hardware

This is why GPU Drivers Might Not Matter [Hardware Canucks] (www.youtube.com)

This is a great look at a number of games over time from launch to months after launch benchmarking the patch releases as well as drivers. The end conclusion is the day 1 drivers that Nvidia/AMD/Intel produce are worth having and they improve performance and fix bugs but later drivers don’t show as helping and the performance...

[News] Samsung Expected to Unveil its 1nm Plan in June, Advancing it to 2026 | TrendForce Insights (www.trendforce.com)

AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 Single Thread Performance at 5.80 GHz Found 19% Over Zen 4 (www.techpowerup.com)

One should wait for independent reviews after the product is available, but this is an interesting reference point.

Apple's Next-Gen Chip Technology on Track for 2025 Debut (www.macrumors.com)

ASML sets new EUV chipmaking density record, proposes Hyper-NA tools and radical EUV speed boosts (www.tomshardware.com)

China Launches Massive $47.5 Billion "Big Fund" to Boost Domestic Chip Industry (www.techpowerup.com)

AMD Ryzen 9000 desktop series with 16, 12, 8 and 6 Zen5 core configs reportedly launches in July - VideoCardz.com (videocardz.com)

The ROG Ally X leaks, with twice the battery of the original and way more RAM (arstechnica.com)

Samsung's HBM chips failing Nvidia tests due to heat and power consumption woes (www.reuters.com)

AtomMan G7 Pt ultra high-end Mini-PC unveiled: 16-core Ryzen 9 7945HX, Radeon RX 7600M XT and quad-fan cooling (videocardz.com)

Microsoft demos 'Baldur's Gate 3', 'Borderlands' running at 30 FPS on the new Snapdragon X Elite Windows on Arm platform, with auto Super Resolution support in tow (www.windowscentral.com)

Does anyone really need a 1,000 Hz gaming display? (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD (arstechnica.com)

Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places (www.zdnet.com)

The 4K CRT Monitor from 2005 - Siemens SMM21201P MED (www.youtube.com)

Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.anandtech.com)

Possible to plug multiple m.2 SSDs into one m.2 slot?

A search for this only brings up adapters to plug M.2 drives into a PCIE slot which is not what I want because I don’t have a PCIE slot....

Linus Torvalds now favors Ampere Arm chip over Apple Silicon MacBook for building Linux kernels — says he's now doing more Arm64 Linux testing than ever (www.tomshardware.com)

Intel's new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance (www.tomshardware.com)

OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end (www.tomshardware.com)

Massive Dell blunder leaks Intel and Nvidia's mobile roadmaps — Nova Lake, Panther Lake CPUs and GENxx Nvidia GPUs listed (www.tomshardware.com)

LPCAMM2 Is Finally Here, and It’s a Big Deal | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)

The Greatest GPU of All Time: NVIDIA GTX 1080 Ti & GTX 1080 2024 Revisit & History (gamersnexus.net)

3D-Printed USB Dead Man Switch (Prototype Demo) (www.buskill.in)

Today we’re ecstatic to publish our first demo showing a homemade BusKill Cable (in the prototype 3D-printed case) triggering a lockscreen....

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