Chip manufacturer CXMT asks Pentagon to remove it from list of Chinese military-linked companies
The US government is not basing their decisions on factual records, CXMT said
Nvidia and Intel supplier Unimicron under investigation over alleged relabeling of Chinese parts
The company is accused of relabeling China-made circuit boards as Taiwan-made
Graphics Card Prices Are Rising Fast (Again), and GeForce Is Taking the Biggest Hit
GPU prices are rising sharply again, with GeForce cards taking the biggest hit. We tracked prices across 10 countries to see which GPUs are getting more expensive and where value remains, if any.
Fable PC requirements show it can run on an RTX 2060, but you'll need an RTX 5080 for 4K at 60 fps
The listed performance targets appear to be native
Samsung's new portable SSDs are blazing fast over USB4, but will torch your wallet
High-quality, fast external storage that will cost you an arm and a leg
New US tariffs threaten to make PCs, game consoles, and data centers more expensive, again
Tech lobbyists worry tariffs could handicap the US in the AI race
Windows 10 users have just weeks left before Nvidia ends Game Ready driver updates
Nvidia will keep issuing critical security fixes, but new features and game-specific optimizations are ending
Alienware's new 39-inch 5K OLED is earning rave reviews
The Alienware AW3926QW pairs a 39" 5K2K ultrawide Tandem OLED panel with accurate colors and up to 330 Hz refresh rates. Reviewers praise its size, brightness, and gaming performance, though driving its native resolution demands a powerful GPU.
AMD documents confirm Zen 6 desktop and APU chips will support AM5 socket
Zen 6 CPUs are expected to debut in late 2026 or early 2027
Raspberry Pi now has an official guide for building your own cyberdeck
Few can escape cyberdeck mania
Asus customer says $10,000 ROG anniversary bundle order was canceled, forcing them to pay $500 more
Cancelled tracking, missing updates, and a mysterious return created a month-long support nightmare
Qualcomm details next-gen Oryon CPU, targets 5GHz with heterogeneous cache design
The chip pairs two 5GHz Prime Cores with six Performance Cores for AI-heavy tasks
Xiaomi takes another shot at Qualcomm and MediaTek with its 3nm flagship Xring O3 chip
The chip just broke 5 million on AnTuTu
Apple built its new M6 and M5 Ultra desktops for the people daisy-chaining Macs to run AI
Apple's first 2nm chip and its first quad-die design arrive in a new Mac mini and Mac Studio
The big picture: Apple announced two new chips and two refreshed desktops today. The M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip. The M5 Ultra is its first quad-die design and the most powerful silicon the company has shipped. As for the desktop PCs, there are no significant new features on either machine, but this is a real spec and pricing bump. What's changed in the past couple of years is who these boxes are for, and whether you'll be able to get one.
Intel confirms Crescent Island GPU will pack 32 Xe3P cores and up to 480GB of memory
Designed for agentic AI, Crescent Island uses laptop memory instead of HBM to save costs
This 98-qubit quantum computer moves ions around to compute more efficiently
Quantinuum's Helios is the largest trapped-ion quantum computer demonstrated yet
AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs. 9070 XT: Which Should You Buy?
We compare the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT across 52 games at 1440p and 4K, test how each responds to undervolting, and determine whether the XT model is worth its price premium.
IBM is building a dual-architecture mainframe chip that will run Arm and Z software on the same cores
The chip will use 11 IBM Z cores built on a 2-nanometer process, running above 5.7 GHz
Intel re-enters Amazon's top-10 best-selling CPUs after over a year, but AMD still dominates
High DDR5 prices are driving buyers toward Intel's DDR4-compatible CPUs
The takeaway: AMD's domination in the desktop CPU market has been so remarkable that all 10 top-selling processors on Amazon throughout 2025 were from Team Red. Now, though, two Intel processors have secured a spot on the top-10 list for the first time in over a year.
A hidden Windows cleanup routine is quietly deleting Asus laptop GPU drivers
The issue traces back to Asus's Eco mode, which disables the dedicated GPU entirely
CPU-Z version 3 adds PC health checks to the classic system information tool
CPU-Z remains a favorite for checking processor, memory, and motherboard details, but version 3.01 makes it more useful for troubleshooting. The new Validator V3 can quickly scan for more than 100 potential issues, including overheating, outdated drivers, hardware problems, and bloatware.
A developer is using AI to bring 26-year-old Voodoo3 cards back to life on Linux
Vibe coding is both a boon and a curse for ancient hardware support
Windows could soon let you control how your PC splits memory for gaming and AI
Possibly targeting Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, Microsoft is testing manual unified memory allocation between system, graphics, and AI tasks
Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims
A former Samsung engineer testified the startup lacked basic lab facilities from the start
Cutting corners: Building a memory chip from the absolute ground up takes years and costs a fortune. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) apparently decided to skip the hard part – and today, the company stands as China's biggest DRAM producer. A South Korean court recently heard some fairly wild details about how the memory maker actually got its start.
If one PC creates 20dB of noise and another makes 40dB, how louder is the second PC?
Also: what are humming, rattling and whining PC noises?