SSD shortages are getting worse
Published in Cloud


Samsung just made sure of it


SSD shortages are here, prices are climbing, and the world’s largest NAND producer just took one foot off the gas.

Intel plots a 52-core monster to take AMD’s X3D crown
Published in Graphics


Nova Lake has more cache than you can poke a stick at

Troubled Chipzilla looks ready to swing a cricket bat at AMD’s stacked-cache dominance with a wild 52-core Nova Lake brute that reportedly carries 288 MB of vertical last-level cache.

Samsung boffins flip old assumptions to slash NAND power
Published in PC Hardware


A 96 per cent power cut in flash.

Boffins working from Samsung Electronics have emerged from their smoke-filled labs claiming to have slashed NAND flash power consumption by as much as 96 per cent.

Italian studio faces closure after Steam ban
Published in Gaming


Who would have thunk that riding naked humans would cause such a stink?

Valve has confirmed that it reviewed and pre-emptively banned the surreal horror Horses game after parts of the store page set off alarm bells, prompting the company to demand a full build review.

India sharpens its antitrust stick and Apple squirms
Published in News


The Fruity Cargo Cult whinges that it might be fined billions

India’s new antitrust law has given its competition watchdog the freedom to calculate penalties using global turnover, and Job’s Mob is already clutching its pearls about the consequences.