In an era when data flies through the clouds at the speed of light and storage devices hold terabytes, there are stories that take us back to the 90s. Old devices, long…
Imagine a motorsport engineering office that, for thirty-five years, has designed flawless engines for the entire Formula 1 grid but has never raced its own car. British…
Not long ago, the market was shaken by the announcement and release of the MacBook Neo — Apple's first budget laptop, designed to handle 99 percent of tasks for ordinary…
It seems that the entry of Chinese CXMT and YMTC into the memory market is a solution to rising prices. But when looking at the numbers, only three companies control…
Can the server front panel impact its cooling? This question arises during server design, especially in high-density systems with elevated intake air temperatures.
While my car was in repair, I had to rely on car sharing. Hybrids are certainly economical and practical, but incredibly boring. They don't deliver strong emotions. It's…
MSI recently surprised with new motherboards based on the B550 chipset. Why was it a surprise? Well, the novelty is unusual for 2026, as the AM4 platform is already considered…
"I can't believe how stupid people are" - this thought crossed my mind as I left DNS after spending twenty minutes returning a faulty cooling system. To clarify, my complaint…
For almost 20 years, people have been saying that the iPhone "is no longer a big deal." Since the first device was released on January 9, 2007, there's been a feeling…
Recently, I published an article here about the wireless Sofle RGB keyboard. Overall, it works well with no glitches, except for minor issues. The only thing is that…
You can call me a traditionalist, but I still consider air cooling the top solution, and it seems I've just been convinced of this once again.
In the previous (and first on Habr) article, I wrote about silver, its applications in industry, electronics, of course in AI, and generally about why the price for it…
Raspberry Pi of different generations - a single-board computer that has survived, quite successfully, several serious crises: pandemic component shortages, global logistics…
When we write code for a microcontroller, behind the familiar instructions of the compiler lies a specific logic - registers, ALU, interrupts, buses, and timings that…
Hello! This is Dmitrii Shichenko, head of the embedded systems development department at Selectel. Throughout the history of both servers and desktop computers, the motherboard…
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Today I will talk about server selection, but I want to move away from boring, quickly outdated, and often impractical recommendations — like, you need this much memory,…
January is usually a sleepy month in the hardware world, but this time everything went off script - two top vendors showcased their flagship products.
Renowned weaver Merilu Schultz from the Navajo tribe recently completed a complex rug featuring thick white lines on a black background, interspersed with reddish-orange…
