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Kioxia Moves Its 100 Million IOPS SSD to 2028
The successor to the first ten-million-IOPS drive was a 2027 part and is now a 2028 one, held there by a flash…
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An Unnamed x86 CPU Has Run Legacy-Free for a Year
A request to document 64-bit-only behaviour for the Linux kernel describes an x86 part that dropped the modes Intel decided to keep,…
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Four AirJet Modules Cool 20 Watts in Lenovo’s AeroBlade
Four solid-state cooling modules and no fans in a 10mm Lenovo concept, Eizo's first ColorEdge OLED and the one year of cover…
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Zen 6 Kernel Patches Put Numbers on a Third Core Type
AMD's kernel patches put the first numbers on Zen 6's new low-power core, Intel's own parts store names LGA1954 alongside Nova Lake-S,…
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What an SSD Warranty Actually Refunds in a Shortage
A failed drive is now settled by a clause most buyers never read, YMTC wants the NAND crown by 2027, and Samsung's…
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A Thermal Cutoff in the 12V-2×6 Cable, a 1,000 Hz Panel, and B450’s Return
Corsair puts a thermal switch inside the 12V-2x6 cable, LG's 1,000 Hz UltraGear needs a DisplayPort 2.1 card before anything else, and…
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ASUS Pushes QD-OLED to 500 Hz, and Flash Learns an HBM Trick
ASUS lists a 500 Hz QD-OLED for competitive play, and Sandisk and SK hynix publish the first formal spec for NAND that…
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A Two-Instruction Gap in AMD’s Spectre v2 Defense, Now Closed
MIT researchers found a two-instruction timing gap that let interrupts defeat AMD's Safe RET mitigation on Zen 1 through Zen 4. The…
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RTX 50 Super Refresh Slides to 2027 on GDDR7 Costs
NVIDIA's RTX 50 SUPER refresh reportedly waits for CES 2027 over 3GB GDDR7 pricing, while a hobbyist's 240,000-transistor chip renders real 3D…
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The Densest NAND Chip Yet Is Built for Servers, and OLED Gets a Cheaper Recipe
Kioxia and Sandisk show the highest-density QLC NAND yet at Flash Memory Summit, and LG Display cuts an OLED emissive layer to…
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