SK hynix stacks 321-layer NAND for AI boost
Published in PC Hardware


Thinner, faster UFS 4.1 lands in 2026

SK hynix is doubling down on its love affair with stacking things high by stuffing 321 layers into its latest NAND chips, making its new UFS 4.1 modules thinner, slightly more efficient, and apparently clever enough to know what you’re doing before you do.

Asus slaps new GPUs into old laptops and calls it a day
Published in PC Hardware


Computex brings keyboard vents, ancient chips and a lonely dock

Asus turned up to Computex with a pile of gaming laptops barely changed from last year, now dressed up with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 and not much else to show for it.

Asus crams Nvidia's petaflop monster into a dull PC
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ET900N G3 is a supercomputer with a DVD player

Asus has pulled a fast one on the performance PC world by hiding Nvidia's GB300 Ultra chip in a chassis so dull it is like watching paint dry on a beige wall in an insurance office while listening to someone explain how envelopes are made.

Equal1 unveils plug-and-play silicon qubit system
Published in AI


Quantum power into a standard rack server

Boffin's from Equal1 have just emerged from their smoke filled labs with a box which can use both quantum and traditional computing. 

AMD announces FSR Redstone, powered by machine learning
Published in Graphics


Coming in the second half of the year

At the Computex 2025 event, AMD announced its next evolution of the FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology, codenamed Redstone. Powered by machine learning (ML), FSR Redstone will bring Neural Radiance Caching, ML-accelerated Ray Regeneration, and ML-accelerated Frame Generation.