Jarred Walton / Tom's Hardware: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: great value and performance, and GDDR7 offers more bandwidth, but the GPU's pricing and availability remain uncertain — Retail availability and pricing will be critical factors. … Why you can trust Tom's Hardware Our expert reviewers spend hours testing …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Intel unveils a new slogan, “That's the power of Intel Inside”, building on its Intel Inside campaign in 1991; its current marketing focuses on the Core series — From inside to outside? — Ever since Intel launched its ‘Intel Inside’ campaign in 1991, its brand identity …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan — It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs. — Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Intel reorganizes Intel Foundry leadership as EVP Ann Kelleher, former GM of Technology Development and now strategic adviser, plans to retire later this year — Intel reorgs Intel Foundry around two key executives. — Dr Ann Kelleher, the executive vice president at Intel responsible …
Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware: Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive — Apple's new Mac Studio doesn't look different on the outside, but there are plenty of performance upgrades under the hood
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: An in-depth look at TSMC's $165B US investment plans: three new Fab 21 phases, two new advanced packaging facilities, and an R&D center, all based in Phoenix — Timing, locations, and technologies not disclosed. — On Monday, TSMC announced plans to invest $100 billion in expanding its U.S. manufacturing capacity.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: In Q4 2024, AMD's data center business outsold Intel for the first time, with $3.86B in revenue, up 69% YoY, to Intel's $3.4B, but analysts expected more sales — But sales of Instinct GPUs disappoint. — AMD on Tuesday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the whole year.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: The Argonne National Laboratory says its Aurora supercomputer is now fully operational and available to researchers, offering over 1 FP64 exaFLOPS performance — Another ExaFLOPS supercomputer available for researchers. — Argonne National Laboratory this week said that its Aurora supercomputer …
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe storage and camera connections — Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard — Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: The Intel Foundry Technology Research team announces breakthroughs in interconnect scaling, gate-all-around transistors, and packaging — Smaller, faster, better. — Today, the Intel Foundry Technology Research team announced technology breakthroughs in 2D transistor technology using …
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: OpenWrt releases the $89+ open-source router OpenWrt One, offering a “hacker-friendly device” with two Ethernet ports, three USB ports, and dual-band Wi-Fi 6 — This ‘Unbrickable’ router should never fail you. … The group worked together to draft the specifications for this router …
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi unveils the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ in 13 and 26 TOPS versions in partnership with Hailo, after announcing branded SSDs, micro SD cards, and a bumper — Raspberry ‘AI’ — When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Amkor and TSMC sign an MOU to collaborate on advanced chip packaging for AI, HPC, PC, and mobile processors at Amkor's planned ~$2B facility in Peoria, Arizona — Apple and Nvidia rejoice. — When Amkor announced plans to build a $1.6 billion chip test and packaging facility near Peoria …
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi AI Camera review: the new $70 kit has a smart camera with performance that will cover 99% of basic user projects, and works as a standard Pi camera — Smarter Pi — Tom's Hardware Verdict … It may not come as a big surprise. After all, the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Camera …
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi launches a Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB of RAM for $50, alongside the existing 4GB model for $60 and 8GB for $80, and may release a future 1GB model — Will a $50 Raspberry Pi 5 2GB be enough? — The Raspberry Pi 5 is still the single board computer against which all others are measured …
Tom's Hardware: Intel details a microcode patch, available through BIOS updates, to address the elevated voltage issues that can damage some Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop CPUs — You need to install a BIOS update to ensure that your Raptor Lake CPU is not frying itself. — For the first time …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel extends the warranty for its boxed Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors by an additional two years, due to customers experiencing instability issues — Trying to build goodwill. — Intel told us today that it will extend the warranty on its boxed Intel Core 13th- and 14th-Gen processors by two additional years.
