Intel Breakthroughs Propel Moore’s Law Beyond 2025

Intel targets more than 10x density improvement in packaging and 30% to 50% logic scaling improvements, and looks beyond classic silicon transistors.

Lenovo briefly lists RX 6500XT then removes it

Lenovo apparently listed yet unreleased the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card in the spec sheet for its prebuilt gaming systems.

The listing of Legion T5 PC was discovered by KOMACHI_ENSAKA who noticed that the latest file from December 9th mentioned a new Radeon card with 4GB GDDR6 memory as an option. This file is no longer available, possibly because Lenovo discovered its mistake. However, this card, which is Radeon RX 65

Intel Arc Alchemist Desktop with a chance to launch before Mobile

Moore’s Law is Dead made a video overview of the upcoming Intel Arc lineup, covering mostly what was already known but also some new information about the launch schedule for Intel’s upcoming discrete GPU series.

The video also features new photos of the upcoming DG2 chips, including the SOC1 (up to 512 Execution Units) and SOC2 (up to 128 EU)

AMD EPYC Genoa with 12-channel DDR5-5200 memory support

A few days after AMD added Linux patches confirming AMD EPYC Genoa memory configuration, two sources have corroborated the story by sharing yet undisclosed documents.

MSI RTX 30 cards actually getting cheaper

According to the latest report from the MSI factory, the company has reduced the pricing on its RTX 30 GPUs.

MSI is lowering pricing on RTX 3080/Ti series by up to 94 USD, claims a report from Board Channels forums. This is the first reduction reported in many weeks.

According to the post, RTX 3080 series will now be 300 to 600 RMB (47 to 94 USD) cheaper

Intel teases its Arc Graphics

Intel took part in The Game Awards where the company has shown a short gameplay demonstration featuring its Arc GPUs.

While AMD and NVIDIA were absent during the event, Intel took the opportunity to remind all gamers that ‘a new player has entered a game’. Starting from the first quarter next year, Intel will begin shipping its Arc Alchemist GPUs to customers, as the newly published video confirms.

Intel Arc Q1 2022, Source: Intel

This is not the first time Intel

VIPER™ Gaming Announces the VIPER VENOM DDR5 Performance Memory Kits

This enthusiast-grade DDR5 memory series brings better overclocking performance, frequencies from 4800MHz to 6200MHz, and will be available in Q1 2022.

FREMONT, Calif., Dec. 9, 2021 — VIPER™, a trademarked brand of PATRIOT™ and a global leader in performance memory, solid-state drives, and flash storage solutions, is excited to announce

NVIDIA RTX 2060 12GB hardly available at launch

No one really believed NVIDIA would be launching a new card based on Turing architecture two years since it was first introduced, yet it actually happened.

NVIDIA RTX 2060 12GB is pretty much RTX 2060 SUPER with reduced memory bandwidth. It also costs a bit less, the card is to be seen with a 600-700 EUR price tag in Europe, which is just about 10 to 2

Announcing new DirectX 12 feature – Video Encoding!

Today DirectX 12 provides APIs to support GPU acceleration for several video applications such as Video Decoding, Video Processing and Motion estimation as detailed in Direct3D 12 Video Overview. We are happy to announce that D3D12 has added a new Video Encode feature to the existing video API families, with a new set of interfaces that allow developers to perform video encoding using GPU accelerated video engines. This feature provides a new way for