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Doug MacDowell built a PC that's cooled by hot coffee.

Silicon Motion previews its next-gen Neptune SSD controller for client PCs, featuring a PCIe 6.0 x4 interface and over 25 GB/s read speeds, but mass production is only set for 2028.

Intel is retiring 16x MSAA support in its Xe3 GPUs, citing limited vendor adoption and the rise of more efficient upscaling methods like XeSS, FSR, and DLSS. The change begins with Mesa 25.3 and aligns with Xe3’s launch in upcoming Panther Lake SoCs.

Sandisk and SK hynix have announced they're collaborating on High Bandwidth Flash (HBF)—a potential alternative to traditional, DRAM-based HBM for AI GPUs. Instead of only relying on DRAM, HBF adds NAND to the memory stack, allowing for non-volatility that can cut energy (and thermal) costs, along with upping the storage…

President Donald Trump says that he will apply a 100% tariff on chip imports, but exempts companies that build in the U.S.

TSMC is probing an alleged leak of 2nm process integration images to Japan's Rapidus, though the data's content, impact, and Rapidus's involvement remain uncertain.

Someone has benchmarked Nvidia's RTX Pro 5000 Blackwell Laptop GPU with Geekbench 6.

Activision will require 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 7' players to use TPM 2.0 and enable Windows Secure Boot as part of its anti-cheat initiative.

Ebuyer, the U.K.'s second biggest PC retailer, is facing a compulsory liquidation case as it allegedly cannot pay its lessor.

YouTuber Better Gaming tested a MicroSD Express adapter to see if they could expand the Switch 2's storage with a 1TB NVMe SSD. The test failed, but further development of the adapter suggests this method of storage expansion will work in the future.

Apple will reportedly invest an extra $100 billion in U.S. manufacturing —raising its total domestic commitment to $600 billion — in an effort to avoid steep iPhone tariffs.