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After years of complaints about Windows Task Manager displaying CPU utilization incorrectly, a fix is finally on its way
By James Bentley last updated
News You can now more accurately manage your tasks.

New super-thin '2D' metal sheets could enable ultra-low power chips and can you guess how they're made? Yup, by squishing stuff really hard
By Jeremy Laird published
news Apparently single-atom thickness is possible with a plain old hydraulic press

World's smallest microcontroller looks like I could easily accidentally inhale it but packs a genuine 32-bit Arm CPU
By Jeremy Laird published
News A sneeze-inducing 1.38 mm² and small enough to make a Raspberry Pi look like a bus.

Finally some good vibes from Intel as stock jumps 15% on new CEO hire and Arizona fab celebrates 'Eagle has landed' moment for its 18A node
By Jeremy Laird published
News Is Intel finally on the up?

Here comes Intel's new CEO: a semiconductor veteran that won the same prestigious award as Jensen Huang and Lisa Su
By Jacob Ridley published
News Lip-Bu Tan has a degree in physics, a masters in nuclear engineering, and won the semiconductor industry's top award, the Robert N. Noyce award.

So, wait, now TSMC is supposedly pitching a joint venture with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom to run Intel's ailing chip fabs?
By Jeremy Laird published
News And it's all because of Donald Trump? This story will run and run...

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review
By Nick Evanson published
Total Zen AMD has taken its Ryzen 9 9950X and given it some 3D V-Cache lovin'. Oh hell yeah.

It Takes Two follow-up Split Fiction's system requirements are here, and it's verified for Steam Deck and potato-PCs alike
By Nick Evanson published
news Mind you, the hardware requirements do ramp up at high graphics settings.
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