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A photo showing the GPU retaining mechanism on an MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk motherboard

MSI's latest BIOS update hints at new AMD Us and I'm hoping it's Strix Point APUs coming to desktop

By Jacob Fox published

News Or Gorgonzola Poi- sorry, Gorgon Point.

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AheadComputing chip illustration

Ex-Intel engineers are developing the 'biggest, baddest U in the world' by targeting IPC, not clockspeed or core counts

By Jeremy Laird published

News AheadComputing reckons the future of U performance is all about instructions per clock, not GHz or a zillion cores.

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A fresh benchmark for Nvidia's unannounced consumer APU suggests it's coming for Intel and AMD's finest and is maybe close to production-ready

By Jacob Fox published

News The DGX Spark silicon could soon be brought to consumer laptops.

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ARM logo exhibited at ARM stand during the Mobile World Congress (MWC).

I spoke with Arm about PC gaming and was told that Windows software compatibility is 'largely a solved problem'

By Jacob Fox published

News But the future of Windows on Arm gaming will depend on developers.

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Images of Nvidia's Blackwell GPU from GTC.

Nvidia's research boss claims the company's Chinese AI researchers are now writing programs for Huawei instead and is blaming the US chip exports

By Jacob Fox published

News But is Nvidia really worried?

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. logo atop a building at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. TSMC is scheduled to release earnings results on Oct. 19.

TSMC boss claims the chipmaker doesn't need to pick winners to work with, just wait patiently 'because they will all come to us in the end'

By Jacob Fox published

News If you build it, they will come.

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The world's biggest chip maker TSMC says it still can't keep up with demand for AI hardware despite tariff uncertainty

By Jeremy Laird published

News Oh well, looks like gaming GPUs are still going to be hard to come by.

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks while holding the company's new GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards and a Thor Blackwell robotics processor during the 2025 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. Huang announced a raft of new chips, software and services, aiming to stay at the forefront of artificial intelligence computing. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Nvidia's new Arm-based APU rumoured to launch in an Alienware laptop later this year with RTX 4070 mobile performance and 'breakthrough' power efficiency

By Jeremy Laird published

News Nvidia's Arm chip said to match an RTX 4070 laptop's gaming performance at barely more than half the power consumption.

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A procolored printer edited to be red to imply danger.

This $6,000 professional grade direct transfer printer comes with plenty of viruses for no extra cost, unless it also steals your crypto

By Hope Corrigan published

News A backdoor and a clipbanker were found in the software, and a potentially very harmful worm might be on the included USB for software installation.

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AMD Ryzen Threadipper 9000 Series chip renders.

AMD unleashes up to 96 cores of Zen 5 with its new Threadripper 9000 Series chips

By Jacob Ridley published

Computex Coming June 2025.

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