ASRock Industrial Announces New Range of Industrial Motherboards with 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors

Taipei, Taiwan (March 08, 2022) ASRock Industrial launches a new range of industrial motherboards powered by 12th Gen Intel® Core™ Processors (Alder Lake-S) with up to 16 cores and 24 threads, supporting the new Intel® 600 Series W680, Q670, and H610 chipsets. Featuring high

AMD RDNA2 desktop refresh with faster memory arriving on April 20?

According to Chiphell leaker “热心市民描边怪/Enthusiastic Citizen” AMD is set to announce as many as three new desktop graphics cards either on April 20th or 21st.

It should be noted that “Enthusiastic Citizen” is not a random member of the Chiphell forums, but a well established leaker, normally focusing on unreleased CPU launches. With this relatively

Repurposed RTX 3060 Laptop GPUs ended up as desktop mining cards

RTX 3060 Laptop GPU with 50 MH/s of crypto performance now used for mining rigs

Right under NVIDIA nose, some Chinese OEM is making desktop cards equipped with RTX 3060 Laptop GPUs for miners. This is either happening without NVIDIA’s knowledge, happening at a very low scale, or has been happening for a while, but only now it has been reported by Chinese website CNBETA via Tom’s Hardware

AMD on fTPM stutter issues

AGESA 1207 and newer will bring a fix to fTPM issues that have been reported by many users for months.

AMD has been relatively quiet on the fTPM (firmware trusted platform module) issues, while user reports have been accumulating ever since TPM become mandatory, but not strickly-enforced for Windows 11. The fTPM replaces the physical TPM with processor built-in key. However, as now confirmed by AMD, this feature was not working as indented.

Users have been reporting

Storage Specialist Excelero Joins NVIDIA

Excelero, a Tel Aviv-based provider of high-performance software-defined storage, is now a part of NVIDIA.

The company’s team of engineers — including its seasoned co-founders with decades of experience in HPC, storage and networking — bring deep expertise in the block storage that large businesses use in storage-area networks.

Now their mission is to help expand support for block storage in our enterprise software stack such as clusters for high performance computing. Block

Graphics cards on their way to become ‘affordable’

According to the latest price analysis by 3DCenter , graphics cards might be on their path to reach MSRP in the coming months.

Some high-end graphics cards received a price reduction as high as 100 EUR since the last price report (3 weeks ago). Meticulously collected data from Austrian and German retailer shows that GPUs are now cheaper than they were in January 2021, partially due to the recent changes to the dollar/euro value.

NVIDIA signing certificates that expired in 2014/2018 are now used to sign malware

The first batch of files that were published by the extortion group included NVIDIA signing certificates that are now being used to sign malware, security researches discover.

The hacking group LAPSUS$ gained access to internal NVIDIA systems two weeks ago. The group demanded a ransom in exchange for not publishing the stolen data. It was reported that as much as 200 GB of files related to hardware and 1 TB of data

ONDA H610M+ supports DDR5 and DDR4 memory

The H610M+ supports both standards of memory.

Chinese ONDA announces its Micro-ATX motherboard based on H610 chipset featuring support both DDR4 and DDR5 memory technology. There are two DIMM slots in total, one supporting up to 32GB of DDR4-3200 standard and the other DDR-4800 standard. It is assumed that only one type of memory is supported at

New desktop graphics are coming

For the first time in nearly 24 years, we will be seeing GPU releases from three companies in the next few months. A summary of those releases has been put together by 3DCenter .

Intel ARC by end of Q2 2022

Intel is finally expected to launch its Arc Alchemist graphics cards for laptops by the end of this month and then desktop GPUs by the end of June (second quarter). While the company did not confirm the names of its upcoming desktop products