Alibaba's new AI video generator joins growing crowd of Sora competitors By Eric Hal Schwartz published 24 September 24 Alibaba reveals a new text-to-video AI tool.
There's one handheld gaming PC that went under the radar at CES 2025 - and it's got a secret weapon to beat the competition By Isaiah Williams published 13 January 25 The handheld gaming PC race continues, as Tencent had its 3D handheld gaming PC showcased at CES 2025.
Chinese server CPU beats Microsoft, Google and AWS rivals to grab performance crown — Alibaba's Yitian 710 is quickest server CPU but it is based on Arm rather than RISC and x86 is likely to be the overall speed champion By Wayne Williams published 9 May 24 Researcher tested five Arm-powered server CPUs and Intel's Xeon Platinum, with Alibaba's Yitian 710 coming out on top.
Breaking the 1000-core barrier: Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU as battle for cloud-native market — but is it already too little too late for the lone Arm chip vendor? By Wayne Williams published 7 August 24 Ampere unveils roadmap for a 512-core CPU, the AmpereOne Aurora for the cloud-native market.
Fresh CPU benchmarks from obscure French-named processor vendor emerge — Chinese-based Montage repackaged Intel Xeon parts, added its own security ingredients and appears to run faster By Wayne Williams published 30 May 24 Fresh benchmarks show the Chinese Montage Jintide CPU runs faster than the Intel Xeon processor it's based on.
Asus ROG Ally gets its most important update yet: a free boost to make games run much faster By Darren Allan published 25 April 24 If you own one of these smart gaming handhelds, you need to grab the latest update as a priority.
Google Bard could soon become Gemini, and appear inside more apps By David Nield published 4 February 24 It looks like it's going to be a big week for Bard, with a name change, a new app, and Google Messages integration.
No Nvidia? No problem - Huawei debuts AI system that's apparently faster than the market leader, the GB200 NVL72 By Wayne Williams published 18 April 25 Huawei debuts an AI system in China that's significantly faster than Nvidia’s market leader, the GB200 NVL72.
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Asus ROG Ally 2024 could be revealed today in black, sporting a refined design and big changes for the handheld gaming PC By Darren Allan published 9 May 24 We can see the teased refresh of the ROG Ally looks more streamlined and sleeker, and could offer better battery life.
Talk about VIP service - Elon Musk and Sam Altman have their DGX Spark mini PCs hand-delivered by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang By Efosa Udinmwen published 22 October 25 Jensen Huang’s personal DGX Spark deliveries to Musk and Altman reveal Nvidia’s symbolic dominance and AI’s growing divide between elites.
New Hollow Knight: Silksong patch looks to improve its Simplified Chinese translation among other fixes By Rhys Wood published 17 October 25 The latest Hollow Knight: Silksong patch brings overhauled Simplified Chinese translation following launch backlash.
'No asterisk generation' : AMD promises its MI450 AI GPU will be faster than ANYTHING Nvidia has, yes, that includes even Rubin Ultra By Wayne Williams published 11 September 25 AMD says its MI450 GPUs will outperform Nvidia Rubin Ultra as it positions the launch as a Milan-style turning point in AI accelerator markets next year.
Anker recalls nearly 80,000 Bluetooth speakers due to fire risk, check to see if you own one By Becky Scarrott published 6 December 24 Anker has said it will offer free replacement speakers to those speakers affected, all of which were sold exclusively on Amazon in 2023.
Asus ROG Ally Z1 big price cut means it’s finally worth considering as a Steam Deck rival By Darren Allan published 30 November 23 Vanilla ROG Ally with AMD’s Z1 chip can now be bought at the price it should’ve launched at.
Two of China's biggest chip designers just merged to compete better against Intel, AMD and Nvidia By Efosa Udinmwen published 2 June 25 China’s top chipmakers, Hygon and Sugon, merge in new bid to challenge AMD and Intel.
Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V By Wayne Williams published 6 March 25 AheadComputing, formed by former Intel engineers, wants to take RISC-V to the next level and rival Arm.
The next-gen of gaming handhelds is upon us - AMD's Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU could feature 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU cores meaning greater performance and efficiency By Isaiah Williams published 23 October 24 AMD’s new RDNA 3.5 Z2 Extreme APU is very promising, to say the least, and handheld gamers will benefit from this.
Anker’s new earbuds have a MacBook-like ‘touch bar’ on the case to tweak controls – and some serious sound design By Carrie Marshall published 4 October 24 Anker's earbuds have something special in their charging case
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Meta helped design a chip for its own network, but you'll never be able to buy it By Efosa Udinmwen published 28 November 24 Meta and Marvell Technology have developed the FBNIC chip.
CRKD reveals the Nitro Deck+, an enhanced version of its superb Nintendo Switch accessory By Dashiell Wood published 26 February 24 CRKD has announced the Nitro Deck+, an improved model of the Nitro Deck.
Ransomware attack hits top chipmaker Nexperia, huge hoard of data set to be leaked By Sead Fadilpašić published 16 April 24 A terabyte of Nexperia data could soon leak to the dark web, unless the ransom demand is met.
Nvidia unveils next-generation Rubin AI chips as it surprisingly launches the new era of AI sooner than expected By Craig Hale published 3 June 24 Nvidia’s latest Rubin AI chips mark the start of a new yearly refresh cycle for Nvidia, up from once every two years.
CRKD has revealed the Atom, an adorable keychain controller that might just be the best mini peripheral that I’ve ever tried By Dashiell Wood published 23 August 24 The new Atom controller from CRKD seems like the perfect compact accessory.
The Steam Deck won’t be the only handheld gaming PC running SteamOS in the near future thanks to Ayaneo By Muskaan Saxena published 11 January 24 Ayaneo will soon offer a portable gaming PC that’ll run on SteamOS!
AMD is betting on strategic partners to one-up Nvidia — with 50-year-old Ethernet being at the heart of an alliance looking to promote a wider, more balanced ecosystem By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published 24 December 23 Why AMD is buying into the Ultra Ethernet Consortium to improve its inter-chip networking technology
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'Awesome Branding Move': Intel recycles Altera brand for its PSG group — and it may well have been decided over a dinner in 2023 By Wayne Williams published 8 March 24 Intel believes the newly named Altera will fare better as an independent entity.
Rabbit r1 hasn't shipped yet and it's already received a major upgrade By Cesar Cadenas published 19 January 24 As part of a new partnership, Perplexity AI will enable the r1's search engine and offer access to multiple LLM models.
