Huawei might have some new friends. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that The Pentagon and the U.S. Department of the Treasury objected to the U.S. Department of Commerce's proposed restrictions on American exports to Huawei.

We aren't going to recap the entire back-and-forth between the U.S. government and Huawei. Suffice it to say that Huawei and its American suppliers have been caught in a regulatory limbo since May 2019 .

If you were thinking of buying a new desktop processor, the Ryzen 7 3800X offers you a ton of power for the money. Right now, Amazon is selling the Ryzen 7 3800X for $339.99 , which is the lowest price it has been since the holiday shopping season and only $10 more than its best-ever Cyber Monday price.

AMD also includes an RGB Wraith Prism cooler in the box, as well

According to comments in Intel’s annual report, the company’s second-generation 3D XPoint products – Alder Stream and Barlow Pass – might be delayed until 2021. Intel also admitted in the report that the increases in wafer capacity did not lead to the desired increase in CPU output.

Second-Generation 3D XPoint

Intel 2018, Intel and Micron had announced that the the companies would cease co-development of 3D XPoint after the second generation

Nvidia’s new Variable Rate Supersampling (VRSS), which launched in a driver update during CES 2020 , promises high-quality antialiasing in VR games with less of a performance hit than traditional Multisample anti-aliasing. But at least at this early stage, VRSS doesn’t deliver on its promises the way we would hope -- at least in the games we tested. We’ve reached out to Nvidia for suggestions about other games or settings to test and will

Graphics card vendor PNY has listed two new Quadro products on its website: the Quadro RTX 8000 Passive and Quadro RTX 6000 Passive.

Both graphics card flaunt a new design with the absence of a cooling fan for heat dissipation. Although the graphics cards sport a passive cooling system, it doesn't mean that they don't require active cooling. The Quadro RTX 8000 and RTX 6000 Passive

In its effort to foster a broad chiplet ecosystem, Intel has joined the CHIPS Alliance and is contributing its Advanced Interconnect Bus (AIB), a protocol that can be used with Intel’s EMIB packaging technology.

The CHIPS Alliance is hosted by the Linux Foundation and was set up to fuel the creation of open SoC and software for a range of applications, though developing open source hardware code (RTL).

Intel has now joined the consortium to share its Advanced Interconnect Bus protocol as an

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AMD has confirmed that the Wraith Prism cooler with six heat pipes that recently showed up on XFastest is a knockoff. At the current time, the chipmaker has no plans to release a revised version of the Wraith Prism.

Whoever is making these fake Wraith Prism coolers obviously has decent production capabilities: The two additional heat pipes are implemented perfectly into AMD's original design. The cooler looks very elaborate so it likely didn't come out of some random guy'

M.2 is a form factor for SSDs (solid-state drives) that’s shaped like a stick of gum. These SSDs are generally faster but more expensive than traditional, 2.5-inch SSDs.

Thin laptops are increasingly using M.2 SSDs because they take up less room than 2.5-inch SSDs or hard drives.

M.2 SSDs go up to 2TB in storage size. Other form factors offer more capacity.

In order to use an M.2 SSD in your