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Tiny Corp continues to publicly grumble about development issues it is having with its AMD-based TinyBox system. The corporation and its founder, George Hotz, have repeatedly beenquite vociferouson social media about what they see as AMD’s shortcomings. In the latest flare-up, Tiny Corp has hinted at abandoning AMD GPUs toexplore Intelor even Nvidia hardware. Hotz has again asked AMD to open source Radeon firmware —with a deadlineof the “end of the week” attached....

Yesterday, it wasreportedthat AMD’s RDNA 4 GPUs will not get ROCm support at launch. Unsurprisingly, this upset many developers who were planning to upgrade their setups and hoped for a seamless transition. However, ROCm support might not be far behind the launch, as AMD’sVice President of AI Softwarehas teased what appears to be an AMD GPU from the RX 9070 series running in a dedicated ROCm environment. ROCm is an open-source software stack for GPU programming, enabling graphics cards to be used for much more than rendering graphics....

TheRyzen AI 300series still has a few weeks until its release, but new Geekbench scores bode well for the chips. Two new engineering samples of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APUwere foundon Geekbenchtoday, reaching scores beating the highest-end Zen 4 mobile processors, and running at their full speed. Thelast time Strix Point(AMD’s codename for the upcoming Ryzen AI 300 series) was seen in Geekbench leaks, it turned in impressive test scores but was running in Silent Mode....

Apple has announced its new M4, the latest in the line of high-end Apple Silicon chips. Surprisingly, the new chip didn’t debut in a Mac but instead in the company’s new11- and 13-inch iPad Pros. The company explained that the existing M3 couldn’t handle the technological advances incorporated into the new iPad Pros, and only the M4 would suffice. So, what exactly does the M4 bring to the table? The M4 is built using a second-generation 3-nanometer process node (TSMC N3E), which is a refinement of the node used for the M3 (N3B)....

ASRock has issued a second update addressing boot-up and CPU damage issues on its AM5 motherboards. This time in ablog post, the board maker went the extra mile to prove its BIOS updates are not causing motherboard and CPU damage by fixing a customer’s AM5 motherboard that showed signs of CPU socket burn damage.ASRock achieved this by restoring the motherboard above without actually “fixing” it. ASRock cleaned and removed debris from the motherboard’s CPU socket and fired up the board with its original BIOS....

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. Conclusion I see a lot of fast gaming monitors in my travels but most of them are QHD and FHD resolution. While it is possible to have an addictive experience without super high pixel density, there is something about 4K that makes you want it....

Computex 2025is currently in full swing, and Asus is eager to show off its latest gaming innovations at the expo.Tom’s Hardwareis on the ground, and our team looked through the company’s latest developments. This includes some new peripherals, such as the ROG Falcata split keyboard and ROG Harpe II Ace mouse, and new GPU innovations, like the RTX 5080Noctua, which features Noctua’s legendary cooling solutions, new BTF graphics cards that are now also compatible with non-BTF motherboards, and a Thunderbolt 5 GPU dock....

A Way Out is a unique and emotional ride of two men working together to escape a prison. It’s chaotic, memorable, and not afraid of mixing many gameplay segments to deliver an entire story arc. The experience ends after about six hours, and you may be wanting more. Can we findgames like Way Outfor smooth and cinematic co-op titles? We’re looking for the type of games that are better or only work in co-op....

Best Buy has laid off a large number of its Geek Squad employees this week, according to a report published by404 Media. The tech retail company has not made any official statement, but many workers are said to have received an email about a ‘work from home’ event in which they were informed to wait for a call from their respective bosses to receive confirmation about their employment status. Some ‘going sleeper’ posts inr/GeekSquad, an unofficial worker’s subreddit, indicate that the layoffs are of a larger scale than the hundreds we saw made redundant last summer....

Buffalo Japan has launched a special limited editionUSB hard diskto commemorate 50 years since the firm’s founding. The newBuffalo HD-SKL’skeleton hard disk' (machine translated) features a transparent panel, which is nicely visible when using the external drive’s angled stand. Through the panel, owners can see the platters spinning and the read/write heads skating across the magnetic surface. As a commemorative product, the attractions of this hardware lean heavily on its looks, rather than its functionality....

Beijing is easing retaliatory tariffs on chip and semiconductor imports from America, according to theSouth China Morning Post(SCMP) — potentially a good sign for the global chip trade. Several industry sources shared the news with Chinese business publication Caijing, saying that eight tariff codes related to integrated circuits are exempted from the125% tariffs it levied on U.S. goodsin response to President Trump’s 145% import duty on imports from China. This does not include memory chips, however, whichChinese companies manufacturewithin their borders....

Sugon’s 4th Generation Hygon processor uses AMD’s latest SP5 packaging, according to a finding by hardware leakerYuuKi_AnS. A quickGooglesearch reveals that the CPU resembles AMD’s latest Zen 4-based processors in terms of memory and interface support. However, the Chinese company has likely just adopted new packaging to gain features like DDR5 memory support. Apparently, Hygon has a processor called C86-7490, which is available on a Chinese online auction. The unit is slightly scratched, as can be observed in the picture....

Cloud computing company CoreWeave just announced a $6-billion investment to put up an AI data center with an initial 100 megawatts of capacity that is expected to go as high as 300 megawatts in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The company says that this project will result in 600 construction jobs and that it will hire up to 175 permanent workers, according toBloomberg. The announcement comes about a week after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapirothreatened to cut off PJM Interconnection, the grid operator that serves 13 states and Washington, D....