The Hot Take: Sweet! Just need to wait for the intel version now.
ASUS says the conventional thermal pastes lose their performance over time, while the NT-CP1 thermal pad can go on for several years. Noctua Launches NT-CP1 Thermal Pad for AMD AM4/AM5 Processors, Promising a "Maintenance-Free" Alternative to Conventional Thermal Paste Noctua has prepared a new thermal solution for enthusiasts who want to keep the CPU temperatures down without worrying about performance degradation. The company just launched the NT-CP1 AM5/4 Carbice carbon nanotube thermal pad, which, although it seems like an unusual…
The maker of expensive printer ink, HP has started flogging a desktop workstation for $132,000, which is enough money to buy a decent house in some parts of the world and still have change for a computer.
The ZGX Fury G1n AI Station targets businesses desperate to run enormous AI models without handing their data to cloud providers. The machine looks like a fairly ordinary workstation, although opening the case reveals hardware normally found in a data centre. HP has apparently decided that the best way to compete with cloud computing is to…
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| November 13, 2026 | Hardware, Nvidia
The Hot Take: The masses have their pitchforks out!
Charlotte Web shares a report from the Associated Press: A shareholder has sued Nvidia and its CEO, Jensen Huang, accusing them of deceiving investors in their responses to media reports about Huang's affair with a purported Chinese spy that threatens national security. [...] The news reports said that the Commerce Department was investigating Alice Huang's company, Singapore-based Megaspeed, on suspicions that it was helping to sidestep U.S. export restrictions blocking Nvidia chips from being sold to China. But Nvidia said then that its…
Today is Microsoft's November 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,235 flaws, including one actively exploited Microsoft Outlook zero-day vulnerability. [...]
The Hot Take: Well with Ai/Si gobbling it up, but I wouldn't think it would be this soon to show up in a app like CPU-Z.
When I splurged on a 128GB DDR4 memory upgrade for my main PC, I knew at the time that it was overkill and a needless expense. However, that was before the current AI craze stripped the consumer market of reasonably affordable, higher capacity
The Hot Take: Will they start making their own consumer RAM kits for the USA?
Samsung Electronics may begin trial runs across its Taylor, Texas, foundry in mid-to-late December 2026 as it installs and tests manufacturing equipment ahead of planned commercial production in 2027.
The Hot Take: Question is this to offset the consumer market or will it to get gobbled up by Ai/Si?
Terafab, the chip manufacturing joint venture between SpaceX and Tesla, is certainly aiming for an unprecedented level of vertical control over the full compute stack, one that ensures a steady and copious supply of memory and logic chips for the Optimus humanoid robots and space-based data centers. Elon Musk's Terafab has now informed its suppliers that it is aiming for a production capacity of around 1 million wafers per month by 2032 For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Terafab is an ambitious semiconductor-focused joint venture…
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| November 11, 2026 | Hardware, Nvidia
The Hot Take: He has some splainning to do!
Top Republican lawmakers have asked Jensen Huang to appear before Congress to answer questions after it was reported that US intelligence officials believe Nvidia’s chief executive has been targeted by a Chinese spying operation.
The chairs of the House committees on China, foreign affairs and intelligence wrote to Huang this week asking him to appear before a joint closed-door briefing for their committees on November 18.
“Recent reports raise significant national security concerns regarding the People’s Republic of China’s access to…
Microsoft is reportedly preparing a major Windows 11 overhaul for 2027, prioritizing performance and reliability over launching Windows 12. Microsoft is reportedly preparing a substantial Windows 11 upgrade for 2027, potentially making version 27H2 the operating system's biggest update since 24H2 in 2024. The company is also developing new default wallpapers, while its broader efforts to improve Windows performance continue. According to The Verge's Tom Warren, Microsoft intends to make Windows 11 27H2 a full operating system upgrade,…
By ckasprzak | TkOut
| November 11, 2026 | Software
The Hot Take: Win! So was all the push for more ram because of crappy coders?
Discord is finally getting rid of Electron! Co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy has confirmed that Discord is rebuilding its client in Rust, and it’ll be using GPUI to handle the desktop interface.
Discord also shared an early Windows 11 screenshot of the new app written in Rust, listed as “Discord Phoenix,” and it’s using just 290.2MB of RAM:
Discord Rust for Windows 11
I’ve been saying for a long time that one of Windows 11’s biggest problems is that it’s full of popular apps built using resource-intensive frameworks like Electron…