What the $52 billion CHIPS Act means for regular people
On Monday, President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, a $280 billion bill that paves the way for new chip foundries to be built on US soil. […]
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Radical AirJet cooling chips can double a laptop’s performance
Fans keep chips cool. Most consumers know that, whether they’ve opened up their laptop or heard the whiny hiss of a fan. But a startup involved with Intel is using chips to […]
AMD’s V-Cache-infused Ryzen 7000 X3D chips claim gaming supremacy
AMD is launching the Ryzen 7 7800X3D desktop processor at CES 2023 with V-Cache as the world’s fastest gaming processor—and it’s not even the fastest processor in its new family of chips. […]
AMD’s new Ryzen X3D chips get February launch date
If you were planning on cancelling your restaurant reservation to stand in line at Micro Center on Valentine’s Day in order to purchase one of AMD’s new Ryzen 7000X3D CPUs, you should […]
Apple M2 Pro MacBooks will get smoked by new PC chips. It won’t matter
Here’s a prediction you can trade in for a long-term certificate of deposit: Apple’s new M2 Max and M2 Pro chips in its updated MacBook Pro laptops are going to get thrashed […]
AMD is ‘undershipping’ chips to balance CPU, GPU supply
As the PC industry flounders, Intel suffered from such disastrous sales last quarter that it instituted pay cuts and other extreme measures going forward. AMD’s client PC sales also dropped dramatically—a whopping […]
BIOS restrictions added after AMD X3D chips burn
If you’re lucky enough to have one of AMD’s screaming new X3D CPUs designed from the ground up to boost gaming performance, you might want to check your motherboard’s manufacturer for a […]
AMD Ryzen Z1 chips will take on the Steam Deck
It seems like the Steam Deck has dominated the PC gaming space for the last year, despite running on relatively old Zen 2 hardware. The fact that this brick-sized gadget can run […]
AMD targets Chromebooks with its powerful Ryzen 7000 chips
AMD continues its march into Chromebooks today with its first Ryzen 7000 processors for the inexpensive laptops powered by Chrome OS. AMD announced the Ryzen 7000 Mobile series this past January, bouncing […]
Nvidia and AMD may launch Arm chips for Windows PCs soon
Qualcomm has long been understood to have an exclusivity agreement to supply Arm processors to the Windows PC market. A new report suggests that both Nvidia and, surprisingly, AMD, are prepared to […]
