As soon as a jingly-jangly indie band appears today, the C86 tag isn’t far behind. And yet, this wasn’t always the case. Over time we seem to have diminished a scene that was far more musically and ...

There has been a joint venture between AMD, HMC, Hygon, and Global Foundries for a few years now, with custom-designed chips to meet the domestic needs of Chinese companies. Hygon has a CPU family of ...

It’s difficult to think of another genre that can radically split opinion and cause splits based on principles of sociology and forward thinking with just a namecheck as much as C86. Unlike, say, ...

You won't typically find a Hygon processor among the list of best CPUs for gaming or other applications. Nevertheless, Hygon stands as one of China's most important fabless semiconductor companies.

While Chinese chipmaker Hygon may not currently have a processor that surpasses the best CPUs, it seems only a matter of time before it introduces a very competitive chip. Recently, Thunderobot ...

As NME launch the return of the iconic C-series, we revisit the Primal Scream-featuring mixtape that became a cult classic By Thomas Smith Hitting play on a piece of music is an act of magic. The ...

C86 Cyborg is a unique digital asset built currently traded on the Ethereum blockchain. This NFT Collection was first minted in 2022. Each NFT (Non-Fungible Token) represents ownership of a specific ...

Few ink jets produce better-looking output than the Epson Stylus C86, especially for text. Performance is less than ideal, but not slow enough to be a major problem. And our rundown tests peg its cost ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On May 3 1986, an advertisement appeared in the New Musical Express for a cassette that the music paper would ...

Aside from C81 and C86, though, these tapes have been largely forgotten. To fix that, I've compiled some highlights from the lesser-known volumes of the NME ’s cassette series. If you want to ...

The infamous mail-order tape gets a lavish three-disc treatment... It’s difficult to imagine how a simple cassette could become such a controversial document, but that’s what happened with the NME’s ...