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Latest rumors indicate that the AMD Radeon RX 6700 and 6700XT will arrive in March

by Jordi Bercial 05 / 01 / 2021 … The availability of graphics cards this year is being complicated at least, something caused both by the lack of stock and by the great demand that apparently exists in the general market , not only by specific components but in the entire computer and console industry…. Read more

AMD processor “Cezanne”: Ryzen 9 5980HX and Ryzen 7 5700G in USB database

In the database of the USB Implementer Forum (USB-IF) you can find two more combined processors from AMD’s Cezanne family: the Ryzen 9 5980 HX and Ryzen 7 5700 G. According to the H suffix, the former CPU is intended for notebooks and, judging by the numbering, the new top model for notebooks above the… Read more

LG is investing $ 80 million in TV data analytics company Alphonso

The South Korean electronics group LG bought 80 million US dollars from the US TV data analysis company Alphonso. As LG announced on Thursday, they have acquired 50 percent of the company and are now the largest shareholder. Collect data for better services and advertising LG wants to use the AI-based analysis method from Alphonso… Read more

WebAssembly-Runtime: Major Release 1.0 by Wasmer published

With the aim of being able to run independent, platform-dependent applications on every platform, the Wasmer team started developing a Wasm runtime environment around two years ago, which uses Emscripts to compile WebAssembly- Can execute modules independently of the host system – Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, Windows, Android, iOS. The now published version Wasmer 1.0 promises… Read more

heise + | Processor performance: Core-to-core latencies of modern CPU cores in detail

For the performance of processors, not only the speed of the CPU cores plays a role, but also how fast they communicate with each other. (Image: Denis Fröhlich / c’t) Processor performance: Core-to-core latencies of modern CPU cores in detail Ring-Bus versus Mesh Unequal core quartets Article in c’t 2 / 2021 read The construction… Read more

GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q Rumored to Use Full GA104 GPU

Home News Ampere Silicon (Image credit: Nvidia) A GPU-Z validation file submitted to TechPowerUp yesterday has reportedly uncovered the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q’s complete specifications. Gigabyte is reportedly the vendor of the device and aligns with the brand’s latest Aorus and Aero gaming laptops that features the same GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. Nevertheless, the information… Read more

Report: AMD Chip Shortage Caused by Packaging Issues, PlayStation 5

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) It’s no secret that AMD’s Zen-3 based Ryzen 5000 series CPUs are flying off the shelves faster than AMD can make them, but it looks like the same will be the case for Zen 3 notebook chips when they land in Q1. A report from DigiTimes doesn’t specifically call out… Read more

Ex-Intel and AMD Chip Guru Jim Keller Joins AI Startup Tenstorrent

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Jim Keller, a famed chip architect with notable stints at Intel, AMD, and Tesla, has joined AI chip startup Tenstorrent as President, CTO, and board member. Keller previously worked with Tenstorrent founder Ljubisa Bajic at AMD and personally provided the first funding for the startup. Keller is known… Read more

HP EX900 Pro 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

Introduction HP, aka Hewlett Packard, is one of the most well-known tech companies in the world. They produce nearly every product you can think of: laptops, desktops, printers, enterprise hardware, and solid-state drives. For their SSD storage products, HP teamed up with BIWIN Storage, a large Chinese OEM for SSD solutions with 25 years of… Read more

IEDM 2020: Intel wants to double their density through stacked transistors

At this year’s IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Intel presented various further and new developments in the field of manufacturing technologies. One of the most important researches concerns the so-called Self-Aligned 3D Stacked Multi-Ribbon CMOS transistors – self-aligning, stacked transistors, which should theoretically enable Intel to increase the transistor density The transistors of modern… Read more

iPhone 13, ARM Macs & Co: What we expect from Apple in 2021

The pandemic hardly seems to have thwarted Apple’s product plans 2020. The manufacturer brought a large number of new hardware onto the market: It started with an updated iPad Pro and a new edition of the entry-level iPhone SE, followed in autumn by the extensively redesigned iPad Air, a HomePod mini, and the two new… Read more

heise + | Algorithms: The Persistent Myth of Predictable Humans

The Silicon Valley’s belief that it can optimize society goes back a long way – and is in the 1960 have already failed. US President John F. Kennedy, here speaking at Rice University, Houston, 1962. The Democrats wanted to predict his election campaign using data analysis. (Image: Unsplash, History in HD) If you work for… Read more

Kingston KC2500 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

Introduction With revenue in the multi-billion dollars, Kingston is the largest DRAM and flash memory products vendor in the world. While their strongest suit is in memory modules and USB/flash card storage, they are also a major player in the SSD market. Today, we bring you our Kingston KC2500 review. Earlier this year, we posted… Read more

Apple plans to launch 32-core and 64-core processors based on the Apple Silicon M1

by Jordi Bercial 5 minutes ago … With all the news we’ve seen so far related to the new processor Apple Silicon M1 , it is clear that its performance is at the level of the chips that could already be found in other computers of the company, in addition to having support from excellent… Read more

Test of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 and AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards at resolutions 3440×1440, 3840×1200 and 3840×1600

Looking at the market of gaming monitors, one can get an unpleasant impression that there are only three resolutions – 1920 x 1080, 2560 x 1440 and 3840 x 2160. Manufacturers are reluctant to experiment with formats, because the scale of interest in new solutions is relatively small, while the monitor is a device that… Read more