SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed

SK hynix announces major plan to spend $712.5 billion in its operations in South Korea, but the only detailed investments are spendings on a new NAND fab and a packaging facility.

Montech NX600 Review: A budget dual tower with jet-engine fans
Montech NX600 Review: A budget dual tower with jet-engine fans

Montech’s NX600 is a new dual-tower air cooler powered by six heatpipes and two 28mm thick high-performance 120mm fans. We’ve tested it with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D to benchmark its thermal efficiency.

Asus B850-Creator Wifi Neo motherboard review: AM5 Creator mobo looks the part, but is missing useful features
Asus B850-Creator Wifi Neo motherboard review: AM5 Creator mobo looks the part, but is missing useful features

Asus’ B850-Creator Wifi Neo offers fast dual 5 GbE, 3x video outputs, and loads of EZ PC DIY/AI features, but lacks enough USB ports (no 40 Gbps at all) and is expensive for the B850 platform.

Intel hikes pricing for its flagship desktop PC chips by up to $50 — official Core Ultra 270K Plus and 250K Plus product pages now recommend prices of up to $349 and $229, respectively

Intel’s Arrow Lake Refresh processors remain among the company’s strongest desktop offerings, but newly updated pricing makes both CPUs noticeably more expensive than when they debuted in March.

Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs
Possible AMD RX 7900 XTX engineering sample with red PCB surfaces — prototype came with no backplate & custom VBIOS but matches RX 7900 GRE specs

It seems like a never-before-seen engineering sample for AMD’s last-gen Radeon RX 7900 XTX has just popped up online, featuring specs that indicate it’s a binned down model.

Get 16GB DDR5 for less than $260 in this B&H RAM bundle deal for an AMD AM5 build — save $119 on this PC parts kit that includes a Ryzen 5 CPU and an Asus B650E motherboard
Get 16GB DDR5 for less than $260 in this B&H RAM bundle deal for an AMD AM5 build — save $119 on this PC parts kit that includes a Ryzen 5 CPU and an Asus B650E motherboard

Save 18% on a solid AMD AM5 starter bundle with a Ryzen 5 7600X, 16GB DDR5-6000 RAM, and an Asus B650E motherboard, a solid and affordable foundation today with an easy path to future Ryzen upgrades tomorrow.

AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel’s footsteps with new core type for background tasks
AMD confirms low-power CPU cores in Linux kernel patch — Zen 6 chips could follow in Intel’s footsteps with new core type for background tasks

AMD confirms plans to incorporate low-power CPU cores into next-generation heterogeneous CPUs to lower power consumption and improve energy efficiency.

Meta fights soaring hardware costs by reusing old DDR4 server memory in new DDR5-only servers — custom CXL 2.0 chip marries legacy DDR4-2400 with cutting-edge DDR5-6400
Meta fights soaring hardware costs by reusing old DDR4 server memory in new DDR5-only servers — custom CXL 2.0 chip marries legacy DDR4-2400 with cutting-edge DDR5-6400

Meta develops its custom Vistara CXL memory expander to use DDR4 memory with new servers running AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ processors.