Day: November 6, 2025

Question – DO NOT BUY ANYTHING GIGABYTE

2025-11-06 By admin

Porch pirates nicking parcels clearly marked ‘RMA’? While I’m sure that most of them are not particularly smart, once one has learnt what RMA means, surely the risk greatly outweighs the potential reward. I can’t think of a single RMA I’ve done for electronics where the manufacturer was happy for the parcel to be picked […]

Question – Zen 6 Speculation Thread

2025-11-06 By admin

ATX dying would probably require a drastic upheaval beyond even CAMM. Likeliest candidate for the executioner would be tied to development of glass PCBs with photonic interconnects – something I don’t expect to land anytime soon even with TSMC and other non Intel parties making moves on photonics.

Question – x86 and ARM architectures comparison thread.

2025-11-06 By admin

This post is brutally honest. You may not like it. x86 on the consumer side is becoming irrelevant. It’s so soundly beaten by ARM that it’s not funny. Let’s suppose Intel’s chips have the same performance and power efficiency of the M4 series. You guys would be calling for AMD’s funeral. Heck, even a 20% […]

Balancer Breach Tied to Batch Swap Rounding Bug; Investigation Ongoing

2025-11-06 By admin

The decentralized finance platform Balancer has acknowledged a significant security breach affecting its V2 protocol and its forks on other chains. Balancer Confirms ‘Significant’ V2 Exploit The decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Balancer has acknowledged that a recent security breach targeting its V2 protocol and forks on other chains “was significant.” In its latest update, Balancer […]

Crypto Lags Despite Liquidity Surge and Market Tailwinds

2025-11-06 By admin

Despite rate cuts, the end of quantitative tightening, and record-high equities, crypto continues to underperform. Liquidity is expanding globally, but it’s not flowing into digital assets, with exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows stalled and digital asset treasury (DAT) activity fading. Strong Macro, Weak Flows: Why Crypto’s Still Stuck Global markets remain buoyant, yet crypto can’t seem […]

$72M Equity Investment From Top Firms Bolsters Canaan’s Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure Push

2025-11-06 By admin

Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining rig manufacturer Canaan Inc. has secured a $72 million strategic investment from BH Digital, the crypto division of Brevan Howard, alongside Galaxy Digital and Weiss Asset Management. Canaan Attracts Institutional Confidence According to Canaan (Nasdaq: CAN), the investment was made through the purchase of about 63.7 million American depositary shares (ADSs) at […]

Question – Speculation: RDNA2 + CDNA Architectures thread

2025-11-06 By admin

And in that also the cpu cores, all i/o (pcie, usb, …), special sound units, ms own mojo, … My math is different than yours, assuming a fixed 120mm2 for the uncore leaving the rest just for the units, would leave:Navi21* – 505mm^2 = 100CUsNavi22 – 340mm^2 = 64CUsNavi23 – 240mm^2 = 40CUs Used the […]

MediaInfo 25.10

2025-11-06 By admin

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video/audio files. MediaInfo provides details about a both video and audio details, including tag information. Read more…