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The market demand for small form-factor (SFF) PCs was kickstarted by the Intel NUC in the early 2010s. Since then, many vendors have come out with their own take on the Intel NUC using both Intel and AMD processors. In…

When it came time to make an episode, we did this.  Solidigm blesses us with gigantic SSDs now, Futurama is back, the future of Windows is bloatware, and AMD finally offers a Phoenix driver.  Plus security scares with Mikrotik and…

In a momentous event, Hughes Network Systems, an EchoStar company, has successfully launched its revolutionary JUPITER™ 3 ultra high-density satellite. The satellite, also known as EchoStar XXIV, was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the historic Kennedy Space…

DRAM Free 3D TLC The Lexar NM710 M.2 2280 drive is a Gen4x4 NVMe SSD based on the NVMe 1.4 protocol which skips a DRAM cache to keep the price nicely under $0.10  The 500GB model is rated at 500MB/s…

You Have To Love DDR5 Pricing Right Now There are many kits which are faster than the Crucial Pro DDR5-5600 kit, but you won’t be able to grab 32GB of it for a mere $90.  At that price it allows…

$1.5 Billion Ain’t Bad For Three Months Work The changes Intel has made internally, unfortunately including letting a lot of people go, have succeeded in bringing them back to profitability.  Their total revenue might be down 15% from this quarter…

Designing chips for modern, leading-edge manufacturing technologies is an expensive endeavor. Still, dozens of companies have already adopted TSMCs N3 and N3E (3 nm-class) fabrication processes, according to disclosures made by TSMC and Synopsys. “Synopsys IP for TSMC’s 3nm process has…

Samsung this week reported their financial results for the second quarter of 2023, closing the book on an especially bleak quarter of the year with a massive $3.4 billion operating loss. The losses, stemming from its semiconductor business, come amid…

Seagate announced this week that it had begun the first commercial revenue shipments of its next-generation HAMR hard drives, which are being shipped out as part of Seagate’s latest Corvault storage systems. This commercialization marks an important milestone in the…

I’m just going to come out and say it. The $899.99 Fenix 7S Pro Sapphire Solar Edition is an excellent multisport watch, but I’m baffled as to why it exists. I’ve been wearing this watch for the past month, right…