Intel is reaping the rewards of its investment into the cryptocurrency mining space, having earned a contract that will see blockchain mining specialist company Hive double its hashpower thanks to Intel's Bonanza Mine ASICs. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intels-bitcoin-chips-double-cryptomining-specialists-hash-power
Prototyping your own PCBs for Pi projects and more is easier than ever thanks to Wolfy-j’s custom UV machine project. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-pcb-uv-project
Interestingly, the Mac Mini motherboard assembly was dwarfed by the iMac G4's original 3.5-inch HDD. This made the mod easier, and space helped retain the optical drive functionality. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-imac-g4-to-m1-mod
Microchip's new controller will enable next-generation SSDs for PCIe Gen5-supporting servers. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/microchip-pcie-5-controller-200tb
A new Geekbench 5 result shows Apple's new M1 Ultra flagship going toe-to-toe with AMD's monster 64 core Threadripper 3990X, while consuming just a fifth of the power. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-m1-ultra-nearly-matches-amd-threadripper-3990x
Arm and Intel CPU cores are affected by a branch prediction history vulnerability, AMD's CPUs are not. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-alder-lake-arm-cpus-affected-by-new-spectre-vulnerability
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 continues to rank as the most popular GPU in the Steam Hardware Survey, and even increased its market share. Other highlights include more than 50% of users packing 16GB of RAM, and Windows 11 is approaching 16% adoption. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/steam-hardware-survey-gtx-1060-still-on-top-march-2022
Intel announced its new family of HBM2e-toting FPGAs in the form of the Agilex M-Series, claiming performance and efficiency benefits over the competition. It also opens up the doors to blockchain implementations for the new chips. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-agilex-m-fpga-products-and-pivots-toward-blockchain-workloads
The Apple Studio Display is an impressive but expensive monitor for professionals. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-studio-display-5k-a13-bionic
Intel's Arc Alchemist lineup is getting closer to reality, despite purported internal delays. Industry sources are now placing the new discrete graphics cards from Intel as releasing between May and June. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arc-alchemist-lineup-gets-tentative-mayjune-2022-release-window