The new MultiPi console sports a Raspberry Pi CM4 and GPIO cartridge slot (www.tomshardware.com)
RISC-V chips will support replacing RAM sticks without powering off the system — hot plugging functionality arriving in newer flavors of Linux (www.tomshardware.com)
Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable (www.tomshardware.com)
Intel's Arrow Lake CPU socket is nearly identical to the old socket — LGA1851 pinout shows one additional USB 2.0 port (www.tomshardware.com)
AMD vs Intel: Which CPUs Are Better in 2024? (www.tomshardware.com)
GPUs can now use PCIe-attached memory or SSDs to boost VRAM capacity —Panmnesia's CXL IP claims double-digit nanosecond latency (www.tomshardware.com)
Nvidia RTX 3050 vs AMD RX 6600 faceoff: Which GPU dominates the budget-friendly $200 market? (www.tomshardware.com)
Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
A remarkable JavaScript development has brought back memories from the golden era of gaming. The game, Q1K3, manages to pack in two levels, five different enemy types, three weapons, audio, and more within a mere 13KB executable size! This achievement was part of JS13K Games - an annual HTML5 and JavaScript game development...
Intel Arc Battlemage GPU surfaces — BMG-G31 silicon reportedly wields 32 Xe2 Cores (www.tomshardware.com)
AMD to present Neural Texture Block Compression in London — rivals Nvidia's texture compression research (www.tomshardware.com)
Intel Core Ultra 200V specs leak points to nine Lunar Lake SKUs and a single Ultra 9 variant (www.tomshardware.com)
Intel Battlemage display drivers coming soon for Linux — functional drivers to focus on power efficiency first (www.tomshardware.com)
AMD enhances multi-GPU support in latest ROCm update: up to four RX or Pro GPUs supported, official support added for Pro W7900 Dual Slot (www.tomshardware.com)
Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues (www.tomshardware.com)
Minecraft players outraged as Microsoft deletes accounts that weren't transitioned (www.tomshardware.com)
GPU-boosting GDDR7 memory coming this year — SK hynix retracts comments, launching in Q4 (www.tomshardware.com)
Framework Mainboard Powers Retro Style Gaming Console -- Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Some of us find ourselves drawn to the unique charm of retro hardware. One new creation that captures this sentiment is Game.Work by Abe Haskins - an innovative piece of art inspired by the vintage aesthetic....