Apple Silicon

(PR) Apple announces Mac transition to Apple silicon

Developers can start building apps today and first system ships by year’s end, beginning a two-year transition Cupertino, California — In a historic day for the Mac, Apple today announced it will transition the Mac to its world-class custom silicon to deliver industry-leading performance and powerful new technologies. Developers can now get started updating their apps to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of Apple silicon in the Mac. This transition will also establish a common architecture across all Apple products, making it far easier forNone

NVIDIA announces A100 PCIe accelerator

Today NVIDIA announces a new variant of the A100 Tensor Core accelerator, the A100 PCIe. NVIDIA A100 PCIe NVIDIA announces the availability of its new A100 Ampere-based accelerator with the PCI Express 4.0 interface. The product has the same specifications as the A100 SXM variant except for few details. The A100 PCIe has a TDP of 250W. According to ComputeBase who quotes NVIDIA, the card does indeed have lowerNone

Intel

(PR) ASUS announces NVIDIA A100 PCIe-powered ESC4000A E10 server

ASUS Announce NVIDIA A100-Powered Server to Accelerate AI, Data Science, and Scientific Computing TAIPEI, Taiwan, 22, June, 2020 — , the leading IT Company in server systems, server motherboards and workstations today announced the new NVIDIA A100-powered server - ESC4000A E10 to accelerate and optimize data centers for high utilization and low total cost of ownership with the PCIe Gen 4 expansions, OCP 3.0 networking, faster compute andNone

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080(Ti) Ampere 3DMark Time Spy score leaks?

An unknown GeForce graphics card has been spotted in the 3DMark database delivering 30% performance uplift from the current flagship. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, 3090 or 3080? The benchmark result spotted by Rogame in the 3DMark database is hidden (private), meaning the result is not visible for the public and cannot be linked to. If the result was showing a graphics card that was already released, chances are 3DMark would have tagged the result correctly. ThisNone

Intel

Acer Swift 5 laptops with Intel Tiger Lake listed by Dutch retailer

The first retail listing of Intel's 11th Gen Core processor. Intel Tiger Lake count launch in July Intel has begun sending Tiger lake marketing kits to the press and advertising its performance on ultra-thin laptops in popular games. Meanwhile, online stores are beginning to list laptops with new processors. The first notebook to be listed is Acer Swift 5, available with both Core i5-1135G7 and Core i7-1165G7 processors. These are the firstNone

Rumored GeForce RTX 3090 and RTX 3080 specifcations emerge

Specifications of the upcoming GeForce RTX 30 series have emerged (yet again).  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090/3080Ti/3080 We tend to avoid such rumors for a good reason, there is no way (other than calling Jensen himself) to confirm if the rumored specifications are actually real. It is simply too early and based on the most recent information we have, the cards have not even entered a mass-production yet. What's more, NVIDIA tendsNone

AMD NAVI 23 graphics processor gets GFX1032 ID

AMD Navi 23 is confirmed Decoding AMD graphics chips is not an easy task. The more products AMD releases, the more likely they are to overlap with different architectures. Not all products are always up to date, so despite being the latest they actually feature last-gen architecture (such as Raven or Renoir with Vega graphics). Some of the chips listed below have been known for a long time. A good example is Arcturus, AMD's upcoming CDNA-based Radeon Instinct accelerator. This architecture is stillNone

Intel

(PR) Intel announces Cooper Lake 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors

Intel launches 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable "Cooper Lake" What’s New: Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge environments. As the industry’s first mainstream server processor with built-in bfloat16 support, Intel’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors makes AI inference andNone

AMD Radeon Pro 5600M with HBM2 memory tested

The new AMD Radeon Pro 5600M graphics card has been tested by Max Tech. AMD Radeon Pro 5600M with 8GB HBM2 memory Last week AMD introduced a third Navi graphics processor called Navi 12. Unlike Navi 10 and Navi 14, the 12 has an HBM2 memory controller and the processor is paired with two HBM2 stacks as opposed to GDDR6 memory. The processor shares similar specifications to the Navi 10, such as Compute Unit count of 4None

Intel

(PR) MSI launches ComboPI BIOS For 300, 400 and 500 series motherboards

WITH UPCOMING AMD PROCESSORS, AND COMBO PI BIOS IS COMING ON MSI AM4 300-, 400- AND 500-SERIES MOTHERBOARDS Since AMD releases their new Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and Ryzen 5 3600XT Processors today, MSI also made great efforts to offer optimized BIOS updates for 300-, 400-, and 500-series motherboards. The latest AMD Combo PI V1 version 1None