Latest articles by Jacob Fox
Unsurprisingly, the AMD Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X don't seem to be selling very well right now
News What, you don't want to drop $300+ for a slight boost to gaming performance?
Bought a pre-built Intel 13th/14th Gen gaming PC? Here are the warranty extensions different PC builders say they're offering
News A mixed bag, but not too mixed. Most PC makers are matching Intel's 2-year extension.
Next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs rumored to consume at least 100 W less power at high frequencies
News Is Intel making headway with Arrow Lake power efficiency?
MSI and Asus roll out first Intel instability fix for a range of motherboards with 0x129 microcode BIOS
News Here's hoping this microcode fixes things.
Logitech says it has 'no plans' for a subscription mouse—let's keep it that way
News At least the concerns of PC gamers seem to be recognised.
New world's thinnest LPDDR5X memory from Samsung could bode well for handheld gaming PCs
News Thinner or cooler? Either way, I'm here for it
I chose the worst four years to take a hiatus from gaming hardware because now I feel like I'm being handed alien tech when confronted with a Steam Deck
:O And chips are 3D now?! Honestly, I turn my back for two seconds.
Shareholders sue CrowdStrike over consequences of catastrophic worldwide IT outage and I don't think an Uber Eats voucher will cut it this time
News The company's share price has dropped by tens of billions.
Logitech's 'forever mouse' could mean peripherals go the way of coffee beans, TVs, and printer ink by pushing a subscription
News Could a mouse ever be timeless?
iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
News Next, maybe we could teach AI to respect people's boundaries.
Google's now the only search engine that will show new Reddit posts in search results and it's somewhat AI's fault
News When will this Big Tech drama end? Maybe when all this "AI" stuff blows over.
Nvidia's share price drops along with other AI firms, but all is peachy as they collectively remain some of the most valuable companies on the planet
News Markets ebb and flow, even for massively hyped industries.
People are making mini Fractal Design cases for their Raspberry Pi and it's making me wish I owned a 3D printer so I could do the same
News My Raspberry Pi 5 is mighty jealous, right now.
US, UK, and EU finally come together to prevent AI monopoly (catastrophic market failure, not the game)
News Everyone agrees an all-powerful AI run by one company would be a bad idea.
Intel finally breaks silence, points finger at 'microcode algorithm' voltage errors, and says it's going to patch Core 13th/14th Gen CPU stability issues mid-August
News Fingers crossed, eh?
33,700,000 motherboards expected to ship in 2024, signaling the end of the PC market's dry spell
News The four big motherboard manufacturers are expected to ship heaps more this year.
Do temps matter no more? Next-gen Intel desktop CPUs might run as hot as Meteor Lake laptop chips
News The rumour mill's churning out some spicy but reasonable numbers.
Mr. DIMM, why do you have so many chips? Micron's new monstrous multi-rank memory doubles DDR5 speed to 8,800 MT/s
News Are memory companies looking for new ways to increase bandwidth to capitalise on the AI boom?
It looks like AMD is racing Intel to production of chips on glass substrates for faster, more efficient processors
News Can we call it Infinity Glass? AMD had better jump on that, pronto.
Dino survival game developer is switching all its servers to AMD 'which experience 100 times fewer crashes compared to Intel' because it's 'only a matter of time before affected CPUs fail'
News 90% of game crash reports in one investigation came from Intel 13th or 14th Gen CPUs. Ouch.
'Nvidia is slowly becoming the IBM of the AI era' says Jim Keller, perhaps forgetting how short-lived IBM's PC monopoly was
News Will the ever-inflating AI bubble burst?
Today I learned F1 cars can have their engines disabled wirelessly via IP connection
News Mr. Robot eat your heart out. No, wait… Vin Diesel, eat your heart out?
Here's your reminder how close AMD came to financial collapse and just how much we owe to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
News Do you remember Bulldozer or have you blocked out those dark times, too?