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Microsoft quietly adds spellchecking and autocorrect to Windows Notepad, 41 years after launching the app, following testing the features in March 2024 — Feature rolled out to insiders back in March, now available to the masses. — Microsoft tested an updated Notepad app with integrated spellchecking back in March.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: A Sequoia Capital analyst estimated companies developing AI models need to collectively generate ~$600B per year to pay for their AI infrastructure — The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point? — Despite massive investments in AI infrastructure by high-tech giants …
Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: Hugging Face unveils Open LLM Leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot — Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability. — Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Qualcomm makes its AI models, which are optimized for 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU, available to developers for building AI-enabled apps for Snapdragon X Elite devices — Another way to promote AI PCs. — When Qualcomm formally introduced its Snapdragon X Elite platforms at Computex earlier this month …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: AMD says its new 3nm EPYC Turin data center chips will launch in H2 2024, based on Zen 5 architecture and featuring up to 192 cores and 384 threads — 192 cores, 385 threads, socket compatibility. What's not to like? — AMD Lisa Su announced during her Computex 2024 keynote …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did come top in an AI benchmark — Aurora faces stability issues from hardware failures, cooling malfunctions, and operational errors.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines — Transistor shrinking intensifies. — Intel Foundry announced it had completed the assembly of the industry's …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8040 series for commercial laptops and mobile workstations and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops, adding a neural processing unit for AI — AMD is the first with a Pro desktop PC chip with an NPU for AI workloads. — AMD announced its Ryzen Pro portfolio today …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: At Intel's AI Summit in Taipei, executives say Copilot will soon run locally on PCs and that there will be a 40 TOPS requirement for NPUs on next-gen AI PCs — Let the TOPS wars begin. — We've previously reported on industry rumors that Microsoft's Copilot AI service will soon run locally …
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Samsung says the Galaxy Book4 series, with Intel Core Ultra chips and AMOLED touchscreens, will be available in the US, the UK, and other markets on February 26 — The Galaxy Book 4 Ultra, Book 4 Pro, and Book 4 Pro 360 are all coming soon. — Samsung has announced that its first AI PC series will become available son Feb. 26.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Dutch media: Chimera, a China-linked hacker group, infiltrated Dutch semiconductor giant NXP's network between 2017 and 2020 and stole chip designs and more — The full extent of the security breach is unknown. — Chimera, a Chinese-linked hacker group, has infiltrated the network …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: China's Sunway unveils new CPUs with a maximum FP64 throughput of 13.8 TFLOPS, which could let China build high-performance supercomputers despite US sanctions — China continues to advance supercomputing technologies despite U.S. sanctions. — Earlier this year, the National Supercomputing Center …
Mark Tyson / Tom's Hardware: Analysis: Nvidia was the world's biggest chip company by revenue in Q3, with revenue of $18.12B, vs. TSMC's $17.28B, Intel's $14.16B, and Samsung's $12.52B — The green team has made incredible gains in 2023. — Nvidia has swung from fourth to first place in an assessment of chip industry revenue published today.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Top500: the AMD-powered Frontier remains the fastest supercomputer at 1.194 Exaflop/s, fending off the Argonne National Laboratory's Intel-powered Aurora — Intel's oft-delayed Aurora remains a work in progress. — The Top500 organization released its semi-annual list of the fastest supercomputers …
Ash Hill / Tom's Hardware: The Linux Foundation forms the Ultra Ethernet Consortium with AMD, Cisco, HPE, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, and others to optimize Ethernet standards for AI and HPC — Big names come together to refine Ethernet standards for AI and high-performance computing. — Earlier today …
Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware: Report: ByteDance ordered ~$1B worth of Nvidia GPUs for 2023 so far, which amounts to ~100K units, including A100s ordered before US chip export controls — Chinese companies are frantically pre-ordering GPUs before government sanctions fully kick in — Chinese tech giants ByteDance …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Top500: 121 of the fastest supercomputers globally are powered by AMD silicon, up 29% YoY; the AMD-based Frontier supercomputer retains its top spot — AMD's silicon churns out the flops. — The Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world was released today …
Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: The creator of the GPT4Free GitHub project, which allows free access to GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, says OpenAI is demanding he take the repo down or face a lawsuit — GPT4Free uses other sites' connections to OpenAI. — Anyone can use ChatGPT for free, but if you want to use GPT4 …
Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: Raspberry Pi launches the browser-based Raspberry Pi Code Editor in beta, initially supporting Python, aiming to help young people learn to code — New editor is integrated with Python lessons. — When we think about Raspberry Pi, we normally picture single-board computers …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel moves to a two-year cadence for data center GPU releases, canceling the Rialto Bridge series and delaying its next release, Falcon Shores, to 2025 — Intel takes its GPU ambitions down a notch. — Image 1 of 2 — Intel's VP and GM of the super compute group announced today via …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Report: 69,190 semiconductor patents were filed globally in 2022, up 9% YoY; Chinese companies accounted for 55%, US companies 26%, and UK companies 0.26% — The U.K. only accounted for 0.26% of the global total. — China is neither the world's largest developer of chips nor the world's largest maker of semiconductors.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Report: AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and others are slashing their TSMC orders, which could reduce the contract manufacturer's Q1 2023 sales by an estimated 15% QoQ — Large customers revise orders to TSMC due to the economy slowdown. — Being the world's No. 1 foundry, TSMC was almost immune …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Jon Peddie Research: shipments of discrete GPUs fell 42% YoY to ~14M in Q3 2022, including ~6.9M units for desktop PCs, the lowest number since at least Q3 2005 — The industry shipped 42 percent fewer discrete GPUs than a year prior. — Demand for graphics cards significantly increased during …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Research: discrete and integrated GPU shipments fell 25.1% YoY to 75.5M in Q3, desktop GPUs fell 15.43% YoY, and notebook 30% YoY, the biggest drop since 2009 — Intel solidifies GPU positions amid graphics market slump. — Shipments of integrated and discrete graphics processing units dropped …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Cerebras announces its Andromeda supercomputer, combining 16 wafer-sized WSE-2 chips to create 13.5M AI-optimized cores, available to customers and researchers — The world's largest chip scales to new heights. — Image 1 of 2 — Cerebras, the company that builds the world's largest chip …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel confirms its proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub — Hack's perpetrator and origins remain unknown. — We recently broke the news that Intel's Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked …
Francisco Pires / Tom's Hardware: Samsung details GDDR7, already in production, with speeds up to 36Gbps, doubling GDDR6's 18Gbps, and plans to release new V-NAND chips with a 230-layer design — Increasing investments as others tighten their belts — Samsung is looking to capitalize on its deep and varied revenue sources …
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: Intel reveals its Arc Alchemist desktop GPU specifications for demanding, budget, and casual gamers; the top model will have 32 Xe cores and 16GB of GDDR6 RAM — Specifications of Intel's A770, A750, and A580. — the specifications of all of its Arc Alchemist A-series discrete graphics cards for desktop PCs.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Intel closes the first phase of the sale of its SSD and NAND businesses to SK hynix and says SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary will operate the Dalian fab in China — Intel and SK hynix seal the first phase of the deal. — Intel announced this evening that it has closed the first phase …
Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: Report: Raspberry Pi Trading hired investment banks Stifel and Liberum to advise on a London IPO planned for this spring that would value it at ~$500M — The listing could see Raspberry Pi valued at $500m — According to a report in The Telegraph, Raspberry Pi Trading …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and CTO Greg Lavender on the IBM partnership, how new transistor architectures could help outpace Moore's Law, and more — We had a chance to sit down with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger for a roundtable Q and A session shortly after his opening keynote at the company's InnovatiON event.
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: Micron announces that it has agreed to sell its 3D XPoint fab in Utah to Texas Instruments for $900M in cash — Micron announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Lehi, Utah fab to Texas Instruments for $900 million in cash.
Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: Microsoft says Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, excluding a significant number of Windows 10 computers from upgrading to the new OS — Even some three year old computers may not be able to run the OS. — Traditionally, we think of Windows as the operating system …