Hard drives are expected to reach a penny per gigabyte by mid-2025
A penny for your thoughts, or a gigabyte of storage?
RTX 4060 Ti could be Nvidia's first compact 40-series graphics card
The 4060 Ti could fit inside most Mini-ITX chassis
China bans export of its Loongson CPUs to Russia
Not for reasons related to Ukraine
Liquid cooling makes high density storage more reliable, study shows
Fully submersing hard drives cools better and puts less strain on the drive's moving parts
Intel B760 motherboard could receive price hike over B660
B760 said to be largely similar to B660
The Best CPU Coolers - Holidays 2022
How should you keep your CPU cool? The more powerful your CPU is, the bigger and better cooler you'll need, but rest assured our guide will cover many great options at every size and price point.
Waning demand and falling shipments force PC manufacturers to cut prices
Excess inventory can be good for consumers
AMD's Radeon RX 7900 AV1 encoder is almost on par with Intel Arc and Nvidia's RTX 40 series
AMD's encoder even has some features Nvidia locks behind its workstation GPUs
Why it matters: AMD's new AV1 encoder and fully unlocked encode sessions will allow Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs to compete directly against Nvidia RTX GPUs and Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs in the streaming space. Allowing gamers and content creators to game, record, and stream high quality video all at the same time on a single graphics card.
Sabrent's latest PCIe 4.0 SSD is perfect for the Steam Deck
And all manner of other small form factor devices
Microsoft acquires Lumenisity to bring hollow core fiber tech to Azure cloud
Why it matters: Hollow core fibers (HCF) are not a new solution per se, but the innovative design conceived by UK-based startup Lumenisity brings this '90s tech to the next level. Microsoft will now get the most out of it, optimizing its cloud platform for professional and government customers alike.
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Review: RDNA 3 Flagship is Fast
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX is a pretty good GPU, at least relative to its GeForce competitor, but whether or not it's worth $1,000 will depend on how much stock you place in ray tracing performance.
Upcoming Nvidia RTX 4070 might have the same core count as the RTX 3070
But it won't break the bank (or your power supply)
Someone tried auctioning off an EVGA RTX 4090 prototype on eBay
Would it have been the best EVGA GPU ever sold?
Intel teases Sapphire Rapids workstation CPUs coming "pretty soon"
Sapphire Rapids is coming in 2023
Samsung confirms it wants GDDR7 RAM to reach 36Gbps with PAM-3 signaling
An efficient middle ground between GDDR6's NRZ and GDDR6X's PAM-4
Amazon refused to refund a customer who received putty-filled fake graphics card
Amazon demanded the "real" item be returned
New Intel Arc drivers bring some massive improvements to DirectX 9 performance
A great sign of things to come from Intel
Fractal Design's North cases combine elegant design with natural wood
With a wood front panel and mesh around the case for optimal air cooling, the first reviews for Fractal Design's new North cases are in and reception is pretty positive.
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 CPU and GPU Benchmark
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is a new free-to-play battle royale game and today we're taking a look at CPU and GPU performance with a small variety of PC hardware getting benchmarked.
Colorful RTX 4070 Ti listing confirms GPU is a rebranded RTX 4080 12GB
The same specs, but still no price
Lattice Semiconductor expands to mid-range FPGAs, goes after Intel's Arria and AMD's Xilinx offerings
Avant-E 500 tops at 5 tera operations per second
The EU Chips Act: €43 billion to build a new European chipmaking industry
In context: The tech industry is still suffering from a microchip shortage, and Europe is getting ready to invest a lot of billions to free itself from external dependencies. The EU Council will now need to negotiate with the European Parliament to decide its final proposal.
Alienware teases the return of its 18-inch gaming laptop
The monstrous Alienware 18 is being revived
Intel to launch several new CPUs at CES next month, workstation and data center lineups later
Team Blue will be very busy in Q1 2023