Market research and tech analyst firm IDC reckons that global PC sales will reach274 million unitsin 2025. Thus, we should be looking at a 4.1% uplift in PC sales compared to 2024, indicates IDC. This appears to be good news for the PC industry, and factors including a race to beat U.S. tariffs andWindows 11are behind the upward revision, say the firm’s analysts. We last wrote about IDC global PC shipment forecasts backin February, when the impact of U....

Intel announced that its first wave of updates to address the gaming performance issues plaguing the Arrow Lake processors is now available. Intel says the updates available today will deliver “signficant performance upside” and restore the “complete and intended functionality” of the Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake processors. We’re currently testing the fixes and have summarized the root causes below. Intel’s update comes after a disappointing round ofCore Ultra 200S launch day reviews, which found wildly variable gaming performance recorded by different media outlets....

Anew benchmarkhas surfaced on Geekbench showcasing Intel’s upcoming mobile Core Ultra 9 285H in action. Initial scores put it a smidgeon behind Lunar Lake in terms of single-core performance. Against Meteor Lake, the CPU manages to pull ahead by 19% at roughly the same power envelope, giving us cause for some optimism. Intel’s new Core naming schematic has some weird nuances. To keep things short, any CPU without the “Ultra” moniker is equipped with Raptor Lake / Alder Lake silicon....

On Monday, reports surfaced hinting that Intel may have canceled a planned factory expansion in Israel. Business news siteCalcalistheadlined its report “Intel Global is stopping the expansion of the factory in Kiryat Gat,” according to a machine translation of the article. However, it also cited senior government officials saying that there has been no change in Intel’s planned investments in Israel. A canned statement fromIntelwas also published, hinting that evidence initial reports were based upon were merely indicative of a ‘schedule adjustment....

Intel announced on Tuesday that it plans to officially launch its next-generationCore Ultra Series 2 ‘Lunar Lake’ processorson June 27, 2025. The new CPUs will be introduced at the IFA trade show, and the launch event will be webcast onIntel’s website. The launch event will be hosted by Michelle Johnston Holthaus, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the Client Computing Group, and Jim Johnson, senior vice president and general manager of the Client Business Group....

Popular bleach brand Clorox filed a case against Cognizant, its IT provider, after the company discovered that the latter had simply given away access credentials to hackers posing as employees. According to anNBC News Report, this breach allowed Scattered Spider, a hacking group that targets company service desks, to infect Clorox with ransomware in August 2023. This IT support gaffe allegedly resulted in around $380 million worth of damage and disruption for Clorox....

There is a wide belief that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to greatly increase productivity, which may also lead to widespread job displacement. This could happen sooner rather than later, if humanity loses its ability to innovate, indicated Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, in an interview withCNN. “If the world runs out of ideas, then productivity gains translates to job loss,” said Jensen Huang in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria....

This week, Chinese CPU developer Loongson published105 programs from 53 developersthat natively support its 5000- and 6000-series processors based on the proprietaryLoongArch architecture. As the list revealed, Lenovo has quietly deployed Loongson’s processors in its datacenters and is running cloud services on them, reportsThe Register. The scale of the deployment is unclear, but the revelation highlights Lenovo’s commitment to using Chinese CPUs. For now, Lenovo offers three software packages that support Loongson’s LoongArch-based platforms: Wentian WxSphere Server Virtualization System Software V8....

New details and images of Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable have leaked. Legendary electronics leakerEvan Blassshared the above image on Christmas Day, as well as a smattering of details and specifications. Of course, the main attraction is the rollable screen, which motors from a pedestrian 14-inch to an expansive 16.7-inch diagonal. According to Blass, the photos and details he shared are of a device that will be launched atCES2025, which kicks off in under two weeks....

A retro computing enthusiast has successfully shoehorned 4MB of RAM into an Apple Macintosh Classic computer without using a daughterboard. Normally, this isn’t possible, but Adrian Black ofAdrian’s Digital Basementcompared the similarMotorola 68000 CPU-packingMac Classic and SE models, and the inspired hardware hacking session paid off. Black explains that he had a leftover Mac Classic motherboard with some chips missing after a repair session. He wanted to upgrade this from its standard onboard 1MB of RAM to an expansive 4MB....

Why bother buying something when you can make it yourself? That’s the spirit of the modern maker and definitely at the heart of manyRaspberry Piprojects. Today, we’ve got a project to share by maker and developer Siuengr, who decided to do just that by creating this fantastic Raspberry Pi-poweredjukeboxproject. The project is built around aRaspberry Pi 4, which isn’t the latest Raspberry Pi, but you certainly don’t need a lot of power for a project like this....

Memory makerMicron Technologyplans to construct a newDRAM factory in Hiroshima, Japan. The new plant will be equipped withextreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV)equipment, allowing it to manufacture Micron’s most advanced memory products. The company plans to break ground in early 2026 and have the plant up and running by 2027.Micron announced in 2023 that it would invest up to 500 billion Japanese yen ($3.2 billion USD) to bring EUV equipment to Hiroshima,Digitimesreported. Originally, the intent was to begin mass production of the most advanced DRAM there by the end of 2025....

Microsoftjust announced that it will release NPU-optimized versions of DeepSeek-R1, allowing it to take advantage of AI-optimized hardware found in Copilot+ PCs. According to theWindows Blog, the feature will first arrive on Qualcomm Snapdragon X PCs, to be followed by Intel Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) and other chips. The initial release will feature DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, which an AI research team from UC Berkeley has discovered isthe smallest model that delivers correct answers, but larger models featuring 7 billion and 14 billion parameters will arrive shortly thereafter....