In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Shenzhen-based GMK has launched a new mini PC called the NucBox K15 globally. It’s a compact desktop with support for an ...

Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

We’ve seen a few retro products using core rope memory, such as telephone autodiallers. Obviously, we’ve covered the Apollo program computers, but we don’t think we’ve seen a complete and functional ...

Intel's next-generation Lunar Lake CPUs are still in the ovens inside of their labs, but now we're hearing about the new Core Ultra 5 238V processor with 32GB of LPDDR5X on-package memory. If you ...

A subtle tweak to how RAM keeps time is paving the way for higher memory speeds. Here's what that means for you. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every ...

One of our favorite retro hardware enthusiasts, [CuriousMarc], is back with the outstanding tale of preserving Apollo Program software, and building a core rope reader from scratch to do it. We’ve ...

The LattePanda Mu is a tiny computer-on-a-module that combines and Intel Alder Lake-0N processor with memory, storage, and I/O capabilities onto a package that measures just 60 x 69.6mm (about 2.36″ x ...

If you’ve purchased a laptop or tablet with an AMD Ryzen chip inside, there’s a performance tweak you absolutely need to know about. Apply it to AMD’s AI/gaming powerhouse Ryzen AI Max chip, and you ...

The GMK EVO-T1 is a mini PC that packs a lot of power into a compact package. It features an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H 16-core processor with Intel Arc 140T integrated graphics, support for up to 96GB ...

Just days after the announcement of some serious innovation in laptop memory, we’re now seeing some great news on the desktop front, too. MSI and Asrock have announced that they are enabling support ...