Intel's Maple Ridge (JHL8540) Thunderbolt 4 Controller Now Shipping
Following the launch of Thunderbolt 4 earlier this year as part of Intel's Tiger Lake CPUs, the next piece of the TB4 hardware stack has dropped this week with...
79 by Ganesh T S on 12/23/2020Samsung Teases CES Announcement For Next Exynos SoC
Samsung this morning has dropped as brief teaser about their next-generation Exynos SoC. Dubbed “Exynos is back”, Samsung is revealing that there will be a proper announcement for the...
12 by Ryan Smith on 12/18/2020NVIDIA Schedules GeForce CES Presentation for January 12th
Even though the 2021 edition of CES will be an entirely virtual affair due to the ongoing coronoavirus pandemic, a number of major companies have still been lining up...
40 by Ryan Smith on 12/16/2020Hands On: ASRock 4X4 BOX-4800U Out-of-Band Management using Realtek DASH
Many computing use-cases require out-of-band management. For example, rack-mounted servers have dedicated LAN ports that connect to a baseboard management controller (BMC) chip for this purpose. PCs used in...
9 by Ganesh T S on 12/16/2020Intel Announces New Wave of Optane and 3D NAND SSDs
Today Intel is announcing updates to most of their SSD product lines. Their products based on 3D NAND are being updated to use Intel's 144-layer QLC and TLC NAND...
70 by Billy Tallis on 12/16/2020NVIDIA Extends GeForce RTX 3090 and 3080 Call of Duty Bundle to January
For the lucky few who can get their hands on a GeForce RTX 3090 or 3080 card during a very competitive holiday shopping season, NVIDIA has opted to sweeten...
24 by Ryan Smith on 12/16/2020Biostar Launches B550M-Silver: Micro-ATX with 2.5 GbE and Wi-Fi 6
Biostar has launched its latest AMD B550-based board, the B550M-Silver. Aimed at gamers looking to use AMD's latest Ryzen 5000 processors, it brings a host of premium features to...
39 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/14/2020SambaNova Breaks Cover: $450M AI Startup with 8-Socket AI Training Solutions (and more)
Users that follow the AI silicon space will have heard of SambaNova – a quiet company that has made very little noise but has racked up some serious backing...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/9/2020Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6900 XT - A Whole Lot of Radeon for $1000
This morning AMD is releasing the final and most elusive member of their initial wave of Radeon RX 6000 series cards: the Radeon RX 6900 XT. The flagship part...
54 by Ryan Smith on 12/8/2020Mushkin Announces 8TB M.2 SSD: ALPHA Series
Anyone in the market for high capacity 8 TB M.2 drives has so far only had one choice on the market. Today Mushkin is coming in as the second...
26 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/8/2020SK Hynix Announces 176-Layer 3D NAND
SK hynix has announced their latest generation of 3D NAND, now featuring 176 layers of charge trap flash memory cells. SK hynix is the second NAND manufacturer to reach...
29 by Billy Tallis on 12/7/2020Razer's First Modular PC, The Tomahawk: A Fully Custom NUC 9 Extreme
Razer, a company that styles itself as 'by gamers, for gamers', has today unveiled its latest product, a modular NUC dubbed the Tomahawk. Available as both a barebones package...
61 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/3/2020TeamGroup Announces Intentions for DDR5, ELITE DDR5-5200 in 2021
Earlier in the year, we learned that a lot of DDR5 manufacturing is already in the pipeline, with Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron all making announcements this year regarding...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020New Second Gen EVE V 2-in-1: Tiger Lake 3840x2400 with Thunderbolt 4
Sometimes for a company to get its projects over the line, it requires the help of crowdsourcing ideas. One such company is Eve Tech, or EVE for short, and...
34 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020Launching This Week: NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, A Smaller Bite of Ampere For $400
After a short holiday break, NVIDIA’s gradual rollout of their Ampere family of GeForce video cards is resuming this week with the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti...
55 by Ryan Smith on 12/1/2020QNAP Launches QHora-301W: An Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Router with Dual 10GBASE-T Ports
QNAP is a well-known manufacturer of network-attached storage (NAS) units. Recently they have been testing the waters in allied areas such as switches and Wi-Fi expansion cards. As a...
33 by Ganesh T S on 12/1/2020ASRock x Razer: New Razer Taichi Edition X570 and B550 AMD Motherboards
ASRock and Razer have today announced a product collaboration. Two of ASRock's premium models for AM4 are being updated with Razer styling and Razer Chroma connectivity: the X570 and...
31 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/30/2020AMD EPYC Rome in (Deep) Mini-ITX? ASRock Rack's New ROMED4ID-2T
ASRock Rack has unveiled its latest small form factor motherboard designed for AMD's EYPC processors, the ROMED4ID-2T. It is based on a new proprietary form factor similar to Mini-ITX...
25 by Gavin Bonshor on 11/26/2020EDSFF Form Factor Updates In 2020: New Versions, Growing Adoption
The Enterprise and Datacenter SSD Form Factor family of standards is now about three years old, and continues to evolve. The EDSFF form factor options are gaining traction in...
6 by Billy Tallis on 11/25/2020New Enterprise SSD Controllers From Silicon Motion, Phison, FADU
In the past month, three SSD controller designers have announced new enterprise NVMe SSD controllers, bringing a wave of new competition to the high-end enterprise/datacenter SSD market. FADU is...
5 by Billy Tallis on 11/25/2020