Hardware News, Tests and Reviews
Arm aims to capture 50% of data center CPU market in 2025
1 April 2025 @ 10:20 pm
Arm Holdings aims to boost its data center CPU market share from 15% to 50% by the end of 2025, betting on AI-driven servers and growing support from major cloud service providers.
Lip-Bu Tan's first speech as Intel CEO focuses on innovation and working with foundry customers
1 April 2025 @ 7:39 pm
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan made his first keynote speech, laying down the path he intends to take for the company and soliciting customer feedback.
The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2025: Ten years of graphics card hardware tested and ranked
1 April 2025 @ 7:15 pm
Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards based on real-world gaming tests. Find out how the latest GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel stack up, with this comprehensive look at over 80 GPUs from the past decade.
Open-source tool designed to throttle PC and server performance based on electricity pricing — lightweight CLI will automatically limit clocks during peak hours
1 April 2025 @ 7:07 pm
ML Engineer Naveen Kulandaivelu built a CLI power management app that automatically throttled his CPU and GPU based on Time of Use pricing.
Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips
1 April 2025 @ 5:13 pm
At its Vision 2025 conference, Intel announced that its 18A process node has entered risk production, a crucial milestone. This comes as the company gets ready to ramp up production of the upcoming Panther Lake chips and signifies the final steps of the 'five nodes in four years' plan started by former CEO Pat Gelsinger.
Rapidus to begin trial production of its 2nm process this month — Japan gets closer to cutting-edge silicon manufacturing
1 April 2025 @ 4:54 pm
Japan chipmaker Rapidus is preparing to launch pilot production of 2nm-class wafers using gate-all-around transistors later this month, with first wafers expected by July and full-scale manufacturing targeted for 2027.
Crucial's recently released P310 M.2 2280 1TB SSD with heatsink is on sale at its lowest-ever price of $74
1 April 2025 @ 3:45 pm
If you're looking to upgrade your PC's storage, this budget-oriented SSD from Crucial is now at its lowest-ever price.
Retailer clarifies RTX 5090 'B-stock' listing with missing ROPs was a system error
1 April 2025 @ 1:13 pm
The above-MSRP "B-stock" RTX 5090 with missing ROPs that popped up on Alternate's web store a few days back was accidental and due to a system error.
Asus drops teaser for Xbox 'Kennan' handheld — reveals sneak peek days before Switch 2 launch
1 April 2025 @ 12:52 pm
Asus just dropped a teaser video, which seemingly reveals an Xbox gaming handheld.
Snapdragon X exclusive Copilot+ features begin trickling through to modern x86 Windows 11 PCs
1 April 2025 @ 12:13 pm
Microsoft has announced that several Windows 11 Copilot+ AI features are graduating from Snapdragon X exclusivity to AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and Intel Core Ultra 200V PCs.