MemTest86 will show which specific DDR5 RAM chip is faulty
MemTest86 is an essential tool if you’re on the nitty-gritty side of PC repair. It’s a way to stress test a PC’s memory and look for errors without booting into a full […]
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Intel’s Lunar Lake will be a specialized low-power PC chip
Intel executives disclosed that 2024’s Lunar Lake chip will be optimized for ultraportables for 15 watts and below, while reiterating that 2023’s Meteor Lake chip is still on track. And if you […]
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9200 phone chip wants a seat at the cool kids table
MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 9200, a flagship-styled smartphone chip that you’re not buying now — but that the company hopes will eventually become as popular as others sold within phones in […]
Intel’s next-gen ‘Meteor Lake’ chip tech is ready now
Intel said Monday that the foundation of its next-generation processor, the Intel 4 process, is now “manufacturing-ready today.” That process will be used to manufacture Intel’s next chip, code-named Meteor Lake. Ann […]
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia: Catch up on CES 2023's must-know chip reveals
Intel, AMD, and Nvidia: Catch up on CES 2023’s must-know chip reveals
Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and chip industry legend, dies at 94
Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel and a titan of the semiconductor industry whose “Moore’s Law” literally served as the measuring stick for the entire chip business, died Friday at his home […]
Intel will likely make your next phone’s chip
The company that probably makes your laptop’s processor will now manufacture the chip that’s probably inside your smartphone, too. Intel has signed an agreement with Arm to manufacture Arm processors across several […]
Nvidia becomes first $1 trillion chip company as AI explodes
Investors, perhaps searching for a foundation upon which to lay their AI investments, appear to have found one: Nvidia, whose market capitalization Tuesday makes it the first trillion-dollar chip maker. At press […]
Apple’s M2 Ultra chip chases the Hollywood elite
Apple’s new M2 Ultra chip pursues the same niche of Apple users as its predecessor, the M1 Ultra: crazy power users who need to edit and compile multiple high-resolution video streams. Most […]
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite is the chip we begged Intel to make
Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite PC platform is weird. Twelve cores, all running at 3.8GHz. Normal, right? Not for an Arm chip like Qualcomm manufactures. We’ve all become used to performance cores […]
