As much as I love high-priced tech like my RTX 4090-equipped gaming rig or the LG OLED TV I use as my monitor, most of us can't spend several hundred dollars on a tech gift or purchase all the time. But you can still improve your tech life (or the lives of your friends and family) while spending a comparatively small amount of money.
I own all of the affordable devices listed below, and all are
The honeymoon period for the explosive growth of the AI industry may be drawing to a close, as some of the world's top financial institutions are growing increasingly worried about the sheer quantity of debt being taken on by top tech and AI firms to build out the infrastructure they all claim is so necessary, as Bloomberg reports. Although the top firms continue to perform well, recent wobbles in stock pricing suggest confidence is waning and the risk of a larger collapse
AMD has begun upstreaming Linux kernel patches for its next-generation GPU IP blocks, reports Phoronix . Such uploads typically indicate the start of enablement for a new GPU architecture, but in this particular case, the GFXHUB 12.1 may point to support of the CDNA5 architecture that powers the company's next-generation Instinct MI430 and MI450-series accelerators for HPC and AI workloads. There is a chance that we are dealing with AMD's
Taiwan National Science and Technology Council Minister Wu Cheng-wen said that the U.S. is not pushing through with its threat of a 300% tariff on chips , at least for those coming from the island. According to the Financial Times , Taiwan is currently finalizing a trade deal with the U.S. while awaiting the results of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Section 232 investigation. At the moment, U.S
Huawei’s in-house Ascend processors and their surrounding supplier network are being positioned as the foundation of a national effort to build an independent, fully domestic semiconductor ecosystem in China. That includes everything from high-end AI chips and custom optical networks, through to packaging materials, photoresists, and gas delivery systems.
More than 60 semiconductor companies are now backed by Huawei’s investment arm Hubble, while local partners like Empyrean are advancing design toolchains to support a parallel AI software ecosystem
The Black Friday fever is well and truly extending to GPU sales right now, because this absolute banger from Overclockers is one of the best we’ve seen in a long time. Thanks to OCUK, gamers can pick up this Intel graphics card, fitted with 10GB VRAM and enough power to smash through 1080p gameplay on high settings, for under £170, with a free game thrown in for good measure, thanks to this Intel Holiday
The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X, despite its odd name, is the first contemporary Microsoft -sanctioned handheld gaming device. The power-packed portable play powerhouse is a pretty performant bit of kit, as we found out in our review . One of the most interesting aspects is the alternative to the stock Windows interface that Microsoft calls the Full Screen Experience (FSE) for short. This was a feature exclusive to the ROG unit, but as of today, Microsoft will make
Internet outages happen all the time. Just this week, the recent Cloudflare outage disrupted millions of users. The infrastructure on which our digital lives are built is precarious and often prone to errors. When those happened, they used to have a small impact. A website’s servers crashing would bring down only that website and anything that relied on it. But as the web has become more centralised in its infrastructure, with a handful of companies dominating the market, any individual
Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive of Intel, addressed concerns that a former TSMC executive allegedly hired by Intel could have brought the foundry's trade secrets to the U.S. chipmaker in a bid to help it improve its production capabilities, triggering an investigation by Taiwanese authorities. The head of Intel dismissed claims that this could happen at all and insisted that the company respects IP.
"It is rumor and speculation," Lip-Bu Tan told Bloomberg on the sidelines of the
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday accused a group of four individuals led by an Alabama entrepreneur of illegally shipping restricted high-performance Nvidia GPUs and HP supercomputers to China. The alleged transactions — which included buying restricted hardware from official channels and then smuggling it to China using various schemes — spanned several years and reached roughly $3.89 million in total value. The defendants now face up to 200 years in prison.
The operation was led by Brian Curtis