Nvidia is offering a new bundle deal featuring a 3-month subscription to both Xbox Game Pass and its own GeForce Now streaming service. The bundle is available for all RTX 40-series graphics card purchases for a limited time.
Nvidia has made a lot of great graphics cards since it first got into the business, and we've picked the best five GPUs of all time.
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/best-nvidia-gpus-of-all-time
Prices of Nvidia RTX 4090 cards have been shooting up lately, and there are photos reportedly showing piles of cards being purchased for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers and traders.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-4090-cards-reportedly-hoarded-for-sale-to-china
AMD's Ryzen 8040HS (Hawk Point) processors break cover with the first benchmark leaks, showing minor gains over 7040HS (Phoenix Point). The future CPUs are destined to fight Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-8040hs-hawk-point-cpu-benchmarks
Microsoft's new ugly sweater for the holidays features the "Bliss" wallpaper from Windows XP
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-xp-wallpaper-takes-spot-on-microsofts-new-ugly-sweater
Germany vows to subsidize Intel and TSMC fabs despite a budget crisis, though Intel and Wolfspeed reportedly received firm fab funding commitments from the German government.
Ericsson is perhaps the biggest high-profile user of Intel's IFS business and has launched its first products that use chips manufactured on the Intel 4 node, beating even Intel's own Meteor Lake CPUs to market.
SK Hynix readies 2.5D fan-out packaging for next-gen memory that combines wide I/O with low costs and eliminates TSVs.
Loongson’s 3A6000 CPU is ready for prime time, and it has announced PC partners including a new Asus motherboard. The Chinese chip’s performance is similar to Intel’s Core i3-10100 CPU.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc
A customs and shipping database revealed an engineering sample of an Arrow Lake-H CPU sporting 14 cores with integrated graphics, presumably a midrange SKU.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-arrow-lake-h-leaked-in-customs-database