Launching This Week: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3050 - Ampere For Low-End Gaming
First announced as part of NVIDIA’s CES 2022 presentation, the company’s new GeForce RTX 3050 desktop video card is finally rolling out to retailers this month. The low-end video...
44 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2022
G.Skill Blitzes DDR5 World Record With Trident Z5 at DDR5-8888
For users buying a memory kit of DDR5, if they want to adhere to Intel specifications, will buy a DDR5-4800 kit. Though through XMP, there are other faster kits...
15 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/25/2022
Vulkan 1.3 Specification Released: Fighting Fragmentation with Profiles
Khronos this morning is taking the wraps off of Vulkan 1.3, the newest iteration of the group’s open and cross-platform API for graphics programming. Vulkan 1.3 follows Khronos’s usual 2...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2022
Intel Has Two Generations of Bitcoin ASIC: BZM1 is Built on 7nm, 137 GigaHash/sec at 2.5 W
It has been noted in the media that at the upcoming ISSCC conference at the end of February, Intel is set to give a talk entitled ‘Bonanza Mine: An...
108 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/20/2022
Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT, Starring Navi 24
Following its announcement back at CES, today AMD is formally launching the entry-level member of its Radeon RX 6000 series of video cards: the Radeon RX 6500 XT. Based...
101 by Ryan Smith on 1/19/2022
ASRock Unveils DeskMeet SFF PC Platform with Intel B660 / AMD X300 Chipsets
ASRock has been at the forefront of the small form-factor (SFF) PC revolution right from the Sandy Bridge days. Starting with the Core HT series in the early 2010s...
17 by Ganesh T S on 1/18/2022
How Low Cost Can Chiplets Go? Depends on the Optimization, says AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su
While not the absolute first company in the market to talk about putting different types of silicon inside the same package, AMD’s launch of Ryzen 3000 back in July...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/14/2022
PCI Express 6.0 Specification Finalized: x16 Slots to Reach 128GBps
This morning the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is releasing the much-awaited final (1.0) specification for PCI Express 6.0. The next generation of the ubiquitous bus is once again...
77 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2022
NVIDIA Quietly Launches GeForce RTX 3080 12GB: More VRAM, More Power, More Money
NVIDIA this morning is quietly adding to its menagerie of high-end video cards with a third version of the GeForce RTX 3080, the simply-named GeForce RTX 3080 12GB. Just...
36 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2022
Intel Changes Senior Executives: VP That Led CES is Out, New CFO
At the close of play today, Intel is announcing two major changes at the top of its organization. The big one is that EVP and GM of Intel’s Client...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/10/2022
AMD: We’re Using an Optimized TSMC 5nm Process
When AMD started using TSMC’s 7nm process for the Zen 2 processor family that launched in November 2019, one of the overriding messages of that launch was that it...
44 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/10/2022
AMD Expanding Into Tesla Model 3 and Model Y
One constant theme throughout AMD’s recent resurgence into high-performance computing has been the messaging around the scalability of its platform. Building a processor that can scale both from single...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/10/2022
How Privacy Has Come To the Forefront of Laptop Design At CES 2022
Over the last several years there has been a renewed push towards privacy features from the laptop industry. With the majority of PC sales being laptops, and battery life...
24 by Brett Howse on 1/10/2022
CES 2022: ASUS Unveils ROG Strix B660-I Gaming WIFI Mini-ITX Motherboard
During CES 2022, ASUS announced its H670, B660, and H610 motherboards designed for Intel's 12th generation Alder Lake processors. Among the launch of five new ROG Strix models for...
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CES 2022: ASUS Announces TUF Dash F15 Laptop, Alder Lake with TB4 Connectivity
It has been a busy CES 2022 for laptop and notebook manufacturers, with many new Intel and AMD mobile processors being announced and NVIDIA's latest GeForce RTX 30 series...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/7/2022
CES 2022: Colorful Announces Three Micro-ATX B660 Motherboards
During CES 2022, Colorful has unveiled three new micro-ATX motherboards based on Intel's latest B660 chipset. Featuring support for Intel's 12th generation Alder Lake processors, the Colorful CVN B660M...
5 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/7/2022
Intel Teases NUC12 Extreme Dragon Canyon: Socketed Alder Lake and 10GbE in Q1 2022
Intel provided a teaser of their upcoming NUC12 Extreme product at CES 2022. Complete specifications have been promised closer to launch, but the components layout in their virtual presentation...
19 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2022
CES 2022: AMD’s Next-Gen AM5 Platform to Have Long Term Support
One of the key aspects of AMD’s offering in the consumer desktop space is the longevity of its socket and platform. Throughout the years, AMD has leveraged a single...
42 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/7/2022
CES 2022: GIGABYTE Announces B660 Aorus Master Motherboards
During CES 2022, GIGABYTE unveiled many B660 and H610 motherboards designed for Intel's latest Alder Lake processors. Perhaps the most interesting and 'premium' of these is the GIGABYTE B660...
6 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/6/2022
AMD’s Barcelo: Zen 3 APU Refresh for 2022
One of the key elements to how processor portfolios will evolve moving forward involves mixing and matching current generation and previous generation parts using the benefits of (supposedly) cheaper...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/6/2022
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