If you’ve built a PC in the last few decades, you’ve almost certainly come across a 3-pin (or even 2-pin) DC fan or a 4-pin PWM fan (if not both) when setting up the cooling inside your case. And since you can connect a 3-pin fan to a 4-pin header or a 4-pin fan to a 3-pin header and the fans will spin, that may lead you to wonder what the difference is between the two and which is better....
Japan’s government-backed chipmaker Rapidus has begun adjusting equipment in order to start test production of wafers later this month. The company, which aims to begin high-volume production on its 2nm-class process technology by 2027, plans to complete the first test wafers by July, according toBloomberg. After that, the company intends to release process design kits (PDKs) to early customers and offer them an opportunity to prototype their designs.Rapidus began installing semiconductor production equipment, including ASML’s advanced EUV and DUV lithography systems, into its Innovative Integration for Manufacturing (IIM) facility in Chitose, Hokkaidolate last year....
Raspberry Pi Ltdhas announcedthe latest products in its range of accessories to support the flagshipRaspberry Pi 5. The Raspberry Pi SSD Kit and Raspberry Pi SSD which come hot on the heels of the recentRaspberry Pi branded A2 micro SD cardsand a bumper case. The Raspberry Pi SSD Kit is essentially theRaspberry Pi M.2 HAT+bundled with your choice of PCIe Gen 3 compliant M.2 2230 256GB ($30) or 512GB ($45) M....
We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%. At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss. Other consumer goods makers have performed the same calculations and taken the same actions, though most have not been open about it.May 24, 2025 Framework’s prediction seems prophetic now as Razer has seemingly joined it in pausing some (or all) of its U.S. business....
Nvidia’s mid-range RTX 40 series GPUs are gaining serious traction in the GPU market, according to Steam’s latesthardware survey. For September, theRTX 4060,RTX 4060 Ti, andRTX 4070were the leading three GPUs for adoption rate, with the RTX 4060 seeing as much as a 34% increase in adoption from August to September. The RTX 4060 has been steadily growing in adoption rate over the past several months, but the month of September saw its highest adoption rate ever....
Competition in the handheld market is heating up once again, as Lenovo is rumored to announce a budget-friendly Legion Go S soon. Thanks to new data fromWinFuture, the Legion Go S is likely the first handheld to be powered by AMD’s new Z2G APUs—expected to debut in 2025—while offering a 120 Hz 1080p screen, a 512GB SSD, and 16GB of RAM. The Ryzen Z2G - short for Z2 Go - isallegedlybased on AMD’s Rembrandt architecture featuring eight Zen 3+ CPU cores and an RDNA 2 iGPU (Integrated GPU) with 12 Compute Units....
Safari is the go-to browser for plenty of Mac users. Its simple UI and effective security features make it a pretty good browser overall. However, there are times when Safari fails to open on a Mac computer, and that’s exactly what we’re going to talk about here. Corrupted extensions, browser files, and unsuitable configurations are the most likely culprit when it comes to safari not being able to load. Nevertheless, there are a few different fixes you can follow to fix your malfunctioning browser....
Samsung and SK hynix are finally retiring their respective DDR3 production lines for good, according to reports fromIT Home. The two Korean memory manufacturers will reportedly stop supplyingDDR3memory to the market by the second half of this year. Both companies are making this change in response to growing demand for AI-optimized HBM3 memory, so Samsung and SK hynix are focusing on more lucrative markets.It is crazy to think that DDR3 is still around, but DDR3 is still used today for niche applications that don’t require bleeding edge DDR5 or even DDR4 memory....
NVMe SSDs are the norm these days, but it’s rare to find one that balances price, performance, and long-term value like this. Samsung’s 990 EVO is a relatively fresh entry in its legendary storage lineup, boasting PCIe Gen4 support at a reasonable price point. Normally hovering around $176, it’s now available for just$113.99 during Amazon’s Prime Day sale—a massive drop on a 2TB drive that can stand its ground against top-end models....
The Samsung Odyssey Ark is a rather large and impressive gaming monitor. Not only is this thing the size of your average television, but it also features a large 1000R curved OLED screen to wrap around your peripheral vision and a novel mechanism that allows you to tilt the monitor into a ‘cockpit’ mode for a different way to view your games and media. Available at Amazon,Samsung’s 55-inch Odyssey Arc (2nd Gen) is on sale for $1,79a much-improved price from its original $3000 MSRP....
Monitors with big specs often come with big price tags, but today we’ve got a deal that shakes things up a bit. Currently, at Amazon, you’re able to find theSamsung Odyssey OLED G9gaming monitor at one of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen. It debuted with a price tag of $1,799, but right now it’s available for just $959, a 47% price reduction. As far as gaming monitors go, this one is far from casual....
On October 15, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) entered into a $212 million contract with Hitachi Rail to get its Muni Metro light rail control system off of floppy disks and an additional $488 million (for a total of $700 million) will go to other key maintenance tasks like replacing the slow, fragile, aged loop cables [h/tArs Technica]. This isn’t the only example in recent memory of a government finally doing away with floppy disks....
One of the challenges faced by the Chinese chip design industry is the lack of advanced domestic electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Market leaders Cadence and Synopsys are unable to supply the chipmaking software to Chinese entities due to U.S. export controls. Also, until recently, no EDA tools for chip design software could work on China’s domestically produced CPUs. Things are starting to change, and the Chinese firm, X-EPICintroducedXinhuazhang, its first EDA software that can work on China’s domestically produced processors....
