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Nvidia Launches New Professional Ampere Graphics for Desktops and Laptops

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia this week introduced a host of professional graphics solutions for desktops and laptops, which carry the Nvidia RTX A-series monikers and do not use the Quadro branding. The majority of the new units are based on the Ampere architecture and therefore bring the latest features along with drivers certified by developers… Read more

Apple officially announces Spring Loaded event for April 20th

Apple’s next event will take place on April 20th, the company announced today, with an invite teasing the upcoming event with a “Spring Loaded.” tagline. The official confirmation came just hours after the company’s voice assistant revealed the date early when asked “When is the next Apple event?” As is typical, there’s not much to… Read more

Google is poisoning its reputation with AI researchers

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The firing of top Google AI ethics researchers has created a significant backlash Google has worked for years to position itself as a responsible steward of AI. Its research lab hires respected academics, publishes groundbreaking papers, and steers the agenda at the field’s biggest conferences. But now its… Read more

Adata XPG Gammix S70 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Big Heatsink, Hot Performance

Our Verdict Adata’s XPG Gammix S70 is fast and features almost everything you could want from a high-end PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD, but the heatsink is a bit restrictive and not quite as refined as our current best picks. For + Very fast sequential performance + High endurance + AES 256-bit hardware encryption + Black… Read more

It may be curtains for Arclight and Pacific, the theaters I’ve only dreamt of attending

The owner of famous movie theater chains Arclight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters has revealed that the theaters will never reopen from their COVID shutdowns, according to Variety. Decurian, the company that operates both chains, gave a dire statement to Deadline: it includes phrases like “exhausted all potential options” and “does not have a viable way… Read more

The PC market isn’t slowing down after an amazing 2020, despite chip shortages

The PC market had a great first quarter, despite the global shortage of semiconductor chips. Research firm Gartner estimates that shipments of “traditional PCs,” meaning laptops and desktops, are up by 32 percent compared to Q1 2020 (via CNBC). IDC puts the number even higher, estimating 55 percent growth year-over-year. This seems to be the… Read more

Nvidia’s A100 Gets Baby Brothers: The A10 and A30

Home News (Image credit: NVidia) Nvidia’s flagship A100 compute GPU introduced last year delivers leading-edge performance required by cloud datacenters and supercomputers, but the unit is way too powerful and expensive for more down-to-earth workloads. So today at GTC the company introduced two younger brothers for its flagship, the A30 for mainstream AI and analytics… Read more

Hack Boosts Video Encoding For Nvidia’s Consumer GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Back on Saturday we reported that Nvidia’s GPU virtualization capability only enabled on select GPUs for datacenters can be unlocked using a rather simple hack (albeit only in Linux) on GeForce and Quadro graphics cards for client PCs. Apparently, this is not the only datacenter-exclusive feature that can be enabled on client… Read more

Nvidia’s Virtualization Unlocked On Gaming GPUs via Hack

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) A group of enthusiasts has unlocked vGPU (GPU virtualization) capability, which is only supported on select datacenter and professional boards, on standard consumer Nvidia GeForce gaming graphics cards. Since the vGPU capability is supported by the silicon but locked out by software, it was only a matter of time and effort… Read more

Linux Support on Apple’s M1 Macs Could Come With New Kernel

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Linux could make it to Apple silicon even sooner than expected. A pull request for the Linux 5.13 kernel submitted on Thursday and spotted by Phoronix looks to add “initial support” for the Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models equipped with an M1 chip. Developer Hector Martin submitted… Read more

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang to Deliver GTC Keynote From His Kitchen

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Next week Nvidia will kick off its annual GTC conference, a virtual-only event for the second time. GTC will traditionally start with a keynote by Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, delivered from his kitchen. The main intrigue is: what will he talk about? Last year he announced the Ampere architecture… Read more

Intel’s Upcoming DG2 Rumored to Compete With RTX 3070

Home News (Image credit: Intel) According to Moore’s Law Is Dead, Intel’s successor to the DG1, the DG2, could be arriving sometime later this year with significantly more firepower than Intel’s current DG1 graphics card. Of course it will be faster — that much is a given — but the latest rumors have it that… Read more

MSI Goes SSDs: Three Series of Spatinum SSDs Incoming

Home News (Image credit: MSI) In a bid to sell more products to their loyal customers, many of hardware makers these days start offering new product categories. Earlier this year at CES, MSI outlined plans to start offering SSDs under its newly introduced Spatinum brand. At the time the company only announced its flagship module… Read more

Raspberry Pi Sends 6,400 RP2040 Chips to Arduino for Upcoming Board

Home News (Image credit: Eben Upton / Raspberry Pi Trading) The impending arrival of another Raspberry Pi RP2040 powered partner is almost upon us. In a conversation on Twitter between Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton and Arduino co-founder Massimo Banzi we see reels of RP2040 chips destined for Arduino’s first ‘Pi Silicon’ board. Hey @mbanzi,… Read more

Global Chip Shortage Reportedly Delays MacBook Production

Home News (Image credit: Alena Veasey / Shutterstock.com) It’s said that money can’t buy everything—and the world’s most valuable company seems to be learning that lesson the hard way. Nikkei Asia Review today reported that even Apple’s supply chain has been weakened by the global chip shortage. Apple has devoted a lot of time, expertise,… Read more