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SSD controller maker Silicon Motion says its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap is driven by Nvidia, not by AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth

Nvidia may be ahead of AMD and Intel with PCIe Gen6-supporting platform for client PCs due to its client agentic AI ambitions, and that roadmap has suppliers like Silicon Motion paying attention.

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AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

AMD has reportedly stripped TSME from consumer Ryzen processors after years of working support, with testing suggesting newer AGESA firmware disables the memory-encryption feature while Pro and EPYC CPUs remain unaffected.

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Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips

Chinese memory brands Gloway and KingBank have begun using homemade chips to produce DDR5 memory kits in lieu of Samsung, Micron, or SK hynix DRAM.

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Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40%

Intel's enhanced 18A-P has entered risk production, laying the groundwork to ramp the node into full production in the coming months.

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Dell's $699 XPS 13 laptop is now available with the MacBook Neo in its sights — entry-level XPS design comes with Wildcat Lake, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD

Dell's $699 XPS 13 laptop ($599 for students) has the MacBook Neo in its sights, and it's now available sporting one of Intel's new entry-level Wildcat Lake CPUs.

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SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 8TB SSD Review — the undisputed king of high-capacity PCIe 5.0 SSDs

The SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 is a top-tier drive with excellent performance, exceptional random read latency, and good power efficiency. As you'd imagine, it just has a pricing issue.

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Build an elite AMD gaming PC around Gigabyte's X870 motherboard for $70 off — Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 drops to $249

The Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 usually retails for $319..99, but the premium motherboard has gone on sale for $249.99.

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Logitech's new G305 X Superlight weighs just 59 grams and costs $79 — company also releases hot-swappable G316 X 98 keyboard with pixel display, translucent control knob

Logitech's latest gaming peripherals include a redesigned 59-gram G305 X Superlight mouse with 8,000 Hz polling and a customizable G316 X 98 mechanical keyboard featuring hot-swappable switches and a control dial.

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'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

Vice president of client storage solutions at Silicon Motion warns that the retail SSD market has almost disappeared as NAND makers prioritize shipments of memory to AI data centers.

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Chinese fab SMIC's 7nm metal pitch beats Intel 18A but lags 38% on density, teardown finds — Huawei's sanctions-beating HiSilicon Kirin 9030 is the first subject of SemiAnalysis's new teardown lab

SemiAnalysis has published the first teardown from its new in-house lab, focusing on the minimum local metal pitch on SMIC’s third-gen 7nm at 32.5nm.

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Noctua finally releases its first AIO coolers — prices start at $220 for 240mm, features the company’s legendary A-series fans

Noctua just dropped its NL-LC1 AIO coolers on Amazon, with the 240mm option starting at $219.95. It also comes with an optional 80mm auxiliary fan to help keep other components cooler and reduce case fan speed.

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18 funky tech gift ideas for Father's Day 2026 — get something a little different for dad this year

A nice big bunch of gift ideas for dad this Father's Day

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SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann

Silicon Motion's Nelson Duann discusses NAND supply crisis in the consumer SSD market and the future of consumer storage.

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MSI MPG Coreliquid P22 360 Review: Low noise, strong performance, budget price

The MSI MPG Coreliquid P22 360 is a new AIO with a low price tag, strong thermal performance, and a 2.1-inch IPS display. We’ve tested this liquid cooler paired with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU to benchmark thermal efficiency.

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Microsoft debuts Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with new jade green color and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips — refreshed devices start at $1,499 with 16GB of RAM

Microsoft is updating the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop using the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips, along with haptic feedback on the Laptop's touchpad and a new jade color.

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Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion

Qualcomm is in talks to buy RISC-V-based AI accelerator and CPU developer Tenstorrent for $8 billion - $10 billion.

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AGI AI858 2TB SSD Review — High-end PCIe 5 speeds on a budget

The AGI AI858 is a wallet-friendly entry into the high-end PCIe 5.0 SSD playground with good random read latency, a bundled heatsink, and minimal trade-offs.

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Intel's one-two punch plan in desktop CPUs is taking shape — Z990 spotted, Nova Lake detailed, ‘Raptor Lake Next’ teased

Intel’s next-gen desktop plans are starting to take shape, and Computex entertained a lot of murmurs about what’s coming from Team Blue over the next year at the event.

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Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps

After some teasing and a couple of red herrings Commodore today unveiled a retro-styled flip phone dubbed the Callback 8020.

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Save 40% on this ultra-fast Samsung microSD card with 256GB storage, now just $47.99 — $32 saving on P9 Express model with read speeds of up to 800 MB/s, perfect for a gaming laptop or a Nintendo Switch 2

Save $32 on this Samsung P9 Express microSD card with read speeds up to 800MB/s.

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Get an RTX 5090 gaming laptop for less than $3,000 — Acer's 16-inch Predator with 2TB of storage and 32GB of RAM is now $500 off

Save $500 on a super-powerful 16-inch gaming laptop with RTX 5090 graphics and a 240Hz OLED screen. Acer's Predator Helios AI falls to just $2,999.

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These are the four keyboards I'm still using after reviewing keyboards for years — How a 500 Hz TKL and a Stream Deck layout dominated my desk

It's hard to find a keyboard that's satisfying for both writing and gaming and I'm not sure the perfect board even exists. But while I wait to find it, these are the keyboards I keep coming back to, for one reason or another.

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AMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex — SP7 and LGA9324-1 sockets will power the next generation of AI servers

Next-generation data center processors from AMD and Intel with 16 DDR5 memory channels are even bigger than today’s designs.

