memory standard named MicroSD Express, and the pricing of the newly announced products is going to make your wallet sting.
Deepseek 'clearly not interested' in scaling up — 160-person team focused on developing new models By Sayem Ahmed published 14 March 25 Deepseek is focused on keeping its team lean and propelling development towards new models, with the goal of reaching AGI, instead of scaling up its commercial product offerings.
AI bots now play Mafia with each other on public website, and almost all of them are terrible at it By Sayem Ahmed published 7 March 25 A developer has created a way for multiple LLM chatbots to play Mafia against each other, with a ranking, full transcripts and a leaderboard.
Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti rumored launch in 'ten days' — but don't expect any stock until April By Sayem Ahmed published 7 March 25 The announcement appears to be imminent.
Nvidia and Broadcom continue trialing Intel 18A test chips: Report By Sayem Ahmed published 3 March 25 A new report suggests that Broadcom and Intel are continuing to test the Intel 18A manufacturing process, amid reports of setbacks for contract manufacturing customers.
AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries By Sayem Ahmed published 1 March 25 Startup Mark Engineering has revealed the Mark 1, a Titanium bookmark with a screen, which can offer AI-powered insights into your reading habits.
Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work By Sayem Ahmed published 27 February 25 Developer Dimitri Mitropoulos has managed to get Doom running inside of Typescript Types, after a year-long effort, resulting in three and a half trillion lines of types.
ASRock issues BIOS update to address Ryzen 9 9800X3D failures, warns of 'misinformation' about failures By Sayem Ahmed published 25 February 25 The beta BIOS claims to improve 'CPU boot' issues.
Meta defends using pirated material, claims it's legal if you don't seed content By Sayem Ahmed published 21 February 25 A new court filing alleges that Meta "took precautions" to not seed copyrighted data after downloading 82 TB dataset featuring copyrighted material.
Kioxia's new 10th gen 332-layer 4.8 GB/s 3D NAND flash is 33% faster than its 8th gen ICs By Sayem Ahmed published 20 February 25 Kioxia's 10th generation 332-layer 3D NAND flash is up to 33% faster than prior-gen NAND, boasted the company at ISSCC 2025.
Musk announces Grok 3-powered xAI gaming studio to develop 'AI games' with photo-realistic graphics By Sayem Ahmed published 19 February 25 Following the release of Grok 3, Musk's xAI is spinning off into game development, with lofty ambitions.
AMD Ryzen 9900X3D & 9950X3D benchmarks surface with strong single-core uplift By Sayem Ahmed published 19 February 25 AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D have been tested on Geekbench 6.
Trump to introduce 25% and 'higher' tariff on imported semiconductors, timing unclear By Sayem Ahmed published 19 February 25 Trump announced a 25% tariff on semiconductor chips to boost U.S. production, but provided no timeline for implementation.
DRAM and NAND prices are expected to rise in the second half of 2025 By Sayem Ahmed published 18 February 25 A new report suggests that both DRAM and NAND prices are going to rise later this year.
Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO By Sayem Ahmed published 18 February 25 CEO Jason Chen confirms a 10% price hike on U.S. laptops starting March 2025 due to incoming Trump tariffs.
Modder crams LLM onto Raspberry Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical By Sayem Ahmed published 17 February 25 A Raspberry Pi Zero can run a local LLM using llama.cpp. But, while functional, slow token speeds make it impractical for real-world use.
Nvidia, SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron reportedly working on new SOCAMM memory standard for AI PCs By Sayem Ahmed published 17 February 25 Nvidia is reportedly collaborating with memory makers on a new high-performance, compact memory standard, seemingly designed for AI workloads.
Intel Panther Lake-H CPU hits max turbo power of 64W — mobile chips' leaked specs point to substantial power draw By Sayem Ahmed published 14 February 25 Alleged preliminary specs of Intel's Panther Lake-H CPUs show efficiency gains for the upcoming architecture.
