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What’s happening Nvidia has opened up a new building at its Santa Clara, California, headquarters. Voyager’s unusual architecture is designed to keep company workers happy and productive. Why it matters Imposing and lavishly appointed campuses aren’t just for impressing employees and competitors these days. After COVID, they also have to lure employees back into the …

What’s happening Nvidia is releasing a new chip, the H100 “Hopper,” that has the potential to speed up artificial intelligence that’s sweeping the tech industry. Why it matters The chip helps cement Nvidia’s lead in technology that’s revolutionizing everything in computing from self-driving cars to translating language as people speak. Nvidia will begin selling a new AI acceleration chip later …

Chip shortages and supply chain troubles are not slowing down Lenovo when it comes to releasing new laptops. The PC maker announced four premium Slim-series models on Thursday, available with Intel or AMD processors and ranging from 13.3 to 16 inches in size.   The Slim 7i (the “i” denotes an Intel CPU) is where the line begins. The 14-inch …

We review a lot of computers at CNET, and we’ve been doing it for a long time. Over the years some of the methodology has changed, but our core commitment to in-depth product reviews has not. But how, exactly, do we test the products we review?  The review process for laptops, desktops, tablets and other computer-like devices consists of two …

Following the announcements Dell made earlier this month, the company expands the Precision mobile workstation and Latitude business laptop lines with additional models incorporating notable new technologies: a “collaboration touchpad,” Intel’s rumored 55-watt H series mobile processor and the company’s semi-proprietary CAMM, which stands for compression attached memory module, as an alternative to SODIMM. They all come with the updated …

Dell’s popular starts-under-$1,000 gaming laptop, the G15, continues its trajectory away from inconspicuous and moving toward looks-like-Alienware with its 2022 AMD Ryzen-based model. It joins AMD updates of the Alienware M series laptops and Aurora desktop PC updates announced at CES 2022 which also began shipping today. Though the 15-inch G15 essentially retains essentially the same exterior design as last year’s …

The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 for 2022 was the first system announced that would adhere to the 2022 version of AMD’s Advantage design framework, as the original G14 model did when it launched in 2020. That means it uses AMD’s latest technologies. This year, much of AMD’s chip updates aim to increase the battery life of gaming laptops while boosting performance by …

Dell’s Precision 5470, which was unveiled Thursday, is the world’s smallest, thinnest and most powerful 14-inch workstation, according to the PC-maker. Designed for creators, engineers and other specialty professionals, the Precision 5470 is the first to be built around a 12th-gen Intel Core H-series processor. Available in April with pricing coming soon, the 5470 can be configured with up to …

Intel finally debuts its new discrete graphics cards, arriving more than fashionably late to a party already dominated by Nvidia and AMD. Based on the same Xe architecture that debuted in its integrated GPUs circa 2020 (11th-gen Tiger Lake), it expands the hardware and features to take advantage of access to the higher power and dedicated memory available when it’s …

Two frustrating years for gamers hot to get GPUs to make their rigs sing may be coming to an end.  Websites such as Best Buy, Overclockers and Micro Center are showing the latest Nvidia and AMD GPUs in stock, as reported earlier Monday by PC Gamer. This means that as long as stock is available for buyers near their local stores, they …