Falling demand, China’s Covid Zero policies, the rising cost of living, and recession fears have made 2022 a bad year for tech giants. Demand for everything from smartphones to PCs has fallen, and mass layoffs have become a regular sight. TSMC has bucked the trend by more than doubling its sales in November—compared to a year earlier—reaching $7.27 billion. That puts the company on track to hit its fourth-quarter estimate of between $19....
It took just two days after launching the updated Twitter Blue subscription service for the company to suspend its paid-account verification, a response to the hundreds of users taking advantage of the verification system to impersonate public entities, something that owner Elon Musk warned would lead to a permaban. One person pretending to be Eli Lilly crashed the pharmaceutical company’s stock price after they tweeted it would no longer charge for insulin, and Senator Ed Markey got into a spat with Musk over the ease at which a Washington Post reporter set up a fake account pretending to be the politician....
When the R5 1600 was first released, you could easily argue in favor of the 7600K as the better gaming CPU. The vast majority of games performed better on the Core i5-7600K and often much faster in what we considered older games at the time. However, for newly released 2017 games they were more evenly matched and in a few core-heavy titles such as Ashes of the Singularity, the Ryzen CPU was a little faster or in Battlefield 1 it was overall more consistent....
User Pat Needham wrote on Google’s support pages (via ZDNet) that writing the text string “And. And. And. And. And.” on a Docs page within Chrome crashed the app. He confirmed it was present in Docs in his personal, G Suite Basic, and work account, and other users said it was also present in Firefox. The issue was discussed on Hacker News, leading to speculation that it could be somehow related to the programming language or perhaps just a coding error....
If you bought Ubisoft games on Google’s soon-to-be-defunct Stadia platform like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla or Far Cry 6, Ubisoft is trying to figure out a way to transfer those purchases to PC. Io Interactive also wants to help Hitman players migrate to other platforms. Ubisoft promises to share more details on its Stadia migration plans and how the platform’s closure affects customers who subscribed to Stadia through Ubisoft+. Purchases will likely translate into keys for Ubisoft’s launcher since the company doesn’t sell its recent releases on Steam....
The Steam Deck is a desktop computer at heart and a handheld console in practice. Earlier this month, its BIOS was updated with fTPM support to allow users to install Windows 11. Microsoft’s new operating system has some strict system requirements that have less to do with CPU or GPU power and more to do with hardware security features the company now wants to fully utilize on consumer hardware and enterprise machines....
The latest update to the Windows-Linux compatibility layer Proton brings it to version 7.0. The new features and compatibility improvements it brings to Valve’s SteamOS arrive less than two weeks before the Steam Deck’s official launch. Wine 7.0 and DXVK 1.9.4 are part of the patch as well. Games newly playable through Proton include Anno 1404, Forza Horizon 5, Monster Hunter Rise, Disgaea 4 Complete+, Persona 4 Golden, Oceanhorn, Resident Evil 0, Wargroove, Yakuza 4 Remastered, and more....
Rainbow Six Siege was recently updated with a high resolution textures pack which claims to require a 6GB frame buffer at 1080p. This is an extreme requirement so we added the game to our battery of tests. As you can see using the ultra-quality settings, which enables the high resolution textures, the Radeon R9 390 is for the first time faster than the R9 290, if only slightly. A much bigger performance margin can be seen when comparing the 4GB 380 to the 2GB model, the larger VRAM capacity allowed for 23% more performance when comparing the average frame rate....
Note: Although Gaijin has deleted all classified material mentioned in this article, much of it has been reproduced on other parts of the internet. TechSpot will not directly link to any of this information for obvious reasons, but some links to past coverage may lead to more specific documentation. The first time someone leaked classified documents on War Thunder forums was in July 2021. The incident involved two fans arguing about the game’s depiction of Britain’s Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank....
Although Bloomfield and Gulftown processors share the same LGA1366 socket, the 32nm parts are a bit special in the sense that they pack six cores. In fact, the Core i7-980X was Intel’s first ever hexa-core desktop CPU and if you imagine it being expensive, well you’d be right. This sucker came in at $1,000 back in early 2010. The six cores operate at a base frequency of 3.3 GHz and boosted to 3....
