Day: December 29, 2025

What’s new:Cinebench 2026 takes advantage of the latest developments in hardware technology, adding compatibility with NVIDIA’s new Blackwell GPUs (5000 series) and AMD 9000 series GPUs on Windows, as well as NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell data center GPUs. Additionally, Cinebench 2026 now supports Apple M4 and M5 powered systems. To better utilize modern hardware, Cinebench […]

If this is true, and I believe it could be true, it is quite sad, because NVIDIA cannot get enough wafers even if they wanted to (they could be going to Samsung for cost but it is not like they could go all TSMC anyway).As for AMD, to partner exclusively with TSMC they need to […]

N4P is supposed to be -22% power @ iso-perf relative to base N5. Relative to N5P, however, TSMC’s numbers give something like +4% perf, iso-power, or -7% power, iso-perf. Honestly, kinda marginal gains. Does beg the question, however. With Zen 5 widely expected to bring a much “bigger” core, but only small improvements on the […]

All those and no NVME slot? On a budget mATX board from 2009? Although… somewhere I have an even more budget next-gen version using the lesser 760G chipset instead of 785, Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3. IIRC it was a dirt cheap build, mobo something like $50 after rebate, that I threw a $35 single core Sempron 140 […]

N4P is supposed to be -22% power @ iso-perf relative to base N5. Relative to N5P, however, TSMC’s numbers give something like +4% perf, iso-power, or -7% power, iso-perf. Honestly, kinda marginal gains. Does beg the question, however. With Zen 5 widely expected to bring a much “bigger” core, but only small improvements on the […]

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) navigated historic inflows, brutal drawdowns, and sharp rotations in 2025. The year revealed both the maturity of the market and the growing sophistication of ETF investors heading into 2026. From Billions In to Billions Out: Bitcoin ETFs’ Wild 2025 If 2024 was the birth year of spot bitcoin ETFs, 2025 was […]

If this is true, and I believe it could be true, it is quite sad, because NVIDIA cannot get enough wafers even if they wanted to (they could be going to Samsung for cost but it is not like they could go all TSMC anyway).As for AMD, to partner exclusively with TSMC they need to […]

Bitcoin has spent the last day drifting inside a tight intraday band between $87,418 and $90,307, a price range that looks calm on the surface but masks increasingly complex positioning across futures and options markets. Beneath that consolidation, derivatives data show traders actively shaping expectations for the opening weeks of 2026. Bitcoin Derivatives Markets Show […]