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After AMD and Intel: Chip developer veteran Jim Keller joins AI start-up

Jim Keller started as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Canadian AI start-up Tenstorrent, where he wants to design “new and interesting stuff”. Tenstorrent develops processors for training and executing neural networks – keyword machine learning. Keller was most recently at Intel as Senior Vice President of Silicon for two years Engineering Group. Translated: Chip… Read more

Sony is going to start selling its Mandalorian-like virtual set displays

Sony has announced that it’s going to start selling a series of modular displays that can be used to create digital movie sets (via The Hollywood Reporter). If this kind of technology seems familiar, it may be because Industrial Light & Magic and Epic Games built similar sets to help create The Mandalorian. They displays… Read more

Xiaomi Mi 11 uses BlinkAI algorithms for its video night mode, here’s a demo

The Xiaomi Mi 11 is the first phone with the Snapdragon 888 chipset. Among other improvements, Qualcomm’s new chip boasts faster performance for AI applications with a total of 26 TOPS of number-crunching power (up from 15 TOPS on the S865). This was leveraged by BlinkAI whose deep learning software powers the Night Mode in… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition Review: A Huge Generational Leap in Performance

For Fastest Graphics Card (until 3090 arrives) Priced the same as RTX 2080 Super Delivers true 4K 60+ fps gaming Runs reasonably cool and quiet Major architectural updates for future games Against Highest TDP for a single GPU (until 3090) Potential for CPU bottlenecks Needs a 1440p or 4K display to shine We’re not sold… Read more

Intel Core i7-11700K Appears to Beat AMD in Geekbench 5

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) As spotted by Leakbench, Intel’s unreleased Core i7-11700K has been ripped through the Geekbench 5 benchmark tool, and the alleged performance gains over last-gen parts are nothing to scoff at. Single-core, the chip jots down a score of 1807 points, with a crypto score of 5423 points. Multi-core, it notes… Read more

Review – ASUS Radeon RX 6900XT 16GB vs ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 TUF Gaming – Overclocking battle of the giants

ASUS Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB Ah, ah, children and brothers, Stay like this and don’t leave You sit next to the Monster And enjoy the story That I came with babane plates With baroque frequencies, And then, to have fun I said to overclock them Let’s see which one is cooler Which fps… Read more

Asus RT-AX82U Gaming Router Review: Solid Mid-Range Performance, Plus RGB

Our Verdict The Asus RT-AX82U is a powerful mid-range gaming router, offering a myriad of features at a reasonable $229 price. It also proved stable throughout testing and offers the latest in Wi-Fi 6 technology. For Supports Wi-Fi 6 Programmable LED RGB lighting Excellent range and throughput Integrated security Ease of setup Granular control of… Read more

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Review: The Pricing Conundrum

Our Verdict AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X offers great performance in applications, but the same gaming performance as its less-expensive counterpart, the Ryzen 5 5600X. For Strong gaming performance Solid single- and multi-threaded IPC gain, boost frequencies Power efficiency Overclockable PCIe Gen4 support 400/500-series compatible Against Price No bundled cooler No integrated graphics (Image credit: Tom’s… Read more

Qualcomm shares official Snapdragon 888 benchmark results

After announcing its Snapdragon 888 on December 1 and fully detailing its specs a day later, Qualcomm has now revealed official benchmarking results for its latest flagship chipset. The tests were performed on a special Qualcomm reference device powered by the Snapdragon 888 alongside 12GB LPDDR5 RAM, 512GB UFS 3.0 storage and a 6.65-inch FHD… Read more

More Arm Notebooks: Rockchip Develops High-End RK3588 SoC

Home News (Image credit: Rockchip) Apple and Qualcomm are certainly not the only adopters of the Arm architecture that develop system-on-chips for PCs. Rockchip, a major fabless chip developer from China, is working on its high-end RK3588 SoC that promises to bring together performance and low power consumption. Rockchip expects its RK3588 to address various… Read more

Samsung’s Odyssey G9 does the work of three monitors

Samsung’s enormous Odyssey G9 monitor And I am now thoroughly spoiled I have been a technology cheapskate most of my life. I’ve rarely bought a monitor brand-new; I’m pleased to say I pieced together my current three-screen articulating swing-arm setup primarily from Craigslist and hand-me-downs. But this fall, I had an opportunity to temporarily replace… Read more

Big Navi with AiO cooling: ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition in the test

Page 1: Big Navi with AiO cooling: ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC Edition in the test After the successful start of the Radeon-RX – 6800 – Series a few days ago, the first custom model follows today. In the form of the ASUS ROG Strix LC Radeon RX 6800 XT OC… Read more

An affordable, 5G-connected iQOO phone goes through TENAA

The iQOO brand is mostly made up of powerful devices, but there are some more affordable models too – those are part of the U-series. It seems that pretty soon the iQOO V2054A will be joining them, after being added to the TENAA database. This could become the first iQOO U phone with 5G, as… Read more

Best VR Headsets for PC 2020

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) Hopeful enthusiasts waited years for virtual reality (VR) to become accessible enough for the home. And with many of us suddenly stuck at home more, the idea of ‘leaving’ and entering a world of VR has become much more appealing. But it’s not just boredom that’s made VR more enticing;… Read more

Server accelerator AMD Instinct MI100: Without Radeon, but with 11.5 FP64 TFlops

The AMD Instinct MI 100 is the first compute accelerator card with the new CDNA architecture and is produced in 7 nanometer technology at TSMC. AMD wants the PCIe 4.0 card and its 32 GByte HBM2 memory Nvidias A 100 compete and has not only revised the compute units known from the GCN architecture, but… Read more