GPUs
Offering some rare insight into the scale of HBM memory sales – and on its growth in the face of unprecedented demand from AI accelerator vendors – the company recently disclosed that it expects HBM sales to make up "a double-digit percentage of its DRAM chip sales" this year. Which if it comes to pass, would represent a significant jump in sales for the high-bandwidth, high-priced memory. As first reported by Reuters, SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung has commented that he expects HBM sales will constitute a double-digit percentage of its DRAM chip sales in 2024. This prediction corroborate with estimates from TrendForce, who believe that, industry-wide, HBM will account for 20.1% of DRAM revenue in 2024, more than doubling HBM's 8.4% revenue share in...
AMD Teases Future Radeon RX 470 & Radeon RX 460 Cards
With the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo once again upon us, this week has been a flood of gaming hardware and software news. On the PC front, AMD is once...
105 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.39 WHQL Game Ready Driver, Adds GTX 1070 Support
As the GeForce GTX 1070 approaches, NVIDIA has prepared a driver release for the upcoming card. Along with support to the coming GPU and a list of fixes, we...
30 by Daniel Williams on 6/8/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.6.1
Here we are with AMD's next driver update, Radeon Sofware Crimson Edition 16.6.1. This brings the driver version to 16.20.1025. With the changes that come along with the update...
20 by Daniel Williams on 6/7/2016AMD Teases Radeon RX 480: Launching June 29th For $199
Kicking off at this moment is AMD’s Computex 2016 keynote. The company has multiple announcements scheduled this evening, but we’re going to jump right into an area that has...
377 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016Computex 2016: AMD Press Conference Live Blog
I'm here at the Westin Taipei for AMDs Computex Press Conference. We've just posted some news, and we get to hear some more!
29 by Ian Cutress on 5/31/2016HSA 1.1 Specification Launched: Extending HSA to More Vendors & Processor Types
For the last few years now we have been keeping tabs on the development of the Heterogeneous System Architecture, a set of technical standards and an associated instruction language...
6 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2016ARM Unveils Next Generation Bifrost GPU Architecture & Mali-G71: The New High-End Mali
Amidst the backdrop of Computex 2016 and alongside their new Cortex-A73 CPU, ARM is announcing their next generation GPU architecture, Bifrost. A significant update to ARM’s GPU architecture, Bifrost...
57 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2016Computex 2016: ASUS Republic of Gamers 10 Year Press Conference
The final press event of the day - the annual Computex Republic of Gamers press conference. This year is ASUS' 10 year anniversary for ROG, and as part of...
6 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/29/2016Zotac and EVGA Reveal Custom GeForce GTX 1080 Designs
A few weeks back we saw the announcement of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080. NVIDIA put the founders cards on sale first, with third-party cards set to be released later...
39 by Daniel Williams on 5/27/2016AMD Releases Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.5.3
New technologies come along, new games release, things break, and developers fix them. As this cycle continues we are brought to this latest update from AMD which gives us...
10 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016NVIDIA Releases 368.22 WHQL Game Ready Driver
As the news has been, new game releases means more driver updates. Alongside game ready support for more titles this week and a fix we also get a heads...
13 by Daniel Williams on 5/24/2016AMD Announces Computex 2016 Webcast: May 31st, 7pm Pacific
With the annual Computex Taipei trade show quickly approaching, AMD sends word that they will be hosting a live webcast for their annual press conference at the show. The...
50 by Ryan Smith on 5/20/2016NVIDIA Posts Full GeForce GTX 1070 Specifications: 1920 CUDA Cores Boosting to 1.68GHz
Back when NVIDIA first announced the GeForce GTX 1080 earlier this month, they also briefly announced that the GTX 1070 would be following it. The GTX 1070 would follow...
137 by Ryan Smith on 5/18/2016The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Preview: A Look at What's to Come
Earlier this month NVIDIA announced their latest generation flagship GeForce card, the GeForce GTX 1080. Based on their new Pascal architecture and built on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process, the...
263 by Ryan Smith on 5/17/2016AMD Quietly Unveils Radeon M400 Series: Starting With Rebadges
As our long-time readers are keenly aware, the product cycles followed by PC OEMs and ODMs for their laptops and desktops are rarely perfectly in sync with the development...
49 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2016NVIDIA Announces Q1 FY 2017 Results: Strong Growth In All Segments
Much of the PC industry has been reporting less than strong results, with declines in PC unit sales leading to lower earnings for many of the big players such...
36 by Brett Howse on 5/12/2016Micron Confirms Mass Production of GDDR5X Memory
Micron Technology this week confirmed that it had begun mass production of GDDR5X memory. As revealed last week, the first graphics card to use the new type of graphics...
59 by Anton Shilov on 5/12/2016NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series: GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 Arrive In May & June
After many months of speculation – and more than a little anticipation – at an event in Austin, Texas this evening, NVIDIA announced the next generation of GeForce video...
234 by Ryan Smith on 5/7/2016NVIDIA To Hold Special GeForce Livestream On May 6th at 6pm Pacific
NVIDIA has announced via their website and Twitter feed that the company will be holding a special GeForce livestream this week. The event be broadcast on NVIDIA’s Twitch channel. NVIDIA...
45 by Ryan Smith on 5/5/2016