In many ways, the special year 2020 is finally coming to an end. SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID – 19 swelled rapidly into a worldwide pandemic that affected everyone’s lives in one way or another.

In computers and consumer electronics, the pandemic was reflected above all in increased demand. This became clear with the release of CPU, graphics and console releases later in the year. Various bots and trocars took a significant share of the products launched until the market, and the queues of ordinary consumers for, among other things, new graphics cards will continue well into next year, even though the first ones went on sale as early as September. Trocars, on the other hand, laugh on their way to the bank after plucking desperate consumers for double or even triple the price of the products. This has led, inter alia, to an initiative by British MEPs to ban the trocha for console and computer components by law

. The year contained many interesting innovations in the field of technology publications. Struggling with problems with its manufacturing processes, Intel was able to release a new generation 10 nanometer Tiger Lake processors for laptops and NVIDIA chose Samsung and its 8-nanometer manufacturing process as the manufacturer of its new consumer circuits. The new GeForce RTX 30 series, in particular, significantly improved beam tracking performance and was given the dubious honor of being the first of the fall releases to really show how badly production is lagging behind demand. AMD, for its part, was able to release the new Zen 3 architecture and export the crown of the fastest gaming processor, at least temporarily, in addition to which the RDNA2 architecture brought accelerated beam tracking to next-generation consoles and Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards.

Earlier next year, more models are expected to be available for both AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series. In addition, Intel is expected to release new ones 11. generation of Rocket Lake codenamed processors immediately during the first quarter. Intel is also working on the first standalone Xe-HPG game graphics cards.

We at io-Tech want to thank all our readers for the past year and wish everyone a safer and better New Year 2021!

t. Sampsa, Juha, Petrus, Niko, Juha U, Oskari and Joona