Latest articles by Nick Evanson
A decade after buying Oculus VR, Meta's Reality Labs' losses are spiralling out of control, with no end in sight
news $10 billion loss in 2020, $16 billion loss in 2023—and it's only going to get worse, says Meta.
Workstation builder Puget Systems' report shows the stability problems with Intel's CPUs can be managed if only you 'mistrust the default settings on any motherboard'
news The risk of failure is still there, however, until Intel releases a microcode fix.
Steam's favourite GPU, the RTX 3060, is nearing its end as Nvidia gets ready to issue the last batch of chips
news Ampere GPUs are still really great but Nvidia wants you to buy Ada instead.
Brilliant execution, awful inspiration material: This AMD-powered Cybertruck mini PC really is in production
news It's a standard AMD Hawk Point system, shoehorned into a sturdy-looking chassis, but oh boy…those looks.
GDDR6X VRAM is claimed to be in short supply and could lead to an RTX 4070 being launched with slower GDDR6 to meet the demand
news Which should be fine, as long as it's not too much slower. Or the same price.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg chews AI cud with Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang, talking about delicious cows, slicing tomatoes, and old Chinese guys drinking whiskey
news "We're CEOs, we're delicate flowers." Aww, bless.
Nvidia's CEO chats about the future of AI: 'We're going to need three computers... one to create the AI… one to simulate the AI… and one to run the AI'
news Definitely not trying to make everyone buy even more Nvidia GPUs, no sir.
AMD introduces a beta preview of Fluid Motion Frames 2, with 'AI-optimized enhancements for improved quality, lower latency, and better performance'
news No, the frame generation algorithm doesn't use AI—it's just been optimised by it.
Nvidia's reportedly scaling back RTX 40 series production by as much as 50% in preparation for the Blackwell RTX 50 launch
news Either that or the dearth of new GPUs means it's just a nice time to hike prices. Again.
MIT researchers create a super-fast, super-tough, super-slidey transistor and claim that in '10 to 20 years from now could change the world'
news The ferroelectric material transistor could be used to make NVMe SSDs last a whole lot longer.
Report claims that OpenAI has burned through $8.5 billion on AI training and staffing, and could be on track to make a $5 billion loss
news Generative AI makes billions of dollars in revenue but more is needed to cover the operational costs.
Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC review
Bigger but better Some big changes and a host of further tweaks have fixed the old flaws making this the handheld gaming PC to get.
I downloaded Intel's new AI Playground beta and may have finally found something Arc is honestly good at
news It turns out that Intel's graphics cards are better at doing AI than they are at churning out ultra-high frame rates in games.
Google has changed its mind about dropping support for third-party cookies in Chrome, after years of trying to make it happen
news Depending on who you listen to, this is either a brilliant decision or a truly horrible one.
AMD RDNA 4 info leak confirms RT performance is getting boosted but could fall short of a major hardware redesign
news AMD's GPUs are perfect at rasterization but still trail behind Nvidia when it comes to ray tracing.
It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too
news It doesn't matter what operating system you use, a buggy application can seriously ruin your day.
Nvidia's third-party RTX 40-series GPUs are losing performance over time thanks to rubbish factory-installed thermal paste
news It's not just about bad hotspots, the whole chip ends up getting hotter, causing it to hit thermal limits quicker.
No E, just the P—Intel quietly launches Raptor Lake Rekked for the embedded market
news But with the Core i9's reputation looking very iffy, would anyone want to take the gamble and use it in an industrial situation?
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU review
Cache for cash It's just a 5800X3D, except a bit slower and a whole lot cheaper. Which actually makes it better.
The CrowdStrike IT outage is pretty grim but let's hope it's not as bad as the infamous Dyn DDoS attack, Facebook mega-crash, and Rogers network disaster
news This one looks as bad as they come and there have been some truly massive IT problems in recent years.
AMD's tweaked RDNA 3.5 GPU is solely focused on improving mobile gaming performance
news There are plenty of little changes under the hood to help the graphics processor do more for less power.
Researchers create Dune-like pee-pants for the next generation of astronauts and maybe even wealthy, overly 'dedicated' gamers
news The design looks far more appealing than the adult diapers spacewalkers currently have to use.
It's 2024 and yet Intel is still churning out DUAL CORE CPUs for desktop PCs, and I'm a little in awe of the plucky trooper
news Two P-cores are all you're getting, but they're speedy little things, so it's not as awful as you might think.