Owners of Netgear routers including Orbi systems and several Nighthawk models should check if their firmware is the latest version available as soon as possible. The company issued two dozen security alerts in a single day this week, warning users about a wide range of patched vulnerabilities affecting many different router models, range extenders, and Wi-Fi systems. Netgear doesn’t offer detailed information on how attackers exploit the vulnerabilities it patched, but the company’s alerts label the nature of each one....
The YouTuber chronicled the build of his second-gen Tricorder in a three-part video series. Parts one and two were originally planned to be a single video but it ended up being 40 minutes long so he split them into two. The third segment is more of an unpolished bonus video where he goes into greater detail regarding the hardware engineering and software design of the project. The whole thing took more than two years to complete, resulting in a bit of burnout by the end....
Unlicensed streaming of live sports and events is a threat to Europe’s economy and culture heritage, or so this is what a new initiative is stating in the attempt to push EU authorities towards a swift and harsher action against pirates. The stakes are higher than ever, the number of organizations involved in the initiative is unprecedented and the promoters are demanding a censorship power that doesn’t exist within Europe’s law – yet....
By the end of 2018, the GTX 1080 Ti is likely to be ousted by an even faster flagship GPU and as a result mid-range GPUs are expected to be speedie as well, which is likely to require more processing power than the 2600K can provide. For today’s testing we have almost a dozen titles on hand for benching the 2600K and we tested each game using three different quality presets....
When we first reviewed the Sandy Bridge architecture Intel provided their BXXTS100H cooler, which is a 130mm tall tower style cooler featuring a 95mm fan capable of spinning at 2600 RPM. Although this cooler offers considerably better performance, it is an optional extra worth over $40. For that kind of money the Thermalright True Spirit 140 is a much better option. The large True Spirit 140 cooler provides near silent operation, even when fully stressed and overclocked....
Aesthetics aside, the Z77H2-AX seems well-equipped with features including wireless networking and Bluetooth support via the Atheros AR971L and AR3001 controllers which connect via USB 2.0. Networking is tackled by a Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit LAN controller, while audio is handled by a Realtek ALC892 8-Channel High Definition codec, a common solution among mid-range and high-end boards. ECS employs a Texas Instruments USB 3.0 xHCI compliant host controller to further expand USB 3....
This time, we’re comparing AMD’s 6-core Ryzen processors using a range of quality settings, resolutions and GPUs, and the results are extremely interesting… and not just for the reasons we thought they would be. For this one we want to see how the Ryzen 5 1600X, 2600X, 3600X and 5600X compare in half a dozen games using the GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3070, Radeon RX 5700 XT and 5600 XT, using both the ultra and medium quality presets at 1080p, 1440p and 4K....
Intel’s groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was first produced 45 years ago.1 This chip, Intel’s first 8-bit microprocessor, is the ancestor of the x86 processor family that you may be using right now. I couldn’t find good die photos of the 8008, so I opened one up and took some detailed photographs. These new die photos are in this article, along with a discussion of the 8008’s internal design. Die photograph of the 8008 microprocessor The photo above shows the tiny silicon die inside the 8008 package (click the image for a higher resolution photo)....
Although the P55 chipset is still manufactured using a 65nm manufacturing process as was the P45, it’s TDP (Thermal Design Power) has been reduced to a mere 4.7 watts. The older P45 chipset pumped out almost 80% more heat with a TDP of around 22 watts. The new P55 chipset is far less complex as it doesn’t have to carry a memory controller, which takes up a vast amount of space within the chip’s package....
A conjunction of power cuts and energy rationing plans could make mobile Internet unreliable and unavailable in Europe. Winter is coming and according to sources from within the industry, everybody knows the market will face a lot of issues. As a consequence of Russia’s decision to stop gas supplies via Europe’s key supply routes, both industries and governments are now scrambling to find potential solutions to the issue. The alarms stem directly from telecom industry sources, who are fearful of the impact on the mobile infrastructure in Europe’s biggest countries....
