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This week ASML is making two very important announcements related to their progress with high numerical aperature extreme ultraviolet lithography (High-NA EUV). First up, the company's High-NA EUV prototype system at its fab in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, has printed the first 10nm patterns, which is a major milestone for ASML and their next-gen tools. Second, the company has also revealed that it's second High-NA EUV system is now out the door as well, and has been shipped to an unnamed customer. "Our High-NA EUV system in Veldhoven printed the first-ever 10 nanometer dense lines," a statement by ASML reads. "Imaging was done after optics, sensors and stages completed coarse calibration. Next up: bringing the system to full performance. And achieving the same results in the...
The GIGABYTE H370N WiFi Review: Mini-ITX with HDMI 2.0 and 802.11ac Wave 2
GIGABYTE has released a version of their most popular mini-ITX motherboards on the market with the H370N WiFi - a small form factor board designed to offer users a...
26 by Joe Shields on 6/21/2018Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich Resigns, CFO Robert Swan as Interim CEO
This morning Intel released a formal press release stating that Brian Krzanich, now former CEO, had resigned. Current CFO Robert Swan has been named the interim CEO while the...
166 by Ian Cutress on 6/21/2018Samsung to Pay $400 Million for Infringing FinFET Patent
A federal jury in Texas ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $400 million to a South Korean university for infringing one of fundamental patents related to double gate FinFET transistors...
33 by Anton Shilov on 6/19/2018ECS with Intel Compute Card: What Happened to Intel’s Compute Card?
One of the more interesting and innovative platforms that Intel has introduced over the past few years was the Compute Card: a small credit-card like platform that contained a...
26 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018Best CPUs for Gaming: Q3 2018
In our series of Best CPU guides, here’s the latest update to our recommended Gaming CPUs list. All numbers in the text are updated to reflect pricing at the...
1 by Ian Cutress on 6/19/2018The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 48: Computex 2018
Wrapping up Computex 2018 with discussions about AMD's Threadripper 2 with 32 cores, Intel's new limited edition Core i7-8086K, and that really odd 28-core 5 GHz demo where Intel...
23 by Ian Cutress on 6/15/2018GIGABYTE Aorus PCIe x16 M.2: For Four NVMe Drives, X399 Compatible
Everyone has spare NVMe SSDs, right? Or perhaps users want to buy four of them? Intel was on a big push recently with its newest 380 GB Intel Optane...
19 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2018Building for Apache Pass: Why Some Skylake Servers Already have 8 DIMMs Per Socket
If you don’t have a hand in a server day in and day out, it was perhaps not obvious why some Skylake servers when launched had eight memory slots...
16 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2018Intel’s First (Modern) Discrete GPU Set For 2020
In a very short tweet posted to their Twitter feed yesterday, Intel revealed/confirmed the launch date for their first discrete GPU developed under the company’s new dGPU initiative. The...
56 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2018ASRock DeskMini Z370 GTX1060 Review: A Compact Coffee Lake Gaming PC
Small form-factor machines have emerged as a very significant chunk of the PC market. Building on the success of the UCFF NUCs, Intel introduced the mini-STX platform in 2015...
24 by Ganesh T S on 6/12/2018The Intel Core i7-8086K Review
Intel announced it, we asked for one, we were told no press samples, so we bought one. This is Intel's 40th anniversary of the original x86 microarchitecture with the...
115 by Ian Cutress on 6/11/2018We Found a Prototype 4 TB Intel QLC SSD
The storage industry is getting exciting again. In order to increase capacity of NAND SSDs and lower costs, there are two different routes being taken: either increase the number...
47 by Anton Shilov on 6/9/2018Intel’s Core i7-8086K CPU Now on Sale
While Intel’s other 5GHz processor has turned out to be greatly exaggerated, Intel’s original 5GHz chip, the Coffee Lake-based Core i7-8086K, is very much real. And right on schedule...
27 by Ryan Smith on 6/8/2018Intel Confirms Some Details about 28-Core 5 GHz Demonstration
When Intel demonstrated its 28-core system running at 5 GHz at the Computex 2018 keynote this week, there were many questions surrounding the hardware and what was required in...
145 by Ian Cutress on 6/8/2018Intel's Core i7-8086K Giveaway Kicks off Tonight at 8pm ET (Midnight UTC)
Alongside the announcement of their new x86 anniversary-themed hex-core processor, the Core i7-8086K, Intel also announced that they would be giving a significant portion of their inventory away as...
32 by Ryan Smith on 6/7/2018Maxio Technology Demos SSD Based on ‘Chinese’ 3D NAND
Having received tens of billions of dollars from the government, the Chinese semiconductor industry is developing at a rapid pace. Earlier this year Chinese Xi’an UniIC Semiconductors began to...
3 by Anton Shilov on 6/7/2018EVGA Goes Budget Part 2: H370 Stinger, with 10 PCB Layers
In light of the B360 Gaming already being shown to us at EVGA’s suite at Computex, cue another interesting surprise in the H370 Stinger. The key headline for this...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2018We Got a Sneak Peek on Intel’s 28-Core: All You Need To Know
This week at Computex, we saw two big CPU related announcements. The first was the launch of the Intel i7-8086K, a six-core limited edition processor at 5 GHz that...
66 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018EVGA X299 Micro2: A Refresh of the X299 Micro
Intel has stated that the next generation of HEDT processors is coming later this year. We fully expect these processors to be motherboard compatible with current Skylake-X processors on...
5 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018EVGA Goes Budget: B360 Gaming Motherboard Coming Soon
For as long as EVGA has made motherboards, they have focused almost exclusively at the high-end market. For users that want a product that is full of engineering that...
4 by Ian Cutress on 6/5/2018