Your SSD May Be in the Wrong M.2 Slot — Here’s How to Tell

One of the easiest mistakes to make when building or upgrading a PC is assuming that every M.2 slot on a motherboard is basically the same. After all, they all look nearly identical and take the same "gum stick-shaped" drives. Motherboard marketing pages love to list "4 x M.2" as though that number alone tells the whole story, but in practice, these slots can behave very differently.

You could have a perfectly healthy, high-end that performs well below expectations simply because


DeepSeek V4 Squeezes Million-Token Context Into 10% of V3.2’s Memory, Escalating China’s AI Efficiency War With OpenAI

Chinese artificial intelligence lab DeepSeek claims to significantly reduce computing resources required for token inference and memory resources with its latest V4 model, according to its release notes. DeepSeek claims that the V4 AI model requires just 27% single-token inference FLOPs and 10% of key-value (KV) cache when compared to its predecessor, the DeepSeek V3.2 model . The reduction in cache requirements addresses memory requirements, with lower requirements conserving memory and increasing the context available to model builders when creating their


Saros – Everything We Know About Housemarque’s Solar Bullet-Hell

One of the first major current-gen exclusives for the PlayStation 5 was Returnal, the bullet-hell rougelike from first-party studio Housemarque that arrived a few months after the launch of the console on April 30, 2021. Now, five years after that launch, Housemarque is back with a spiritual successor in Saros. Saros isn't a narrative continuation to Returnal, as it features a new cast of characters and a new story for players to dive into, but it is a sequel in

Qualcomm’s Datacenter CPU Rumor Comes Just In Time As Agentic AI Goes In Hyperdrive Mode

Qualcomm is rumored to be preparing a brand new datacenter CPU, which will be just in time to power growing Agentic AI needs.

There's a rumor going around that Qualcomm is working on its very own "dedicated" Datacenter CPU based on the Arm architecture.

Qualcomm making its own Datacenter CPU at some point was expected, but what the new rumor is suggesting is that we could see that chip being announced as early as June this year. This makes the processor right on time to serve the needs of Agentic AI


Xbox CEO Won’t Commit to Exclusives Just Yet, but Insists Gen9 Will Deliver a “First-Class” Console Experience

This week has been a big one for the Xbox brand. Just a few days ago, recently appointed chief executive officer Asha Sharma confirmed that Game Pass Ultimate would be getting a price decrease , and followed up that news with a new plan, focus, and logo for the future of Xbox in its new era under her purview. Now, in a new interview with , she and chief content officer Matt Booty explained a little more about how they see the future of the platform and confirm that they don't yet

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Samsung Bringing Refined Hole-Punch Tech And Special Refractive Lenses To The Galaxy Z Fold 8 To Improve Its Aesthetics

Samsung is bringing some material, albeit still-iterative, improvements to the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 8, especially in relation to its punch-hole aesthetics.

First


ASRock’s X870E Taichi OCF Pushes AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 To Record-Breaking Scores in PCMark10, GPUPI, And Cinebench

The AMD's new dual 3D V-Cache Ryzen 9 9950XD2 processor has secured top rankings in overclocking leaderboards on ASRock's flagship AM5 motherboard.

CPU world records are getting broken quite easily, especially since the AMD's new flagship Zen 5 has been dropped. While the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 failed to bring any noticeable gains in gaming over the smaller siblings, it's slightly faster than the previous Zen 5 flagship CPU in synthetic benchmarks


Colorful Quietly Drops A Desktop Motherboard Powered By Intel’s Flagship Mobile i9 13900HX With 96GB DDR5 Support

The Colorful motherboard desktop brings a mobile Raptor Lake flagship CPU for high-performance computing and support for up to 96 GB DDR5 RAM.

Chinese hardware maker has quietly launched its first MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) motherboard, featuring the flagship Intel Raptor Lake mobile CPU. The motherboard is named "Battle-AX HM770M-K WiFi D5 V20", and is powered by the Intel H770 chipset. The motherboard comes pre-equipped with the Intel Core i9


Meta Is Adding Tens of Millions of AWS Graviton Cores To Its Compute Portfolio As Agentic AI Becomes “Almost As Big a CPU Story As A GPU Story”

Meta has partnered with Amazon's AWS to bring tens of millions of Graviton CPU cores to its AI compute portfolio for Agentic AI.

As the Agentic AI era rages on, companies are rapidly expanding their AI infrastructure to meet rising compute demands. We have seen multi-GigaWatt deals being signed here and there, and CPU usage is on the rise.

With all of this happening, Meta has also its blockbuster partnership with Amazon's AWS. The new partnership centers around AWS's Graviton CPUs, which Meta will


Apple Has Grand Plans For The iPhone Display And Samsung Is Making That A Reality By Working On ‘Filterless’ Panels & Pebble-Like Form Factor

The partnership between Apple and Samsung has allowed the existence of newer display technologies for iPhones, and the California-based giant is doubling down on these efforts by introducing next-generation panels for its mobile devices. According to a new rumor, Samsung is not just bringing ‘filterless’ displays for Apple, but is also working to bring quad-curved designs that will most likely be found in the 20th-anniversary iPhone release.

The first part of the rumor shared by Weibo’s Digital Chat Station talks about