Nvidia will replace Intel on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, indicating the massive impact of the AI boom on the semiconductor and tech industries and the entire market. According toCNBC, this change will happen on November 8, about three months after news of Intel’s financial woes broke out. The move wassparked byIntel’s massive stock price drop—over 30% overnight—following the disastrous financial results released last August. The company has beenbleeding cashthrough its data center and foundry divisions, resulting in a $1....

Nvidia has yet to officially reveal Blackwell-based graphics boards for professional visualization (ProViz) applications, but such cards are already undergoing testing in the wild by interested parties inGeekbench. An OpenCL benchmark result of Nvidia’s upcoming RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition graphics card has emerged, confirming rumored specifications of the GPU and memory while raising questions about performance. Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition add-in-board is based on the GB202 graphics processing unit (GPU) with 24,064 CUDA cores (188 streaming multiprocessors, 128 CUDA cores) allegedly operating at up to 2,617 MHz and carries 96 GB of memory with ECC, according to the Geekbench listing....

One month after itsoriginal teaser, OneXPlayer unveiled a new handheld gaming PC dubbed theOneXPlayer X1. The device features three distinct modes of operation, setting it apart from more traditional 2-in-1 gaming devices. OneXPlayer is advertising the X1 as the world’s first “large screen 3-in-1 handheld” gaming PC that features a laptop, tablet, and handheld mode inspired by the Nintendo Switch. The new handheld isn’t available yet, but OneXPlayer offers a launch discount on its Indiegogo page for those interested in purchasing the new 3-in-1 device....

Nowadays, optical and laser mouse are the ones that dominate the market. Both types of mouse use light to track their movement. The optical mouse uses LED light and an optical sensor to track mouse movement. And laser mouse uses precise laser light and a laser sensor to track its movement. Depending on the type of use and user preference, both laser and optical mouse have advantages and disadvantages. This article compares the two mouse types based on various factors such as their sensitivity, accuracy, pricing, operating surface, and more....

Why you may trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. PNY CS3150 1TB Performance Results Comparison Products The PNY CS3150’s primary competition includes other PCIe 5.0 drives of its caliber, as well as various PCIe 4.0 drives. This includes theGigabyte Aorus Gen5 12000andNextorage NE5N. Since we’re looking at 1TB today, which is a harder sell for a high-end drive in comparison to 2TB, we’ve omitted theTeamgroup Cardea Z540andCrucial T705, but do discuss where faster or larger drives might impact performance....

Your computer cannot turn on if your PSU doesn’t turn on. It’s the unit that gives the rest of the computer power to run, often adjusting the voltage as your computer’s needs dictate. However, even power supply units eventually fail and die. While there’s a chance that your PSU can be salvaged, often, PSUs that won’t turn on should be replaced. Why Won’t My PSU Turn on? There are many reasons your PSU won’t turn on....

Australian researchers have developed a newquantummachine learning technique to generate new semiconductor designs in a move that could help improve the chip design process, according toLiveScience. The paper, published inAdvanced Science, shows how encoding data in quantum states to search for patterns before using machine learning to analyze the results can generate new models that could improve chip design efficiency. As the paper suggests, the modern design process for complicated processors and the semiconductors inside them is complex and requires absolute precision....

Sibelco, one of the two companiesmining ultra-high-purity quartzat Spruce Pine, North Carolina, has restarted production a little over ten days after Hurricane Helene devastated the area. According to itspress release, Sibelco only suffered minor damage, and all its employees are safe and accounted for. With the company restarting shipments to its customers and ramping production to full total capacity, the chipmaking industry is assured that it won’t have issues with the pure quartz supply needed to make the silicon base of semiconductors....

Raja Koduri continues to push his high bandwidth vision for computing, but this time it’s flash, namely HBF (High-Bandwidth Flash) from Sandisk. On Wednesday, the former graphics architect at S3, Apple, AMD (twice), and Intel, announced that he had joined Sandisk’s HBF Technical Advisory Board to guide development and strategy for High-Bandwidth Flash memory technology. Sandisk also shared apress releaseconfirming Koduri’s new role, as well as the appointment of Professor David Patterson to the board....

Pineboards, maker of manyhardware on top (HAT) boardsfor the Raspberry Pi, has shown just how far PCIe support has come in theRaspberry Pi 5. Using one of its newest HATs, Pineboards has succeeded not only in getting an AMD external GPU running on the Raspberry Pi 5, but playing a 3D open-source racing game. Here’s the setup, which Pineboards says took about an hour to get working. It’s using a Raspberry Pi 5 — naturally — with its Hat uPCIty Lite board....

It’s no secret that we at Tom’s Hardware are over the moon about everythingRaspberry Pi, mainly the newRaspberry Pi 5. But if you’re unsure whether you want one for yourself, it helps to know how it compares against other machines on the market. Today, we’ve got a neat comparison fromExplaining Computersover at YouTube, who shows off how well it stacks up against his Intel N100 mini PC. A fight between Intel and Arm processors is at the core of this comparison....

Thanks to our favorite SBC—theRaspberry Pi—there are all kinds of ways to transform Halloween decorations. Today, we’ve got another great example of just such a project created by Computing Mongoose. Using a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, Computing Mongoose has upgraded some regularHalloween lightsto flash and flicker with various special effects. This project actually involves two separate string lights—one set that looks like skeleton hands and another set that looks like spiders....

Retro computer hobbyist Rod Hull from The Future Was 8-bit (TFW8b) and Dave Curran from Tynemouth Software have come up with a way tomake retro-gaming streams more interactive. Their latest project lets viewers download the game being played directly onto theiroriginal Commodore 64while watching the stream on YouTube.The idea started to take shape after Curran built a Commodore PET serial interface and was discussing it with Hull. Hull described an idea along similar lines he’d been working on to inject data into YouTube videos in the form of flashing symbols in the corner of the video....