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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...
OpenXR Update: First Approved Runtimes Now Available, OpenXR Coming to Minecraft
Among the many technologies to come under the purview of the Khronos consortium have been augmented reality and virtual reality. Looking to fulfill the group’s mandate to develop open...
16 by Ryan Smith on 7/28/2020
Intel 7nm Delayed By 6 Months; Company to Take “Pragmatic” Approach in Using Third-Party Fabs
While today second quarter earnings report from Intel represented a high-water mark for the company amid booming sales and revenues, unfortunately not everything disclosed today was good news from...
208 by Ryan Smith on 7/23/2020
NVIDIA and AMD Summer 2020 Video Card Game Bundles: Death Stranding & Godfall
With summer here and the tail-end of at least one series of video cards approaching, both NVIDIA and AMD have launched new video card game bundles in the last...
9 by Ryan Smith on 7/17/2020
Hot Chips 32 (2020) Schedule Announced: Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, Raja Koduri Keynote
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again – the best industry conference I go to every year is Hot Chips. The event has grown over...
65 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/8/2020
SK Hynix: HBM2E Memory Now in Mass Production
Just shy of a year ago, SK Hynix threw their hat into the ring, as it were, by becoming the second company to announce memory based on the HBM2E...
38 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2020
AMD Publishes First Beta Driver With Windows 10 Hardware GPU Scheduling Support
Following last week’s release of NVIDIA’s first Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling-enabled video card driver, AMD this week has stepped up to the plate to do the same. The Radeon Software...
29 by Ryan Smith on 6/29/2020
Intel’s Raja Koduri Teases Even Larger Xe GPU Silicon
Absent from the discrete GPU space for over 20 years, this year Intel is set to see the first fruits from their labors to re-enter that market. The company...
42 by Ryan Smith on 6/25/2020
AMD Succeeds in its 25x20 Goal: Renoir Crosses the Line in 2020
One of the stories bubbling away in the background of the industry is the AMD self-imposed ‘25x20’ goal. Starting with performance in 2014, AMD committed to itself, to customers...
83 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/25/2020
NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling
NVIDIA sends word this morning that the company has posted their first DirectX 12 Ultimate-compliant driver. Published as version 451.48 – the first driver out of NVIDIA’s new Release...
63 by Ryan Smith on 6/24/2020
Intel to use Nanowire/Nanoribbon Transistors in Volume ‘in Five Years’
This year, at the international VLSI conference, Intel’s CTO Mike Mayberry gave one of the plenary presentations, which this year was titled ‘The Future of Compute’. Within the presentation...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
NVIDIA Announces PCIe A100 Accelerator: 250 Watt Ampere In A Standard Form Factor
With the launch of their Ampere architecture and new A100 accelerator barely a month behind them, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the PCIe version of their accelerator as part...
30 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2020
GIGABYTE’s 4U 10x NVIDIA A100 New G492 Servers Announced
One of the interesting elements about NVIDIA’s A100 card is the potential compute density offered, especially for AI applications. There is set to be a strong rush to enable...
52 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
Intel Kaby Lake-G GPU Driver Updates Left In Limbo, Currently Unsupported
While the retail shelf life of Intel’s unusual Kaby Lake-G processor has pretty much passed at this point, it looks like it has become the gift that keeps on...
47 by Ryan Smith on 6/8/2020
AMD Confirms That SmartShift Tech Only Shipping in One Laptop For 2020
Launched earlier this year, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” APUs brought several new features and technologies to the table for AMD. Along with numerous changes to improve the APU’s power...
55 by Ryan Smith on 6/5/2020
ASML’s First Multi-Beam Inspection Tool for 5nm
ASML has announced it has made a significant development in its multi-beam inspectional tool line. The new eScan1000 moves a single beam scanning process into a nine-beam scanning process...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/1/2020
Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence
2019 was a great year for Arm. On the mobile side of things one could say it was business as usual, as the company continued to see successes with...
192 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
Arm Announces The Mali-G78 GPU: Evolution to 24 Cores
Today as part of Arm’s 2020 TechDay announcements, alongside the release of the brand-new Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 CPUs, Arm is also revealing its brand-new Mali-G78 and Mali-G68 GPU...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
NVIDIA Reports Q1 FY2021 Earnings: Let The Good Times Roll
This week NVIDIA announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2021 fiscal year. The current fiscal year is an especially important one for NVIDIA on both a...
34 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2020
Gaming AIs: NVIDIA Teaches A Neural Network to Recreate Pac-Man
Following last week’s virtual GTC keynote and the announcement of their Ampere architecture, this week NVIDIA has been holding the back-half of their conference schedule. As with the real...
20 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2020
NVIDIA Ampere Unleashed: NVIDIA Announces New GPU Architecture, A100 GPU, and Accelerator
While NVIDIA’s usual presentation efforts for the year were dashed by the current coronavirus outbreak, the company’s march towards developing and releasing newer products has continued unabated. To that...
128 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2020
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