The new memory form factor expected to beat DDR5- ‘the future really lies here… LPCAMM2 running on the PC’ says Micron-

We’ve seen a new memory form factor show up in a few places at Computex 2024—across modules to motherboards. Not least surprising is how often memory manufacturer Micron mentioned it to me at the show. And how enthused it was with the memory form factor, which it is first with to market.

“I think the future really lies here, which is LP[CAMM2] running on the PC using this form factor,” Dinesh Bahal, VP and GM of Micron’s Consumer & Components Group, says.

LPCAMM2 is effectively a pancaked memory kit. It offers some similarities to soldered memory while still being able to be replaced by the user. For that reason, it’s seen as the perfect fit for the next-generation of thinner laptops, and Crucial is the first out the door with its 32 GB and 64 GB kit.

“So people went from the SO-DIMM is taking too much space, let me just start soldering it down. The problem with soldering it down is that I’m deciding my configuration upfront.”

LPCAMM solves that pro…

The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained-

Update (August 16): Linus Tech Tips has posted an apology video, suspended video production for a week, and says it’s investigating allegations from an ex-employee. Latest story here.


Original story: Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian has admitted to “sloppiness” in the hardware review channel’s handling of controversy that erupted over its recent review of a high-end watercooling system, but says what really bothers him about the situation is “how quickly the pitchforks were raised.”

The trouble began with a June 24 video in which Sebastian and an assistant put together a watercooled PC using Billet Labs’ Monoblock, a system designed to cool both the CPU and GPU simultaneously. The Monoblock is not actually in production at this point: It’s available for preorder at the Billet Labs website for $841. The device tested by LTT was apparently a unique prototype.

The build did not go smoothly. The installation of the cooling b…

Super-tiny capacitors could enable a ‘whole new realm’ of ultra-efficient devices, maybe even handheld gaming PCs with more than 15 minutes of battery life-

Stick “microcapacitors” onto to your list of future technologies that might just change the world. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have announced a breakthrough in microcapacitor energy storage and power density (via SciTechDaily), smashing through earlier records.

In simple terms, there’s a benefit in storing energy locally on-chip, which can save on power transfer between components. It just hasn’t been practical before because the very smallest capacitors have previously stored so little energy.

But the Berkley team have published a paper in the journal Nature, nattily titled “Giant energy storage and power density negative capacitance superlattices” and detailing a novel capacitor design made from engineered thin films of hafnium oxide and zirconium oxide, or HfO2-ZrO2 to the initiated.

The films are grown by atomic layer deposition, using standard materials and techniques from industrial chip fabrication. “We…

Today’s Wordle answer for Monday, April 15-

The answer to today’s Wordle is ready for you below, one quick click to turn a tricky game into an instant win. Or if you’d rather take your time with Monday’s puzzle, why not spend a minute with our helpful tips, or have a little peek at a clue for the April 15 (1031) game instead?

I knew I had today’s Wordle answer somewhere in the mostly yellow letter-soup before me, the only problem was nothing went where I expected it to, and the letters I hoped were right turned up grey. I had to take a quick break with this one, coming back to it a little later with a fresh pair of eyes.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, April 15

Providing someone with the tools or knowledge needed to perform a task could be described using today’s answer. This word is often found in RPG menus, used to apply armour and weapons to a character.  

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

There are no double let…

Want to get into Fallout on the cheap- This $800 RTX 4060 system is the perfect start-

If you’ve been following the new Fallout TV show and wanted to get into the games on a gaming PC, you may have been put off by the prices of the best systems you can get. The thing is, you don’t need to spend thousands of dollars to enjoy a quality 1080p gaming experience—this $800 Yeiyan Yumi is proof of that.

Kicking things off is the Core i5 12400F processor. Yes, it’s three generations old now but its six cores and 12 threads are more than enough for most games, and the motherboard inside the PC supports more recent CPUs if you feel like upgrading at some point. As we discovered in our 12400F review, it’s fast, cool, and a great little processor.

