It may be that time of the year again when AMD starts refreshing its Ryzen processors if Twitter user Patrick Schur’s information if accurate. There is precedent of AMD refreshing its Ryzen processors, nevertheless, we recommend you approach the news with caution. Unless AMD pulls a rabbit out of its hat, the new Ryzen 5000…
Hot on the heels of the latest Radeon RX 6600 XT leak, German news outlet Igor’s Lab has shared more juicy details on AMD’s forthcoming Navi 23 offerings. Wallossek’s information seemingly helps to confirm some of the rumored specifications for the Radeon RX 6600 XT. As we’ve suspected for a while now, the Radeon RX…
Deals on the best gaming laptops with RTX 30-series GPUs are impressive enough. But to find a student deal for $200 off that applies to everyone is something else entirely. That is exactly what we’ve found — use the code STUDENT100 to get this Dell G5 portable rig with RTX 3060 GPU for just $1,299.99,…
Just this week, Seeed has debuted a brand new, not-yet-available, wireless Raspberry Pi RP2040 board called the Wio RP2040 mini Dev Board. This new mini Dev board is the first third-party board to feature both the RP2040 chip and wireless support. The first partner board to feature WiFi, Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect was released mere…
Not too long ago, Intel killed off most of its client Optane products to focus on one — the Optane Memory H20. The H20 marries the company’s latest QLC flash with Optane Memory to provide fast performance for most client workloads, but it can fall short in large sequential transfers. It’s a clever blend of…
Firefly have launched a Raspberry Pi alternative that on paper seems to beat the Raspberry Pi 4 while offering onboard flash storage and an NVMe slot for fast storage. As spotted by CNX Software, the ROC-RK3566-PC looks to be a powerful alternative to the Pi. Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Firefly) Image 2 of…
A new coronavirus outbreak in Taiwan has raised concerns over TSMC’s ability to maintain production levels, DigiTimes reported today, especially as the chances of city-wide lockdowns being imposed rise alongside the number of new cases. Taiwan handled COVID-19 better than most—The Guardian said it reported 1,000 cases and 12 deaths throughout 2020. For comparison, there…
AMD disclosed two exploits targeting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) feature used by its first-, second-, and third-gen EPYC processors ahead of their presentation at the 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT’21). The first exploit, CVE-2020-12967, is set to be presented in a paper from researchers at Fraunhofer AISEC and the Technical University of…
HDD pricing, particularly for high-capacity models, in the US is rising steeply as enthusiasm for Chia cryptocurrency farming grows. We’ve seen these same trends already with GPUs: The tight supply of graphics cards amid booming demand for PCs coupled with the ongoing Ethereum cryptomining obsession increased GPU pricing by at least twice the original MSRPs. Now…
Intel is starting to get its legs again. The company, which initially had issues with its 10nm chips, has released its first eight-core, 10nm Tiger Lake-H processors that are ready for gaming and high-end productivity notebooks. For its 10th gen chips, Intel used a 10nm process (“Ice Lake”) for ultrabooks but used a 14nm chip…