Baidu recently told its investors that it would not be able to procure leading-edge GPUs for AI applications in the future due to U.S. export restrictions, reportsThe Register. However, the company believes its advanced software stack will ensure its competitive position despite using less sophisticated processors. “In the long run, we may not have access to the most cutting-edge GPU,” said Robin Li, chief executive of Baidu, at the company’s earnings call this week (viaSeekingAlpha)....

Amazon Prime Day has entered the final day, but the deals continue for PC hardware, accessories, components, and beyond as we enter the final hours. We’re scouring the hottest sales at all retailers for the best Amazon Prime Day deals on gaming GPUs, CPUs, desktop PCs, laptops, monitors, and even hard drives, among other items, and collecting those here for you, live. We aren’t just selecting deals willy-nilly, either; our domain experts are curating a list of the best value items, often based on our in-depth reviews, benchmarks, and extensive historical pricing analysis to ensure that when we say it’s a great deal, it truly is....

There are a plethora of reasons why you’d want to go for a small Micro ATX case in 2022. Maybe you’re on a tight budget and want to go for a reasonable Micro ATX motherboard. Or perhaps you have a small setup and want a space-efficient PC without paying the premium that Mini ITX cases and components demand. No matter the reason, you’ll benefit from the know-how of thebest Micro ATX casesavailable in the market today....

On Tuesday, Cerebras Systems, the company primarily known for wafer-scale processors for AI,filed for an IPOon the Nasdaq under the symbol CBRS. Cerebras, which offers both servers based on its Wafer Scale Engine 3 processors as well as cloud services (sometimes in partnership with giants like Group 42) revealedfinancial results for its recent yearsand it appears that company revenues are increasing, while its losses are decreasing. A great time for an IPO....

The Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) has 3D printed what it calls a micro turbojet engine. This isn’t a model or replica print—this is the real deal. This 3D printed micro turbojet engine actually works and successfully flew when recently tested. This information comes to us fromGlobal Times,which shared details from the official AECC WeChat page. The announcement came on Wednesday when AECC confirmed the test flight took place in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region....

Don’t be surprised if the nextbest SSDsdon’t come with a Phison or Silicon Motion controller. Chinese publicationMyDriversreports that Yingren Technology, aka InnoGrit, has commenced mass production on the YRS820, the company’s first consumer PCIe 5.0 SSD controller. Yingren started producing theYR S900, an enterprise PCIe 5.0 controller, last year, so it was only a matter of time before the manufacturer focused its time and resources on a consumer product. The YRS820 shares many similarities with the YR S900....

TheAsus ROG Strix G18 gaming laptophasn’t been out for long, but today, atAmazon, you’re able to find it for its lowest price. It debuted at $2499, but right now, it’s marked down to $2249. This 10% discount is the first price drop we’ve seen for the laptop since it was first released. It’s unclear how long it will be available at this price. This gaming laptop is definitely on the pricey end, but it comes with plenty of high-quality specs to justify the hefty price tag....

In the course of overclocking, we increase the CPU’s operating frequency above its factory specifications to push an edge in performance. While you’re at it, you need to adjust three important factors—base clock (BCLK), core voltage, and core multipliers. When even one of them is misconfigured, the overclocking will simply not work. For instance, if you overvolt the CPU, its temperature starts to rise, and the computer crashes or throws aBSOD error....

As one of the biggest PC builders in the US, Dell offers some great deals now and then as they put certain PC, laptop, and monitor models on short sales cycles. Having recently released the Alienware Area-51 machine with 50-series GPUs from Nvidia, the older Aurora models were left behind. Now we’re seeing these slightly older case designs get an injection of more recent hardware to bring them up a level....

A retro computing enthusiast has managed to getWindows XPrunning on an Intel 486 PC system. As Vaseline clouds the lens of history, you might be forgiven for thinking there was some crossover between these eras, but no, they were introduced more than a decade apart. Moreover, a strong incompatibility barrier exists, meaning 486 owners couldn’t ever upgrade to XP—until now. Thanks for this work. Go toDietmar from the MSFN forums, which has also released a modded ISO that others can test....

One of the ways Secure Boot maintains system security is by only allowing trusted kernel extensions to load. You must intervene if you want to run third-party modules like the VirtualBox Kernel Driver (vboxdrv). OnmacOS, this is very easy to do as you canallow the module to loadfromSystem Preferences. OnLinuxsystems, you should ensure the kernel and GCC versions are compatible with the vboxdrv module. you may alsomanually sign the moduleusing mokutil....

Laptop manufacturer Clevo is reportedly preparing to debut an all-new high-performance 18-inch laptop atCES2025 sporting extremely high-end internals and next-gen CPUs.IT Home reportsthat a whistleblower has dished out the specs of the new laptop, which reportedly featuresArrow Lake-HXseries 55W CPU options, a massive 18-inch screen, and support for up to 192GB of memory. Specific Arrow Lake HX CPU variants were not listed, but leaked specs reveal that the laptop will be operating on the “Arrow Lake HX 55W platform,” so we can expect the laptop to be compatible with any Arrow Lake HX series mobile CPU from Intel that has a 55W TDP or lower....

One great way to save money on your PC build or upgrade is to use some last-generation parts. In the world of AMD, it has long been much cheaper to get a Ryzen 5000 series chip over newer, Ryzen 7000 models. In the Intel ecosystem, it hasn’t made as much sense to buy older processors, because they weren’t much cheaper. But right now, as part of its spring sale, Amazon has great deals on two speedy Intel 12th Gen Core chips: the Core i7-12700KF and Core i5-12600KF....