Microprocessor History – AMD K5

In March of 1996, AMD released their first products based on a totally in-house microarchitecture, the K5. Internally, AMD engineers decided the 'K' in K5 would stand for Kryptonite, hinting AMD is the Kryptonite to their competitor Intel. AMD's K5 CPUs were a big step toward affordable computing. Architectural Analysis...

May 30, 2026

EA Partners with The Khronos Group for Future Game Development

Electronic Arts have agreed to support The Khronos Group and the development of the Vulkan API. EA's adoption of The Khronos Group's technologies mirrors the decision of Sony, Valve, Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and AMD. Vulkan - Evolution of AMD's Mantle API Back in 2013, Electronic Arts and DICE released...

May 30, 2026

Alphacool Eiswolf GPX-Pro Radeon VII M01 Announced For AMD’s Flagship Radeon VII Graphics Card

Alphacool has announced a new AiO, the Eiswolf GPX-Pro Radeon VII M01 which will be compatible with AMD's flagship graphics card, the Radeon VII. The ...

May 30, 2026

DiskAshur PRO2 512 GB Portable Encrypted SSD Review – The Ultimate In Serious Data Security?

Product Info iStorage DiskAshur PRO2 512GB 2017 Type SSD Price $271 A couple of months ago, we reviewed the DiskAshur2 512GB encrypted SSD which is the gateway for a security conscious user. Today, we review its more professional sibling: the iStorage DiskAshur PRO2. The primary difference between the two is...

May 30, 2026

Backblaze Releases Hard Drive Findings For Q1 2019 – Hard Drive Failure Rates For All Major Suppliers

As of March 31, 2019, Backblaze had 106,238 spinning hard drives in their cloud storage ecosystem spread across three data centers. Of that number, 1,913 were boot drives and 104,325 were data drives. Backblaze published a review on their findings in Q1 of 2019 amongst their data centers and it...

May 30, 2026

Intel Xe GPU Supports Ray Tracing Through Hardware

Intel has just announced something pretty big at FMX in Germany: that their Xe GPU architecture will support hardware acceleration of Ray tracing. This is a pretty big deal because it puts this architecture on par with Turing as far as DXR goes and makes it far superior to solutions...

May 30, 2026

Be Quiet Dark Rock Slim Announced – Air Cooler For All Builds

Be quiet!, a reputable cooling and case brand, announced the Dark Rock Slim, a compact high-end CPU cooler that offers a great clearance that works with almost any stick of RAM. The supported TDP is up to 180 watts which offer enough headroom for silently cooling any mainstream processor. Dark...

May 30, 2026

AMD’s 7nm Zen 2 Comes To AMD Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs First, EPYC Rome Confirmed For Q3 2019

In their earnings call today, AMD confirmed that they will be launching their new 7nm based EPYC Rome processors in Q3 2019. The company also confirmed the launch of their Radeon Navi GPUs in Q3 2019, you can get more details on those here. 7nm Zen 2 Comes To AMD...

May 30, 2026

Patriot Announces New DDR4 Memory Series That Is Both Affordable and Premium

Patriot announced it's their “Premium” DDR4 UDIMMs. And by standard, I mean that XMP is NOT required to get these to rated speeds and timings: All Signature Line UDIMMs use JEDEC-qualified settings. These are budget RAM sticks looking specifically at value-seeking customers. Patriot Announces New DDR4 Memory Series That Is...

May 30, 2026

AMD Confirms Navi GPU Launching In Q3 2019

So AMD has just officially confirmed Navi GPU launching in Q3 2019 (something we have exclusively talked about before) during their earnings call. The Navi GPU is the anxiously anticipated successor to the Vega architecture and has been in the pipeline for quite a few years now. The most likely...

May 30, 2026

Nokia Announces A Change In Its Business Strategy, As Well As A Logo Redesign After Six Decades

Pekka Lundmark, Nokia’s CEO, stated in an announcement today that the Finnish firm was going forth with a shift in strategy, and with that shift comes a change in the logo. The iconic shapes that the company stuck around with for 60 years have gone through a metamorphosis, so let...

May 30, 2026

iPhone 15’s Solid State Buttons Will Work Perfectly With Any Case Attached, Claims Tipster

There will be some level of consistency between the four iPhone 15 models scheduled to launch later this year. Apart from the Dynamic Island, which was exclusive to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max last year, Apple intends to incorporate solid state buttons to the less expensive...

May 30, 2026

Android Phones Could Soon Generate AI Images On The Fly

The whole idea behind generating AI images using text prompts is something that we have seen for quite some time now. Although there have been several tools that do it, Stable Diffusion happens to be the one that a lot of people like. Now, Qualcomm has decided to show off...

May 30, 2026

Download: Apple Releases watchOS 10.2, macOS 14.2, tvOS 17.2 and More to The Public

Apple has finally released watchOS 10.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2, tvOS 17.2, and HomePod 17.2 Software with many new additions. The updates are finally out of the developer phase, and you can download and install them right now on your compatible devices. Apple has released watchOS 10.2, macOS 14.2, tvOS 17.2,...

