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...
AMD Releasing New Crimson Drivers for GPU Fan Issue (Update: Released)
Update: AMD has now released the fixed driver, Crimson 15.11.1 Beta. This release also contains several other fixes according to AMD's notes, including further game fixes and some Radeon...
45 by Ian Cutress on 11/30/2015More on Apple’s A9X SoC: 147mm2@TSMC, 12 GPU Cores, No L3 Cache
Over the Thanksgiving break the intrepid crew over at Chipworks sent over their initial teardown information for Apple’s A9X SoC. The heart of the recently launched iPad Pro, the...
121 by Ryan Smith on 11/30/2015AMD Moves Radeon HD 5000 & 6000 Series to Legacy Status - All Pre-Graphics Core Next GPUs Now Retired
Alongside today’s release of the new Radeon Software Crimson Edition driver set, AMD has published a new page on their driver site announcing that video cards based on the...
68 by Ryan Smith on 11/24/2015AMD's Radeon Software Crimson Driver Released: New Features & A New Look
At the tail-end of 2014 AMD launched their Catalyst 14.12 driver set, better known as the Omega driver set. With Omega, AMD shifted their development process for the Catalyst...
146 by Ryan Smith & Daniel Williams on 11/24/2015The AMD Radeon R9 380X Review, Feat. ASUS STRIX
Last week AMD launched the Radeon R9 380X, the company’s latest mid-range video card. Based on a fully enabled GCN 1.2 Tonga GPU – a first for the desktop...
101 by Ryan Smith on 11/23/2015NVIDIA Releases 359.00 WHQL Game Ready Driver
The season's flurry of games has brought along a blizzard of updates. Bad pun tie-ins aside, there is little that tarnishes a shiny new game like musty old drivers...
26 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X: Full-Featured Tonga at $229 for the Holidays
Back in September of 2014 AMD released their first Graphics Core Next 1.2 GPU, Tonga, which was the GPU at the heart of the Radeon R9 285. For all...
52 by Ryan Smith on 11/19/2015AMD Launches Star Wars Battlefront Game Bundle For Radeon R9 Fury
Buying new graphics cards is always fun. Finding game deals while shopping for new graphics cards is even better. This time around AMD is bundling the newly released Star...
9 by Daniel Williams on 11/19/2015AMD Releases Catalyst 15.11.1 Beta Drivers
With AMD continuing to deliver beta driver updates left and right lately, today they come to us with another update. Another one of AMD’s point driver updates, Catalyst 15.11.1...
19 by Daniel Williams on 11/17/2015NVIDIA @ SC15: US NOAA to Build Tesla Weather Research Cluster
Continuing with our coverage of today’s spate of SC15 announcements, we have NVIDIA. Having already launched their Tesla M40 and M4 server cards last week to get ahead of...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015AMD @ SC15: Boltzmann Initiative Announced - C++ and CUDA Compilers for AMD GPUs
The second in our major SC15 announcements comes from AMD, who is taking to the show to focus on the HPC capabilities of their FirePro S line of server...
20 by Ryan Smith on 11/16/2015NVIDIA Announces Tesla M40 & M4 Server Cards - Data Center Machine Learning
Slowly but steadily NVIDIA has been rotating in Maxwell GPUs into the company’s lineup of Tesla server cards. Though Maxwell is not well-suited towards the kind of high precision...
24 by Ryan Smith on 11/10/2015NVIDIA Announces Record Revenue for Q3 FY 2016
Today NVIDIA announced their earnings for the third quarter of their fiscal year 2016 (yes their fiscal year is almost a full year ahead of calendar) and the company...
49 by Brett Howse on 11/5/2015GlobalFoundries and AMD Announce First 14nm FinFET Sample Production Success
GlobalFoundries, AMD’s former chip manufacturing arm, is a fab that has seen some hard times. After being spun-off from AMD in 2009, the company has encountered repeated trouble releasing...
58 by Ryan Smith on 11/5/2015NVIDIA Launches NVS 810 Digital Signage Video Card
Entry level multi-display workstations aren’t a market that gets anywhere near the amount of attention that many of us are used to seeing in other markets. Never the less...
38 by Daniel Williams on 11/4/2015AMD Announces Radeon Crimson Driver Branding & New Settings Control Panel
It was just under two months ago that AMD announced the major restructuring of their graphics division, which would see the graphics division made whole once again, more than...
88 by Ryan Smith on 11/2/2015GeForce + Radeon: Previewing DirectX 12 Multi-Adapter with Ashes of the Singularity
Today we'll be taking an initial look into the unorthodox multi-GPU capabilities of DirectX 12. Developer Oxide Games, who is responsible for the popular Star Swarm demo we looked...
180 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2015ARM Announces Mali-470 GPU: Low Power For Wearables & More
One of the more surprising facts we learned from ARM when we sat down with them last year to discuss their Mali GPU architecture was just how successful the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2015NVIDIA GeForce Experience Update: 4K GameStream & 1080p Twitch; Driver Update Changes To Come
Since launching their GeForce Experience software utility over two years ago, NVIDIA has continued to iterate on it in a fairly regular fashion. Along with its software update and...
54 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2015AMD Releases Catalyst 15.10 Beta Drivers
In a manner that appears it may be building momentum, AMD has released another new driver update. As this is a point driver release the changes aren't immense, but...
45 by Daniel Williams on 10/14/2015