The China Times brings bad news for consumers who've been waiting for affordable AMD 500-series motherboards. The Chinese news outlet reports that ASMedia will start mass-producing AMD's budget B550 and A520 chipsets in the first quarter of this year, meaning the wait for the corresponding motherboards continues.

AMD launched its Ryzen 3000-series processors back in July of last year. Thus far, the chipmaker has only officially released the

Viewsonic’s announcing an absolute bevy of new displays at this year’s CES 2020 and first up on the list is its ELITE XG550 Gaming Monitor. This giant gaming screen, similar in scope to Nvidia’s BFGD (Big Format Gaming Displays), is just ever so slightly more manageable, if you can call it that, with a 55-inch diagonal, so it won’t dominate your man-cave quite as much as those

According to a new report by Reuters , the Trump administration has been fighting to block the licensing of the 7nm EUV process technology developed by the Dutch company ASML to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), one of China’s largest semiconductor firms.

China Wants Access to EUV Technology

For more than a decade, researchers have been developing extreme ultraviolet lithography technology which would allow chip manufacturers to design ever smaller chips on smaller manufacturing processes. Companies such as TSMC and Samsung have already started using

Who said console gamers and PC gamers can’t play nice? Origin PC’s Big O, revealed here at CES 2020 today, combines the two in one chassis. Besides a high-end PC, the company will also jam in either a PlayStation 4 Pro or an Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. It’s on sale today starting at $2,499 on Origin’s website.

This isn’t the first time Origin

Seagate launched two new high-performance external SSDs for gamers on the go, the FireCuda Gaming SSD and BarraCuda Fast SSD. Both boast the latest USB-C interface, but, while their ports are common, their performance capability differs greatly.

The fastest of the two, the FireCuda Gaming SSD, is cutting-edge. The company states it is the perfect companion for the recently released FireCuda Gaming Dock. Powered by Seagate’s FireCuda 510, a high-performance NVMe

The ultimate HDR experience calls for a couple things. For one, you’ll want a super bright screen, and then there’s the experience afforded by a full-array local dimming (FALD) backlight that allows the monitor to display differing levels of brightness in different zones. The Acer Predator X32, a 32-inch 4K gaming monitor arriving in Q1, will bring all that and then some. It’s destined to be a

Intel held its Performance Workshop here in Las Vegas at CES 2020 to brief the press on a few new announcements, including the pending arrival of the Comet Lake-H processors for laptops, which will reach over 5.0 GHz and feature up to eight cores and 16 threads, a few vague details of the Tiger Lake processors' AI performance, and our first official glimpse of the NUC 9 Extreme "Ghost Canyon NUC." Intel will also announce

Refresh rates are truly getting insane. We were already scratching our heads at 300Hz laptop displays from Acer and Asus , but now Asus is taking things to another level. Alongside Nvidia, it today announced the Asus ROG Swift 360 monitor that, for some crazy reason, has an unprecedented 360Hz refresh rate.

Alright, perhaps the reasons aren’t that crazy. The monitor will target professional eSports gamers when it arrives later this year.

The 15-inch HP Spectre x360, one of the best convertible 2-in-1s out there, is getting a refresh this year. It’s shrinking down the bezels significantly and moving to a 10th Generation Intel Comet Lake Intel CPU and will start at $1,599.99, the company announced today ahead of CES 2020.

HP Spectre x360 15 Specs