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<p>While chiplets have been around for decades, today they are <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2678-chiplets-explained/">the hottest trend in chip making</a> powering millions of devices from PCs, to servers, phones and wearables.</p> <p><a...

<p>You bought a new CPU and it seems to run cool, so you try a bit of overclocking. The GHz climb higher. Did you hit the silicon jackpot? <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2039-chip-binning/">You've got yourself a binned chip</a>. But what's that exactly?</p> <p><a...

<p>30+ years ago, PC gamers could choose GPUs from over 10 different makers. The <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2598-rendition-graphics-history/">story of Rendition is a fascinating tale</a> of engineering brilliance and lost opportunities from the golden age of graphics. Plus, some...

<p>Gone are the days when the sole function for a graphics chip were, <em>graphics</em>. Let's explore how the GPU evolved from a modest pixel pusher into <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2702-gpu-compute-ai/">a blazing powerhouse</a> of floating-point computation.</p> <p><a...

<p>Want to get rid of the <a href="https://www.techspot.com/guides/2724-windows-oem-info/">annoying OEM information</a> in Windows or edit it to something more creative? Here's our quick guide on how to do exactly just that.</p> <p><a...

<p>You might be one of the millions of people who love playing video games, but what if you want to take it further and <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2733-how-to-become-a-game-developer/">become a game developer</a>? Here's our advice on how to do exactly that.</p> <p><a...

<p><span style="color:#008000;">#TBT</span> Every few years it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2485-path-tracing-vs-ray-tracing/">making games look ever more realistic</a>. We've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping...

<p>You're playing the latest games at beautiful 4K ultra res. Do you ever <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/1851-3d-game-rendering-explained/">wonder how those graphics got there?</a> Welcome to our 3D Game Rendering 101: A guide to how one basic frame of gaming goodness is made.</p>...

<p>Do all the latest big budget games <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2680-game-install-sizes/">require over 100 GB of drive space?</a> What's the average size of a AAA game today? We've investigated the figures in search of answers.</p> <p><a...

<p>In today's world of permanent Internet connectivity, a firewall is an essential component of your device's security. <a href="https://www.techspot.com/guides/2726-windows-firewall-guide/">Master the Windows 11 firewall</a> with our handy guide on setting up custom blocks for incoming and...

<p>It's been four years since AMD launched RDNA, the successor to the venerable GCN graphics architecture. We take a look <a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2741-four-years-of-amd-rdna/">through the tech and numbers</a> to see just how successful it's been.</p> <p><a...

<p>In the space of four years, GPUs have gone from having a few megabytes of cache to over tenfold that figure. Why did this happen and what benefits has it brought us?</p> <p><a href="https://www.techspot.com/article/2729-cpu-vs-gpu-cache/"><img height="1403"...

You're quite right. I was thinking of Windows 10! However, it is supposed to be back in Windows 11, though the rollout is still very slow -- probably won't see it globally until the 23H2 update is released. For now, if you go Settings > Personalization > Taskbar > Taskbar Behaviors, you might...

Please stick to the topic of the article -- best to hold a discussion on iGPU/APUs/etc with a separate thread.

Don't forget that all of the Ada chips are on a custom N4 node -- there's obviously no details as to what this entails, but TSMC's standard N4P process is 22% more power efficient than N5 (along with a small boost to performance and overall transistor density). Add in the fact that N6 is even...