May 30, 2026

Google Pixel Phones Are Rebooting Because Of A YouTube Video

Android experience generally is pretty smooth. Except now and then, we end up running into an issue that is difficult to explain. Today, we have another phenomenon in the form of a YouTube video that is causing Pixel 7 and other Google Pixel phones to reboot for no reason whatsoever....

May 30, 2026

Apple TV+, Apple Music, App Store And Other Services Are Currently Experiencing An Outage

If you are attempting to use services like Apple TV+, Podcasts, and the App Store for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and they do not appear to be responding, you are not alone in this regard. Several of the California-based giant’s services are currently experiencing an outage, and we were able...

May 30, 2026

Apple’s Second-Generation AR Headset To Be Available In Two Variants And Varying Prices

After the first AR headset’s inception, Apple will proceed to launch the second model, but one analyst predicts that instead of a single variant, there will be two of them, targeting different markets thanks to the varying prices. The very first model, expected to be announced in June later this...

May 30, 2026

Xiaomi Unveils Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition, A Pair Of Smart Glasses With Gesture Control, ‘One Switch’ Function To Virtual Mode, More

Chinese tech companies have a habit of racing ahead of the competition when it comes to advancements, and that is precisely what Xiaomi has done with its Wireless AR Glass Discovery Edition. While there are few specifications provided, some features have been detailed by Xiaomi’s founder and CEO, Lei Jun,...

May 30, 2026

Galaxy S23 Ultra’s Battery Can Be Removed In Mere Seconds And Without Any Professional Tools or Supervision, According To Video

Samsung using the same design for the Galaxy S23 Ultra might have irked a few, but the refinements made to the flagship while charging the same price as the Galaxy S22 Ultra is truly remarkable. After surviving the bend test, one YouTuber shows that he waited eight long years for...

May 30, 2026

New Leak Claims That The Galaxy Z Fold 5 Will Be Thinner Thanks To Improved Hinge Mechanism

Now that we are done with the positive launch of the Galaxy S23 series, it is safe to say that all eyes are now on Samsung's upcoming flagship - the Galaxy Z Fold 5 and the Galaxy Z Flip 5. Over the past couple of days, we learned some information...

May 30, 2026

SpaceX Starship Should Secure Launch Approval By Friday Says Elon Musk

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. According to a fresh X post by its chief Elon Musk, SpaceX's Starship rocket is on track to receive regulatory approval for a Friday launch. The highly...

May 30, 2026

A Recent Filing Gives the Strongest Signal Yet That Digital World and Trump Media and Technology Group Are About To Merge

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. With Trump's Truth Social continuing to bleed money like a sieve and the impending merger of its parent entity, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), with the...

May 30, 2026

To Avoid a Massive Financial Hit, Tesla is Likely to Deliver the First Cybertrucks to Its Employees

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. When it rains, it pours. This idiom is doubly true for Tesla, which is not only contending with a persistent sales slowdown but also a full-fledged PR...

May 30, 2026

SpaceX Successfully Launches Starship’s Second Test & Completes Key Milestone

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. SpaceX's Starship rocket lifted off from the Boca Chica, Texas, test site earlier today after months of waiting and speculation. The world's largest rocket took off from...

May 30, 2026

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Wants Board To ‘Go After His Shares’ If He ‘Goes Off’

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. In a surprising twist of events that no one could have seen coming, OpenAI's founder and CEO Sam Altman was removed from his role by a board...

May 30, 2026

SpaceX’s Starship No Longer Fully Reusable, Requires $548 Million Insurance Coverage

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. After considerable hype, SpaceX has received the launch license for its Starship test flight two and just like the first grant, the second license approval is limited...

May 30, 2026

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Eviscerates Every Other Model in Answering Held-Out Math Questions Except GPT-4

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. As xAI was preparing to unveil its first Large Language Model (LLM) called Grok, Elon Musk boldly declared that the generative AI model in some important respects...

May 30, 2026

Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) Blames the Media’s “Momentous Smear Campaign” for Leaking “Fictitious” Financial Results

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. In a dramatic turn of events, Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), has launched a scathing attack against a number of media outlets...

May 30, 2026

SpaceX Shares Stunning Starship Snaps Ahead Of Historic Test Flight

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. SpaceX has shared some of the best images of its fully stacked Starship rocket as less than a day remains before its historic test flight in Boca...

May 30, 2026

SpaceX’s Starship Test Delayed By A Day Due To Last Minute Repairs Says Musk

This is not investment advice. The author has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. Wccftech.com has a disclosure and ethics policy. With less than 24 hours left until liftoff, SpaceX has decided to swap out some components on its ST\tarship rocket. SpaceX's chief Elon Musk shared the news...

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