PC enthusiast channel Level1Techs has shown off a new AMD Threadripper Pro system running 400 copies of Doom simultaneously. The feat involved four virtual machines, each running 100 copies of Doom. Despite this seemingly hefty classic gaming workload, Level1Techs' affable host, Wendell, accidentally left 100 copies of Doom running, and only noticed when a Cinebench 24 benchmark score was a little lower than expected, revealing just how powerful the chip actually is
Samsung's 4TB 990 Pro SSD tumbles to lowest-ever price — our top SSD pick returns to a low price not seen since October 2024
Just hours after the Samsung 9100 SSD dropped to some excellent all-time low prices, there's now an equally mouth-watering deal on the excellent Samsung 990 Pro SSD 4TB, which is now just $279.99 at Amazon . That's a 27% discount of over $100, and a return to the lowest-ever price we've seen on this model, last spotted in October
Samsung’s 500Hz QHD OLED monitor, the first of its kind, is now available in the U.S. for $999 — two new curved monitors under the Odyssey G7 lineup also go on sale
Samsung has finally announced the rollout of the world's first 500Hz OLED gaming monitor for customers in the U.S. First showcased back in January at CES , the new Odyssey OLED G6 is expected to be one of the best gaming monitors on the market. The company also announced the expansion of its Odyssey G7 lineup with the addition of a new 37-inch and a 40-inch model, both featuring curved displays.
The Odyssey OLED G
I'm building a media server out of leftover PC parts and a 3D printed case
Why buy a PC server when you can build one using spare parts and a 3D printer?
U.S. authorities allegedly placed secret tracking devices in AI chip shipments to China — report claims targeted shipments from Dell and Super Micro containing Nvidia and AMD chips had trackers in pac
The Federal government is allegedly placing hidden location trackers in some AI chip servers that are suspected of being at risk of diversion to China. Reuters reported that anonymous sources confirmed that U.S. authorities are employing this tactic as part of their investigation into the alleged smuggling of banned AI chips into China.
According to the report, the alleged tracking doesn't impact all shipments, but only "targeted" shipments believed to be at a high risk of being diverted to China. Despite the
Students 3D print drone that can swim underwater and fly through the air — 'variable-pitch propeller system' paves way for amphibious breakthrough
We've covered all sorts of amazing drones here at Tom's Hardware — most of them custom-designed with amazing finesse. Today is the first time we've ever covered a drone quite like this. Students Andrei Copaci, Pawel Kowalczyk, Krzysztof Sierocki, and Mikolaj Dzwigalo from Denmark's Aalborg University have 3D printed a custom drone that is not only capable of flight but can also be piloted underwater.
I swapped my mini-LED display for a $1,300 OLED monitor. Here’s what happened
For as long as I’ve owned a gaming PC or console, I’ve spent hours sitting in front of what can only be described as a series of subpar monitors. From the tiny 19-inch TV that I bought with my Xbox 360, to the 21.5-inch LG monitor that accompanied my first PC build, I’ve often skimped on my display in favor of hardware elsewhere. A practice I’m sure you
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has become a lightning rod of controversy in the semiconductor space amid US and China geopolitical tensions — here's why
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has swiftly become a controversial figure in the political and technology space following his appointment in March this year. Off the back of an aggressive restructuring and layoff program, which has seen Intel scale back its ambitions in a number of industries, he's drawn attention for his heavy investments in Chinese companies - some 600 in total - a number of which allegedly have ties to the Chinese military. Lately, he was even called to the
Huawei releases new tool to get Chinese firms around crushing HBM export blacklist — new UCM software claims up to 22x throughput gain and 90% latency reduction for traditional cache hierarchies in AI
Huawei is seeking to fire a powerful salvo against the West in the U.S.-China tech access wars. The tech titan has created a new software tool called the Unified Cache Manager (UCM) that seeks to speed up LLM training and inference without the use of HBM (high-bandwidth memory), a hot commodity that China lacks easy access to due to U.S. export restrictions.
The South China Morning Post reports that Huawei unveiled the UCM tool on Tuesday,
German tech firm sues Nvidia for patent infringement, seeks to block Nvidia across 18 European countries — ParTec lawsuit alleges DGX AI supercomputer design theft
German supercomputing firm ParTec AG has stepped up its legal challenge against Nvidia with a third patent infringement lawsuit filed at the Unified Patent Court in Munich. This new suit targets Nvidia’s DGX supercomputers , which are a key part of AI infrastructure powering advanced workloads in sectors ranging from healthcare to automotive and finance.
At the heart of ParTec’s case is a patent covering their dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA)—a technology that allows different types of microprocessors, such as CPUs and GPUs