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The Atari VCS team give another update - plus a proper look at the UI

By Liam Dawe, 5 Feb 2020

Pre-production is still ongoing for the Linux-powered Atari VCS, with the team giving a fresh update on how it's doing.

AMD has strong revenue growth again, new next-gen RDNA GPUs coming this year

By Liam Dawe, 30 Jan 2020

Two big bits of AMD news to share with you this morning, as they appear to be going from strength to strength as a company.

Have an Intel processor? Enjoy two more vulnerabilities

By Liam Dawe, 28 Jan 2020

Intel are not having a good time lately are they? More vulnerabilities in their CPUs have been made public.

Have a Razer laptop and use Linux? Keep a close eye on this new open source project

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jan 2020

Many hardware developers sadly don't provide official drivers for Linux, even when they do there's no decent interface for them. One user got "sick" of Razer's "lack of Linux support for laptops" so they made their own driver.

The AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT GPU has been announced and new Ryzen CPUs coming

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jan 2020

Announced just now during CES 2020, AMD have revealed their Radeon RX 5600 XT graphics cards aimed at being the "ultimate 1080p gaming experience".

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You can now easily control the AMD Wraith Prism RGB colouring on Linux with CM-RGB

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jan 2020

Thanks to an open source project, you can now quite easily adjust the colouring on the fan of the AMD Wraith Prism RGB cooler.

Logitech Steering Wheel manager pyLinuxWheel has a big new release out

By Liam Dawe, 21 Dec 2019

Another sweet new release of pyLinuxWheel is up, giving you even more options for managing your Logitech Steering Wheel on Linux thanks to new features.

Atari will offer 80/20 revenue split for the Atari VCS, confirming standard Linux games will run on it

By Liam Dawe, 17 Dec 2019

The team behind the Atari VCS have finally given out some details on developing games for it, along with their revenue share model.

AMD have today released the Radeon RX 5500 XT

By Liam Dawe, 12 Dec 2019

Powered by AMD's newer 7nm RDNA architecture, the Radeon RX 5500 XT originally announced in October is now available aimed at the 1080p PC gaming market.

Atari VCS going through 'Engineering Validation Testing' on the road to release

By Liam Dawe, 10 Dec 2019

Another update on the Linux-powered little console the Atari VCS, which is now going through Engineering Validation Testing (EVT) as it's on the road to release next year.

Atari VCS enters the final stages of pre-production as it heads towards mass production

By Liam Dawe, 29 Nov 2019

Ah yes, Atari VCS, the delayed Linux-powered gaming box that was crowdfunded on IndieGoGo. It's still a thing and the team seem to think it's all going well.

AMD announce their third-gen Threadripper processors and a 16 core flagship Ryzen 9

By Liam Dawe, 7 Nov 2019

Today, AMD announced when you will be able to get your hands on their third-generation Threadripper processors if you're after a crazy amount of cores. On top of a new 16 core flagship Ryzen 9.

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AMD has the highest quarterly revenue since 2005, Zen 3 is design complete

By Liam Dawe, 30 Oct 2019

Things seem to be going quite well for AMD lately, as they just posted up their financial results for Q3 and thanks to 7nm Ryzen, Radeon and EPYC processor sales they're looking good.

NVIDIA announce the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and the GeForce 1650 SUPER

By Liam Dawe, 29 Oct 2019

Today, NVIDIA officially lifted the lid on two new GPUs with the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER and the GeForce 1650 SUPER.

System76 have put Coreboot into two of their main Intel-powered laptops

By Liam Dawe, 11 Oct 2019

Want your next laptop to be a bit more open? System76 have announced their Galago Pro and Darter Pro now come with Coreboot, the open source boot firmware.

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Things are going downhill for the Atari VCS as Rob Wyatt quits

By Liam Dawe, 8 Oct 2019

It's now confirmed that Rob Wyatt, someone who Atari made a big thing over joining them has quit citing non payment of invoices for at least six months.

AMD have announced the Radeon RX 5500 available later this year

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

AMD have now formally lifted the lid on their next GPU with the announcement of the Radeon RX 5500 coming later this year.

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Intel giving hints at a possible Intel Xe dedicated GPU release in June 2020

By Liam Dawe, 7 Oct 2019

Raja Koduri from Intel put out a bit of a teaser on Twitter recently for for their upcoming dedicated GPU.

The Atari VCS team is finally talking about games as they're partnering with Antstream Arcade

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2019

The team doing the Linux-powered Atari VCS gaming console are finally talking about games. After a lot of silence, they've announced a partnership with Antstream Arcade to bring tons of classics to it.