TheMacBook Air with M1has been available for a while for $649 at Walmart, but in competition withAmazon Prime Day, the megastore has dropped the price tojust $599. Launched in 2020, theMacBook Air with M1may feel somewhat dated, especially since Apple has since released the M4. However, the M1 chip remains quite powerful for everyday users, and its efficiency is still impressive among modern mobile processors. The battery life on the MacBook Air M1 is excellent;the laptop ran for over 16 hours on our battery test....

Arducam is working on a new version of its popular Pivistation 5 all-in-one camera kit for the newRaspberry Pi AI Camera.ThePivistation 5 – IMX500has now gone onpre-salefor $269 and includes a 4GBRaspberry Pi 5. Being based on the new Raspberry Pi AI Camera kit means that all of the AI processing work is handled by theSonyIMX500 intelligent vision sensor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5’s Arm-based SoC free to handle other tasks....

China’s Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU was tested in severalbenchmarksagainst similarly performing Intel and AMD CPUs.@9550pro on Xwas the first to find the information in a now-deleted video posted to bilibili. The benchmarks revealed that the KX-7000 is 2x to 3x faster than its predecessor, but is only capable of competing with Kaby Lake quad-core CPUs. The chip was tested by Asus' Tony Yu on a new Asus motherboard made specifically for the KX-7000....

Following the release of Asus' “Back To Future” GPUs and motherboardsin China, it seems Asus is finally ready to bring their cable-less PC tech stateside with a demo atCES2024 and an officialannouncement post. But, what is Asus' new BTF standard?. Basically, BTF is Asus' version of MSI’s “Project Zero”. Typically BTF will hide all of the general connections to one side of the motherboard. An “Advanced BTF” standard conceals an extra PCIe power connection for the ever growing list of power-hungry GPUs....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Be Quiet’s Light Loop 360 delivered industry-leading thermal performance and low noise levels in our testing, and it comes with some nice extras in the box. Industry-leading thermal performance Low noise levels in common workloads DIY-friendly, with extra liquid coolant ARGB and PWM hub included Cons Installation could be simpler Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

The US Trade Representative (USTR) recommended to the White House that it maintain tariffs on GPUs, motherboards, and PC cases made in China. This recommendation was issued as “Billing Code 3390-F3”[PDF]. These tariffs will add a 25% duty on the aforementioned Chinese products. And while you may think that you’re not impacted by the news, you’re wrong! The import tax applies to all China-made GPUs and motherboards. The tariffs, along with others werefirst proposedunder former U....

Moore Threads claims to be making great strides in its AI GPU development, with its latestS4000 AI GPU acceleratorbeing exponentially faster than its predecessor. As reported bycnBeta, a training regimen of a new Kua’e Qianka Intelligent Computing Cluster sporting S4000 GPUs ranked third fastest in AI testing, outperforming several counterparts consisting of Nvidia AI GPU clusters.The benchmark run was taken from a stability test of the Kua’e Qianka Intelligent Computing Cluster....

Innotron, the parent company of ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), plans to invest $2.4 billion in a new advanced packaging facility in Shanghai. According toBloomberg, this plant will focus on packaging high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips and will begin production by mid-2026. Innotron will build the facility using money from various investors, including GigaDevice Semiconductor. The new facility will concentrate on various advanced packaging technologies, such as interconnecting stacked memory devices using through-silicon vias (TSV), which is crucial for producing HBM....

A paper released during theSIGBOVIK 2024conference details an attempt to simulate theIBM ‘quantum utility’ experimenton a Commodore 64. The idea might seem preposterous - pitting a 40-year-old home computer against a device powered by127-Qubit ‘Eagle’quantum processing unit (QPU). However, the anonymous researcher(s) conclude that the ‘Qommodore 64’ performed faster, and more efficiently, thanIBM’s pride-and-joy, while being “decently accurate on this problem.” At the beginning of the paper, the researchers admit that their ‘Qommodore 64’ project is “a joke,” but, sadly for IBM, its proof of quantum utility was also built upon shaky foundations, and the Qommodore 64 team came up with some convincing-lookingbenchmarks....

Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 5 235 Arrow Lake CPU was benchmarked in Geekbench 6. Discovered byBenchleakson X, the Ultra 5 SKU pumped out multi-core and single-core results somewhat similar to those of its Core i5-14500 andCore i5-14600counterparts. The Core Ultra 5 235 yielded a single-core benchmark of 2,634 points and a multi-core benchmark of 13,293. These results were barely any better (if at all) than Intel’s outgoing 14th Generation Core i5 counterparts, the Core i5-14500 and Core i5-14600....

October’s Prime Day (Big Deals Day) is edging ever closer, but there are still plenty of great early deals to get your hands on before the main event happens and you don’t need to be a Prime member to take advantage of this deal. Today’s deal is on an ultralight gaming mouse from Corsair that would be at home on our list of thebest gaming mice. You can grab this deal at Amazon where you can snag theCorsair Katar Elite wireless gaming mouse for just $49thanks to a massive 38% discount off its original MSRP....

Cytron, makers of theCytron Maker Pi Pico, which features on our list of thebest RP2040 Boardshave been a little quiet of late, but it seems that it has been working on something special. TheEdu Picois a project and innovation kit for learners and educators alike and it offers a simple one-stop-shop for learning to code with our favorite microcontroller, theRaspberry Pi Pico. The kit comes as a $48 board ($54 with a bundledRaspberry Pi Pico W) which features a plethora of components, all pre-wired for rapid project development....

Jump straight into high-end, high-res gaming with this prebuilt gaming powerhouse from system integrator ABS. If you’re not comfortable building your own PC, then buying a prebuilt PC is your best option. Picking the best parts and assembling them together for your dream PC is one of the exciting aspects of constructing your own rig, but this doesn’t come without some limited risk and apprehension. Buying a prebuilt PC gives you some peace of mind and assurance of parts compatibility....