Western Digital Adds 8TB Model to Popular High-End SN850X SSD Drive Family
Western Digital has quietly introduced an 8 TB version of its high-end SN850X SSD, doubling the top capacity of the well-regarded drive family. The new drive offers performance on...
19 by on 7/16/2024
Troubled AI Processor Developer Graphcore Finds a Buyer: SoftBank
After months of searching for a buyer, troubled U.K.-based AI processor designer Graphcore said on Friday that it has been acquired by SoftBank. The company will operate as a...
7 by on 7/12/2024
Applied Materials' New Deposition Tool Enables Copper Wires to Be Used for 2nm and Beyond
Although the pace of Moore's Law has undeniably slackened in the last decade, transistor density is still increasing with every new process technology. But there is a challenge with...
7 by on 7/12/2024
Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives
Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only one company offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered...
19 by on 7/5/2024
Kioxia's High-Performance 3D QLC NAND Enables High-End High-Capacity SSDs
This week, Kioxia introduced its new 3D QLC NAND devices aimed at high-performance, high-capacity drives that could redefine what we typically expect from QLC-based SSDs. The components are 1...
6 by on 7/5/2024
Noctua Launches New Flagship Cooler: NH-D15 G2 with LGA1851 CPUs Support
On Tuesday, Noctua introduced its second-generation NH-D15 cooler, which offers refined performance and formally supports Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake-S processors in LGA1851 packaging. Alongside its NH-D15 G2 CPU cooler...
27 by on 7/3/2024
SK hynix Wraps up Dev Work on High-End PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD for OEMs, Launching Later This Year
SK hynix early in Friday announced that the company has finished the development of it's PCB01 PCIe Gen5 SSD, the company's forthcoming high-end SSD for OEMs. Based on the...
8 by on 6/29/2024
Micron: U.S. Fabs Will Start Operating in 2026 - 2029
When Micron announced plans to build two new fabs in the U.S. in 2022, the company vaguely said both would come online by the decade's end. Then, in 2023...
2 by on 6/27/2024
Frore Unveils Waterproof AirJet Mini Sport for Smartphones
Over the past couple of years, Frore Systems has demonstrated several ways that its AirJet solid-state active cooling systems can be used to improve cooling in fanless devices like...
16 by on 6/26/2024
NVIDIA's AD102 GPU Pops Up in MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super Cards
As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't...
10 by on 6/26/2024
Two Is Better Than One: LG Starts Production of 13-inch Tandem OLED Display for Laptops
OLED panels have a number of advantages, including deep blacks, fast response times, and energy efficiency; most of these stemming from the fact that they do not need backlighting...
14 by on 6/25/2024
CUDIMM Standard Set to Make Desktop Memory a Bit Smarter and a Lot More Robust
While the new CAMM and LPCAMM memory modules for laptops have garnered a great deal of attention in recent months, it's not just the mobile side of the PC...
26 by on 6/21/2024
Western Digital Rolls Out Updated Budget WD Blue SN5000 SSDs, Adds 4TB Model
Western Digital expanded its WD Blue NVMe family of budget SSDs this week with the introduction of the the WD Blue SN5000 series, an updated lineup of SSDs that...
16 by on 6/20/2024
Extreme PSUs Incoming: Enermax, Leadex, and Seasonic at Up to 2800W
Just several years ago, we were impressed to witness a 2,000W power supply for mining systems at Computex. But with arrival or AMD's Ryzen Threadripper WX and Intel's Xeon...
13 by on 6/18/2024
DeepCool Adds Vapor Chamber to an Air Cooler: AIO-Like Performance at Air Cooler Reliability
While the market for high-end CPU coolers has decidedly shifted towards closed-loop all-in-one liquid coolers over the last several years, air cooling remains alive and well. Even at the...
11 by on 6/18/2024
Realtek Previews Platform for Sub-$100 5GbE Network Switches
One of the more subtle trends at this year's Computex was that the majority of high-end motherboards now come equipped with a 5GbE network controller. At present, this might...
28 by on 6/17/2024
MiTAC/Tyan Shows Off Motherboard and Servers for Intel's Xeon 6 CPUs
Later this year Intel is set to introduce its Xeon 6-branded processors, codenamed Granite Rapids (6x00P) and Sierra Forest (6x00E). And with it will come a new slew of...
2 by on 6/14/2024
Silicon Motion Demos Low-Power PCie 5.0 SSD Controller: SM2508
Rounding out our Computex 2024 SSD controller news, let's talk about the final major controller vendor at the show: Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion has been somewhat late to the...
5 by on 6/14/2024
Antec's 'Performance 1M' Mini-ITX Chassis Can House a GeForce RTX 4090
With the highly integrated nature of PCs these days, the Mini-ITX form-factor has become a very viable option for high-performance gaming system. With plenty of motherboards available for both...
10 by on 6/13/2024
Realtek Outlines SSD Controller Roadmap: High-End PCIe 5.0 x4 Platform in the Works
While Realtek is best known in the enthusiast space for for its peripheral controllers such as audio codecs and network controllers, the company also has a small-but-respectable SSD controller...
3 by on 6/13/2024
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