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 3 days agoAT Deals: WD Black SN850 1TB SSD Only $179 at Western Digital
Western Digital's latest NVMe SSD, the WD Black SN850, is discounted to one of the lowest prices we've seen since it was first released. This offer is for the...
5 by AnandTech Deals 3 days agoAMD 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...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress 4 days agoSilicon 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...
15 by Billy Tallis 4 days agoAT Deals: LG 27-Inch 144Hz IPS Monitor Now $296 at Amazon
Today, users can take home the LG 27GN800-B 27-inch monitor at a 25% discount. It's usually priced around $399 but is available for just $296 at Amazon. This is...
2 by AnandTech Deals 5 days agoGIGABYTE 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 5 days agoAT 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...
19 by AnandTech Deals 6 days agoG.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...
18 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...
57 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/5/2021SK Hynix to Build $106 Billion Fab Cluster: 800,000 Wafer Starts a Month
Capping off a busy week for fab-related news, South Korea authorities this week gave SK Hynix a green light to build a new, 120 trillion won ($106.35 billion) fab...
37 by Anton Shilov on 4/2/2021TSMC to Spend $100B on Fabs and R&D Over Next Three Years: 2nm, Arizona Fab & More
TSMC this week has announced plans to spend $100 billion on new production facilities as well as R&D over the next three years. The world's largest contract maker of...
44 by Anton Shilov on 4/2/2021The ASRock Z590 OC Formula Motherboard: By and For Overclockers
ASRock and its in-house extreme overclocker Nich Shih have created the latest in its series of high-end enthusiast-grade motherboards. The OC Formula brand returns, famed for its good extreme...
17 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/1/2021EUV Pellicles Ready For Fabs, Expected to Boost Chip Yields and Sizes
Foundries started limited usage of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for high-volume manufacturing (HVM) of chips in 2019. At the time, ASML's Twinscan NXE scanners were good enough for production...
34 by Anton Shilov on 3/31/2021Computex 2021 Physical Show Cancelled; Virtual Event Still Taking Place
When it comes to technology tradeshows, one of the biggest early victims of the coronavirus outbreak was Computex, the annual PC-centric trade show in Taiwan. After the 2020 show...
6 by Ryan Smith on 3/31/2021AT Deals: 32-Inch 4K Curved Samsung Monitor $329 at Costco
Today is a good day for anyone holding out for a curved display. This offer comes to us from Costco and is for Samsung's UR59C curved monitor. This screen...
7 by AnandTech Deals on 3/30/2021Kingston Introduces NV1 Entry-Level NVMe SSD
As previewed at CES, Kingston's newest entry-level consumer NVMe SSD is now shipping. The new NV1 uses a similar strategy to Kingston's entry-level SATA drives like the A400, where...
10 by Billy Tallis on 3/30/2021Mushkin Launches DELTA And GAMMA PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs
Mushkin has announced two new product lines for PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs. Following on from last year's introduction of the ALPHA series, the new DELTA and GAMMA drives continue...
12 by Billy Tallis on 3/30/2021Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 780G: New 5nm 765 Successor
Today Qualcomm is announcing the new Snapdragon 780G, direct successor to the 765G: 1+3+4 CPUs with Cortex-A78’s up to 2.4GHz, +50% GPU, 2x AI performance, Triple-ISPs on a 5nm...
38 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/25/2021Intel’s x86 Designs No Longer Limited to Intel on Intel: IP Blocks for Foundry, Cores on TSMC
Today Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger has outlined two key changes to Intel policy: one derived from Intel’s plans to offer foundry services to external partners, and the other from...
70 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/23/2021