Fractal Design's North cases combine elegant design with natural wood
With a wood front panel and mesh around the case for optimal air cooling, the first reviews for Fractal Design's new North cases are in and reception is pretty positive.
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Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 CPU and GPU Benchmark
Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 is a new free-to-play battle royale game and today we're taking a look at CPU and GPU performance with a small variety of PC hardware getting benchmarked.
Colorful RTX 4070 Ti listing confirms GPU is a rebranded RTX 4080 12GB
The same specs, but still no price
Lattice Semiconductor expands to mid-range FPGAs, goes after Intel's Arria and AMD's Xilinx offerings
Avant-E 500 tops at 5 tera operations per second
The EU Chips Act: EUR43 billion to build a new European chipmaking industry
In context: The tech industry is still suffering from a microchip shortage, and Europe is getting ready to invest a lot of billions to free itself from external dependencies. The EU Council will now need to negotiate with the European Parliament to decide its final proposal.
Alienware teases the return of its 18-inch gaming laptop
The monstrous Alienware 18 is being revived
Intel to launch several new CPUs at CES next month, workstation and data center lineups later
Team Blue will be very busy in Q1 2023
GPU Architecture Deep Dive: AMD RDNA 3, Intel Arc Alchemist and Nvidia Ada Lovelace
Three vendors. Three new architectures. Three approaches to GPU design. Join us as we dive right into their semiconductor hearts and see how Ada Lovelace, Alchemist, and RDNA 3 contrast and compare.
Woman tries to enter China with over 200 Intel CPUs hidden inside fake pregnant belly
Why bother with drugs when CPUs are so expensive?
New Intel research charts a course to trillion-transistor chip designs by 2030
The research describes Intel's plan to advance 2D transistor and 3D packaging technologies
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 8GB: Why You Should Avoid It
Although it's true that the 8GB and 12GB variants of the GeForce RTX 3060 are based on the same silicon, the changes go beyond memory capacity and the 8GB RTX 3060 is always going to be slower.
Three Ryzen 7000 X3D CPUs are reportedly on the way, no 6-core variant planned
Eight, 12-, and 16-core X3D processors with overclocking enabled
TSMC's 2024 Arizona fab to upgrade from 5nm to 4nm after Apple's request
The big picture: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) Arizona factory project has become more apparent over the last few weeks. The company intends to move some of the most advanced node processing to the United States, much of it for Apple's iPhones. The company will soon announce an upgrade to its plans.
PC shipments in the US dipped 12% in Q3 despite attractive promotions
Further deals are expected through the holidays
Moore's Law isn't dead according to AMD, but it has changed
The big picture: On multiple occasions in recent years, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stated that "Moore's Law is dead" to defend GPU price increases. During a summit, AMD's chief technology officer, Mark Papermaster, disputed these repeated claims and detailed the true reasoning behind higher costs.
Display maker BOE showcases world's first 600Hz gaming laptop
Definitely a case of diminishing returns
Scalpers are struggling to sell the RTX 4080 above MSRP, but retailers won't let them return the cards
Our collective hearts are breaking for the poor scalpers
PCI-SIG says it isn't to blame for melting 12VHPWR cables
PCI consortium says safety is up to manufacturers
A new graphics card tops the Steam survey for the first time since 2018
And it's not the RTX 2060
What just happened? The latest Steam survey has arrived with a big change: a graphics card has knocked the GTX 1060 off the top spot for the first time since January 2018. November was also an excellent period for AMD CPUs, which reversed a months-long trend of declines to grab an almost 4% user share back from Intel.
GPU tariff exemption expires December 31, possibly increasing graphics card prices
GPU prices had only recently normalized
The History of the Modern Graphics Processor
3D graphics turned a dull PC industry into a light and magic show after generations of innovative endeavor. Here's our extensive look at the history of the GPU, from the early days of 3D, to game-changing hardware and the industry's consolidation.
Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti emerges through Gigabyte listings and GPU die shot
More leaks and listings before an early January launch
Disengaging from China manufacturing is hard, but it's happening slowly
A hot potato: Like a train leaving the station, it now seems inevitable that US companies are moving to reduce, or entirely eliminate, their reliance on China. It took a long time to get started, companies had been complaining about changing conditions in China for a decade. The 2018 trade war was the spark that really got them moving, and their progress has only been gaining momentum since then. This process will take years, maybe decades, but at this point is probably unstoppable.
Cyber Monday tech deals, as handpicked by TechnicalSides's staff
Hundreds and hundreds of tech deals reviewed, only the best make it to this list