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EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra Review

Introduction Today, we have with us the EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FTW3 Ultra, the company’s most premium custom-design RTX 3060 Ti Ampere graphics card. EVGA combines NVIDIA’s new performance-segment GPU with its latest-generation iCX3 Interactive cooling technology. The FTW3 Ultra also gets EVGA’s highest state of tuning for the RTX 3060 Ti, its most… Read more

A silicon LED from MIT, and there is also a hand from GLOBALFOUNDRIES

Being able to make LEDs based on silicon would mean the possibility of building electronic devices with greater integration and better performance. MIT brings this perspective closer to reality by Andrea Bai published 16 December 2020 , at 17: 01 in the Science and Technology channel Globalfoundries I LED – acronym for Light-Emitting Diode, light… Read more

TSMC will stop offering volume discounts due to high demand on its 5 and 7 nm nodes

by Pablo López 1 hour ago … It seems that TSMC is going to stop offering discounts to companies that request the chip manufacturing, which may lead to an increase in numerous products with the latest technology. According to Taiwanese Central News Agency, TSMC is no longer going to lower the prices of the manufacture… Read more

Firefox’s latest update brings native support for Apple’s Arm-based Macs

Firefox’s latest update brings native support for Macs that run on Apple’s Arm-based silicon, Mozilla announced on Tuesday. Mozilla claims that native Apple silicon support brings significant performance improvements: the browser apparently launches 2.5 times faster and web apps are twice as responsive than they were on the previous version of Firefox, which wasn’t native… Read more

Firefox 84 brings native Apple Silicon support on macOS

Mozilla has released version 84 of Firefox across all three desktop platforms. The big news with this version is that it adds support for Apple Silicon on the macOS version, making it the third browser after Safari and Chrome to do so. Starting with version 84, the macOS build of Firefox will now natively support… Read more

Apple Silicon, native support for Microsoft Office and Firefox arrives: huge performance boost

The Apple Silicon revolution was launched with the first products on the market, but now it is the software developers who have to respond and it seems that they are doing it en masse. Microsoft has just announced the arrival for everyone of the native Office suite for ARM architecture on Mac systems , and… Read more

Microsoft 365: Office apps adapted for ARM Macs

Microsoft is now delivering its office suite for Macs as a universal app that is designed for both Intel processors and new Macs with “Apple Silicon”. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote should run faster on Macs with Apple’s M1 chip and benefit fully from the performance improvements, emphasized Microsoft. The updates can be obtained… Read more

Firefox 84: Native M1 support and faster rendering pipeline for Linux

Mozilla is bringing the last Firefox update for this year: With version 84, Adobe Flash will also be supported for the last time – Adobe itself will end support next year. Originally it was said that 84 is over. As of the upcoming browser version, it will no longer be possible to activate Flash support… Read more

Microsoft Office receives support for Apple Silicon on the new Macs

by Jordi Bercial 5 minutes ago … At this point it is no longer a surprise that many companies are carrying out the support for ARM processors due to the launch of the new Apple M1 processors, and this time it is Microsoft who has updated its Microsoft Office office suite to accommodate the new… Read more

Microsoft Office is now updated for M1 Macs

If you’ve been using Microsoft Office on an M1 Mac, it’s about to get better — Microsoft is announcing an update today that brings native support for Apple’s new custom chip architecture to the Windows productivity suite. The apps getting the updates are Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Notably absent, however, is Teams. The… Read more

Modern Computing Alliance: the big names in technology together to transform the cloud and technological tools

The Modern Computing Alliance includes Google, Intel, Slack, Dell, Zoom, Citrix and other actors The goal is to rethink IT focusing on 4 areas: security and identity, performance, health and productivity (even remotely) by Alberto Falchi published 15 December 2020 , at 17: 41 in the Cloud channel Google Citrix Intel Dell Some of the… Read more

IR Photographer Shares Die Shots of Nvidia 3000 Series GA102 Silicon

Home News (Image credit: Fritzchens Fritz) Renowned infrared (IR) photographer Fritzchens Fritz has delighted us with a couple high-resolution photographs of Nvidia’s GA102 Ampere silicon. The GA102, which is featured inside the GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 and is also rumored to power the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. With a die size of… Read more

heise + | Portal or data octopus: walking the Russian tightrope

Moscow tech giant Yandex balances between state control and independence. A blueprint for mega-tech corporations in a democracy? From the end of March to mid-June, when Moscow was in corona lockdown, the Russian capital was almost empty of normal passers-by. Whenever I went to the supermarket or the pharmacy, whole columns of cyclists in the… Read more

Zoox unveils a self-driving car that could become Amazon’s first robotaxi

Zoox, a self-driving car company that Amazon bought in June, has finally revealed its robotaxi after six years of gnarly prototypes and secrecy. And while it broadly resembles other first-generation autonomous vehicles from automakers and Silicon Valley startups, Zoox’s robotaxi has a few standout features, as well as an overall polish to it that makes… Read more