MSI’s WS WRX80 motherboard has broken cover in the wake of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series launch yesterday (AMD “Chagall” Zen 3, up to 64 cores). MSI currently isn’t listing this motherboard on its official product pages. Still, WCCFTech spotted it and asserts it is a time-limited exclusive for Lenovo systems before heading…
DetailsWe’ve been getting teases about the Google Pixel 6a for a while now. First, there were renders of the Pixel 6a’s design, which leaked last year. Later we got a good look at the specs, which promised that Google’s Tensor chip would make an appearance in the budget phone. Now, a set of Pixel 6a…
DetailsIntel’s bets on the blockchain space are attracting significant design wins, with the latest including one of the world’s leading bitcoin mining companies. Blockchain company Hive has announced that it has agreed to purchase Intel’s next-generation “BMZ2” Bonanza Mine ASICs. Hive announced that the addition of Intel’s upcoming chips would almost double its bitcoin mining…
DetailsApple’s Studio Display comes with a choice of options for the monitor stand, but there’s a substantial catch here – you can’t later change that stand. Whichever of the three stand choices you pick when buying a Studio Display, that’s what you’ll have to live with – forever. There’s no going back if you change…
DetailsEarly benchmarks revealed that Nvidia’s GeForce MX550 was marginally faster than the integrated Vega graphics inside the Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) APUs. According to a Weibo user’s review (via HXL), the GeForce MX550 also surpassed AMD’s latest RDNA 2-powered Ryzen 6000 (Rembrandt) APUs in gaming. Although Nvidia has officially announced the GeForce MX550, there is still…
DetailsIt’s been a few long years, and people are still having trouble finding some key components for a decent price. But at least later this year, you’ll be able to pretend that’s not the case. Developer Spiral House today announced that PC Building Simulator 2 will release sometime in 2022. The game will be an…
DetailsHow did Apple do it? How did the most closely-watched tech company in the world ship a product almost six months ago and hide a crucial technical detail in plain sight? When Apple unveiled on Tuesday what may be the last in its M1-class Apple Silicon line, the M1 Ultra, Apple SVP of Hardware Technologies…
DetailsIt’s hard to buy one Raspberry Pi without buying many more but dedicating a Pi to assist in the creation of future Raspberry Pi projects is a new level entirely. Over at Reddit, a maker known as Wolfy-j shares an up-close look at their impressive Pi-powered PCB UV machine. This project can be used to…
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Semiconductor firm Microchip has launched a new controller that paves the way for next-generation SSDs with record-breaking capacity and performance. The Flashtec NVMe 4016 controller delivers upwards of 14GB/second throughput and 3 million IOPS, and features 16 NAND channels that make the most of the speed and bandwidth on offer with PCIe 5.0. The new…
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Apple unveiled a brand-new Mac desktop during the Peek Performance event on Tuesday, which brought over the most powerful M1 System-on-Chip (SoC) released to date. The M1 Ultra further raises the bar when it comes to performance and efficiency. But it’s interesting to see that Apple isn’t moving to the second-gen M2 SoC just yet.…
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