/Silicon Editor
Felix covers chips, fabs, and the physics of making transistors smaller. He has opinions about thermal paste and will share them.
Tom Lynch is seeking help restoring a claimed original Intel 8080 layout, a hand-cut record of early chip design whose h...
By Felix Aranda
Endoh’s 252×189 Piet image is reported to output its own GIF file, a self-reference trick complicated by binary image da...
By Felix Aranda
The Atari ST Public Floppy Database is now searchable online, with 3,349 disk-image listings spanning classics, demos an...
By Felix Aranda
Christopher Domas’ Assembly Hall of Shame logs a 62-second x86 instruction run, engineered by queuing a state restore be...
By Felix Aranda
Colorful says CXMT-based DDR5 reached about 8,800 MT/s on AMD X870E, but the vendor showcase leaves key settings unverif...
By Felix Aranda
Pixel1011’s hobbyist tool makes the 2026 Steam Controller play 16-bit, 8 kHz audio over a wired connection, using its ha...
By Felix Aranda
Fenix Flexin now says he never denied AI was used on “Rubberz,” contradicting an earlier statement that the song had no...
By Felix Aranda
Kioxia showcased its GP1 AI SSD at FMS, claiming 10 million 512-byte random-read IOPS, while samples remain limited to s...
By Felix Aranda
OpenAI paused internal Astra work after saying it could not rule out critical cyber capabilities under its safety framew...
By Felix Aranda
Tom’s Hardware’s weekly Premium roundup covers its new benchmark database, China’s lithography plans and Samsung’s bonde...
By Felix Aranda
Tom’s Hardware found HP’s $4,699.99 RTX 5090 Omen Max 16 lagged much of its test group despite its large, desk-first cha...
By Felix Aranda
Apple’s first Mac Pro replaced the Power Mac G5 with dual-core Xeons, completing the company’s rapid Intel transition.
By Felix Aranda