Author: Nick Evanson
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AMD isn’t alone in the Easter egg silicon doodle market, chipmakers have etched hamburgers, zombies, Smurfs, and even Groucho Marx onto their products in the past
Remember the story from last week about the image of a revolver and map of Texas, etched into one of the layers in AMD’s old K7 chips? Not surprisingly, it isn’t an isolated example of silicon shenanigans, as uncovered by a fan of chip easter eggs shows in an awesome compilation of processors, controllers, and…
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ZSA Moonlander ergonomic keyboard | PC Gamer
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Anything with the name Moonlander is clearly being marketed as something trying to imbue a sense of space age technology and design, and the first impressions of this ergonomic keyboard does precisely that. Released in 2020 by Ontario-based ZSA Technology, the Moonlander is perhaps the star model in the tiny company’s portfolio. It’s first ergonomic…
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Opera buys its own Nvidia H100 mini-supercomputer, just so you can have a spot of AI in a web browser
When you picture Nvidia and AI together, how often do you include Iceland and web browsers in the same image? If you’re like me, then probably never, but there’s a first time for everything and that’s what Opera has announced today: It’s very own Nvidia DGX SuperPOD cluster, based entirely in Iceland, for handling requests…
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This year’s ‘Windows 12’ might just be nothing more than a large update for Windows 11, rather than a whole new operating system
To the casual observer, the story of the next version of Windows seems to be slowly turning into a 1990s-style sitcom: Will it come out in 2024? Will it be called Windows 12? Will it be full of AI gimmicks? Will Copilot finally get that date with Monica? Adding to the never-ending mystery of it…
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Radeon graphics cards maybe aren’t as popular as AMD might like us to think they are, at least according to the Steam HW Survey
Valve’s monthly analysis of its Steam Hardware Survey for January was published the other day and the figures made for interesting, if not unexpected, reading. For example, Windows 11 was making small gains against Windows 10, and the number of CPU cores and amount of system RAM are all steadily increasing. I’ve been monitoring the…
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Intel Battlemage: What can we expect to see with the second generation of Arc GPUs?
Expected release date: H2 2024 Codename: Battlemage Architecture: Xe2-HPG Process: TSMC N4 Performance target: Nvidia RTX 4070 (claimed) Just two years ago, we were all getting ready for Intel’s return to the desktop graphics card market, eagerly awaiting to see if the Arc series of products would be a match for AMD’s Radeon and Nvidia’s…
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MoErgo Glove80 review | PC Gamer
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Ergonomic keyboards pretty much come in one of four categories: not-really-ergo, entry-level, serious, and one for the absolutely committed. The MoErgo Glove80 is well and truly in the last one. This particular model is a second revision of the original Glove80, first launched in 2022 after a successful Kickstarter campaign, following years of design, experimentation,…
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Microsoft’s current OS has been shrunk to a ridiculous 100MB in size, but only by getting rid of windows from Windows
Remember when we reported on how the developers of Tiny11, NTDEV, had managed to pack the installation package for Windows 11 down to just 2GB? Well, the same folks have gone one, no, many steps further by making a version of Microsoft’s bulky OS that’s just 100MB in size. Yes, you read that right, it’s…
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The open beta of Nvidia’s RTX Remix is ready to grab: Remaster your favourite old games to give them a massive graphics upgrade
Do you have an old game that you wish was remastered to make full use of today’s graphics technologies? For me, it’s the original Deus Ex , and I’d love to see that with modern lighting and fully ray-traced. We’ve had some so far, of course, such as Quake 2 and Portal, but these weren’t…
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VESA updates its DisplayPort specification to version 2.1a, beefing up cable requirements for even higher resolutions and refresh rates
The VESA organisation is a huge group of electronics and semiconductor manufacturers that work together to create various standards for the industry to follow. DisplayPort is perhaps its most well-known technology these days and VESA has just updated the specification to v2.1a with the main change replacing the DP40 cable spec with DP54, which allows…