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AMD Patent Hints At Hybrid CPU To Rival Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs

Home News AMD Ryzen Processor (Image credit: AMD) Twitter user Kepler has discovered a new AMD patent that details moving tasks (threads) between different types of cores in a heterogeneous processor. In other words, the patent lays the groundwork for a microarchitecture that resembles Arm’s big.LITTLE design that uses clusters of ‘big’ high-performance cores paired… Read more

Nvidia Ends Support For Kepler GPUs, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 On August 31

Home News GeForce GTX Titan Z (Image credit: Nvidia) The time has finally come. Nvidia announced earlier today that it would stop supporting its Kepler-based graphics cards on older Windows operating systems with its next GeForce R470 driver. You won’t find Kepler on the list of best graphics cards, but plenty of gamers still own… Read more

Nvidia Hotfix Driver Fixes BSOD Issue With Turing, Kepler Graphics Cards

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Right ahead of the release of the RTX 3070 Ti tomorrow, Nvidia released a new GeForce Hotfix driver last night. Version 466.74 fixes a DCP Watchdog Violation error affecting some systems with Kepler and Turing-based graphics cards and causing the dreaded blue screen of death (BSOD). The affected GPUs include… Read more

Nvidia Will Kill Off Support For Kepler GPUs With Next R470 Driver

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) As reported by TechPowerUp, Nvidia will stop supporting Kepler graphics cards with the upcoming R470 drivers. Although the driver update roadmap corresponds to Nvidia’s data center products, it’ll likely translate over to the company’s GeForce gaming graphics cards, too. Nvidia first launched Kepler in 2012, so it has been a… Read more

NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998

NASA’s brand-new Perseverance rover is the most advanced machine that’s ever landed on Mars. But when it comes to rovers, “state of the art” is a subjective term. Perseverance is running on none other than a PowerPC 750, a single-core, 233MHz processor with just 6 million transistors that’s most famous for powering the original “Bondi… Read more

SpaceX launches record batch of satellites in first in-house rideshare mission

SpaceX launched a batch of 143 spacecraft to space from Florida on Sunday morning under the company’s new cost-cutting SmallSat Rideshare Program, breaking the record for the most satellites lofted into space on a single launch. The Transporter-1 mission kicks off a potentially lucrative business line for SpaceX, which unveiled in 2019 its SmallSat Rideshare… Read more

“Cotton candy planet” WASP-107b with a surprisingly small core

The solid core of the “cotton candy planet” WASP – 107 b is obviously much lighter, than previously thought possible with such gas giants. This is the result of a group of astrophysicists who have analyzed the already known exoplanet in more detail. According to this, the celestial body is about as big as Jupiter,… Read more

Nvidia is not done with Pascal yet, here is the GeForce GT 1010

For reasons not entirely clear, Nvidia quietly introduced the GeForce GT 1010, a video card based on a Pascal GP graphics chip 108 with 256 core, less than the GT model 1030 introduced in May 2017. by Manolo De Agostini published 18 January 2021 , at 09: 41 in the Video Cards channel NVIDIA Pascal… Read more

Pascal Rides Again, Nvidia Launches the GeForce GT 1010

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In a strange turn of events, Nvidia quietly launched a new GPU, the GT 1010, a card which is based on five-year-old Pascal architecture. This news was discovered by YouTuber Dapz who also confirmed the existence of the GT 1010 via a live chat with an Nvidia representative. The GT 1010… Read more