Hidden PCIe slots, a magnetic RAM fan, and a new AIO cooler connector: Asus tries everything under the sun to make its new AM5 Crosshair mobo stand out

As with all of Asus ' ROG Crosshair boards, the X870E Glacial is a top-end, mega-bucks model, replete with M.2 slots, heatsinks, and a whopping five-inch LCD panel. An awful lot of motherboards pass ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Are You Using Structural Patterns In An SLT Environment?

Patterns created using advanced fault models provide higher test coverage, improved defect detection, and higher-yielding ...
ExtremeTech

NVMe SSDs Work on Pentium 3-era PCI Slots With a Little Modding

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Semiconductor Engineering

Silicon Photonics In The Data Center: What A CMOS Exec Needs To Know

Data center AI is driving a dramatic ramp in the growth of silicon photonics foundries: 8X growth in just 6 years, from 2026 to 2032. Scale-out is the major driver now. Scale-up will become the ...

4 Surprising Uses For Your Motherboard's Second Ethernet Port

Dual LAN ports are a necessity for use cases where reliability, separation, and control of network traffic are paramount. It lets you screen internet traffic.
XDA Developers on MSN

4 Raspberry Pi alternatives that actually make sense in 2026

Not every DIY project needs a Raspberry Pi ...
How-To Geek on MSN

I'm still using 27-year-old Ethernet, and you probably should too

Your Ethernet cable isn't the bottleneck, and upgrading it won't fix your internet ...