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Tom’s Hardware Verdict While its performance is admirable, pricing from $699 to $999 is still out of reach for most consumers Easy setup via web or smartphone app Solid performance and plentiful 2.5 Gbps ports Price is still above the budget of general consumers No USB port on the router Comes with only a 30-day subscription to Netgear Armor instead of a year 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....

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team that created a new ferroelectric material in 2021 has used the same substance to build a transistor. This novel ultra-thin transistor is claimed to be superior to those used in today’s electronics. Specifically, the scientists boast of rapid nanosecond switching speeds and remarkable durability. “In my lab, we primarily do fundamental physics,” says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics who led the team behind the breakthrough (via Interesting Engineering)....

Nintendo confirmed on Xthat the Switch 2, the successor to the highly popular Nintendo Switch, will be announced this fiscal year. The original Switch went on sale seven years ago, in March 2017, making it one of the oldest consoles currently on the market. Although Nintendo updated the Switch with theSwitch OLEDin 2021, it was technically the same console, but with a larger 7-inch OLED screen and bigger storage.Despite its aging hardware, Nintendo has released some great exclusives on Switch in recent years, allowing it to remain competitive despite nearing the end of its life cycle....

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. Nvidia RTX 4080 Super: Professional Content Creation and AI Performance Nvidia RTX 4080 Super AI Performance GPUs, particularly high-end solutions like the RTX 4080 Super, can also used with professional applications, AI training and inferencing, and more. Along with our usual professional tests, we have Stable Diffusion benchmarks on the various GPUs....

It’s that time of the year again when Nvidia releases existing products with recycled or lower-binned silicon. According to hardware leakerMEGAsizeGPU, at least three of the chipmaker’sGeForce RTX 40-seriesproducts, among thebest graphics cards, will receive the treatment. TheGeForce RTX 4070currently utilizes Nvidia’s AD104 silicon, which also powers the other variants, including theGeForce RTX 4070 SuperandGeForce RTX 4070 Ti. Nvidia will also start using the AD103 silicon for the GeForce RTX 4070....

Nvidia’s introducing a new development board that offers 70 percent more performance at half the price of its last-gen Jetson Orin Nano kit. Dubbed the Jetson Orin Nano Super, this new single-board computer promises 67 TOPS (total operations per second) for just $249 versus the 40 TOPs for $499 the prior board delivered. However, Nvidia says that users of its current-gen boards, including the Orin Nano (non-super) will also get performance boosts of up to 70 percent when they install a new software update....

Earlier today, Panasonic announced refreshed models of its long-established Let’s Note laptop series. However, for the first time in its history, we have a Let’s Note portable that doesn’t have a VGA port. According to a report byNikkei Japan(machine translation), this is probably the beginning of the end for laptops sporting VGA output, with “other companies to follow suit.” A number of factors have precipitated Panasonic’s removal of the venerable VGA port....

On Friday, the JEDEC Association publishedpreliminary specificationsfor the 4th Generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) as it is getting closer to completing the HBM4 DRAM standard. As reported, the new spec supports a 2048-bit interface per stack amid a lower data transfer rate than HBM3E. In addition, HBM4 supports a broader range of memory layers to make the new memory better address different types of applications. The new HBM4 standard will specify 24 Gb and 32 Gb layers and offer configurations for 4-high, 8-high, 12-high, and 16-high TSV stacks....

An update to open source memory testing toolMemtest86+has been rolled out delivering a handful of updates and bug fixes - and lifting the application to the v7 milestone. The newly released update lets users of Memtest86+ display live memory timings on systems using Intel Core CPUs from the 1st to the 14th generation, and provides preliminary ECC (Error Correction Code) on some AMD Ryzen CPUs. We last reported on Memtest86+two years ago, when this storied testing tool received its first update since the early 2000s....

The notoriously confrontational tech siteSemiAccurateclaims that Qualcomm is cheating on thebenchmarksof its new Snapdragon X Elite and Plus laptop processors, and Qualcomm has now responded to those accusations. The Snapdragon X Plus,announced yesterday, joins the previously announced X Elite in Qualcomm’s upcoming processor lineup for Windows notebooks. The chips stand out as Qualcomm’s first potentially competitive laptop processor against Apple, Intel, and AMD, and the best chance for Windows on Arm to take off....

The world of networking is really fascinating and extends way beyond just the Internet. You might not realize that you can build a network between devices that isn’t connected to the world at large. Today we’re sharing a project in which a maker, VeggieVampire, is using aRaspberry Pias part of a Meshtastic network that connects using LoRa (Long Range) radios. Not only is the Pi integrated as a node on this network, VeggieVampire has created a way to play games on a custombulletin board system(BBS) just like we did in the 1980s....

Reddit useru/genxontechposted an image of two IntelArc B570cards in a car allegedly purchased from a local Micro Center branch. This news surprises the broader tech community, especially as Intel said during thelaunch of the Battlemage GPUsthat they’ll be available starting May 03, 2025. However, enthusiasts likely want to get their hands on these new mid-range graphics cards as soon as possible, especially given thefantastic performance of the Intel Arc B580for its $249 price tag....

A bracket for the unreleased NvidiaGeForce RTX 4090 Ti, which would have been one of thebest graphics cards, has surfaced on the Chinese e-commerce platform Taobao. It is priced at 99 Chinese Yuan, or around$14. Hardware leakerHarukaze5719shared the listing on X (formerly Twitter) with a link. The I/O bracket shows GeForce RTX 4090 Ti, with a PG136F model number, which Nvidia has never released on anyGeForce RTX 40-seriesGPU. There was much speculation as to why Nvidia never released the GeForce RTX 4090 Ti when we typically get an x090 Ti flagship with every generation of GeForce graphics cards....