GPUs
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
AKiTiO Introduces Node: Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Box for $299
Over the past week AKiTiO has formally introduced its new external graphics enclosure using a Thunderbolt 3 connection. As with other external graphics enclosures, the AKiTiO Node allows a...
56 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2016
AMD @ SC16: Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) 1.3 Released, Boltzmann Comes to Fruition
Kicking off this week is SC, the annual ACM/IEEE sponsored supercomputing conference in the United States. At this show last year, AMD announced the Boltzmann Initiative, their ambitious plan...
11 by Ryan Smith on 11/14/2016
NVIDIA Announces Record Q3 FY 2017 Results
Today NVIDIA announced their fiscal earnings for the third quarter of their 2017 fiscal year (and yes, that’s not a typo). NVIDIA has cracked the $2 billion mark for...
44 by Brett Howse on 11/10/2016
Now Shipping: AMD Radeon Pro WX Series
Back in July AMD announced the Radeon Pro WX series. Part of a broader rebranding effort for AMD’s professional grade graphics cards – moving away from the FirePro brand...
32 by Ryan Smith on 11/7/2016
ARM Announces Mali-G51 Mainstream GPU, Mali-V-61 Video Processing Block
These days ARM and its customers are in the midst of a major evolution in GPU design. Back in May the company announced their new Bifrost GPU architecture, a...
23 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2016
PowerColor Announces Devil Box: Thunderbolt 3 eGFX Enclosure
PowerColor has introduced its first enclosure for external graphics cards, the Devil Box. The accessory enables gamers to connect desktop video cards to AIO, SFF or laptop PCs using...
43 by Anton Shilov on 10/24/2016
Update: NVIDIA Releases 375.63 WHQL Driver update
Update 10/23: NVIDIA has yanked the 375.57 drivers this weekend and replaced them with a new build, 375.63. The updated driver set fixes an especially annoying bug with tiles...
12 by Daniel Williams on 10/22/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.2
We are now wading through the blockbuster season for the PC gaming industry. Consequently, the list of fixes is on the shorter side this time around, but AMD is...
17 by Daniel Williams on 10/21/2016
NVIDIA Announces GeForce GTX 1050 Ti & GTX 1050: Entry-Level Cards Launching October 25th
After a break of a couple of months in their Pascal launch schedule, NVIDIA is back again to launch a new Pascal desktop product. Following their near-perfect top-down launch...
93 by Ryan Smith on 10/18/2016
AMD Discontinues Gaming Evolved App
With the recent launch of AMD’s Radeon 400 series parts and consequent focus on hardware, it’s been some time now since we’ve heard from AMD about their Gaming Evolved...
64 by Ryan Smith on 10/12/2016
NVIDIA Releases 373.06 WHQL Game Ready Driver - Support for Mafia III, GoW 4 and Shadow Warrior 2
Not to miss out on the many releases this fall NVIDIA is working hard to keep our computers ready for the newest and upcoming games. In another iteration of...
10 by Daniel Williams on 10/7/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.10.1 Hotfix - Support for GoW 4 and Mafia III
As the new games continue to roll in I’m sure the driver developers are hard at work keeping up with all the big release. With AMD Radeon Software Crimson...
10 by Daniel Williams on 10/5/2016
GTC Europe 2016: NVIDIA Keynote Live Blog with CEO Jen-Hsun Huang
I'm here at the first GTC Europe event, ready to go for the Keynote talk hosted by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
40 by Ian Cutress on 9/28/2016
AMD Announces Embedded Radeon E9260 & E9550 - Polaris for Embedded Markets
While it’s AMD’s consumer products that get the most fanfare with new GPU launches – and rightfully so – AMD and their Radeon brand also have a solid (if...
16 by Ryan Smith on 9/27/2016
NVIDIA Releases 372.90 WHQL Game Ready Driver
Not to be outdone by AMD, NVIDIA also has their own driver release this evening, with the release of driver version 372.90. Among the fixes in this latest drivers includes...
32 by Daniel Williams on 9/22/2016
AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.9.2 - Support for Forza Horizon 3
As more games approach this fall, we can expect GPU manufacturers to keep updates rolling out so that our cards can be ready for the latest games as they...
22 by Daniel Williams on 9/22/2016
NVIDIA Announces Gears of War 4 Game Bundle for GTX 1080 and 1070
As we enter the AAA blockbuster season and leave the avalanche of GPU releases behind us, we are beginning to see the first game bundles approach. Those considering an...
10 by Daniel Williams on 9/21/2016
Discrete Desktop GPU Market Trends Q2 2016: AMD Grabs Market Share, But NVIDIA Remains on Top
We're back once again with our periodic series looking at computer hardware market trends, this time taking a look at GPU sales for Q2 2016. Broadly speaking, unit sales...
72 by Anton Shilov on 9/13/2016
NVIDIA Announces Tesla P40 & Tesla P4 - Neural Network Inference, Big & Small
Over the last few months we have seen NVIDIA’s Pascal GPUs roll out among their consumer cards, and now the time has come for the Tesla line to get...
37 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2016
Update: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Settlement Claims Website Now Open
Update 09/12: Bringing this back up, over the weekend the website to submit settlement claims went up. Owners of GTX 970s who purchased the card between its launch and...
105 by Ryan Smith on 9/12/2016
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