The Hot Take: Long enough to finish OH I'm sure of. As long as it doesn't get in the way of defense manufacturing of course.
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that Intel’s next two CPU generations could make life nastier for AMD by hogging more of TSMC’s tight 2nm capacity.
According to Jukan, Chipzilla is reportedly planning to use TSMC for parts of its Nova Lake and Razor Lake processor families. That will not cheer AMD, which already has to fight for space inside TSMC’s increasingly rammed fabs.
Intel is expected to start mass production of Nova Lake around January 2027. The chips were once expected to rely on…
The Hot Take: Interesting so going to Apple are you really more safe? Hmmmmm
The Fruity Cargo Cult, Apple’s modern empire may owe more to CIA cash than it will ever admit.
Without a secretive US intelligence contract keeping NeXT alive, company co-founder Steve Jobs might have remained a Silicon Valley footnote rather than returning as messiah. The Wall Street Journal reports that the CIA turned up at NeXT in 1986, when Jobs was still licking his wounds after being booted from Job’s Mob.
The Cold War was roaring, Ronald Reagan was shovelling billions into defence and spy agencies wanted Silicon Valley kit before it…
By ckasprzak | TkOut | August 24, 2026 | Hardware, Memory
The Hot Take: Corporate espionage, smh.
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest maker of dynamic random access memory (DRAM), planned to obtain Samsung's IP related to its memory process technologies in a bid to develop its own production nodes, according to testimony given in a South Korean criminal case involving leaked Samsung technology, reports Maeil Business. The company's managers allegedly had no intention to develop an in-house process technology from scratch, so obtaining IP from Samsung was a strategic decision.Go deeper with TH Premium: Memory(Image credit:…
The Hot Take: Bring it Intel! We need x86 competition and an eco system that isn't just SoC mid-range....
According to the latest leak, Intel's 28-core Nova Lake CPU could reach a staggering 296W at its PL2 power limit. Intel's 8+16+4 bLLC Chip Rumored to be one of the Nova Lake's Highest-End Single-Tile Designs Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop lineup appears to be one of the most aggressive ones, with power limits higher than previously expected. According to the user "Golden Pig Upgrade" (via Weibo), the Nova Lake-S CPU with a configuration of 8+16+4 will reportedly feature a PL2 (Power Limit 2) limit of 296W. This makes it potentially one…
By ckasprzak | TkOut | August 24, 2026 | Hardware, Memory
The Hot Take: I hope that G.Skill can survive after this, seems the RAM market is condensing hard since Micron's exit to avoid legal responsibility for price fixing.
G.Skill, maker of some of the best RAM for PC gaming, has begun sending payments to claimants in the $2.4 million class action lawsuit over claims that it falsely advertised the speeds of its memory, misleading customers because the very fastest speeds could only be obtained by overclocking. According to screenshots from different users, reimbursements range from a paltry $20 to $25.Go deeper with TH Premium: Memory(Image credit: SK Hynix)AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supplySamsung debuts three next-generation…
The Hot Take: d0h, glade I didn't stick with Gigabyte after gel-gate.
The user only found it when he opened up his GPU, but it was too late since the protective film had already caused thermal degradation. User Says RTX 3070 Suffered From Thermal Degradation for Nearly Five Years as GIGABYTE Forgot to Remove Protective Film From the VRM Thermal Pads GIGABYTE reportedly made a blunder in the GPU assembly, which was later discovered by the user u/buczi94. The user reports that the problem was discovered only after he disassembled his GPU after using it for nearly five years, which suffered from thermal degradation…
The Hot Take: I'm thinking in a bid to win back all the people that moved to AMD because of the issues.
Intel will launch its new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in the data center. Tom’s Hardware Premium recently sat down with Intel VP and general manager of the enthusiast channel business Robert Hallock and asked about his reaction to AMD launching Zen 6 first in the data center with new EPYC Venice CPUs — breaking with over a decade of AMD leading with a client release for its new architectures. Hallock opened up about Intel’s enthusiast roadmap and said the company is “very serious” about executing that roadmap. Go deeper with TH…
45 years ago, in August 1981, the PC age began in earnest with the launch of the IBM PC Model 5150. At its heart was the Intel 8088 microprocessor, a cheaper sibling of the processor that pioneered the x86 architecture, the famed Intel 8086. Intel’s new affordability-targeted processor, its IBM PC design win, and Big Blue’s decision to allow the making of PC clones would kickstart four and a half decades of PC compatibles dominating personal computing. Forty-five years ago, the @IBM PC, powered by the Intel 8088 processor, helped bring…
Many cybersecurity exploits have been deemed The One Ring To Rule Them All, but that moniker is rarely as true as a literal bit that disables the memory mapping on some AMD CPUs, granting access to normally inaccessible areas. With just one instruction, you can access off-limits software like Platform Security Processor (PSP) where the fTPM runs, the System Management Mode (SMM), microcode patch RAM, and other various sundries — in other words, full hardware-level control.The exploit is called Skitter Creek Bath Salts (Skitter), and was…