March 19, 2025

Imagine, for a moment, that you had a brand-new M.2 SSD rated for sequential transfers of over 15 GB/second. Obviously, it’s the latest design, using four lanes of PCI Express 5.0 to achieve this immense throughput. Alternatively, it could be an x1 design—using PCIe 7.0. That’s right kids: PCIe 7.0 offers per-pin transfer rates of 128 GT/s, meaning that an x16 configuration offers 256 GB/second of bandwidth one way. If you’re thinking that we just

Retro gamers are eating good these days: classic games are getting remakes that make them more accessible to 2025 gamers, and older hardware is being brought back to life with FPGA-based machines. However, the effort by the retro gaming experts at Analogue to create the ultimate Nintendo 64 has hit a snag, with fans having to wait a bit longer before getting their hands on this long-awaited release. The Analogue 3D was teased back in

The current understanding (or debate, depending on who you ask) that refueling a car with gas is quicker than charging an EV might be coming to a close. China’s BYD Auto has revealed a new 1000 volt, 1000 ampere EV architecture called “Super E-Platform” that promises not just gobs more power and capacity potential over current architectures, but also offers megawatt fast charging speeds equivalent to 250 miles of range in just five minutes, or