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> start_here Silicon wafer sizes: diameters, thickness and manufacturing differences Semiconductor fabrication: how chips are made What is computer memory? RAM, storage and how they differ Arm vs. x86: differences for phones, PCs and servers

1mo ago

Terafab size comparison puts Musk’s proposed Texas fab at four times four landmarks

Tesla and SpaceX project more than 100 million square feet for Terafab, though the viral scale graphic mixes different a...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

270K Plus vs 7700X3D: Intel and AMD split the upper mid-range CPU brief

Intel’s 24-core 270K Plus favors mixed workloads, while AMD’s 7700X3D offers cache-heavy gaming and a longer stated sock...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Phantomdrive hidden USB uses an 8GB decoy to gate encrypted storage

Rootkit Labs’ open-source Phantomdrive shows an ordinary 8GB volume until a firmware-intercepted password command switch...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Intel 8080 Rubylith restoration request raises provenance questions

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

1mo ago

Yusuke Endoh says his Piet GIF reproduces itself byte for byte

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

1mo ago

Pulsar Feinmann F01 Noctua review: Palm cooling has a 27g cost

Pulsar’s fan-equipped $179.95 gaming mouse delivers noticeable palm airflow, but reviewers found its highest setting pun...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Atari ST Public Floppy Database opens its disk-image archive to the web

The Atari ST Public Floppy Database is now searchable online, with 3,349 disk-image listings spanning classics, demos an...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

Slowest x86 instruction record reaches 62 seconds under PCIe stress

Christopher Domas’ Assembly Hall of Shame logs a 62-second x86 instruction run, engineered by queuing a state restore be...

By Felix Aranda

1mo ago

CXMT DDR5-8800 reaches AMD X870E in Colorful overclocking demo

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

1mo ago

Intel orbital data centers patent puts constellation control in higher orbit

Intel’s new patent application outlines higher-orbit control satellites for LEO fleets, but offers no evidence of a laun...

By Mara Chen-Doyle

1mo ago

Steam Haptics Player sends stereo audio through controller haptics

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

1mo ago

Kioxia GP1 10 million IOPS claim arrives at FMS with narrow test conditions

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