Budget about 90 minutes of hands-on time, plus whatever overnight run you decide to add. You will record a baseline, run TestMem5 with a community config, read the Windows hardware-error log, change one setting at a time until the errors stop, and…
The company that helps make the memory inside Nintendo’s game cards just told investors it wants out of that business. Macronix International, the Taiwanese memory maker, is winding down ROM production and moving capacity to data center memory, according to…
The TLVR approach has the potential to provide an improved combination of transient response, efficiency, size & cost in multi-phase buck regulators. Improving buck regulator transient response with TLVR Power requirements for CPUs and GPUs in modern data centers have dramatically…
Valve now lists the Steam Deck OLED at $789 for the 512GB model, and the 1TB version costs $949. That price lands in an awkward spot. Nintendo’s Switch 2 costs $499.99, ASUS still sells the ROG Xbox Ally at $599, and the new ROG Xbox Ally X20 asks…
MSI’s new Claw 8 EX AI+ CG3EM is one of the first handhelds to launch with Intel’s shiny new Arc G3 Extreme SoC. If you’re unaware, it’s Intel’s gaming-focused chip that takes the Panther Lake laptop architecture and squeezes it into a handheld,…
The facts that survive cross-checking across several outlets are short. On the Q3 2026 earnings call, Tan said Nova Lake will use 18A-P, Intel’s enhanced version of its 18A process. He said the product is tracking ahead of schedule. He said Intel expects…
Memory costs make the timing interesting. Our earlier look at DRAM prices rising 10-15% in Q4, with a DDR5 kit reaching $450 shows why cheaper platforms keep their audience. A new chip that drops into an existing DDR4 board would speak directly to buyers squeezed…
Intel and AMD sell two different answers to the same desktop question in October 2026. AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D chips still hold the gaming lead. Intel’s Core Ultra 200S Plus chips, the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus at $299 and the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus at $199, hold the…
A CPU can sail through a ten-minute benchmark and still reboot at hour three of a video export. The gap between those two outcomes is exactly what a stress test measures. It pushes every core, the cache, the memory controller…
The three desktop operating systems also disagree about what a temperature reading even is. Windows 11 hides CPU temperature behind vendor sensors and needs a third-party reader. Linux publishes the numbers straight from the kernel, but only if the right sensor…
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