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AMD has made itself quite a reputation with its bundling campaigns over the years, and every new season we can be sure that the company will be giving away free games with the purchase of its hardware. This summer will certainly not be exception as AMD will be bundling Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Unknown 9: Awakening titles with its Ryzen 7000 CPUs and Radeon RX 7000 video cards. The latest bundle offer essentially covers all of AMD's existing mid-range and high-end consumer desktop products, sans the to-be-launched Ryzen 9000 series. That includes not only AMD's desktop parts, such as the Ryzen 9 7800X3D, but also virtually their entire stack of Radeon RX 7000 video cards, right on down to the 7600 XT. AMD's laptop...
More On NVIDIA Quadro Brand Retirement: Embracing the Graphics and Compute Overlap
Now that NVIDIA’s second GTC event of the year has wrapped up, we’ve finally gotten a chance to follow up with NVIDIA on last week’s announcement of their RTX...
35 by Ryan Smith on 10/13/2020
Imagination Announces B-Series GPU IP: Scaling up with Multi-GPU
It’s almost been a year since Imagination had announced its brand-new A-series GPU IP, a release which at the time the company called its most important in 15 years...
74 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/13/2020
AMD Teases Radeon RX 6000 Card Performance Numbers: Aiming For 3080?
As part of today’s Zen 3 desktop CPU announcement from AMD, the company also threw in a quick teaser from the GPU side of the company in order to...
179 by Ryan Smith on 10/8/2020
Quadro No More? NVIDIA Announces Ampere-based RTX A6000 & A40 Video Cards For Pro Visualization
NVIDIA’s second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang’s “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event. As...
29 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2020
NVIDIA Delays GeForce RTX 3070 Launch to October 29th
In a brief news post made to their GeForce website last night, NVIDIA has announced that they have delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card...
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What Products Use Intel 10nm? SuperFin and 10++ Demystified
For our audience that regularly keeps track of Intel’s product portfolio, it would be hard to miss that the naming strategy of Intel’s process node technologies is a bit...
143 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/25/2020
Oracle Announces Upcoming Cloud Compute Instances: Ice Lake and Milan, A100 and Altra
When the name “Oracle” is thrown around, hardware isn’t typically the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But, like other large tech companies that originally made...
18 by Ryan Smith on 9/22/2020
AMD Teases First Radeon RX 6000 Video Card Picture
In a very brief teaser, AMD this afternoon has released a picture of their first Radeon RX 6000 video card. No further details about the card are given, but based...
97 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2020
AMD Preps Second Round of HPC System Donations For COVID-19 Research
When things aren’t blowing up or burning down as of late, there’s still the matter of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While the first generation of vaccines move carefully closer...
19 by Ryan Smith on 9/14/2020
It’s Official: NVIDIA To Acquire Arm For $40 Billion
Following a number of rumors and leaks, NVIDIA this evening announced that it is buying Arm Limited for $40 billion. The cash and stock deal will see NVIDIA buy...
140 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2020
AMD Announces Ryzen "Zen 3" and Radeon "RDNA2" Presentations for October: A New Journey Begins
AMD today has announced that they will be making a pair of consumer product presentations in October. The chipmaker, who has been fairly quiet since the spring, will be...
145 by Ryan Smith on 9/9/2020
3DFabric: The Home for TSMC’s 2.5D and 3D Stacking Roadmap
Interposers. EMIB. Foveros. Die-to-die stacking. ODI. AIB.TSVs. All these words and acronyms have one overriding feature – they are all involved in how two bits of silicon physically connect...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/2/2020
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 30 Series: Ampere For Gaming, Starting With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the next generation of video cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based upon the gaming...
410 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020
The NVIDIA GeForce Special Event 2020 Live Blog (Starts at 9:00 PT/16:00 UTC)
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, today is NVIDIA's 2020 GeForce Special event. We're expecting the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series of cards, based...
51 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020
TSMC: We have 50% of All EUV Installations, 60% Wafer Capacity
One of the overriding central messages to TSMC’s Technology Symposium this week is that the company is a world leader in semiconductor manufacturing, especially at the leading edge process...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/27/2020
Where are my GAA-FETs? TSMC to Stay with FinFET for 3nm
As we passed that 22nm to 16nm barrier, almost all the major semiconductor fabrication companies on the leading edge transitioned from planar transistors to FinFET transistors. The benefits of...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020
NVIDIA Confirms 12-pin GPU Power Connector
Today as part of a video showcasing NVIDIA’s mechanical and industrial design of its GPUs, and how it gets a large GPU to dissipate heat, the company went into...
80 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020
TSMC Expects 5nm to be 11% of 2020 Wafer Production (sub 16nm)
One of the measures of how quickly a new process node gains traction is by comparing how many wafers are in production, especially as that new process node goes...
13 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
TSMC Teases 12-High 3D Stacked Silicon: SoIC Goes Extreme
I’ve maintained for a couple of years now that the future battleground when it comes to next-generation silicon is going to be in the interconnect – implicitly this relies...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
TSMC Updates on Node Availability Beyond Logic: Analog, HV, Sensors, RF
Most of the time when we speak about semiconductor processes, we are focused on the leading edge of what is possible. Almost exclusively that leading edge is designed for...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/25/2020
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