A video has just surfaced showcasing, what is allegedly Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 5090, powered on in a factory. The leak comes from aChiphellthread (as spotted byEvereston X) which leads us to a video over atBilibili. The footage shows a large number of production line debugging systems on the left, with one successfully booting into Windows. On seeing this, the workers rejoice as this might be one of the first boot-ups of the RTX 5090....

When the U.S. Department of Commercerevoked Huawei export licensesfrom Intel and Qualcomm last week, it effectively barred the two companies from working with the Chinese high-tech giant. Intel subsequently cut its revenue projection by nearly $500 million for a single quarter. Qualcomm, on the other hand, said that it did not expect to receive product revenue from Huawei beyond 2024 anyway. Yet it will continue to obtain royalties from Huawei....

Qualcomm andMicrosofthave tried to make Windows on Arm a serious platform for years, and this next big swing is the most promising shot yet. In mid-2024, the first devices with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Series processors — the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus — are poised to ship. This time, things may be different. Qualcomm’s X Elite and X Plus are based on the company’s new Oryon cores, which the company is betting on for more power and efficiency....

Online PC and parts retailer Newegg has put several of its AMDRadeonRX 7000-series GPUs, some of thebest graphics cards, on sale, likely in preparation for Prime Day. The deals include AMD’sRadeon RX 7900 XTX,Radeon RX 7900 XT,Radeon RX 7800 XT, andRadeon RX 7700 XT. These sale prices give you a discount between 6% and 28%, with the RX 7900 XT exhibiting the most significant drop from the launch price. Since Newegg sells all these cards, you also have the confidence that you’re getting a quality product directly from the company, not from a third-party seller using Newegg as a platform....

If you’ve ever playedFallout, you’re more than familiar with the terminals placed throughout the game world. They are essentially desktops that you interface with on a regular basis while playing. Maker and developer Rick has managed to create a real workingterminal replicausing one of our favorite SBCs, theRaspberry Pi. This project takes a little bit of theFalloutuniverse into the real world with great timing as theFalloutTV series has been out for a few weeks....

What’s the fastest CPU for gaming on the market today? On our GPU hierarchy, we rate the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D as fastest. But, in AMD’s product stack, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is the top dog and it came out a barely-perceptible 4 fps behind the 7800X3D on our tests. In addition to gaming prowess, you get great multi-threaded performance thanks to the 7950X3D’s 16 cores, 32 threads and 5.6-GHz boost clock (the 7800X3D has just 8 cores)....

It’sPrime Day 2024(again), and we’ve checked pricing on all thebest graphics cards— including models that don’t actually make that list — to see where things stand. Nvidia’s RTX 40-series and AMD’s RX 7000-series GPUs represent the current-gen offerings, though both are set to be replaced in the coming months. That’s evidenced by the numerousBlackwell RTX 50-series rumors, not to mentionNvidia CEO Jensen giving the CES Keynote in January. There have also been reports thatRTX 4090 supplies are dwindling, paving the way for the future king of the hill, the RTX 5090....

How would you forge aGeForce RTX 4090graphics card, one of thebest graphics cardsaround, that costs at least $1,500 without access to Nvidia’s AD102 processors and Micron’s GDDR6X memory? Easily, apparently, according toNorthWest Repair, a renowned repair shop. Frankenstein graphics cards with mobile graphics processors and/or refurbished memory are nothing new. They are sold on various websites that make no secret that these boards use GPUs not obtained from official distributors and may require specialized drivers....

While Intel is busy laying off thousands of employees some of its most experienced CPU architects, with a combined 80+ years at the firm, have left to form a RISC-V startup.AheadComputingwas co-founded by Debbie Marr, Mark Dechene, Jonathan Pearce, and Srikanth Srinivasan, with the goal of “creating compelling open specification core IP.” This proactive move by the quartet of architects and engineers must be congratulated, as they founded AheadComputing and went public on July 18 – just a couple of weeks before Intel’s harshworkforce reduction planswere announced....

Qualcomm just announced the Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows mini-PC to encourage developers to build more Arm-native apps forWindows 11. This comes shortly after several laptop makerslaunched Windows 11 laptopspowered by Snapdragon X chips. Althoughthese new chips offer better performanceand battery life than top Intel and AMD laptop processors, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chip use the Arm architecture, which requires emulation to run x86 apps that many Windows PCs use. According toQualcomm’s product brief, a Snapdragon X Elite SoC powers this mini-PC, which boasts a 12-core 3....

Valvehas released itsSteam Hardware Surveyfor December, the last of 2023, and the figures are about the same aswhat they were in November’s survey. However, we’ve taken a closer look at the numbers and there are some interesting points where the data doesn’t make a ton of sense. Par for the course, but let’s dig a bit deeper. GPU market share numbers and weird statistics In the overall results forDX12 GPUs, AMD and Intel showed slight gains while Nvidia lost a small amount of market share....

China’s semiconductor industry has faced major challenges due to intensified U.S. export controls, particularly targeting blacklisted companies like SMIC, YMTC, and CXMT. However, even SMIC and CXMT can still get the chipmaking equipment they need for fabs that use the so-called trailing nodes, reportsAmerican Affairs. The question is, how many of those tools end up in blacklisted fabs? The restrictions imposed by two U.S. governments over the past six years aim to prevent Chinese firms from advancing in cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication processes, as the latter can be used to make chips that will boost China’s military capabilities....

A Superman-inspired, CMOS-powered X-ray vision imager chip has emerged from the combined research of the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and South Korea’s Seoul National University (SNU), per arelease from UTDand acorresponding IEEE paper. This imager chip demonstrates the ability to see objects through cardboard from about an inch away — a deliberate distance restriction in the technology to prevent abuse, though a future version is expected to scan as far as five inches....