Patriot Launches Budget-Oriented P300 M.2 NVMe SSD

Patriot P300 1TB

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Patriot has announced its latest M.2 SSD series in the P300, which spans from 128GB up to 2TB. The P300 flaunts a single-sided M.2 2280 design and fits into your typical PCIe 3.0 x4 slot. The SSDs don't rely on a bulky heatsink so it should fit inside tight spaces, including inside laptops .

The P300


EKWB Is Having a Go at Professional Water Cooling

Slovenia-based EKWB announced Wednesday its professional line of water cooling products, starting out with a pair of manifolds and some EK-Pro Quick Disconnect kits.

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Being aimed at professionals, EK's new line is completely different from its high-end consumer products. Whereas the consumer gear prioritizes looks, performance and, often, RGB lighting, the EK Professional Line is built for reliability and serviceability. Consequently, the company has abandoned RGB and transparent tubing for its EK

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Intel Discovers Security Flaw in CSME Firmware

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Intel’s internal team this week disclosed a new vulnerability in the company’s Converged Security and Management Engine (CSME), which could allow privilege escalation, denial of service and information disclosure attacks against PCs powered by certain Intel CPUs.

The bug affects all Intel CPUs that come with a CSME microcontroller unit (MCU), with the exception of newer Ice Lake and Comet Lake processor generations. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.2 out of 10, classifying it as


TSMC Approves $6.7 Billion for Fab Expansion and R&D

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TSMC this week announced that its board of directors approved a $6.7 billion budget for expanding its factories.

The chip foundry said it plans on using the budget for the following:

  • Fab construction and installation of fab facility systems
  • Installation and upgrade of advanced technology capacity
  • Installation of specialty technology capacity
  • Installation of advanced packaging capacity
  • Q2 2020 research and development capital investments and capital expenditures sustainment

Last month, we learned that TSMC was investing heavily in expanding its 5nm and 7nm


The GTX 1650 Could Be Getting a GDDR6 Memory Upgrade

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MSI GeForce GTX 1650 Gaming X 4G (Image credit: MSI)

An EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) listing , which was recently discovered by VideoCardz , reveals multiple SKUs for GTX 1650 graphics cards from MSI that weren't announced yet. Interestingly, their model names suggest that these will feature GDDR6 memory. If the products listed are actually coming to market, it would appear that the GTX 1650 is getting a performance uplift soon.

Nvidia released the GeForce GTX 1


Reports: Coronavirus Sending Rippling Damage Throughout Tech Industry

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With a handful of RAM factories located in China, DigiTimes reported today that under 30% of factory employees have returned to work amid the coronavirus outbreak. DigiTimes reported today that fewer than 30% of factory employees have returned to work, citing unnamed "sources in the memory industry."

The publication also cited anonymous sources "from the upstream supply chain" and claimed that some factories, namely ODM plants based in Kunshan, China and owned by Taiwan-based companies


This is the Cheapest We've Seen the Nvidia RTX 2070 at $399

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It's nearly 18 months since Nvidia launched its ray-tracing-capable RTX graphics cards. They're still the best money can buy. And now, belatedly, they're getting cheaper. This Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 Windforce 8GB board is just $399 on Amazon . That's a very interesting deal.

It's the cheapest new rather than refurbed RTX 2070 board on the web and fully $100

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Data Center CPU Startup Nuvia Will Design Custom Arm Architecture

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In an interview with The Next Platform , Nuvia has said that it is designing a clean sheet architecture based on the Arm architecture, for its data center chips. The startup came out of stealth mode late last year and is aiming for “double-digit” performance improvements.

Jon Carvill, vice president of marketing at Nuvia and previously working at Intel, disclosed some of the startup’s plans in an interview with The Next Platform. Carvill noted that data centers are getting constrained


HyperX Fury 32GB DDR4-3733 Dual-Channel Kit Review: A Faster 2x 16GB Option

Our Verdict

Though it offers good baseline performance, HyperX Fury DDR4-3733’s weird baseline timings beg for manual adjustments that most users are unfortunately afraid to make. If its price were lower, we might have recommended this kit for its DDR4-3600 secondary XMP.

For

  • Good overclocking capability
  • Includes second XMP for platforms that don’t reach 3733

Against

  • Up to 23-cycles of tRP and tRCD
  • High price
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What Is Windows 10X: Microsoft's Folding PC OS Explained

The foldable computer is almost here, and there will be a version of Windows 10 for it. But maybe not exactly the one you know. It’s called Windows 10X, and it is the operating system that will power dual-screen laptops and folding PCs.

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The operating system, which was codenamed Santorini internally, is based on the little-spoken of Windows Core OS. The brief version of Core OS is that it’s a stripped-down, simplified

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