Nvidia’s retro driver hype cools
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Core 2 meets cold, hard reality

Earlier this week, a driver update from Nvidia had retro-PC fans frothing with excitement. Thanks to the removal of a pesky POPCNT instruction requirement, GeForce drivers suddenly played nice with ancient Intel CPUs all the way back to the Core 2 era.

MIT’s breakthrough makes chips stretchier than pasta
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Boffins fling something against the wall and it sticks

MIT boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a new form of chip that behaves like pasta.

Xiaomi flexes silicon muscles with XRing chip
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China’s phone makers race to dump Qualcomm

Xiaomi is sharpening its knives for Qualcomm and MediaTek with its own in-house silicon, the XRing 01, and if leaks are anything to go by, it might just have the grunt to pull it off.

Acer's Swift and Predator models chase AI and OLED glory
Published in PC Hardware


Refreshed upgraded laptops

Acer turned up to Computex 2025 with a wheelbarrow full of refreshed laptops, hurling upgrades at nearly every model it sells. It’s the usual story of faster chips, louder acronyms and shinier graphics, but this time there’s real polish, especially in the Swift range.

Maxsun's Terminator board goes rogue with rear PCIe
Published in PC Hardware


BTF-style tricks without the cable Zen

Maxsun’s new Terminator B850BKB WIFI board is doing something funky with PCIe slots.