Intel recently announced it wouldlay off 15% of its total workforceto cut costs and turn around lackluster earnings. In Ireland, the chipmaker recentlyoffered voluntary severancepackages to its Leixlip staff that could amount to 500,000 euros. The proposal, circulated to employees last week, gives staff members until Aug. 23 to apply for voluntary severance. Under the terms offered, staff with more than two years of service could receive an additional five weeks’ pay for each year of service....

Igor’s Labthis week published an image of Intel’sLunar Lake MX processor, which proves that PC makers are hard at work developing notebooks with LNL CPUs inside. The picture also confirms that Lunar Lake uses a multi-chiplet design and comes with on-package LPDDR5X memory to maximize its performance. Intel expects its Lunar Lake processors to offer significant improvements in the performance efficiency of its platforms due to microarchitectural innovations. The Lunar Lake MX’s compute tile reportedly packs eight general-purpose cores — four high-performance Lion Cove cores and four energy-efficient Skymont cores — to offer the right balance between performance and power consumption....

Japanese PC components retailer Goodwill Nagoya Osu will conduct a lottery for customers who want to buy anRTX 5090orRTX 5080GPU. According to itsX (formerly Twitter) post, the next-generation GPUs will go on sale this Friday, January 31, at 11 a.m. The shop will start distributing raffle tickets from 10:20 a.m. only to those in line by that time, so if you’re late, you’ll miss out on the raffle. When everyone has raffle tickets, there will be a draw, and winners can choose only one product in order of selection....

When you’re typing on your keyboard, there’s nothing more frustrating than finding the same keypresses appear twice or even more times on your screen. This phenomenon of keyboard chattering or double typing can occur for a variety of reasons—misconfigurations of the keyboard settings being the common one. Sometimes the problem with the key switches or the membranes can bring up double typing, while at other times, it also has to do with the keyboard drivers....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict A great alternative to the Raspberry Pi 5 which brings plenty of CPU power with a low power budget. When the GPIO is ready, this could be a real alternative to the Pi. Small form factor Expandable via carrier boards Onboard storage is faster than Micro SD Support for many different operating systems GPIO is not ready yet Fan noise is “whooshy” under heavy loads 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....

Your Lenovo laptop may not turn on for many reasons. For some it could be as simple as a drained battery or loose cables, while for others it could be more complex, like a damaged PCB or corrupt software. The following errors are more probable to cause your device to not boot. To diagnose and fix these problems, you must test and evaluate using multiple methods. For fixing faulty components, visually inspecting and then repairing/replacing them is typically the most effective approach....

Laptop gamingispredominantly more expensive than desktop gaming as manufacturers try to stuff as many components as possible into a tiny laptop chassis, while also trying to take heat and battery life into account. It’s certainly not a replacement for desktop gaming, but gaming laptops' compact size does offer the ability to easily move your setup with a built-in screen included, which is space-saving if you do not have the room that’s needed for a large gaming rig....

Due to the elongated shape of LGA 1700 CPUs and how they are secured in the socket, 12th-14th Gen Intel Core CPUs have been known to bend or warp while installed in the motherboard’s socket. This can cause higher temperatures due to uneven contact with CPU coolers. So Thermal Grizzly, Thermalright, and others have released complete replacements for the ILM (Independent Loading Mechanism, the CPU locking hardware) of the LGA1700 socket in recent years....

Yesterday,Microsoftpublished anofficial blog postdetailing its changes to Microsoft Defender for Individuals. The post focused on improving public Wi-Fi security and functionality through its mobile app’s VPN (Virtual Private Network) functionality. The “Privacy protection” functionality in Microsoft Defender now reflects whether your Wi-Fi is considered secure and enables a helpful “VPN on” toggle for when you are on public or unsecured Wi-Fi and wish to anonymize your traffic. For those unfamiliar with VPNs, here’s what you need to know....

GettingMinecraftto run on underperforming hardware might be the newDoom. Surely, the benchmark of a skilled gaming enthusiast lies in their ability to run this beloved game on unsupported hardware. Such is the case today, thanks to a recent video uploaded by a channel known asBudget-Builds Official. Using a 20-year-old GPU, they’ve successfully run a playable instance ofMinecraftusing just 8MB of VRAM. If you want to playMinecraftand check out the most recent list of spec requirements, you’ll find that it needs Windows 10, at least 2GB of RAM, and an Intel HD Graphics 4000 card or an AMDRadeonR5 card....

Strangely enough, the past few months of 2024 have seen prominent discussions of a few modern-day AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) mods — the first is a mod of questionable practicality to get a GTX 960 working on an AGP board, which took considerable gymnastics. The second involves repurposing an AGP port on a Super Socket 7 motherboard for faster, more modern networking speeds. Tercio_mirandarecently posted a mod from a retro PC gaming community on Facebook....

Is your mouse moving or clicking on its own? Don’t worry, it’s not possessed. Your mouse can act abnormal and cause unintended selection & dragging due to several underlying reasons. For instance, dirt particles inside the buttons, faulty cables, malfunctioning drivers, and potential malware can be responsible for this error. Fortunately, there are some easy fixes for this. So, let’s check why your mouse is clicking on its own along with how to fix it....

One of the things that Nvidia does not exactly encourage its partners among add-in-board (AIB) manufacturers to do is to ‘factory overclock’ memory on graphics cards featuring its GPUs. However, it looks like MSI’s Alexei ‘Unwinder’ has managed tounlock this possibility for GDDR7 memoryon GeForce RTX 50-series products, as noticed byVideoCardz. Good news, it works for all GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards. But, as always, there is a catch. A new unofficial update for MSI Afterburner enables RTX 50-series GPU owners to push their memory overclocking limits by an additional 3 GT/s, achieving data transfer rates of up to 36 GT/s....