In what started last year as a handful of reports about instability with Intel’s Raptor Lake desktop chips has, over the last several months, grown into a much larger saga. Facing their biggest client chip instability impediment in decades, Intel has been under increasing pressure to figure out the root cause of the issue and…
Following a relative lull in the desktop memory industry in the previous decade, the past few years have seen a flurry of new memory standards and form factors enter development. Joining the traditional DIMM/SO-DIMM form factors, we’ve seen the introduction of space-efficient DDR5 CAMM2s, their LPDDR5-based counterpart the LPCAMM2, and the high-clockspeed optimized CUDIMM. But…
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Intel provided a statement earlier this week on the instability problems with 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs, but some further details have come to light since then – including a clarification that any damage done to high-end CPUs is permanent.In case you missed it, Intel’s previous announcement pinned down ‘elevated operating voltage’ as a key cause…
iOS 18 is full of new features, but we can’t say the same about the Apple Music app. In this upcoming iPhone operating system update, Apple has added several features under the hood, which means most users won’t even notice what’s different with Apple’s music streaming service.While many people eagerly wait for new features to…
AMD’s delay of the launch of its Ryzen 9000 processors – with the CPUs already shipped being recalled from retailers and PC makers – could apparently be due to a simple typo, if you can believe the (multiple) reports floating around out there.Well, we say a simple typo, but this isn’t a mistake with the…
A leak has surfaced showing what’s purportedly an Intel Arrow Lake processor which is 20% faster than Team Blue’s current top 14th-gen Core i9 CPU for single-thread performance.As posted on the Tieba Baidu forums (spotted by Wccftech), the unnamed processor is supposedly an Intel Core Ultra 200 CPU (add your own seasoning, and plenty of…
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AMD sends word this afternoon that the company is delaying the launch of their Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors. The first Zen 5 architecture-based desktop chips were slated to launch next week, on July 31st. But citing quality issues that are significant enough that AMD is even pulling back stock already sent to distributors, AMD…
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SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company’s plans for the year is the release of a SK hynix-branded 60 TB SSD, which will mark the firm’s entry into the ultra-premium enterprise SSD league.…
Apple has already released the fourth iOS 18 beta, but there’s no trace of Apple Intelligence in it. However, it looks like Apple’s AI features will soon be available to test. Apple is ramping up its Apple Intelligence marketing efforts. The company has scheduled a developer event for August 14th in Cupertino where it’ll recap…
ChatGPT privacy features in Apple Intelligence may change how I use AI Read More »
Just several years ago, we were impressed to witness a 2,000W power supply for mining systems at Computex. But with arrival or AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper WX and Intel’s Xeon W-3400-series – CPUs that can devour all the way to 900W under heavy loads – as well as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 graphics cards (or, well,…
Extreme PSUs Incoming: Enermax, Leadex, and Seasonic at Up to 2800W Read More »