It’s been sensibly paired with a GeForce RTX 4060. This graphics card has 3,072 shaders and a boost clock of 2,460 MHz, though it will often run faster than that. This is because Nvidia’s latest chips use relatively little energy and the RTX 4060 often uses far less power than its 115 W limit. Best of all, it supports …

Warhammer and stamp-collecting collide in Royal Mail’s latest collection-

Have you ever worried that your correspondence isn’t grimdark enough? Feared that your pen pal doesn’t understand how much you love Space Marines? Despaired that the birthday card you’re sending your mum includes no reminders of how good the art on the original Rogue Trader rulebook looked? Buddy, let me free you from your torment: Royal Mail is releasing a full set of Warhammer stamps.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the venerable franchise (counting from the first release of the original fantasy wargame, simply dubbed Warhammer, in 1983), the collection features primarily recent art and miniatures from Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar. That includes portraits of Space Marine Primarch Roboute Guilliman and Daemon Prince Be’lakor, photography of Stormcast Eternal and Ork miniatures, and more. 

But there’s some classic art in there too, to tickle the nostalgia glands of any long-standing fan—including the aforementioned Rogue Trader artwork (th…

Ubisoft is stripping people’s licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is-

The downside of digital ownership has reared its ugly head for enjoyers of Ubisoft’s open-world multiplayer racer The Crew. The publisher has revoked its licence for those who owned it on Ubisoft Connect, almost destroying fan ambitions to revive the game in both an offline and online format.

The Crew was pulled from sale back in December, with Ubisoft revealing that the servers would be shut down at the beginning of April. Frustratingly, despite a large portion of the game being doable in singleplayer, The Crew remained an online-only endeavour throughout its decade-long lifespan. That had already rendered the game unplayable, but it seems Ubisoft is determined to take things one step further to stamp out any attempts to continue playing it past its expiry date.

Fans began to notice earlier in the week that the licence to the game had been snatched away from them. A message at the top of the game’s library page reads, “You no longer have access to this game. Why not che…

Elden Ring’s creator says he’s been checking out Escape from Tarkov for a little multiplayer inspiration-

Elden Ring creator Hidetaka Miyazaki sat down for a chat with IGN recently, in the build-up to today’s much-anticipated announcement of an expansion to our 2022 game of the year. In the short conversation, Miyazaki spoke about working on Elden Ring, whether the game’s success would influence FromSoft’s future projects, and the kind of games he looks to for inspiration. And guess what? Turns out Miyazaki’s been paying special attention to Escape from Tarkov recently.

When he was asked what trends, ideas, or tech he finds inspiring, Miyazaki said that he’s been keeping an eye on how other developers have been “updating multiplayer network functionality and the game design” in ways that change how “the players are involved in the gameplay”, and even how “players are used as one of the resources for the gameplay”.  In particular, he’s been watching Tarkov, where he’s been observing changes as both “a creator and fan of the game”.

It makes sense that Miyazaki would be pa…

World-leaping adventure Cocoon will come out this September-

The new game from the studio of Limbo and Inside gameplay designer Jeppe Carlsen, Cocoon, has a release date: September 29th, 2023. The adventure game where you can carry a world on your back was first revealed last year, though at the time the trailer was deliberately mysterious.

Cocoon promises to be a game of intricate puzzles and platforming exploration. Geometric Interactive describes it as “a mind-bending sci-fi puzzle adventure inspired by The Legend of Zelda and Portal.”

Geometric describes Cocoon as a puzzle adventure game that has a new mechanic: “each world exists within an orb that you can carry on your back. Wrap your head around the core mechanic of leaping between worlds—and combine, manipulate, and rearrange them to solve intricate puzzles,” says the description.

Each orb then has powers that can be further unlocked to make it into a tool that does something like uncover secrets, fire projectiles, and the like. Those secrets and world-orbs all…

Wordle today- Hint and answer #910 for Saturday, December 16-

Keep on scrolling to find a hint for today’s Wordle, as well as a selection of helpful tips you can use in your general daily puzzle-ing. Need something a little more to the point? You’ve got it. The answer to the December 16 (910) game is only a quick click away.

With really nothing but grey letters to work with this morning, I had no choice but to try and see what I kept on missing as I worked my way down the board. A carefully considered guess using these “leftovers” soon turned today’s Wordle around after that terrible start, but I wouldn’t have minded seeing some greens a little earlier than I did.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, December 16

This word might refer to anything spherical, from the earth itself to a smaller rotatable map of it. Today’s answer is also the name of a theatre famous for its association with Shakespeare. 

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Is there a double letter in Wordle today? 

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