Now that the PlayStation 5 officially supports third-party storage devices, the review community has gotten to work evaluating performance and compatibility. Sony’s decision to support a wide range of storage products on the PS5 is something of an about-face for the company. In the past, Sony has often used its…
Kioxia recently presented at the China Flash Market Summit, where it shared data on what kind of performance to expect from its upcoming PCIe 5.0 drives. Just as PCIe 4.0 doubled bandwidth compared with PCIe 3.0, PCIe 5.0 doubles up compared with 4.0. An x1 PCIe 5.0 lane will deliver…
A few weeks ago, we covered the news that multiple SSD manufacturers including Crucial, Western Digital, and Samsung had been caught bait-and-switching customers. Specifically, the new drives these companies are shipping do not always offer as much performance as the versions sampled for review. We heard from Crucial and Western…
SpaceX launched itself into the public consciousness with the Falcon 9, a highly reliable rocket that has now completed numerous trips to the International Space Station. NASA has even authorized the Falcon 9 and its Dragon capsule to transport astronauts, a first for private aerospace. The Falcon 9 was also…
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Update (9/1/2021) The reporting this story is based on contained incorrect statements of fact and misstated the reasons for several recent events between ARM and ARM China. For an updated, accurate story, please see here. Original Story Below: The onetime CEO of ARM China, Allen Wu, has reportedly seized control…
HBM2 (High Bandwidth Memory) has been in-market for a few years now, but the various companies working on HBM3 have kept its specifications close to the chest. Technologies like HBM2E have extended baseline HBM2 performance while new capabilities, like Samsung’s Processor-in-Memory, have expanded what HBM2 is capable of. We now…
When I wrote about Crucial’s decision to swap inferior NAND flash into its products without updating the reviewer community or announcing a separate SKU, I hoped the problem was a one-off. While this has happened before, it’s typically been the exception, not the norm. Guess that was too much to…
For years, USB advanced at a predictable rate — USB2 was faster than USB, USB3 was faster than USB2, and now, USB4 is even on the horizon. In the last few years, the once-simple standard has broadened and become more confusing. There are now multiple types of USB3, including USB…
One of the best and most cost-effective ways to improve the performance of an old PC is to put an SSD in it. Even a purpose-built legacy system running the highest-end components available in its era can be further improved by an SSD. Systems that don’t support the old SATA…
One tidbit Intel confirmed at the International Supercomputing Conference this week: It’s now shipping DG2 GPUs to developers as part of its slow ramp into the GPU market. Up until now, Intel has confirmed itself to shipping integrated Xe-based graphics and a small, low-power GPU dubbed DG1. Intel positioned DG1…