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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.Find out more about how we test. Firmware, Software and Test System Firmware MSI has updated its BIOS for Z890 (and X870), renaming it “Click X” and improving the aesthetic and functionality. The company changed the format from its previous UEFI, with the headings on the left side, details in the middle, and system status information on the right....

NEO Semiconductor, focusing on 3D NAND flash memory and 3D DRAM, announced 3D X-AI chip technology to replace the HBMs currently used in AI GPU accelerators. This 3D DRAM has built-in AI processing that lets it process and generate outputs that do not require mathematical calculations. It reduces the data bus bottleneck problems when massive amounts of data are transferred between the memory and processor, increasing AI performance and efficiency....

As reported byBloomberg, Huang made the remarks at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh as President Donald Trump makes his visit to the country. According to the report, Nvidia’s semiconductors will be used to build a 500-megawatt data center. During his remarks, Juang reportedly stated that Saudi Arabia would help Nvidia unlock new capabilities in the field of AI thanks to its rich energy stores. “I am so delighted to be here to help celebrate the grand opening, the beginning ofHumain,” Huang said in comments reported byCNBC....

A blower-style version of theRTX 5090GPU has emerged online courtesy of hardware leakerOlrak20_ on X(formerly Twitter). The photos, which seem to be from a facility in China, show multiple units of the GPU packed in boxes and ready for shipment. Curiously, the GPU has a serial number sticker which mentions ‘RTX5090 32G D7 Turbo’, suggesting that the GPU in question is not the RTX 5090D, officially meant for the Chinese market....

AMD’s 4th Generation FidelityFX Super Resolution image upscaling technology with frame generation is a very promising feature of the company’s latestRadeonRX 9000-series, but for now it is officially supported by a limited number of games. Nonetheless, modders have found a way to add FSR 4 to any game that supports Nvidia’s DLSS2 or newer or Intel’s XeSS, reportsVideoCardz. To do so, theyinvented the OptiScaler appthat can enable FSR 4 in all games supporting Intel’s XeSS and/or Nvidia DLSS2 or newer machine learning-based upscaling technologies....

Dasung has made the Paperlike Color portable E Ink monitor available via its officialU.S. web store. This 12-inch device with 2,560 x 1,600 pixels supplements the eye-friendly color e-ink screen appeal with a front light, touch screen functionality, and simple USB-C connectivity. However, $849 (including shipping) may be prohibitive for many interested. The Dasung Paperlike Color portable first became available in China in March of this year. However, now that it is available in the U....

A high-severity vulnerability inMicrosoftDefender SmartScreen is being used to deliver information-stealing malware in Spain, Thailand, and the U.S.,securityresearchers say. The researchers discovered the stealer campaign using booby-trapped files to exploit the vulnerability and deliver information stealers such as ACR Stealer, Lumma, and Meduza. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs observed the latest stealer campaign spreading multiple files that can sidestepMicrosoft Defender’s SmartScreen to download malicious software to target computers. The security vulnerability was addressed in CVE-2024-21412....

Computers run a diagnostic sequence, Power-On Self-Test (POST) from its BIOS during startup. This test checks all your hardware devices such as CPU, GPU, RAM, keyboard, USB, etc., and determines whether they are running correctly. If it doesn’t find any issues with your devices, your PC starts booting. However, if POST detects any problems, your PC starts beeping with particular patterns depending on the nature of the problem. Why is PC Beeping on Startup?...

Qualcomm plans to release a budget Snapdragon X Plus chip with the X1P-42-100. This would be the most affordable SoC in its lineup and is designed for the$700-dollar Windows on Arm PCsarriving next year. These Snapdragon X PCs are built for budget customers who want to try the AI experience but do not necessarily need high-performance computing.Wccftechhas gathered multiple benchmark test results of the Asus ProArt PZ13, which features Qualcomm’s most affordable chip, and the results were generally mixed....

We loveRaspberry Picyberdecks and all of the amazing creativity that comes from the maker community that makes them. That said, we’ve never quite seen one like this created by \the YouTube channel known as The Civitas Universe. Sure you could use a keyboard for input but this maker took things a step further and made the rig into abrain scannerthat responds in real time to brain waves. The Civitas Universe has dubbed this creation the Neuro Photonic R5 Flow Cyberdeck — named for its brain scanning functionality and theRaspberry Pi 5powering it inside....

It’s no secret that theRaspberry Piand theRaspberry Pi Picocan emulate a plethora of old school consoles. But Dr. Raphaël Boichot has taken things a step further by emulating a classic accessory to the Nintendo Game Boy line. Using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico, he’s created a Game Boy Printer emulator and dubbed the projectTinyGB Printer. You may be thinking “A printer for the Nintendo Game Boy?”. Yes it was a thing....

Last weekAMD promisedthat itsRadeonRX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards with default clocks and regular cooling systems should be available at recommended prices of $549 and $599. However, retailers in the U.S., U.K., and presumably elsewhere are now selling entry-level Radeon RX 9070-series models that are supposed to be selling at MSRPs at prices that are $50 to $130, according toThe Verge. Our own research suggests things might be even more dire....

you may now grab the PowerColor Fighter AMDRadeonRX 7700 XT 12GB GDDR6 at its lowest price since launch,$349.97. To Sweeten the deal, Newegg bundles selected AMD Radeon GPUs with two games worth $60—and this graphics card is one of them. Just before this price drop, this GPU was available for $399.99. TheRadeon RX 7700 XTsits between theRadeon RX 6800and theGeForce RTX 3080. This graphic card didn’t appeal to potential buyers at the time of launch because of the pricing—and as expected, the pricing began to drop gradually....