NVIDIA Releases GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: Ampere the All-Powerful
Back in January during their CES 2022 keynote, NVIDIA teased the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, an even more powerful version of NVIDIA’s flagship card for the high-end gaming and...
88 by on 3/29/2022Update: Intel Announces Core i9-12900KS: 5.5 GHz Turbo, 5.2 GHz All-Core, Coming April 5th
Following Newegg’s flub on Friday, Intel today is now (finally) officially announcing the Core i9-12900KS. The company’s new flagship consumer desktop chip will be going on sale next Tuesday...
104 by on 3/28/2022NVIDIA Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator Announced: Working Smarter and Harder
Depending on your point of view, the last two years have either gone by very slowly, or very quickly. While the COVID pandemic never seemed to end – and...
88 by on 3/22/2022The NVIDIA GTC Spring 2022 Keynote Live Blog (Starts at 8:00am PT/15:00 UTC)
Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical...
9 by on 3/22/2022AMD Releases Instinct MI210 Accelerator: CDNA 2 On a PCIe Card
With both GDC and GTC going on this week, this is a big time for GPUs of all sorts. And today, AMD wants to get in on the game...
39 by on 3/22/2022AMD Teases FSR 2.0: Temporal Upscaling Tech for Games Coming in Q2
Alongside their spring driver update, AMD this morning is also unveiling the first nugget of information about the next generation of their FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technology. Dubbed FSR...
46 by on 3/17/2022AMD Releases Adrenalin Software Spring 2022 Update: Adds RSR Upscaling and More
AMD this morning is releasing the awaited spring update to their AMD Software Adrenalin Edition suite for their GPUs. First unveiled back in January as part of AMD’s keynote...
12 by on 3/17/2022AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D Launches April 20th, Plus 6 New Low & Mid-Range Ryzen Chips
Since the launch of AMD’s Zen 3-powered Ryzen 5000 desktop processors in late 2020, the company’s retail desktop chip offerings have been rather static. With AMD facing heavy demand...
98 by on 3/15/2022Apple Announces M1 Ultra: Combining Two M1 Maxes For Workstation Performance
As part of Apple’s spring “Peek Performance” product event this morning, Apple unveiled the fourth and final member of the M1 family of Apple Silicon SoCs, the M1 Ultra...
219 by on 3/8/2022The Apple "Peek Performance" Event Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/18:00 UTC)
Join us a bit later today for Apple's spring product launch event, which for this year is being called "Peek Performance". The presentation kicks off at 10am Pacific (18:00 UTC...
79 by on 3/8/2022Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Announced: Setting Standards For The Chiplet Ecosystem
If there has been one prominent, industry-wide trend in chip design over the past half-decade or so, it has been the growing use of chiplets. The tiny dies have...
25 by on 3/2/2022Intel Launches Alder Lake U and P Series Processors: Ultraportable Laptops Coming In March
Following the January launch of Intel’s first Alder Lake-based 12th Gen Core mobile processors, the Alder Lake-H family, Intel this morning is following that up with the formal launch...
95 by on 2/23/2022Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
One of Intel’s more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet...
28 by on 2/17/2022Intel’s Arctic Sound-M Server Accelerator To Land Mid-2022 With Hardware AV1 Encoding
Rounding out Intel’s direct GPU-related announcements from this morning as part of the company’s annual investor meeting, Intel has confirmed that the company is also getting ready to deliver...
18 by on 2/17/2022Intel Meteor Lake Client Processors to use Arc Graphics Chiplets
Continuing with this morning’s spate of Intel news coming from Intel’s annual Investor meeting, we also have some new information on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake processors, courtesy of this...
20 by on 2/17/2022Intel Arc Update: Alchemist Laptops Q1, Desktops Q2; 4mil GPUs Total for 2022
As part of Intel’s annual investor meeting taking place today, Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update to...
13 by on 2/17/2022Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B To Expand IFS Capabilities
Continuing their recent spending spree in expanding their foundry capabilities, Intel this morning has announced that it has struck a deal to acquire specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.4...
7 by on 2/15/2022Update: AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx. The final value of...
34 by on 2/14/2022NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition Officially Nixed, SoftBank to IPO Arm Instead
NVIDIA’s year-and-a-half long effort to acquire Arm has come to an end this morning, as NVIDIA and Arm owner SoftBank have announced that the two companies are officially calling...
108 by on 2/8/2022AMD Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Turning Silicon Into Gold
As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in...
26 by on 2/1/2022