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With the retail embargo lifting tomorrow, reviews of AMD’s China-exclusive RX 9070 GRE have gone live. Hardware publicationEXPreviewhas published its review of a custom model from XFX, providing us with insight into the card’s performance and where it stands versus the competition. Positioned as an intermediary between the RX 9070 and the soon-to-launchRX 9060 XT, the RX 9070 GRE is a series of hits and misses. It trails the RTX 5070 in rasterization, and its pricing doesn’t really add to its value versus AMD’s own RX 9070....

Reports from multiple independent reviewers and publications suggest that Nvidia is barring access to pre-release drivers for the upcoming budget-oriented RTX 5060. Apparently, Nvidia is dropping drivers for RTX 5060 GPUs with the retail embargo.Igor’s Lab,HardwareLuxx, andHardware Unboxedhave all posted about the issue on their websites or on social media.Without the drivers, proper day-one reviews from tech publications will be impossible, and the drivers will drop as many reviewers travel toComputexin Taipei....

More performance numbers surrounding the newRyzen AIprocessors leaked following AMD’s officialComputex 2024announcement. Discovered byBenchleaks, a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12-core CPU was benchmarked on Geekbench 6 and sports some very impressive numbers. The CPU was tested on an Asus ProArt P16 prosumer laptop sporting 64GB of memory. Crucially, the chip was benchmarked using the laptop’s silent power plan, which reduces system performance and fan speed to maintain quiet operation even under load....

Recycling previous metals from electronic waste is very expensive and, at a large scale, often requires exorbitant amounts of power and very expensive machines to recycle efficiently. However, scientists have discovered a food byproduct, whey protein, capable of recovering gold fromelectronic waste, making the recycling process substantially more efficient than it once was. With this byproduct, the energy cost of the entire recycling process can be 50 times lower than the value of the gold extracted from electronic components....

Power supply specialist Seasonic and air cooling expertNoctuaexhibited the latest product of their collaborative efforts atComputex2024. The Prime TX-1600 Noctua Edition is an enhanced version of the vanillaPrime TX-1600with Noctua’s cooling optimization. The Prime TX-1600 belongs to Seasonic’s flagship Prime series that flaunts exceptional performance and quality. The 1,600W power supply has obtained certifications, including 80 Plus Titanium, Cybenetics Titanium in the efficiency area, and Cybenetics Lambda A in terms of noise level....

Sometimes, shortages of tiny components that can hardly be called ‘high-tech’ cost companies tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. This happened to Supermicro, which could not get enough quick couplings for liquid cooling systems, which made it postpone shipments of products and delayed $800 million of revenue from one quarter to another, reportsEconomic Daily News. “Some key new components shortage delayed about $800 million of revenue shipments to July, which lowered our EPS for June and will be recognized in our September quarter,” said Charles Liang, chief executive of Supermicro, at the company’s earnings call last week (viaSeekingAlpha)....

Sonyis working on a portable gaming console that will aim to compete against Nintendo andMicrosoft, according toreports. This portable gaming device will allow gamers to play Playstation 5 games irrespective of the location, unlike the PlayStation Portal which is a connected remote play device. However, the standalone device may still be “years away from launch,” leaving plenty of time for Sony to change or abandon the project. Earlier, Microsoft CEO Phil Spencersaidthat the development of a portable Xbox gaming device would take a few more years, which now seems similar to Sony....

Crucial’s T705 PCIe Gen 5.0 SSD is one of the fastest currently available drives that you can get your hands on (see ourreview of Crucial’s T705for more details) today. If speed really matters to you, or you’re a sucker for having to have the most powerful components in your builds, then this component certainly qualifies for that. The difference in load times in games between this drive and an older top-tier Gen 4....

SomeRaspberry Piprojects really tug at your heartstrings. As cool as it is to build a robot or a plant-monitoring system, there’s something to be said about projects that help bring us closer together as people. Today we’ve got a wonderful example of such a project, created by a maker who goes byNekhil. Using our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi, he’s managed to create a pair of glasses that can help the wearer understand sign language....

SilverStone is best known for its cases and cooling solutions, and it’s in the final stages of developing the first dual-CPU AIO cooler with the XE360-Dual. This AIO comes with two water blocks, allowing you to use a single liquid cooling solution for both processors. It’s also compatible with Intel and AMD server chips, so you can use this AIO whether you’re Team Blue or Team Red. The XE360-Dual is based on the XE360-SP5 AIO, which the company released in October 2023 for AMD’s SP5 socket Epyc server CPUs....

We’ve seen all sorts of coolRaspberry Piprojects through the years that use matrix panels — from simple ideas like this snazzyPi-powered matrix dashboardto more interactive things like thisretro gaming matrixsetup. Today, however, we’ve got something entirely new to share that really shakes up what we’ve come to expect from these sorts of builds. Maker and developer Wesley G Mitchell has put together aRaspberry Pi-powered flight trackerthat outputs to a custom matrix display....

The White House’s 125% tariff on all Chinese goods will hit the electronics sector hard, as many tech companies — even American ones such asDelland HP — manufacture products in China. According toBloomberg, the U.S. relies on imports from China for a majority of the following products by value: game consoles (86%, $6 billion), PC monitors (79%, $5 billion), smartphones (73%, $41 billion), lithium-ion batteries (70%, $16 billion), and laptops (66%, $32 billion)....

TSMC is on track to mass produce the first chips on itsA16 (1.6nm-class) process technologyin late 2016, the company announced at its European Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, earlier this week. The new production node features TSMC’s Super Power Rail (SPR) backside power delivery network (BSPDN), which enables enhanced power delivery, which routes all power through the back side of the chip, and higher transistor density....