Best Intel Motherboards: April 2021
Intel's latest 11th Generation Rocket Lake processors have launched and officially on sale, which means Z590 motherboards with PCIe 4.0 can make use of the new hardware. Despite the...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/8/2021Biostar Announces B550T-Silver Mini-ITX Motherboard For AMD's Ryzen 5000 Family
Biostar has unveiled its latest mini-ITX motherboard for the AMD B550 chipset, the B550T-Silver, which is designed for use with AMD's Ryzen 5000 and Ryzen 3000 processors. The small-sized...
48 by Gavin Bonshor 3 days agoSales of Fab Tools Surge to Over $71 Billion in 2020
SEMI, an organization representing chipmakers and producers of semiconductor production tools, published this week that sales of wafer processing equipment has surged to an all-time record of $71.19 billion...
18 by Anton Shilov 4 days agoTSMC Q1 2021 Process Node Revenue: More 7nm, No More 20nm
This week TSMC has disclosed its full quarterly financial results for Q1 2021. In those results the company often explains where the revenue demand is for its technologies, and...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress 5 days agoAI Funding Spree: +$300m for Groq, +$676m for SambaNova
The growth of AI has seen a resurgence in venture capital funding for silicon start-ups. Designing AI silicon for machine learning, both for training and inference, has become hot...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress yesterdayMSI Drops A Bling Bling Motherboard: the MEG Z590 Ace Gold Edition
On the back of Intel's 11th generation Rocket Lake processor release last month, MSI has dropped a new Z590 motherboard which certainly raises an eyebrow towards aesthetics. The new...
32 by Gavin Bonshor 6 days agoAT Deals: Alienware M15 R3 Gaming Laptop Over $300 Off
Taking home a quality gaming laptop doesn't have to cost a fortune with offers like this from Amazon on Alienware's M15 R3 gaming laptop. This laptop is usually priced around...
2 by AnandTech Deals 6 days agoAMD Ryzen 5000G APUs: OEM Only For Now, Full Release Later This Year
With the high demand for semiconductors causing most companies to focus on their high margin, high profitability components, I wasn’t expecting to see many launches of low-to-mid range hardware...
63 by Dr. Ian Cutress 6 days agoMicrosoft Springs A Surface Launch: Surface Laptop 4 Announced With Custom Ryzen
Microsoft tends to update their Surface lineup on an irregular schedule, not necessarily following the updated CPUs that are generally announced on a mostly annual cadence. Today Microsoft is...
46 by Brett Howse on 4/13/2021Best AMD Motherboards: April 2021
Another month into 2021, and AMD's Ryzen 5000 series processors are still thin on the ground, especially the high-core count parts. The more affordable models, such as the Ryzen...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/13/2021Sponsored Post: ASUS’s Z590 Buying Guide
ASUS’ Z590 motherboards are among the best that you can buy for 11th Gen Intel CPUs. Here’s an overview of what makes them special, as well as who each...
6 by Sponsored Post on 4/12/2021Sponsored Post: StarWind Harness the Power of SSD for its All-Flash Hyperconverged Appliance (HCA)
StarWind has developed a 2-node hyperconverged infrastructure perfectly designed to fit the needs and budgets of ROBO, SMB, and Edge IT environments.
0 by Sponsored Post on 4/12/2021AT Deals: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Down to $1289
Road warriors holding out for an 11th generation Intel machine should check out this discount from Lenovo. The company's ThinkPad X1 Nano, which is normally priced around $1499 has...
24 by AnandTech Deals on 4/9/2021AMD Issues Updated Speculative Spectre Security Status: Predictive Store Forwarding
The mention of Spectre and Meltdown is enough to send chills down any InfoSec spine. A number of these batches of security vulnerabilities deal with speculative execution, and how...
63 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/8/2021Silicon Motion Announces SM2708 SD Express Controller
Silicon Motion has announced their first SD Card controller to support the NVMe-based SD Express interface. The new SM2708 controller is capable of sequential transfer speeds of 1700 MB/s...
17 by Billy Tallis on 4/7/2021GIGABYTE Server: Three New E-ATX Motherboards For Intel Ice Lake-SP Xeons
Hot on the heels of Intel's latest Ice Lake-SP 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable processor launch, GIGABYTE Server has listed three new motherboards designed for server use. The GIGABYTE Server...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/6/2021AT Deals: Microsoft's Surface Pro 7 Is $1199 at Best Buy
The latest Microsoft Surface Pro 7 has been discounted to $1199 at Best Buy. This is one of the lowest prices we've seen for this tablet PC since it...
20 by AnandTech Deals on 4/5/2021G.Skill Announces DDR4-5333 Memory Kits for Intel Rocket Lake
Designed with a focus on Intel's latest 11th generation Rocket Lake processors and the new memory controller ratios, G.Skill has announced a wave of new memory kits designed to...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/5/2021LG Calls it Quits, To Close Mobile Phone Business
This morning, LG issued a press release that announced the board of directors had decided to close down the conglomerate’s mobile phone business. The news is unfortunate, however isn’t...
61 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/5/2021