As the entire industry plunges into a component drought, Nvidia has just announced on X that its CES 2026 keynote will have "no new GPUs," throwing cold water on the little hope left for new PC builders. This breaks a five-year long streak of consistently announcing new GPUs — desktop or mobile — at CES ; instead, this time
OWC reveals 192TB of blazing 6.6 GB/s storage inside desktop data powerhouse — twelve 16TB M.2 SSDs deliver potent speed through Thunderbolt 5
OWC’s ThunderBlade X12 already stands toe-to-toe with the best external SSDs on the market, earning a reputation for speed, reliability, and robust performance. Now, OWC has taken its external RAID solution to the next level, doubling its previous maximum capacity from an impressive 96TB to a groundbreaking 192TB. The massive
MediaTek unveils Filogic 8000 Wi-Fi 8 family at CES 2026 – new chipsets expected to arrive later this year
At CES 2026, MediaTek just threw its considerable weight behind the next chapter in wireless networking, which is of course Wi-Fi 8. The MediaTek Filogic 8000 family is now officially out of the gate as one of the first chip platforms aimed at powering the upcoming Wi-Fi 8 ecosystem. Like Wi-Fi 8 itself,
China’s top chip foundries move to consolidate as Beijing pushes semiconductor self-sufficiency — SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor deals pave the path to unified power
China’s two largest pure-play foundries, SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor, are in the middle of significant consolidation efforts that demonstrate how industrial policy is reshaping the country’s chip sector, with SMIC about to take full control of a subsidiary for US$5.8 billion and Hua Hong set to acquire 97.5% of Shanghai Huali Microelectronics
HP's new OmniBook Ultra 14 gets Panther Lake and Snapdragon X2 options inside — exclusive variant of Qualcomm chip has 85 TOPS
HP is updating its top-of-the-line consumer productivity laptop, the OmniBook Ultra 14, with the latest silicon from both Qualcomm and Intel. At CES 2026, the company revealed a new design for the ultrabook, which the company claims is thinner than a MacBook Air.
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Qualcomm expands Snapdragon on Windows with X2 Plus – 10-core ARM CPU boasts 35% single-core jump
After rolling out Snapdragon X2 Elite chips last year, Qualcomm is expectedly expanding its lineup of Windows offerings with the Snapdragon X2 Plus range. Although we’re likely to see more variants in the future, Qualcomm made two SKUs official at CES 2026. There’s the X2P-64-100
Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis — fragile sector rocked by undersupply, which may end worse than the 2021 shortage
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Asus ROG and Xreal partner to deliver gaming-optimized AR glasses — 240 Hz Micro-LEDs with a 171-inch virtual viewing area
Xreal and Asus are two names that I never thought I’d see paired together in the same breath. However, that’s precisely what’s going on with the new ROG Xreal R1 augmented reality gaming glasses announced today at CES 2026.
Xreal is one of the most respected names in AR glasses, offering a wide range of products
Developer turns floppy disks into secret black-and-white picture canvases — pbm2track "paints" pixel art into the disk's magnetic timing diagram
The floppy disk might seem next to useless in the modern era of flash memory and solid state drives, but that hasn’t stopped one entrepreneurial hacker from developing a tool that turns the simple floppy into a piece of art. The pbm2track tool takes advantage of a floppy disk’s track timing diagram to “paint” pixel art directly onto the
U.S. electricity grid stretches thin as data centers rush to turn on onsite generators — Meta, xAI, and other tech giants race to solve AI's insatiable power appetite
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