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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Stock Tracker — Where to Buy AMD's 6-Core CPU

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Finding an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X available at (or even close) to its $299 MSRP these days makes you about as lucky as Indiana Jones picking the Holy Grail on his first try. This processor has become an incredibly popular choice for anyone looking to grab a no-compromise gaming chip on a budget, which means there's plenty of competition for its limited stock.

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Linux Support on Apple's M1 Macs Set to Arrive via New Kernel (Update)

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Update, 4/9/21, 10:30 a.m. PT: Asahi Linux announced that its pull request was merged, which means initial support for the M1 chip is officially set to arrive with the Linux 5.13 kernel.

It also clarified that this "only includes support for a serial console and framebuffer at this point, and no other drivers" because it "follows an upstream-first philosophy" meant to lead to higher quality code


Snag a Radeon RX 6700 XT or Ryzen 9 5950X in the Latest Newegg Shuffle

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Finding the best graphics cards in stock right now is difficult — nearly impossible, really. Newegg has an alternative, with its regular Newegg Shuffle . One just went live and there are several options for the Radeon RX 6700 XT as well as the Ryzen 9 5950X , the latter being at the top of the best CPUs for the time being.

If you're not familiar with the process, Newegg Shuffle uses a lottery format. If you 'win

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AMD's Ryzen 9 5900 Blurs The Line Between Performance And Value

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Hardware detective Tum_Apisak has spotted AMD's Ryzen 9 5900 in a new benchmark . The 12-core processor appears to be a complete monster, but it's a shame that the chip is exclusive to OEMs.

Coming out of TSMC's 7nm furnace, the Ryzen 9 5900 is just like any other Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processor. Wielding the mighty Zen 3 cores,

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Intel's Upcoming DG2 Rumored to Compete With RTX 3070

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According to Moore's Law Is Dead , Intel's successor to the DG1, the DG2, could be arriving sometime later this year with significantly more firepower than Intel's current DG1 graphics card. Of course it will be faster — that much is a given — but the latest rumors have it that the DG2 could perform similarly to an RTX 3070 from Nvidia. Could it end up as one of the best graphics cards ? Never say never

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U.S. Blacklists Two Major Chinese CPU Developers

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The U.S. Commerce Department has added seven Chinese entities to the DoC's Entity List, essentially barring these companies and organizations from obtaining almost all advanced technologies developed in the U.S. Among the entities are two major CPU developers from China: Tianjin Phytium Information Technology and Sunway Microelectronics (or Shenwei Microelectronics).

The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) believes that the newly added seven entities supported modernization of the Chinese People Liberation


AMD's Zen 3, Navi 2 APUs With DDR5 Support May Arrive Next Year

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A Twitter user has shared an alleged AMD roadmap that details the chipmaker's plans for its next-generation mobile APUs . Respected hardware leaker kopite7kimi got word that the roadmap looks accurate. Nevertheless,  approach the information with caution since roadmaps are known to change as time progresses.

The roadmap reveals AMD's upcoming mobile APUs for four categories: HP (High Power), LP (Low Power), ULP (Ultra-Low Power) and ELP (Extreme Low Power)

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MSI Goes SSDs: Three Series of Spatinum SSDs Incoming

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In a bid to sell more products to their loyal customers, many of hardware makers these days start offering new product categories. Earlier this year at CES, MSI outlined plans to start offering SSDs under its newly introduced Spatinum brand.

At the time the company only announced its flagship module featuring a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface rated for a 7,000 MB/s read speed as well as a 6.900 MB/s write speed, but it turns


Mysterious GPU Could Be AMD's Next-Gen Big Navi Radeon Pro GPU

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An unidentified Radeon Pro graphics card has emerged overseas in China. The graphics card, which appeared on the Chiphell forums , could be one of AMD's forthcoming Big Navi Radeon Pro offerings.

Like AMD's other Radeon Pro SKUs, the mysterious graphics card retain the dual-slot design and a shroud with the characteristic blue and silver theme. Given the silver stripe in the middle of the shroud, it should be a Radeon Pro W-series card as opposed

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Seagate Hits a Milestone: 3 Zettabytes of HDD Shipped

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Seagate has announced that it had surpassed a shipments milestone this March. Throughout its history, the company has shipped three zettabytes (ZB) of hard drive storage. It is particularly noteworthy that 2ZB out of 3ZB were shipped in the last couple of years, which indicates that the world now generates more data than ever.

Seagate was founded in 1979, more than 41 years ago. Throughout its history, the company shipped hundreds of millions of hard drives. Seagate

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