AIDA64 Hints Intel’s Return To HEDT Market With Alder Lake-X | Tom’s Hardware

Patch notes for a new beta version of AIDA64 — version 6.60.5944 , show preliminary support for a mysterious new Intel CPU platform, which carries the Alder Lake-X codename. In recent years Intel began using the letter X to symbolize its HEDT platform, including the chipset and the CPUs related to the platform. Intel produces […]

‘Sleeping Whale’ Awakens as Unused Bitcoin Wallet Comes Online | Tom’s Hardware

Someone’s been playing the long game. When it went dormant, those coins were worth less than $4, according to The Independent. Either way, the cryptocurrency has changed a lot since the last time this wallet was used. The Independent said that “sleeping whale” wallets—which contain a large amount of BTC and have been inactive for […]

50 Miners Control 50% of Bitcoin Mining Worldwide | Tom’s Hardware

Part of Bitcoin’s appeal is the idea that nobody controls it, but a recent study found that 0.1 percent of the network’s top contributors—just 50 miners—controls 50 percent of Bitcoin’s mining capacity. Bloomberg reported that the NBER study, which is titled “Blockchain Analysis of the Bitcoin Market,” found that the “top 10,000 individual investors in […]

CPU Market Q1 2021: AMD’s Fastest Growth in Servers Against Intel in 15 Years

The Mercury Research CPU market share results are in for the first quarter of 2021, which finds AMD scoring its highest single-quarter market share increase in the server market since 2006, leading to record revenue as it steals more sockets from Intel. Intel’s data center revenue absolutely plummeted in the first quarter of the year, […]