Part of the $3.5b investment and focused on advanced packaging technologies

Intel has opened up its new Fab 9 factory in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The new factory is a part of Intel's previously announced $3.5 billion investment to equip its New Mexico operations for advanced semiconductor packaging technologies, namely Foveros, a 3D stacked packaging technology that stacks compute tiles vertically.

Roundup: New Geforce 551.23 WHQL driver and reviews are out

Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER is available as of today, priced at $799. Nvidia has also released the new Geforce 551.23 WHQL driver with support for RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, and some other updates, and reviews are out as of yesterday.

Up to 43% faster compared to 970 EVO Plus

Samsung has now officially announced the new 990 EVO PCIe 5.0 M2 SSD series, supporting both PCIe 4.0 x4 and PCIe 5.0 x2 interfaces, standard M.2 2280 form-factor, and coming in 1TB and 2TB capacities. According to Samsung, the new 990 EVO SSD series is up to 43 percent faster compared to the 970 EVO Plus.

Dual-slot and with three fans

ASUS has rather silently launched yet another custom Geforce RTX 4060 graphics card, this time in the low-profile form factor, making it interesting for those SFF builds.

Gets a 10-core CPU and Xclipse 940 GPU

Samsung has now officially and fully detailed its new Exynos 2400 SoC which will be powering the Galaxy S24 and the Galaxy S24+ in certain regions, including Europe. The 4nm LPP+ Exynos 2400 SoC will have a 10-core CPU part with Cortex-X4 Prime core and Xclipse 940 GPU based on AMD RDNA 3 architecture.

AI features take the lead, but there are plenty of other upgrades

At its Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung unveiled its new Galaxy S24 series smartphone lineup, including the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and the flagship Galaxy S24 Ultra. As expected, a big part of the announcement was focused on AI, or in Samsung's case, Galaxy AI, a set of AI-powered features that will be coming to the new Galaxy S24 lineup.

32-inch 240Hz 4K AW3225QF and 27-inch 360Hz 1440p AW2725DF

In addition to new and redesigned laptops, Alienware launched two new QD-OLED gaming monitors at the CES 2024 show in Las Vegas, including the 32-inch 240Hz AW3225QF and the 27-inch 360Hz AW2725DF.

Coming soon with transfer speeds of 14,169 MB/s

Sabrent has announced its latest addition to the Rocket SSD lineup, the Rocket 5 Gen 5. Sabrent says it will be coming very soon and promises over 14,000 MB/s in sequential read and over 12,000 MB/s in sequential write speeds.

Geforce NOW getting G-SYNC, 24 new G-SYNC gaming monitors, displays and TVs, and more

In addition to its RTX 40 SUPER series lineup announcement at CES 2024, Nvidia also announced some other updates, including a list of games that will be getting RTX updates, including DLSS and/or ray tracing. Nvidia Geforce is also getting a few updates including G-Sync support, and Nvidia was keen to note that there are 24 new G-SYNC monitors, displays, and TVs coming soon.

Including gaming-oriented ROG NUC

At the CES 2024 in Las Vegas, ASUS unveiled its new NUC lineup, which includes both the new NUC 14 Pro and NUC 14 Pro+ as well as the ROG NUC.