Motherboards

16+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1491+ words) Right, first impressions, because the MPG VIXTA 300R PZ makes a strong one. The whole chassis stands lifted clear of the desk on a plinth, and the front corner is wrapped in a single curved sheet of tempered glass with no…...

13+ hour, 10+ min ago   (250+ words) When you consider what the Ryzen 5 9600X is up against with other lower-cost gaming options, it’s well positioned. We consider it the best budget pick in our best CPUs for gaming list, and with good reason. It outpaces the Ryzen 5 7600X and…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (221+ words) Cadence’s PCIe 6.0 subsystem clears official compliance testing Nasi Lemak Tech Cadence’s latest news comes in the form of its PHY and controller IP for PCIe 6.0 passing official PCI-SIG compliance testing on the very first attempt. PCIe is the backbone connecting…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (202+ words) Cadence has announced that its complete PCIe 6.0 subsystem, combining PHY and controller IP, has achieved first-pass compliance with the PCI Express 6.0 specification. The x8 subsystem was tested at the standard’s full 64 GT/s data rate during PCI-SIG’s first official PCIe 6.0 compliance…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (234+ words) Cadence Design Systems announced that its PHY and controller IP for the PCIe 6.0 specification, implemented on TSMC’s N3 process, achieved first-pass compliance at PCI-SIG’s compliance workshop in late July. The event was the industry’s first official compliance testing round for the…...

1+ day, 46+ min ago   (645+ words) Acer’s PC-price warning is the latest in a string of memory-driven price stories that have hit different corners of the hardware market through 2026, each shaped by the same underlying DRAM and NAND shortage but landing differently depending on how memory-intensive…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (238+ words) Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel....

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (277+ words) AMD is launching its Ryzen 5 7500 and Ryzen 5 5500F CPUs, both of which are currently available on Amazon US. In practice, even though these CPUs fall into fairly affordable price ranges, Amazon isn’t hesitating to list them at $20 above their MSRP. Specifically,…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (448+ words) Modern AI and high-performance computing devices are straining conventional test architectures, according to Synopsys. As scan data volume, core counts, chiplet integration and test coverage requirements keep rising, traditional design-for-test methodologies are becoming harder to scale. Synopsys describes its TestMAX…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (195+ words) Digital lifestyle, smart devices and gadgets Cadence has announced that its PHY and controller IP for the PCIe 6.0 specification, built on TSMC’s N3 process, achieved first-pass success at the recent PCI-SIG compliance workshop held in late July, the industry’s first official…...