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Why Displays Moved From LCD to OLED
The screens on our best phones and TVs went through a quiet revolution in how they make light. The difference explains why a good OLED looks so striking.
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HBM: The Memory That Makes Modern AI Possible
The chips that train AI get all the glory. The unsung hero sitting right next to them is a stack of memory most people have never heard of.
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Apple Raises Mac and iPad Prices as Memory Costs Bite
Apple is pushing up MacBook and iPad prices, blaming soaring memory costs — a sign the AI-driven squeeze on DRAM is reaching consumers.
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Oxide's Rack-Scale Computer Is a Bet Against the Cloud Status Quo
Oxide ships a whole rack designed as one coherent computer — hardware, firmware, and control plane co-designed. An interactive 3D tour shows the pitch.
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RISC-V Is the Open Standard Chipmakers Can't Ignore
Most chips speak an instruction set someone else owns and licenses. RISC-V is the radical idea that the basic language of a processor should be free.
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IBM Debuts the World's First Sub-1-Nanometer Chip
Big Blue unveiled a "nanostack" 3D chip architecture that pushes transistors below one nanometer — a milestone it says will carry the semiconductor industry through the next decade.
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Why Your Next GPU Costs More Than Your Last
The graphics card used to be where enthusiasts splurged. Now it's where an entire industry's priorities collide — and gamers pay the difference.
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Framework's 10G Ethernet Card Exposes USB-C's Messy Reality
Jeff Geerling tested WisdPi's 10-gigabit Ethernet expansion card for Framework machines — and ran straight into the bandwidth tangle hiding inside USB-C.
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The Quiet Engineering Behind a Good Mechanical Keyboard
A keyboard seems like the most solved object in computing. Get close to one and you find a surprising amount of deliberate engineering under each key.
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Why Solid-State Drives Quietly Beat Hard Drives
One of the biggest leaps in everyday computing wasn't a faster processor. It was replacing a spinning disk with a chip — and most people barely noticed why it mattered.
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The Heat Problem: Why Chips Can't Just Get Faster
There's a simple reason your processor doesn't just run twice as fast every year anymore. Physics turned the dial down, and the whole industry had to adapt.
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Why ARM Chips Are Eating the Laptop Market
For decades the laptop meant x86. A wave of ARM-based machines flipped the script by leading with the one spec buyers actually feel: battery life.
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What an NPU Is — and Why Your Laptop Suddenly Has One
New phones and laptops advertise a component most buyers have never heard of: the NPU. It reflects a real shift in what our devices are being asked to do.
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What '3nm' Actually Means on a Chip
Chipmakers love to brag about nanometers, and every new number sounds like progress. The truth behind the marketing is more interesting than the label.