Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Nvidia's reportedly scaling back RTX 40 series production by as much as 50% in preparation for the Blackwell RTX 50 launch
news Either that or the dearth of new GPUs means it's just a nice time to hike prices. Again.
MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'
news The ferroelectric material transistor could be used to make NVMe SSDs last a whole lot longer.
Report claims that OpenAI has burned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, and could be on track to make a $5 billion loss
news Generative AI makes billions of dollars in revenue but more is needed to cover the operational costs.
Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC review
Bigger but better Some big changes and a host of further tweaks have fixed the old flaws making this the handheld gaming PC to get.
I downloaded Intel's new AI Playground beta and may have finally found something Arc is honestly good at
news It turns out that Intel's graphics cards are better at doing AI than they are at churning out ultra-high frame rates in games.
Google has changed its mind about dropping support for third-party cookies in Chrome, after years of trying to make it happen
news Depending on who you listen to, this is either a brilliant decision or a truly horrible one.
AMD RDNA 4 info leak confirms RT performance is getting boosted but could fall short of a major hardware redesign
news AMD's GPUs are perfect at rasterization but still trail behind Nvidia when it comes to ray tracing.
It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too
news It doesn't matter what operating system you use, a buggy application can seriously ruin your day.
Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
news It's not just about bad hotspots, the whole chip ends up getting hotter, causing it to hit thermal limits quicker.
No E, just the P—Intel quietly launches Raptor Lake Rekked for the embedded market
news But with the Core i9's reputation looking very iffy, would anyone want to take the gamble and use it in an industrial situation?
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU review
Cache for cash It's just a 5800X3D, except a bit slower and a whole lot cheaper. Which actually makes it better.
The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
news This one looks as bad as they come and there have been some truly massive IT problems in recent years.
AMD's tweaked RDNA 3.5 GPU is solely focused on improving mobile gaming performance
news There are plenty of little changes under the hood to help the graphics processor do more for less power.
Researchers create Dune-like pee-pants for the next generation of astronauts and maybe even wealthy, overly 'dedicated' gamers
news The design looks far more appealing than the adult diapers spacewalkers currently have to use.
It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
news Two P-cores are all you're getting, but they're speedy little things, so it's not as awful as you might think.
Arm has developed a new shader-based upscaler using AMD's open source FSR 2.2 as its starting base
news Not that anyone needed a reminder but once again, open-source licencing is to thank for all of this.
Samsung workers union is calling for an indefinite strike, to which the bosses claim there will infeasibly be 'no disruptions' to production
news All while TSMC enjoys a market cap just shy of one trillion dollars.
Multiple governments around the world have secretly agreed to restrict the export of quantum computers
news The move has stumped the scientific community as there's no obvious reason for it.
An infamous dataset of leaked login details, updated last week, now houses 9,948,575,739 passwords and poses the biggest threat to our online security ever
news Another 1.5 billion passwords have just been added to the RockYou dataset, all harvested in only three years.
Rip the display off a laptop, snap its keyboard in the middle, and you've got this portable PC you can stick in a pocket
news Excuse me while I whip this out. Now any of y'all kind folks got a monitor and mouse handy?
Microsoft patents a technique to display encrypted documents so only you can see them
news It seems to be a better system than AMD's Privacy View feature but like all of them, it can't solve one key issue.
Micron expects GDDR7 will improve ray tracing and rasterization performance by more than 30%, compared to previous gen VRAM
news Does 30% more memory bandwidth mean 30% more fps? Let's put it to the test.
There's a new ray tracing benchmark in town and it paints an all-too-familiar picture of today's GPUs
news No prizes for guessing which vendor handles ray tracing the best.
SSD storage is set to use 1,000 layer memory chips by 2027, potentially offering 20 TB NVMe drives for under $300
news Given the pace in NAND flash development, that's certainly not impossible, even the price.
Internet speed record of 402,000,000 Mbps achieved using standard optic fibre cabling, fast enough to download Baldur's Gate 3 in less than four milliseconds
news A gaming PC with the fastest CPU, DDR5 RAM, and Gen5 SSD would be a massive bottleneck though, so there's no chance you could use this at home.
