This week, Tom's Hardware Premium published a swath of new features, new roadmaps, and deep industry insights
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This week, Tom's Hardware Premium published a swath of new features, new roadmaps, and deep industry insights.
Key facts
- Get a full year of access for $29, or from $7 per-month
- Speaking of optical components, which are one of the hottest commodities in the chipmaking industry, the market is set to explode, estimated to reach an eye-watering $144.4 billion by 2030
- This week, LG reportedly entered the chip packaging business, shipping a Laser Direct Imaging (LDI) tool, a maskless machine especially designed for patterning interconnects
- Unless you've been living under a rock, you know component pricing has skyrocketed over the past 12 months
Summary
With that out of the way, here's what you've been missing out on. First off, PC components expert Joe Shields lays down the law when it comes to shopping for a new motherboard. Within the article, Joe details exactly what you might want to pay for, and the things you don't need to focus on, like fancy 20+ phase MOSFET VRMs, or that slick RGB shroud, which pretty much sits there looking pretty while other components do the real work. How to choose a new motherboard without overpaying, scoping out the features you need, and what you might never use as component costs soar.