For years, there have been so-called Intel X58, X79, and X99 motherboards manufactured by companies that had no official distribution in the West such as Huananzhi, Machinist, Qiyida, Jginyue, etc., but in fact these had server chipset equivalents such as 5520, 5500, C602, C612, etc. salvaged from dead server motherboards and integrated into new desktop […]
Today upon walking into the Covington Walmart, I was extremely surprised to see an almost full assortment of PC parts to build a PC. There weren’t any PC cases stocked probably because of the amount of storage space required relative to the selling prices, but CPUs, motherboards, AIO CPU coolers, RAM, video cards, SSDs, hard […]
Last week, Nvidia announced they planned to invest $5 billion into Intel amounting to around four percentage of total ownership of the company. As of this writing, although Intel is struggling financially, they still have about 67-80% in various degrees of the desktop, laptop, and server markets. I fear that this partnership will be a […]
I recently learned that Intel’s latest generation desktop CPUs (Codename Arrow Lake) will be all fabricated with TSMC instead of its own fabs. It’s quite disappointing that Intel could not fabricate the most advanced chips in volume for this generation of desktop chips despite being the largest recipient of subsidies from the Chip’s and Science […]