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Intel 11th-Gen Rocket Lake, Comet Lake Refresh CPUs Specs Emerge From Overseas

Home News Intel 11th Generation Rocket Lake Processor (Image credit: ijiandao) Chinese news outlet ijiandao (via Harukaze5719) has reportedly shared the general specifications for Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake and Comet Lake Refresh processors. Apparently, both families will live under the same 11th-Gen moniker. Rocket Lake, which is the more interesting lineup out of the two,… Read more

Microsoft Reportedly Moving Its Servers to Custom Chips

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) With the Apple M1 in the hands of consumers and Amazon currently working to shift its Azure servers from Nvidia’s processors to its own in-house chips, it’s clear that major tech industry players are keen to bring more and more of their production lines as close to home as possible…. Read more

Microsoft reportedly designing its own ARM-based chips for servers and Surface PCs

Microsoft is designing its own ARM-based processors for servers and possibly a future Surface device, according to Bloomberg News. The processors will be used in servers for Microsoft’s Azure cloud services and be based around ARM designs, according to the report. Microsoft is also reportedly “exploring” using another chip for some of its Surface devices,… Read more

Nikon Firmware Updates: Native Webcam Utility on Apple Silicon and RAW Video (Paid) for Z6 and Z7 on Blackmagic

by Roberto Colombo, published on 12 December 2020, at 19: 41 ? Support for RAW video output is available via a paid service upgrade: Firmware Version 3. 20 adds support in this service for Blackmagic Design external video recorders. Native support for new Apple Silicon chips based on ARM architecture for the webcam utility ??… Read more

XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Black Review

Introduction The XFX Radeon RX 6800 XT Speedster Merc 319 Black is the company’s fastest custom-design RX 6800 XT “Big Navi” graphics card, designed to offer maximum performance out of the box for the RX 6800 XT, the highest overclocking headroom, and the quietest cooler when gaming. The Speedster Merc 319 (where “Merc” is a… Read more

MSI GeForce RTX 3090 AERO – graphics card with the most powerful NVIDIA chip in the style of the unforgettable GeForce GTX 480

GeForce RTX 3090 is a real graphical monster, as evidenced not only by its technical specifications, but also by a powerful reference cooling. Nevertheless, some producers have managed to prepare extremely minimalist versions of this system, which are equipped with one tiny turbine. As it turns out, it is enough to cool down the most… Read more

Chinese chip order maker SMIC: Turmoil in the leadership

China’s efforts to build up a modern, local chip production facility continue to falter. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) hired Chiang Shang-yi as CEO and appointed member of the strategic committee in mid-December 2020. Co-CEO Liang Mong-song has submitted a conditional resignation. Chiang Shang-yi previously headed the Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (HSMC ) –… Read more

In 2020, live product launches turned into infomercials

In a year when the spread of COVID-19 made bringing large crowds together impossible, companies around the world had to reevaluate their love affair with the live product launch. Packing hundreds of attendees into extravagant venues to hang on every word of company executives was never going to be possible in an era of social… Read more

Silicon Power US70 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: The Ultra-Value M.2 Stick

Our Verdict Silicon Power’s US70 is a low-cost PCIe 4.0 X4 NVMe SSD that’s a great value pick, but it lacks the looks and features needed to be the best. For Relatively low-cost Moderate PCIe Gen4 performance 5-year warranty Against Slow write speed after write cache fills Blue PCB No AES 256-bit encryption Lackluster software… Read more

Virtualizer Parallels comes as a beta on ARM Macs

The first commercial virtualization software for Macs with Apple Silicon has been released: Parallels offers interested users a technical preview of Parallels Desktop 16 for the test and thus enables the use of virtual machines on the new ARM Macs. This also makes it possible to run Windows 10 in a virtual machine – but… Read more

Taiwanese sources: Semiconductor manufacturers have raised their prices

According to data from Asia, several smaller manufacturers have already increased their prices, while TSMC has canceled discounts for its largest customers. The theme for this year has been the interest rate crisis and its effects on demand for entertainment technology, among other things. Demand that exceeds even the wildest expectations of companies puts enormous… Read more

NVIDIA is working on co-packaged photonics for NVLink

The keynote at the GPU Technologies Conference in China contained some interesting details about technologies NVIDIA is currently working on. In order to be able to further increase the computing power of its own HPC chips, it will be necessary for the network or better interconnect connections to become faster. Currently, NVIDIA already sees a… Read more

Apple M1, Microsoft Edge released in native version for Apple Silicon

Microsoft’s browser was also released for the new Apple processors, although still in “Canary” version of Nino Grasso published on 17 December 2020 , at 19: 21 in the Apple channel Apple Microsoft macOS There are probably not many users who use Edge on Mac, however Microsoft is showing diligence in supporting Apple Silicon …. Read more

Google and Qualcomm are working together for faster Android updates

Qualcomm and Google have announced they’ll be working to expand Project Treble, Google’s ambitious multiyear project that aims to simplify OS updates so it’s easier for device manufacturers to upgrade phones and tablets to new Android versions without worrying about Qualcomm’s chipset-specific software. The goal is to make it even easier for users to get… Read more

SSD Controller Makers Consider Price Hikes

Home News (Image credit: Corsair) Phison Electronics and Silicon Motion, two leading designers of SSD controllers from Taiwan, cannot get enough chips from their contract manufacturers, according to a story from DigiTimes that corroborates with a report that TrendForce published earlier this week. The two companies reportedly ‘stopped offering quotes for new orders’ and are considering 10% to 15%… Read more