Samuel Wan

Samuel joined eTeknix in 2015 after becoming engrossed in technology and PC hardware. With his passion for gaming and hardware, tech writing was the logical step to share the latest news with the world. When he’s not busy dreaming about the latest hardware, he enjoys gaming, music, camping and reading.

Apple Hires CPU Engineer who worked at AMD, ARM, Intel

Apple Hires Mike Filippo from ARM One of the keys to Apple's massive success is its push for vertical integration.…

5 years ago

AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.6.3 Drivers

AMD Brings F1 2019 Support AMD has been on fire lately on the GPU. Along with the new graphics cards…

5 years ago

AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.4.1 Drivers

Right on the first of the month, AMD has decided to give us yet another new driver. After a rapid…

6 years ago

Intel Prepping New 9th Gen CPU Stepping

In the heyday of CPUs, new steppings were quite common as process nodes and designs were constantly changed. Generally speaking,…

6 years ago

Microsoft Lets Windows 10 Home Defer Updates for 35 Days

With every new Windows update, Microsoft keeps tweaking Windows update. When Windows 10 first debuted, Microsoft switched to a software…

6 years ago

AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.3.1 Beta Drivers

Within the first week of March, AMD has released their first new driver for the month. Following on the drivers…

6 years ago

AMD Ryzen 3000 Pricing Leaks Look Great

AMD Pricing Leaks for Ryzen 3000 Show Promise With Ryzen 3000 approaching, more details are starting to emerge about the…

6 years ago

AMD Updates Radeon Software With 19.2.3 APU Support

AMD Releases Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.2.3 Beta Driver As a hybrid company, AMD has both standalone and integrated…

6 years ago

Chinese Fab SMIC Will Start 14nm Production in 2019

SMIC Will Deliver 14nm SoC in 1H 2019 When it comes to major processor fabs, Intel, Samsung, TSMC, GlobalFoundries and…

6 years ago

Intel Ready to Start D1X Oregon Fab Expansion

Intel Plans Oregon Expansion For 2019 Last year, Intel announced plans for major fab expansions. At the time, the company revealed…

6 years ago

Intel Core i5 9400F Might Come With Thermal Paste

Intel Mixes Thermal Paste With Solder For 9400F With the new generation of 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPUs, Intel has…

6 years ago

Intel Finally Kills Itanium, IA-64 May Soon Follow

Intel Will Discontinue Itanium in 2021 Over the past decade, most of the computing world has moved to 64bit CPUs.…

6 years ago

AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement With GlobalFoundries

AMD Secures Changes to Wafer Supply Agreement In their latest Q4 2018 earnings report, AMD provided a number of updates…

6 years ago

TSMC Fab 14 B Contamination May Hit Nvidia and AMD

TSMC Loses 10,000 Wafers to Contamination As the biggest third-party fab, TSMC supplies the chips for a large portion of…

6 years ago

Intel Prepping Low Power 35W Core i9 9990T CPU

Intel Packs 8 Cores Into 35W CPU With the mainstream CPU core counts creeping up, the low power models have to…

6 years ago