Hardware

Intel announces H810 and B860 budget chipsets for Core Ultra 200 CPUs
Intel announces B860 and H810 motherboard chipset's at CES for budget friendly builders and system builders. New chipsets support Intel's new Core Ultra 200 series desktop CPUs.
2025-01-06 21:00
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AMD announces Ryzen Z2 series processors for handhelds — more performance, better efficiency, coming soon
AMD announced its upcoming Ryzen Z2 line of processors at CES 2025, with the halo Z2 Extreme sporting an 8-core, 16-thread CPU and a 16 CU RDNA 3.5 GPU. The other two models are a step down in various ways and full specifications aren't yet available.
2025-01-06 20:39
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AMD RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs revealed: Targeting mainstream price and performance with improved AI and ray tracing
AMD announced its new RDNA 4 GPU architecture along with the Radeon RX 9000-series branding, with the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 arriving in the next couple of months.
2025-01-06 20:13
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Acer’s eco-friendly Vero 16 laptop is made from oyster shells and recycled plastic
Vero 16 laptop ups the eco-friendly ante, at least on paper, with a chassis that the company claims is constructed of 70% post-consumer plastic and a “bio-based oyster shell material.”
2025-01-06 19:45
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Dell kills XPS and Optiplex brands, adopts Apple-inspired three-tiered naming scheme for its PCs
No more Inspirons or XPS for Dell as it rebrands its consumer products as Dell, business and enterprise become Dell Pro, and workstation devices get Dell Pro Max branding.
2025-01-06 19:45
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Acer’s gaming handhelds go big with 9- and 11-inch displays – Nitro Blaze 8, Blaze 11 pack AMD 8840HS CPUs
Acer’s Nitro Blaze 8, Blaze 11 have larger screens than the handheld competition, but similar AMD-based CPU and graphics. The Blaze also has removable controllers.
2025-01-06 19:45
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AMD Launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon
AMD announced its Ryzen 9000HX series of laptop chips here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, including its flagship model that it bills as the world’s best mobile processor for gaming and content creation.
2025-01-06 19:23
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AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops
AMD has launched its Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen 200 series of mobile processors at CES 2025 at Las Vegas, debuting a total of 15 new models, across the PRO and non-PRO stack for mainstream and commercial laptops. The company also shared new benchmarks resu...
2025-01-06 19:22
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AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors
AMD announced its two flagship Ryzen 9000-series X3D processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, with the 16-core 32-thread Ryzen 9 9950X3D leading the way with the potent Zen 5 architecture paired with AMD’s dominating game-boosting X3D technology to ...
2025-01-06 19:22
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AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores
AMD announced its ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max series laptop processors here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, and by any definition, the new APUs look to be absolute monsters for the enthusiast thin-and-light gaming and AI workstation laptop markets.
2025-01-06 19:21
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Intel is sampling 18A-based Panther Lake with customers — Intel Foundry's 18A node and CPUs are on track for 2H 2025 launch
Intel's Panther Lake is on track to be released in the second half of this year as the company is sampling them with PC makers.
2025-01-06 19:12
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HDMI 2.2 and DisplayPort 2.1b display standards announced, offering greater bandwidth and strict cable requirements
Expect HDMI 2.2 introduced new Ultra96 certified cables while DisplayPort 2.1b brings DP80LL active cables offering 80 Gbps throughput over lengths of up to three meters
2025-01-06 18:37
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Asus introduces its first AMD Apex motherboard for Ryzen CPUs — Crosshair X870E Apex brings extreme overclocking features to the AM5 platform
Asus has announced its first-ever ROG Apex motherboard for AMD CPUs. The ROG Crosshair X870E Apex is Asus' all-new extreme overclocking-focused motherboard for the AM5 platform.
2025-01-06 18:27
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Computer used in the first QDOS demo to Bill Gates showcased in video
The Intel 8086 computer used to demo QDOS to Bill Gates was showcased in a video podcast this weekend.
2025-01-06 17:44
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Florida experiences a huge 1,150% surge in VPN use as Pornhub blocks access in response to age-verification law
Pornhub's parent company describes the age-verification methods mentioned in the laws to be "ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous."
2025-01-06 17:10
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United Airlines to roll out Starlink for passengers this Spring — download speeds up to 220 Mbps
United Airlines will begin adding Starlink Wi-Fi connectivity to its entire fleet, beginning with regional planes this spring.
2025-01-06 17:10
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Chinese freighter suspected of damaging undersea Internet cable connecting the US and Taiwan
A Taiwanese freighter is accused of deliberately dragging its anchor to cut an internet cable directly linking Taiwan to the U.S. East Coast.
2025-01-06 16:07
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Qualcomm teases mini desktop PC, announces 8-core Snapdragon X chip to bring Arm-powered Windows CoPilot+ laptops down to ~$600
Qualcomm launched a new 8-core Snapdragon X model here at CES 2025 in Las Vegas as it looks to reduce the pricing of Arm-based Windows CoPilot+ laptops based on its platform down to the $600 price point to help penetrate the lucrative high-volume mains...
2025-01-06 16:00
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Samsung showcases world’s first 18.1-inch foldable OLED display
Samsung Display has a bevy of new flexible OLED display solutions at CES 2025. Probably the highlight of its innovative exhibition is what it claims to be the 'world’s first 18.1-inch foldable' monitor.
2025-01-06 15:40
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