Prime Day in October may have finished but there are still some late deals to be had. One of our favorite Prime Day deals has just gotten even cheaper, dropping from 5 cents per GB to 4 cents per GB. This has seen the overall price of this 4TB SSD drop from $209 to just $194. That’s a lot of capacity for the money and a superb option if you’re looking for more room for your games library....
Making your own personal assistant is one of the more fun ways to join the world of smart electronics. When building from scratch, you’re able to customize everything from how it looks and talks to how it reacts when interacting with it. Today we’ve got a great personal assistant created by maker and developer Manuel Ahumada. Using our favorite SBC, theRaspberry Pi, he’s managed to bringBenderto life from the classic sci-fi animated series ‘Futurama’....
The Razer Blade line, Razer’s stealthy and sleek portfolio of gaming laptops, is getting a series of internal refreshes on the 14 and 16-inch models atCES. The 18-inch Blade is also seeing changes, but Razer is only teasing at updates coming later in the year.The new Blade 16 is available today, including what Razer says is the first 16-inch, 240 Hz OLED display. That screen is 2560 x 1600 and meets the DisplayHDR TrueBlack 500 certification....
Leading memory chip manufacturers Samsung Electronics and SK hynix arereportedlyshifting their strategies to focus on high-value technologies like High Bandwidth Memory 4 (HBM4) and Compute Express Link (CXL). This move is driven by an increasingly competitive memory market, where Chinese companies are expanding their production capabilities and employing aggressive pricing strategies to capture market share. The memory market is transforming as AI becomes a critical driver of technological progress. Traditional approaches emphasizing cost efficiency and price competition in DRAM and NAND Flash give way to a new paradigm centered around high-performance, high-value-added products....
Samsung is currently in a negotiation deadlock with the Nationwide Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) — the union representing more than 28,000 Samsung workers — and the union has scheduled a one-day strike on June 7. While it may not feel like a major disruption, especially as strikes in other companies could last several weeks or months, chip production is a totally different story. That’s because semiconductor factories take a substantial amount of time to start up....
Samsung Foundry has reportedly decided to rebrand its 2nd generation 3nm-class fabrication technology, known as SF3, to a 2nm-class manufacturing process called SF2, thus requiring a contract to be rewritten.ZDNetnotes that the renaming move could be a way for Samsung to simplify process nomenclature and attempt to better compete against Intel Foundry, at least visually. Intel is set to roll out its Intel 20A production node, which is also a 2nm-class technology, later this year....
Samsung Electronics hasrevamped its leadership teamto strengthen its memory and foundry chip divisions as it strives to compete with rivals SK hynix and TSMC in the rapidly growing AI market. The rearrangement includes significant promotions and role changes. Still, we can only wonder how this reshuffling can ultimately address issues with Samsung’s product and technology offerings, as noticed by analysts questioned byReuters. Young Hyun Jun, Vice Chairman and Head of the Device Solutions (DS) Division (which oversees all of Samsung’s semiconductor operations) has been promoted to the CEO role, highlighting the importance of semiconductors for the company....
Samsung has unveiled its next generation of LPDDR5X DRAM, which boasts 10.7Gbps of memory bandwidth. The new generation is 25% faster than Samsung’sfirst-gen LPDDR5X, and is aimed at improvingAIperformance for mobile devices with local hardware-accelerated neural processing capabilities. Samsung said that mass production of the new LPDDR5X will begin in the second half of 2024. Samsung’s new 10.7Gbps LPDDR5X DRAM is the fastest version of the low-profile DDR5 standard to date....
Today, Sega has debuted a newSega Account systemwith supported Sega and Atlus titles, starting withLike a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. This account system, similar to other account systems from major publishers and developers, encourages users to integrate in exchange for in-game rewards and enhanced functionality. In its early stage, this is still limited toPirate Yakuza’s in-game reward (a legacy main series costume for that game’s amnesiac side story). Still, the account system may become fundamental to certain in-game functionalities, like cross-platform online play, as with other account systems....
SK hynix has announced the mass production of the world’s first 321-layer NAND flash. According to thepress release, the company will supply customers with its 321-high NAND flash featuring 1TB capacity starting in 1H 2025. SK hynix’s 321-layer high NAND flash is built on a technology the company dubs the “3 plugs” process. This technology is purportedly known for its excellent production efficiency, and “…electrically connects three plugs through an optimized follow-up process after three times of plug processes are finished....
In an interesting turn of events, the first device boasting the highest-end version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chipset isn’t even a laptop. It’s a Mini PC in the form of an official Dev Kit, which undercuts (or at least matches) the price of even the lower-end Snapdragon X Plus laptops, and it’s set for a full launch on August 23rd, though it’s also already available for pre-order onArrow.comfor just $899 USD....
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. Benchmark and Conclusion CPU-only thermal results without power limits Without power limits enforced on Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285K and i7-14700K CPUs, the CPU will hit its peak temperature (TJ Max) and thermally throttle with even the strongest of air coolers and even most liquid coolers on the market....
During its earnings call, TSMC proclaimed itself a ‘Foundry 2.0’ company to better reflect what it can offer to its customers and perhaps to defray anti-trust concerns from regulators. When it comes to self-branding, the company is also perhaps taking a page from Intel, which calls itself an integrated device manufacturer 2.0 (IDM 2.0). However, TSMC is much more than a contract chipmaker today. “At this time, we would like to expand our original definition of foundry industry to Foundry 2....
