Intel 7nm Delayed By 6 Months; Company to Take “Pragmatic” Approach in Using Third-Party Fabs
While today second quarter earnings report from Intel represented a high-water mark for the company amid booming sales and revenues, unfortunately not everything disclosed today was good news from...
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Intel Reports Q2 2020 Earnings: Data Center Sales Fuel Another Record Quarter
Kicking off another earnings season for the tech industry, we once again have Intel, who is reporting their financial results for the second quarter of the year. This is...
24 by on 7/23/2020
NVIDIA and AMD Summer 2020 Video Card Game Bundles: Death Stranding & Godfall
With summer here and the tail-end of at least one series of video cards approaching, both NVIDIA and AMD have launched new video card game bundles in the last...
9 by on 7/17/2020
At Last, a 2.5Gbps Consumer Network Switch: QNAP Releases QSW-1105-5T 5-Port Switch
After entirely too long of a delay, the wait for faster consumer-grade network switches appears to be coming to an end. This week QNAP launched its QSW-1105-5T switch, one...
98 by on 7/17/2020
DDR5 Memory Specification Released: Setting the Stage for DDR5-6400 And Beyond
Marking an important milestone in computer memory development, today the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association is releasing the final specification for its next mainstream memory standard, DDR5 SDRAM. The...
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Synaptics To Buy Broadcom’s Wireless IoT Business For $250 Million
Synaptics this afternoon is announcing that the firm is acquiring Broadcom’s wireless IoT business unit. The deal will see Synaptics acquire “certain rights” to Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS...
7 by on 7/7/2020
Intel Marks Gemini Lake Atom Platform for End-of-Life
Alongside Intel’s Skylake Core CPU architecture, Intel’s other CPU workhorse architecture for the last few years has been the Goldmont Plus Atom core. First introduced in 2017 as part...
11 by on 7/7/2020
SK Hynix: HBM2E Memory Now in Mass Production
Just shy of a year ago, SK Hynix threw their hat into the ring, as it were, by becoming the second company to announce memory based on the HBM2E...
38 by on 7/2/2020
AMD Publishes First Beta Driver With Windows 10 Hardware GPU Scheduling Support
Following last week’s release of NVIDIA’s first Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling-enabled video card driver, AMD this week has stepped up to the plate to do the same. The Radeon Software...
29 by on 6/29/2020
Intel’s Raja Koduri Teases Even Larger Xe GPU Silicon
Absent from the discrete GPU space for over 20 years, this year Intel is set to see the first fruits from their labors to re-enter that market. The company...
42 by on 6/25/2020
NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling
NVIDIA sends word this morning that the company has posted their first DirectX 12 Ultimate-compliant driver. Published as version 451.48 – the first driver out of NVIDIA’s new Release...
63 by on 6/24/2020
The Next Phase: Apple Lays Out Plans To Transition Macs from x86 to Apple SoCs
After many months of rumors and speculation, Apple confirmed this morning during their annual WWDC keynote that the company intends to transition away from using x86 processors at the...
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The Apple WWDC 2020 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
While COVID may have put a crimp on the tech industry, for Apple the show must still go on. Join us at 10am Pacific/17:00 UTC for our live blog...
78 by on 6/22/2020
NVIDIA Announces PCIe A100 Accelerator: 250 Watt Ampere In A Standard Form Factor
With the launch of their Ampere architecture and new A100 accelerator barely a month behind them, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the PCIe version of their accelerator as part...
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Computex 2020 Cancelled; Coming Back In 2021
After a protracted battle with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, this year’s Computex trade show has finally succumbed to the pathogen. One of the world’s largest IT trade shows – and frequently...
36 by on 6/12/2020
Intel Kaby Lake-G GPU Driver Updates Left In Limbo, Currently Unsupported
While the retail shelf life of Intel’s unusual Kaby Lake-G processor has pretty much passed at this point, it looks like it has become the gift that keeps on...
47 by on 6/8/2020
AMD Confirms That SmartShift Tech Only Shipping in One Laptop For 2020
Launched earlier this year, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” APUs brought several new features and technologies to the table for AMD. Along with numerous changes to improve the APU’s power...
55 by on 6/5/2020
Corsair Issues Recall for Recent SF Series Power Supplies
Following an unexpected uptick in RMA requests, Corsair has initiated a limited recall for some of the manufacturer’s SF series of small form factor PSUs. The SFX power supplies...
27 by on 6/4/2020
Samsung Unveils Intel-based Galaxy Book S: Intel’s Lakefield Inbound
Samsung this morning is taking the wraps off of the long-awaited Intel (x86) version of the company’s popular ultraportable, always-connected laptop, the Galaxy Book S. First teased by Samsung...
50 by on 5/29/2020
NVIDIA Reports Q1 FY2021 Earnings: Let The Good Times Roll
This week NVIDIA announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2021 fiscal year. The current fiscal year is an especially important one for NVIDIA on both a...
34 by on 5/22/2020
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