Fabless semiconductor companies

Photo: Tetra Images (Getty Images)You’ve probably noticed that your wi-fi slows down when more people or devices use the network. The same goes for larger systems. If you get too many people congregating in one area, the cell phone towers can’t handle the influx. With the number of connected devices growing exponentially and the coming wave of AI poised to make the problem even worse, there are major wireless traffic jams on the horizon. Now, scientists at the University of Florida have a potential solution: just make the…

ROG Zephyrus G14 This is one heck of a small gaming laptop that meets or beats expectations in all areas save for upgradability.You can't go wrong with the Zephyrus G14 if you're looking for a gaming laptop without compromising too much in performance for its portability. The newly redesigned frame looks better than ever and is sturdy enough to take with you everywhere. It would be a perfect laptop if it weren't for the small concessions made to performance and how you'll need to opt for the more expensive version to…

There is enough dust lingering in the bowels of my old, childhood desktop tower to make my roommate sneeze and cough while sitting on the couch 10 feet behind me. It’s been a long time since I dared crack the shell on my ancient PC, a decade and a half since I first put it together. Few products of my childhood years bring me nostalgia, but I turned 30 this past month, and while time doesn’t necessarily bring wisdom it does breed sentimentality.Age also brings introspection, and looking inside the computer of my youth,…

Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams.Top 5 Shopping Tips for Amazon Prime DayGraphics Processing Units were once only coveted by PC gamers looking to max out their home setup, but now they’re the crown jewel of the most lucrative tech companies in the world. It’s a unique position to be in, but how did Jensen Huang get here? And what…

Intel’s latest chips boast big performance gains, but never mind any of that. What would be a normal annual chip refresh announcement from one of the world’s biggest silicon developers has put the biggest emphasis yet on onboard PC AI, with the latest Intel Core Ultra line as part of the current Meteor Lake chipsets promising drastic performance boosts in the integrated GPU while splitting other intensive tasks on the new neural processing unit, the NPU.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedFirst off,…

After months of silence, it seems that AMD might be readying a new graphics card — but it’s not the one most of us expected to see. Instead of following the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT with an RX 7800 XT, AMD appears to be moving down a couple of notches. Rumor has it that its next GPU will be the RX 7600. Jacob Roach / Digital Trends The latest scoop comes from Igor’s Lab, which claims that some of AMD’s board partners will showcase the Radeon RX 7600 during Computex, which is a little over a month away. However,…

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D MSRP $450.00 “The fastest gaming CPU you can buy, even beating out much more expensive options.” Pros Chart-topping gaming performance Great value Solid multi-core and productivity performance AM5 is getting cheaper Cons Weak single-core performance…

AMD’s latest laptop CPU range is huge, and the lineup covers not just Zen 4 processors. In fact, buying a laptop with a Ryzen 7000 processor could mean you’re getting a Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 3+, or Zen 4 chip. Because the naming scheme is so confusing, it’s easy to imagine that less inquisitive consumers might feel a little lost. AMD seems to have found a way to remedy this, but is this really the perfect solution? Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD is serving up some of the best processors for laptops in this…

Against all odds, it appears that Intel is still on course with its next-gen graphics cards, and its plans reach far into the future. A new report tells us that Intel may have ordered a large number of GPU chips from TSMC. While Intel Arc struggles to compete against the best graphics cards, this is still great news for the GPU market as a whole — here’s why. Compared to AMD and Nvidia, Intel is still very new to the discrete GPU market, and it only has a limited number of cards up for grabs. The range is…

Asus released a trailer for a handheld Steam Deck competitor over the weekend, but there was just one problem. The trailer dropped on April 1. That lead many to assume it was an elaborate, high budget April Fool’s prank, but Asus has confirmed that its handheld gaming PC is real and coming soon. The ROG Ally is coming soon, according to Asus, and there’s even a page live on Best Buy if you want to be notified when pre-orders are up. The handheld includes AMD’s “most powerful APU yet,” according to Asus, and it looks…