Hardware

The GPD Win Mini faces a serious rival.

Acer unveiled two new Nitro Blaze handhelds at CES 2025. The Nitro Blaze 8 & 11, but sit down before you check the price.

The S-100 board Intel 8086 MicroFrame computer is still in excellent condition.

At advanced nodes, chips are not getting cheaper.

Fully featured board also outputs stereo sound and works with all C64 revisions.

Moore Threads, Innosilicon, and Biren Technologies thought to be major beneficiaries of the IP.

It also had a trio of rollable, or slidable, displays for next-gen devices.

But you can still buy its Touch Pro controllers.

Broader product range foments broader adoption.

AMD is resurrecting its previous naming scheme.

If you are after super responsive DRAM performance, it doesn't get better than G.Skill's new CL28 kits, at least for DDR5-6000.

One power connector to rule them all.

Chonky or super-expensive seems to be the main dilemma.

Set to challenge Taiwan and the U.S.

This drives demand for Advantest machines.

Japan gets 16nm process technology.

Drives validated in plenty of time for the 2026 sunsetting of FIPS 140-2.

But what games will they play?

Retailers are prepping inventory for launch next month.

The local Chinese chipmaking industry is getting a massive boost from Beijing.

The first Strix Point handheld becomes the most powerful and maybe most desirable, too.

The bans and sanctions weren't very effective...

Will it flood the market with cheap DDR5?

Why doesn't AMD have any machine learning acceleration in its GPUs?

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