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Asus launched thirteenZ890 motherboards, in sync with Intel’s release of the next-genArrow Lake Core Ultra 200Sprocessors. However, theBTF board it showed off at CESandComputexthis year is notable for its absence. The company confirmed this in aYouTube livestream(h/t@unikoshardware) when a viewer asked if a Z890 BTF board would be coming in the near future. The host answered, “Right now, no. We have no immediate plans for a Z890 BTF. We are under design and development consideration for BTF, but right now, nothing to discuss, nothing to confirm....

List in brief1.Best Budget 3D Printer Overall2.Best Budget 3D Printer for Beginners3.Best Budget 3D Printer for Multicolor Printing4.Best Budget 3D Printer for Fast Printing5.Best Budget Resin 3D Printer for Beginners6.Best Budget 3D Printer for Miniatures7.Shopping Tips What’s the best budget 3d printer you can buy today? Whether you want to dive into 3D printing as a hobby or use it to start a small business, you may not want to just spend hundreds or thousands of dollars right off the bat....

Last year, wepreviewed Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controllerwith a 1TB SSD. It looks ready to deliver compelling performance and give Phison a run for the money, but we’ve been waiting to see retail availability for four months now. The wait may finally be coming to an end, and when we visited with Biwin atCES2025, it showed off it’s upcoming Black Opal X570 Pro drives, with capacities of 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB — all using the SM2508....

Biwin is a relatively new kid on the block with its own-branded memory modules and solid-state drives, but the company has been around for a while with Acer and HP-badged products. This year Biwin is finally entering the advanced components market with its own brand, and the company plans to offer rather exclusive products.One of the first of such products is Biwin’s X570 PCIe Gen5 x4 SSD — which is based onMaxiotek’s MAP1806SSD controller, the company’s range-topping controller with eight NAND channels and support of up to 3600 MT/s 3D NAND....

If you have the funds to afford a $1,900 productivity monitor these days, you’re perhaps looking at something like anApple Studio Displaywith nano-texture glass or maybe aDell UltraSharp 40. Or perhaps you’d be interested in the latest E ink monitor from Boox. And it’s not just any E ink display; the newest Boox Mira Pro lets you enjoy your content in living color. The Mira Pro (Color) features a 23.5-inch color E ink panel using Kaleido 3 technology....

Thefirst tracesof Moore Threads' GPU programming software stack, dubbed MUSA, have surfaced online, furthering the nation’s pursuit of tech-autarky. MUSA serves as an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA environment, compatible with the domestic MUSA MTT GPU lineup. Any open-source pedigree of the SDK has not been mentioned, so it is likely proprietary and won’t be of much benefit to developers outside China. The U.S. has implemented a series of export restrictions on China, including: advanced AI chips, high-bandwidth memory (HBM), manufacturing equipment, and silicon wafers from leading players like Intel, TSMC, and Samsung....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5-6000 C36 isn’t the flashiest memory kit, but it delivers the performance you expect from high-end memory. Good performance Minimalist design Intel XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO support Below-average gaming performance Somewhat pricey 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....

DeepSeek made quite a splash in the AI industry by training its Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671 billion parametersusing a cluster featuring 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs in about two months, showing 10X higher efficiency than AI industry leaders like Meta. The breakthrough was achieved by implementing tons of fine-grained optimizations and usage of Nvidia’s assembly-like PTX (Parallel Thread Execution) programming instead of Nvidia’s CUDA for some functions, according to an analysis from Mirae Asset Securities Korea cited by@Jukanlosreve....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Dell G16 offers strong performance, a great mechanical keyboard, and a high-res display in a package below $1,000, making it worth your consideration for a budget machine. Strong gaming performance across the board 16-inch QHD+ display with 240Hz refresh rate Subpar 720p webcam A bit heavier than I’d like Chassis can become uncomfortably warm while gaming Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

At a New York event headlined by founder MichaelDell, Dell announced a dramatic rethink of its laptop sub-brands. It is ditching well-known and long-running options like XPS, Inspiron, and Optiplex for a three-tiered system that it’s hard to not directly compare to Apple. Going forward, Dell’s new consumer PCs will be known simply as Dell, while business-focused models will get the Dell Pro moniker, and high-performance workstation-class systems will be labeled Dell Pro Max....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Though DreamHost has good traffic handling, its mediocre performance makes its VPS plan middling at best. Its Shared plan not only underperforms, but it caps your database size at just 3GB and then signs you up for a pricey add-on if you exceed the limit. Good traffic handling Decent load times Poor performance on many benchmarks Strict, low limits on database storage for shared plan Signs up shared users to pricey MySQL add-on plan if they exceed quota...

Last year it turned out that Elon Musk’s xAI had to install additional‘portable’ generatorsnear its facility adjacent to Memphis, Tennessee, to power theColossus supercomputerwith over 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs as local power grid could not support the load. The Southern Environmental Law Center contends the generators are “illegal,” yet they can keep running, reportsThe Guardian. xAI’s Colossus supercomputer consumes about 150 MW of power when equipped with 100,000 H100 GPUs. More when it is upgraded to200,000 processors....

An engineer has shared his experience of designing a CPU from scratch, over two weeks, “with no prior experience.” During this brief period,Adam Majmudarclaims to have learned the fundamentals ofchip architecture, absorbed the finer points ofchip fabrication, and prepared his first full chip layout usingEDA tools. The next step in his “speed-running the chip stack” to-do list is designing a GPU from scratch. When finished this project is destined for production viaMatthew Venn’sTinyTapeout 6....