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AMD Starts Aggressive Partner Program With Volume Incentive Rebates

AMD has initiated a new partner program aimed to increase sales of AMD-based systems by value added resellers to business and commercial customers. The program is said to include aggressive volume incentive rebates as well as training, sales, and marketing support by AMD.

Kingston FURY™ Impact DDR5 Memory

Your notebook or small form factor machine can now experience the latest, cutting-edge memory technology with Kingston FURY™ Impact DDR5.

Kingston FURY™ Beast DDR5 Memory

Kingston FURY™ Beast DDR5 memory brings the latest, cutting-edge technology for next-gen gaming platforms.

DDR5 Shortage Got You Down? This SO-DIMM Adapter Can Help

Japanese tech outlet Akiba PC Hotline has come upon a handy adapter that allows you to install DDR5 SO-DIMM memory modules into standard DIMM memory slots. The adapter (JET-5669AA) serves as a band-aid solution to the lack of DDR5 stock as DDR5 SO-DIMMs are seemingly easier to hunt down.

Alder Lake Systems Can’t Play UHD Blu-rays

Intel's 12th Generation Alder Lake processors have already gained plenty of plaudits. Unfortunately, however, Intel giveth, and it taketh away. While some public has shed tears about disabled AVX-512 extensions, perhaps a more significant segment of PC users will be perturbed by the deprecation of the Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX).

Micron Confirms PMIC and VRM Shortages Are Hampering DDR5 Adoption

Intel's Alder Lake is the first mainstream platform with DDR5 memory support, but getting the appropriate memory modules is extremely hard due to an undersupply in some of the components, namely power management ICs (PMICs) and voltage regulating modules (VRMs).

Intel Alder Lake-P Mobile CPUs Now Shipping To OEM Customers

Intel’s Alder Lake-S desktop processors launched earlier this month to great fanfare. Intel was able to retake the gaming crown from AMD with two of the best CPUs for gaming -- the Core i9-12900K and Core i5-12600K -- while ushering in support for DDR5 memory and the PCIe 5.0 interface.