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The strive for ever smaller processor nodes continues as TSMC is expected to begin volume production of 5nm A14 chips for Apple next month. The semiconductor manufacturer TSMC is now looking to scale up its production of 5nm chips, with volume production set to start in April according to industry …

Leaps in manufacturing technology don't come cheap. For the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC this isn't new information, as the company has already invested heavily in an effort to shrink nodes over the last few years. For the leap down to 3nm, it is reported the company is investing upwards of £18 …

BT has announced it will begin rolling out Gigabit broadband to UK customers later this month. The company claims its new connection will be ‘up to 25 times faster than Superfast fibre' and we can expect availability of the service to ‘more than two million households' across the UK. Set …

Sharp has announced that the UK’s fastest-growing TV platform, Freeview Play will be made available on all its Android-based TVs via an update due to roll out soon across all SharpAndorid devices. An update to enable Freeview Play on all Sharp Android TVs will provide UK TV viewers with access …

PC component manufacturer GeIL has announced plans to make its products more accessible to the UK market by entering a new partnership with UK based online retail outlets that will expand the GeIL brand across the United Kingdom. In-demand GeIL products will now become available at a handful of UK-based …

So far, we’ve had a number of high-profile event cancellations in early 2020 due to growing concerns around the coronavirus. Nvidia's Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) is one of those events affected. The in-person event was previously cancelled, with plans to replace it with livestreams and the usual keynote address from …

A couple of weeks ago, Apple admitted that it was no longer expecting to meet its Q2 revenue targets for the year due to the Coronavirus impacting the supply chain. Now, Foxconn's latest revenue report has indicated how big the impact can be, with the supplier experiencing its biggest year-on-year …

The trade war between the US and China has been going on since 2018 and has affected Chinese and US companies alike. One Chinese company that has been targeted in particular is Huawei. While the US decision to blacklist Huawei didn't seem to put too much of a dent in the …

AMD has announced that the world’s fastest supercomputer is set to be powered by the company’s next-generation EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to unleash power exceeding 200 of today’s fastest supercomputers combined. The El Capitan system will be the second All AMD CPU and GPU exascale supercomputer in …

Last year, Nitro Concepts expanded beyond gaming chairs and into the gaming desk space, starting off with the height adjustable D16E and D16M  desks. Now, there is a more budget-friendly option available in the lineup, with the D12 desk launching today.  The Nitro Concepts D12 is smaller than the D16, …

As companies continue to monitor the coronavirus situation, big annual events are cancelling, postponing or otherwise changing up in response. So far, MWC, GDC Facebook F8 and Nvidia's GTC have all been impacted and now, Google is also making the decision to scrap I/O 2020, its largest event of the …

So far, we've had a number of high-profile event cancellations in early 2020 due to growing concerns around the coronavirus. As a result, other events planned for the year are reconsidering their dates and some are even shifting to to online-only, live-streamed formats. The latter will be the case for …

Over the weekend, GDC was postponed at what felt like the very last minute, joining a growing list of cancelled events in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak. This has led to questions over other events scheduled throughout the year, including E3. For now at least, the ESA says that …

So far this year we've seen Mobile World Congress cancelled, the Game Developers Conference postponed to an unknown date and now, Facebook is also cancelling its annual F8 conference as fears around the Coronavirus continue to mount. Initially, Facebook's conference was scheduled to take place on May 5th and May …

Ever since Google first announced Stadia as a cloud gaming platform, plenty of gamers and industry pundits have made their concerns clear about the service. We haven't heard as much chatter directly from developers but that changed this week thanks to a new report, sharing that developers have familiar concerns …

Over the last couple of weeks, we have seen a lot of major companies pull out of the Game Developers Conference in early March. Despite the growing list of drop-outs, a few days ago the organisers behind GDC still planned to go ahead with the event. That changed last night, …

We are all patiently waiting to see AMD's next-gen GPUs and more specifically ‘Big Navi'. There have been plenty of rumours lately regarding specs, one of which pulled SK Hynix into the conversation, forcing the company to respond and deny the rumours. One source claimed that the Radeon RX 5950 …

The Thermaltake case modding challenge is kicking off in the UK soon, giving UK PC builders a chance to show off their skills and be in for the chance to win a £1,000 cash prize. Five contestants will be given a Thermaltake View 51 TG Snow to build around, in …

Gigabyte’s premium gaming division Aorus will be showcasing its line of next-generation products for gamers at PAX East this weekend. Aorus plans to show off an arsenal of new pre-built PC gaming systems, gaming monitors and laptops during the gaming festival held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Centre. The …

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Overclockers UK and to say thanks to its customers for being around over the last 20 years, the company is planning some great deals and offers across a huge range of products, both online and in-store. Overclockers UK kicked off its birthday celebrations …

 Corsair has worked with Asus to enable the control of ASUS Aura RGB lighting through Corsair's own iCue software. By installing the Aura Sync utility with iCue, users can now synchronise the RGB lighting of all Asus Aura components with any Corsair components you may have installed.  Corsair's iCue Software has …

Patriot’s gaming brand Viper has announced it will showcase a new M.2 PCIe external SSD during the gaming festival at PAX East 2020. The new device will be ideally suited to offering extra storage to console gamers with its high-speed data transfer rates and compact form factor. The PAX East …

The tech world has been thrown into a whirlwind of uncertainty to start off the year, as the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) has seen production schedules slide and major companies dropping out of big events. Since MWC was eventually cancelled, there have been questions around both GDC and …

It has long been rumoured that Apple is looking to move away from Intel and x86 onto their own custom ARM silicon. Apple has even taken steps to hire ARM chip specialists and the way we see it, the first Mac to be powered by one of these custom processors shouldn't be …

Thermaltake’s esports gaming division the Thermaltake Esports League has announced it will partner up with Ubisoft to host this year’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Tournament in Taiwan. The Thermaltake Esports League is planning to host tournaments across the globe and will start from its base in Taiwan hosting the …

The Coronavirus outbreak has sent the tech world into a bit of a spin, with events being cancelled and production schedules sliding. Nintendo won't be escaping the effects either, with warnings of console shortages impacting the U.S and European markets as early as April.  The Coronavirus is having a huge …

Overclockers UK is turning 20 years old this month and there is quite the celebration planned to mark the occasion. Not only will there be two big events, one involving an in-store party, but there will also be a special sale and giveaways! The in-store event is going to be …

Google has been battling with the EU for a few years now over various anti-trust concerns. At the moment, Google faces a hefty $2.6 billion (2.4 billion Euro) fine, which the company is still fighting.  The fine was initially imposed back in 2017 and this week during a three-day hearing, Alphabet …

After leaving Google, Android co-founder, Andy Rubin, set out on a new venture, opting to build his own smartphone start-up called ‘Essential’. The company made headlines with its first release, the Essential Phone, and while a new smartphone project has been in the works since, the company appears to have …

All the way back in July 2015, we learned that an incredibly rare prototype of the unreleased SNES-CD, otherwise known as the SNES PlayStation or the Nintendo PlayStation Superdisc, was found and recovered in near perfect condition. Over the next couple of years, the owner got the console working and even managed …