Even though SSDs have largely eclipsed mechanical drives in today's PC landscape, they still hold an important position when it comes to mass storage — specifically for archival duties, such as a NAS. Usually, even hard drives can soar in cost when you scale the capacity; that's why scoring a deal can be really enticing in these one-and-done sort of purchases. We've spotted one such offer for you: Western Digital's 22

If you're looking at picking up one of the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X machines — and we wouldn't blame you, because they do look pretty sweet — we have some advice: namely, don't buy one off eBay. Yes, scalpers are already trying to move pre-orders for the system, and they're pushing them for as much as 2.5 times the manufacturer's suggested retail price of $999 USD. No,

The Institute of Microstructure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (via Dmitrii Kuznetsov ) has laid out a long-term roadmap for domestic extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools operating at a wavelength of 11.2 nm, extending the information the organization shared last December . The new project spans from 2026, utilizing 40nm manufacturing technology, and extends to 2037, incorporating sub-10nm fabrication processes. The latest roadmap looks more realistic than

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes OpenAI is on track to become a multi-trillion-dollar company, citing explosive growth and scale as the foundation for what could be the fastest rise to that valuation in the industry’s history. Speaking on the BG2 podcast, Huang said that OpenAI “is likely going to be the next multi-trillion-dollar hyperscaler company.”

His comments come on the heels of a high-stakes infrastructure pact between Nvidia and OpenAI. Earlier

The latest episode published by tech channel The Serial Port began with an interesting question: Is it possible to stream YouTube via dial-up internet? As the headline suggests, the answer is a resounding yes, with our intrepid heroes managing to establish a connection offering download speeds of 668.8 kbps. The feat was eventually achieved using an era-appropriate Windows XP PC, a Cisco VoIP unit, a couple of serial port packing PCI cards, and a dozen 5

Apple's latest generation of iPhones is equipped with its A19 chips — the standard A19 on iPhone 17 and the A19 Pro on iPhone 17 Air and Pros — which represent the best the company has to offer, literally . In PassMark's single-threaded benchmark, the A19 produced the best numbers of any chip available, including fully-fledged desktop SKUs. It did that while consuming significantly less power and being passively cooled. At

Over 100 TVs and a small cadre of monitors have been put through the ringer by review heavyweights RTINGS.com , as its legendary longevity burn-in test crosses the two-year mark. Forcing the tested panels to endure nonstop uptime, simulating 10 years of average usage, the test has revealed some key truths about recent trends in consumer screens.

We first covered the test's 10-month mark findings back in 2023 , when the

A recent AMD patent, US19/201,497 titled "High-bandwidth memory module architecture," is making the rounds again, with posts like this one on Reddit prompting all kinds of speculation about the "new" HB-DIMM memory technology that AMD is preparing. However, AMD is probably not preparing anything new; Instead, the new patent is actually a continuation of an older one that dates to 2022. The