Apple plans to add vapor chamber cooling to the M6-powered iPad Pro (expected 2027) to prevent thermal throttling during intensive professional workloads.
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Intel is changing its graphics driver strategy, moving older 11th-14th Gen CPUs to a quarterly update schedule and ending day-one game support.
Apple's new N1 network chip for the iPhone has a key Wi-Fi 7 limitation, capping bandwidth at 160 MHz. This affects peak performance despite the upgrade.
Corsair has agreed to a $5.5M settlement over claims of misleading memory speed advertising. Find out who is eligible for compensation and how to file a claim.
OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to mass-produce its own AI chips starting in 2026, a move aimed at reducing its reliance on NVIDIA.
Microsoft is urging PC makers to properly implement USB-C support in Windows 11. Learn why your notifications may not be working and how OEMs can fix it.
A new report reveals that AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are burning out due to improper BIOS settings from motherboard manufacturers, causing widespread failures.
The UCIe 3.0 standard has arrived, doubling chiplet data speeds to 64 GT/s. This open standard is set to revolutionize AI and high-performance computing.
The PCI-SIG is developing PCIe 8.0, which aims for 1TB/s of bandwidth, but it's designed for data centers and AI—not for your next gaming PC.
Legendary GPU architect Raja Koduri launches Oxmiq Labs to challenge NVIDIA’s CUDA. The startup will offer RISC-V GPU IP and software like OXPython to run CUDA workloads on non-NVIDIA hardware.
NVIDIA will end feature and game optimization updates for Maxwell and Pascal GPUs (GTX 7XX, 9XX, 10XX series) in October, transitioning to security-only updates for three years.
Intel's 14th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs are causing widespread system instability and Firefox crashes, leading Mozilla to disable its crash reporting bot.
Raspberry Pi launched a $4 Radio Module 2, offering Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 5.2 to custom boards. It's pre-certified and ideal for low-cost IoT projects.
Microsoft's claim that Windows 11 PCs are 2.3x faster than Windows 10 PCs is critiqued as misleading, stemming from a comparison of new hardware vs. old, not the OS itself.
Intel GPUs face up to 20% performance loss from security mitigations. Ubuntu is considering disabling them in compute stacks, as Intel itself allows unmitigated builds due to minimal risk.
3DMark is now natively available for macOS, offering accurate performance benchmarking for Apple Silicon Macs with Wild Life Extreme, Solar Bay, and Steel Nomad tests.
Microsoft highlights TPM 2.0 benefits to encourage Windows 10 users to buy new, compatible PCs for a secure Windows 11 upgrade before support ends.
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-27840) in ESP32 microcontrollers threatens billions of IoT devices and the security of Bitcoin wallets. Exploits range from private key theft to forged transactions.