Unannounced AMD Ryzen 4000 Flagship Coming to a Laptop Near You

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AMD announced its Ryzen 4000 U-series chips for laptops in January, but the lineup doesn't include any Ryzen 9 models. However, a Ryzen 9 4900U was spotted on UserBenchmark by hardware leaker @TUM_APISAK , pointing to a future CPU for thin-and-light laptops.

The chip should be based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture and take advantage of TSMC's 7nm FinFET manufacturing process. Like any other U-series part

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Twitter User Runs Windows 10 on 192MB of RAM

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Twitter user Nori has managed to get the 32-bit version of Windows 10 running on 192MB of RAM , less than a quarter of the 1GB minimum Microsoft recommends for the operating system.

Yesterday, 16-year-old Twitter user @0xN0ri (Nori for short) posted a thread


AMD and Nvidia Join Supercomputer-Powered Fight Against Coronavirus

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AMD and Nvidia have joined the COVID-19 High-Performance Computing (HPC) consortium -- an initiative started by the White House meant to make supercomputers accessible to researchers who are trying to combat the coronavirus .

The initiative kicked off two weeks ago, when the total power available tallied 330 PetaFLOPS . Now, with AMD and Nvidia as new members, the power figure has jumped up to 402 PetaFLOPS, spanned over 3.5-million CPU cores and 4


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Intel Axes All of 2017's U-Series Kaby Lake Refresh CPUs

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Although they have only been around for just under three years, Intel is sending a handful of Kaby Lake-U Refresh CPUs off to early retirement. The chips in question are the 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8250U, i5-8350U, i7-8550U and  i7-8650U.

Intel introduced these chips in August 2017 , and they were among the first chips


HP Announces ProBook 445 G7 and 455 G7 Ryzen 4000 Business Laptops

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AMD has seen a slow increase in market share over the past few years, including a Ryzen CPU debut in Lenovo's business ThinkPads . Now, HP is continuing the trend by releasing the HP ProBook 445 G7 and HP Probook 455 G7, business laptops that feature Ryzen’s 4000 series APUs front and center.

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CPUUp to AMD Ryzen 7 4700
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Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro Review: Wireless FPS Upgraded

Our Verdict

The Corsair Dark Core RGB Pro is a real front-runner in the wireless FPS mouse race, but its shape will turn off some gamers.

For

  • Cleaner layout than non-Pro versions
  • Smart 8-button layout
  • Good battery life

Against

  • Shape favors palm grip
  • Potential wireless issues

When it comes to finding the best gaming mouse , it’s not just about performance, but functionality too. Blame it on Twitch or, perhaps, ever-growing eSports coverage, but many have come to accept that they may never

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How to Fight Coronavirus With Your Raspberry Pi

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With the coronavirus pandemic raging, many PC users have dedicated CPU cycles to medical research using Folding@Home (we’re even doing a fold-off competition with AnandTech ). Though Folding@Home does not run on a Raspberry Pi , you can participate in Rosetta@Home, a similar project that’s also researching COVID-19, by installing a free Linux app called BOINC.

BOINC has been around for a long time and supports many different research projects, including Asteroids

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How to Beat Google's Chrome Dinosaur Game with Arduino

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Coronavirus quarantine is taking its toll on all of us, especially when the internet goes out. For six years now , Google’s been trying to offer a little levity during these moments with its dinosaur-based endless runner game, which Chrome users can play whenever they lack an internet connection. Unfortunately, this can sometimes lead to even more frustration as the game speeds up and gets more difficult, leading one arduino robotics hobbyist to take matters into their own hands. I mean,


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Report: Samsung 3nm Volume Production Delayed to 2022 Over Coronavirus

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At the start of 2020, it was reported that Samsung had succeeded in building its first 3nm prototypes with mass production scheduled to start in 2021. Now, it seems like Samsung is being forced to delay manufacturing launch of the new process node to 2022, according to a report from DigiTimes today.

The delays are said to be due to the coronavirus , which has hampered Samsung's ability to fulfill the scheduled installation of


Webcam Sales up 179%, Monitors Grow 138% and Other Coronavirus Sales Records

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The NPD market research group reported record U.S. sales of computers and productivity peripherals in the first three weeks of March, as most of the country's workforce adapts to the new work-from-home status quo, starting at a 31% uptick for mice and ranging all the way up to a 179% increase for webcams, as reported by Yahoo Finance Sunday.

“Whether working or learning from home, productivity hardware is required, and with many Americans