Hardware/

1mo ago

Intel plans $5.7 billion upgrade for its Irish Xeon fab

Intel says the Leixlip investment will raise Intel 3 output for Xeon chips, though final testing and assembly still happ...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Drop BMR1 V2 desktop speakers fall to $23.99 at Woot

Woot is selling Drop’s compact BMR1 V2 nearfield speakers for $23.99, far below the former $130 price and Amazon’s curre...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Nvidia tightens Asia customer list to curb China chip smuggling

The Financial Times says Nvidia cut its authorized Asia buyers by more than half after Washington pressed the company on...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Newegg bundles AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D with a free MSI cooler

The rereleased AM4 gaming chip is listed at $349.99 with a $69.99 cooler, while a wider bundle adds an Asus B550 board a...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

das_POD sells a $190 kit for turning IDE CD drives into players

The CD-ROM Player 01 is a bring-your-own-drive audio kit with a laser-cut enclosure, custom PCB and some missing accesso...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Osaka team builds thermal surface that stores its heat-steering state

The lab device uses indium arsenide and phase-change GST to alter infrared emission and keep its programmed mode without...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

OpenStrike brings a Counter-Strike-style shooter to the PSP at 60 fps

Yifeng Wang’s open-source PSP project uses a Rust 3D engine and JavaScript game layer to run bot matches at the handheld...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

OpenPuck lets Valve’s new Steam Controller spoof other gamepads

A hobbyist firmware project translates Steam Controller input on a microcontroller, removing the need to keep Steam Inpu...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Amazon targets Prime users with $301 Asus RTX 5060 offer

Some Prime subscribers can buy Asus’s 8GB RTX 5060 OC card for $301.62, but the discount appears to be account-specific.

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

ASRock Rack puts Nvidia’s IGX Thor into a short-depth edge server

The 2U 2UXGI-THOR targets industrial and medical workloads that need local sensor processing, with Nvidia’s IGX Thor and...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

MSI Afterburner beta will show where GPUs actually boost

Developer Unwinder says Afterburner 4.6.7 beta 4 will add a voltage-frequency heatmap for tuning GPU overclocks with wor...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Micron puts $500 million behind GlobalWafers’ Texas silicon plant

Micron plans a 10-year supply deal with GlobalWafers as it lifts U.S. spending plans to more than $250 billion through 2...

By Felix Aranda