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Finland charges Russian captain and crew member of ship suspected of damaging undersea cables — prosecutors claim ship had eight more targets before it was stopped by coast guard

Finnish prosecutors charged two crew members of a cargo ship suspected of deliberately damaging two undersea cables at the turn of the year, with two more remaining detained in Finland. This is the second investigation to result in charges, although the first case failed to secure a conviction, with the case still on appeal.

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TSMC says panel packaging won't replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors — wafer-level tech can scale to 58 massive dies in one package

TSMC is exploring panel-level packaging and is working on its CoPoS technology, but the company's Kevin Zhang says wafer-level packaging technologies is considerably more advanced than panel-level packaging.

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Intel's long-lost data center prototype 'Arctic Sound' Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company's cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E

Intel's cancelled "Arctic Sound" AI GPU based on the original Xe-HP architecture has been pictured sporting two tiles and 32GB of HBM2E.

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Amazon UK has slashed 43% off this excellent 4K 32-inch OLED gaming monitor — lowest-ever price on this ASUS ROG Strix OLED now just £599

Get 43% off this excellent Asus ROG Strix OLED monitor.

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Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage 'negligible' for 11 million gallon one-time fill

Oracle's Project Jupiter is targeting a New Mexico desert already struggling with water consumption, but the company assures residents that the data center's water usage is "negligible."

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Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware — SteamOS boots on Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but it takes a Radeon card, installer workaround, and Resizable BAR fix

A Reddit user has shown SteamOS running on an Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but the early proof of concept required a Radeon-assisted install workaround and Resizable BAR to recover performance.

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AMD takes over MEXT to 'address growing memory constraints' in the data center — memory tiering technology enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications

AMD acquires MEXT to get Predictive Memory Engine that offloads infrequently accessed data from DRAM to NAND storage.

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SSD controller maker Silicon Motion says its consumer PCIe 6.0 roadmap is driven by Nvidia, not by AMD and Intel — RTX Spark agentic AI platform fuels a hunger for storage bandwidth

AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable — security feature vanishes after newer AGESA firmware, AMD engineers go radio silent when pressed about the change

Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips

Intel’s performance-enhanced 18A-P process enters risk production — drop-in 18A upgrade promises 9% performance improvement at iso-power, cuts thermal resistance by 40%

Dell's $699 XPS 13 laptop is now available with the MacBook Neo in its sights — entry-level XPS design comes with Wildcat Lake, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD

SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 8100 8TB SSD Review — the undisputed king of high-capacity PCIe 5.0 SSDs

Build an elite AMD gaming PC around Gigabyte's X870 motherboard for $70 off — Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WiFi7 drops to $249

Logitech's new G305 X Superlight weighs just 59 grams and costs $79 — company also releases hot-swappable G316 X 98 keyboard with pixel display, translucent control knob

'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

Chinese fab SMIC's 7nm metal pitch beats Intel 18A but lags 38% on density, teardown finds — Huawei's sanctions-beating HiSilicon Kirin 9030 is the first subject of SemiAnalysis's new teardown lab

Noctua finally releases its first AIO coolers — prices start at $220 for 240mm, features the company’s legendary A-series fans

18 funky tech gift ideas for Father's Day 2026 — get something a little different for dad this year

SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann

MSI MPG Coreliquid P22 360 Review: Low noise, strong performance, budget price

Microsoft debuts Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with new jade green color and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips — refreshed devices start at $1,499 with 16GB of RAM

Qualcomm mulls taking over Jim Keller's Tenstorrent, report claims — deal for AI chipmaker would value the company at between $8 billion and $10 billion

AGI AI858 2TB SSD Review — High-end PCIe 5 speeds on a budget

Intel's one-two punch plan in desktop CPUs is taking shape — Z990 spotted, Nova Lake detailed, ‘Raptor Lake Next’ teased

Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with ‘no social media, no browser’ — the Callback 8020 will be available in five retro colorways starting at $499, runs 99% of Android apps

Save 40% on this ultra-fast Samsung microSD card with 256GB storage, now just $47.99 — $32 saving on P9 Express model with read speeds of up to 800 MB/s, perfect for a gaming laptop or a Nintendo Switch 2

Get an RTX 5090 gaming laptop for less than $3,000 — Acer's 16-inch Predator with 2TB of storage and 32GB of RAM is now $500 off

These are the four keyboards I'm still using after reviewing keyboards for years — How a 500 Hz TKL and a Stream Deck layout dominated my desk

AMD’s massive SP7 socket for EPYC Venice and Intel’s gargantuan 9,324-pin socket for Diamond Rapids appear at Computex — SP7 and LGA9324-1 sockets will power the next generation of AI servers

Finland charges Russian captain and crew member of ship suspected of damaging undersea cables — prosecutors claim ship had eight more targets before it was stopped by coast guard

TSMC says panel packaging won't replace CoWoS anytime soon for the largest future AI processors — wafer-level tech can scale to 58 massive dies in one package

Intel's long-lost data center prototype 'Arctic Sound' Xe-HP multi-tile GPU surfaces in new engineering sample — Company's cancelled AI processor features 32GB of HBM2E

Amazon UK has slashed 43% off this excellent 4K 32-inch OLED gaming monitor — lowest-ever price on this ASUS ROG Strix OLED now just £599

Project Jupiter AI data center build raises concerns about water usage in rural New Mexico desert — Oracle calls water usage 'negligible' for 11 million gallon one-time fill

Enthusiast hacks Valve’s AMD-first gaming OS to run on Intel hardware — SteamOS boots on Intel Arc B580 desktop GPU, but it takes a Radeon card, installer workaround, and Resizable BAR fix

AMD takes over MEXT to 'address growing memory constraints' in the data center — memory tiering technology enables flash to appear as DRAM to applications

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