Intel has made a further move in damage control over the issues with 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors suffering from instability and crashing, announcing that the warranties of CPUs from these generations have been extended by two years.As per a statement from Intel’s Communications Manager, Thomas Hannaford, all Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs now…
Nvidia’s RTX 3060 graphics card has long been a popular relatively wallet-friendly GPU, topping the rankings on Steam – but the death knell has apparently sounded for this Ampere (last-gen) model.VideoCardz reports that news has filtered down from the Board Channels in China – a common source of GPU rumors, but one that requires some…
Under the CHIPS & Science Act, the U.S. government provided tens of billions of dollars in grants and loans to the world’s leading maker of chips, such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC, which will significantly expand the country’s semiconductor production industry in the coming years. However, most chips are typically tested, assembled, and packaged in…
At FMS 2024, Phison gave us the usual updates on their client flash solutions. The E31T Gen 5 mainstream controller has already been seen at a few tradeshows starting with Computex 2023, while the USB4 native flash controller for high-end PSSDs was unveiled at CES 2024. The new solution being demonstrated was the E29T Gen…
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The Prince’s Trust has partnered with medical IT and cyber firm Sectra to educate young people about tech careers to encourage them into a tech job in the future. The youth charity launched its “Get into IT and Administration” programme in Belfast this summer to help young people, especially those from under-represented groups, understand more…
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Marc Francis spent the past few years of his life governed by a broken route planner. Time after time, the driver who until recently delivered for Parcelforce would be asked to go on harder and harder routes or given unfeasible routes on his shifts. And when the system broke, failed to bring up an address…
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Following Intel’s run of financial woes and Raptor Lake chip stability issues, the company could use some good news on a Friday. And this week they’re delivering just that, with the first version of the eagerly awaited microcode fix for desktop Raptor Lake processors – as well as the first detailed explanation of the underlying…
Intel has decided that the warranty extension the firm announced last week, for chips affected by instability issues, applies to all its 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors, and not just boxed CPUs.If you recall, when the move, which upped the warranty from three to five years, was made, Intel said it applied to boxed products, but…
The rumor mill has been churning as always and this time, the word on the street is that AMD’s Radeon RDNA 3 lineup may be getting two new budget entry-level graphics cards — the RX 7400 and RX 7300. If true, it would be under the AMD Radeon RX 7600’s $259 price point, considered one…
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Over the first seven-and-a-half months of 2024, the number of newly-disclosed common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) soared 30% year-on-year from 17,114 to 22,254, according to data published by Qualys researchers. However, out of this huge number of flaws, barely a hundredth – 204 or 0.9% – were weaponised by threat actors, said Qualys, the majority…
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