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Microsoft's cloud businesses are thriving under COVID

Microsoft has presented better quarterly figures than had been expected by stock market analysts. The COVID – 19 – pandemic is driving the high-margin cloud business. Nevertheless, the share fell in after-hours trading. The reason should be the outlook for the current quarter – institutional investors had hoped for a little more. That Microsoft’s first… Read more

Microsoft gets a pandemic boost thanks to Surface, Xbox, and cloud services

Microsoft posted the first quarter of its 2021 financial results today, reporting revenue of $37.2 billion and a net income of $13.9 billion. Revenue is up 12 percent, and net income has increased by 30 percent. While the ongoing pandemic continues to force many to work remotely during an economic downturn, Microsoft is benefiting from… Read more

AMD’s Ryzen and EPYC Sales Punish Intel, Posts Record Revenue in Q3 Earnings

Home News (Image credit: AMD ) AMD’s earnings today kicked off with big news – the company agreed to purchase Xilinx for a whopping $35 billion in an all-stock transaction. Still, that big news shouldn’t overshadow the company’s stellar performance during its third quarter as the company posted record revenue. While Intel struggles with an… Read more

Huawei might be working on a foldable phone with clamshell design

While we are still waiting for the Mate Xs follow-up, the company seems to be exploring the possibilities of doing a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip competitor with clamshell design. At least according to this design patent filed back in April at the China National Intellectual Property Office. Looking at the image, the phone looks strikingly… Read more

Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics – work on the graphics card is finished

A few weeks ago, the Intel Tiger Lake processors debuted, and the first models using the latest one have already arrived in stores 11 generation of Intel Core chips. This year, the manufacturer plans one more premiere, which is a dedicated Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics graphics card, previously known as DG1. This is the… Read more

Intel: Alder Lake and Sapphire Rapids at partners and third-party production at TSMC until 2023

In addition to a problematic outlook into the future and the announcement of a DG2 GPU for the coming year, Intel has announced the figures for the third quarter 2020 talked about the plans for the processors and the current developments. So you already have started to deliver the first samples of the Alder Lake… Read more

Tape out done: DG2 based on Xe-HPG is already running

This week, Acer introduced a notebook with Intel’s first discrete GPU DG1. ASUS anticipated this announcement in a certain way and presented such a notebook with an Intel GPU a few days earlier. As part of the announcement of the figures for the third quarter 2020 spoke to Intel’s CEO Bob Swan about the GPU… Read more

AMD Big Navi and RDNA 2 GPUs: Release Date, Specs, Everything We Know

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD Big Navi, RX 6000, Navi 2x, RDNA 2. Whatever the name, AMD’s next-generation GPUs are promising big performance and efficiency gains, along with feature parity with Nvidia in terms of ray tracing support. Will Team Red finally take the pole position in our GPU hierarchy and lay claim to… Read more

AMD adds new Nutanix HCI Solutions to the EPYC ecosystem

AMD has expanded the ecosystem of EPYC based cloud and virtualised solutions with the addition of the Lenovo ThinkAgile HX, powered by EPYC processors and Nutanix’s Hybrid cloud infrastructure solution. With more companies starting to move to HCI solutions to “modernise and transform their enterprise data centre”, performance, ease of management and efficiency of the data… Read more

Intel Core i9-10850K Review – Just as Good as the i9-10900K

Introduction Today, we have for you the quirky new Core i9-10850K 10-core processor by Intel. Throughout May-July, we’ve reviewed almost every 10th Gen Core desktop processor in the retail channel, and first reports of an i9-10850K being in the works had us theorizing that the chip could either be a regional product or an OEM-exclusive…. Read more

ECS LIVA Z3 PLUS (Intel i5-10210U) Review – 4 GB of RAM Just Isn’t Enough

Introduction Elitegroup Computer Systems, known to most of us as ECS, was formed in 1987. From their humble beginnings, they have become an industry-leading OEM that manufactures a large number of products for themselves and other vendors. ECS currently offers mini-PCs, laptops, motherboards, tablets, and other IoT devices under their various brands and has expanded… Read more

HP V8 DDR4-3600 MHz CL18 1×8 GB Review

Introduction High performance memory kits have evolved over the last few years, both in styling and technology. Styling has shifted to heavier heat sinks, LED light bars, and fancy RGB control software. The technology has done what it inevitably will by producing greater speeds and densities at generally lower cost as DDR4 has matured. While… Read more