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Chip order-ready TSMC: Allegedly no more volume discounts for AMD and Co.

The rush to the world’s largest chip order manufacturer TSMC is said to be so high that the company wants to cancel the previously granted discounts for bulk buyers from 2021. This is reported by the Taiwanese news agency Central News Agency, according to which TSMC is said to have granted a three percent discount… Read more

Market share of server processors: AMD CPUs more than doubled, ARM is growing

The global server market is growing while Intel is losing market share. This is the result of estimates by various market observers. International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates third quarter sales of server processors 2020 at 22, 6 billion US dollars, the equivalent of 18, 5 billion euros. Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to… Read more

Nvidia player graphics cards: AIDA64 names GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, 3060 and 3050

The developer Finalwire has beta version 6. 30. 5523 for the AIDA readout tool 64 published in the variants “Extreme” and “Engineer”. The changelog contains several GeForce graphics cards that Nvidia has not yet announced: GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050. According to the changelog, AIDA contains 64 First GPU… Read more

Ray tracing in the Vulkan low-level API: SDK and graphics driver available

After a six-month test phase, the Khronos Group consortium has published a first final ray tracing implementation for the Vulkan graphics API. Corresponding graphics effects run on both GeForce and Radeon graphics cards and use the ray tracing cores of modern GPUs (RTX 2000 / 3000, RX 6000). On older models the whole thing works… Read more

RAM: Teamgroup plans to sell DDR5 SDRAM from the third quarter of 2021

Memory module manufacturer Teamgroup has announced that from the third quarter 2021 first DDR5 Wanting to deliver kits to end customers. The period is agreed with the two chip manufacturers AMD and Intel. Means: Platforms that use DDR5 modules should reach the market at this point. According to their own statements, Teamgroup is currently testing… Read more

WTF: Nanosecond profit: US high-frequency trading relies on hollow fiber optic cables

Not all glass fibers are created equal. Companies like OFS Optics, headed by the Japanese parent company Furukawa, are further developing such cables in order to increase the transmission rate and reduce the latency. Last year, this resulted in a new generation of hollow fiber optic cables that are already being used in US high-frequency… Read more

Radeon RX 6800 XT gamer graphics card: Gigabyte significantly exceeds AMD's RRP

As part of a live stream presentation, Gigabyte launched its first own models of the Radeon RX 6800 XT and Radeon RX 6800 shown. Unlike the competition, the manufacturer also called price recommendations for the custom designs that have it all: The top model Radeon RX 6800 XT Aorus Master costs 885 US dollars, the… Read more