Steam Deck Shipping Update

The launch of Steam Deck will be delayed by two months. We’re sorry about this—we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren’t reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates.

Based on our updated build estimates, Steam Deck will start shipping to customers February 2022. This will be the new start date of the reservation queue—all reservation holders

Exploring the Future: CXL™ Consortium & Gen-Z Consortium Sign Letter of Intent to Advance Interconnect Technology

High performance computing continues to evolve—meeting the ever-increasing demand for high efficiency, low-latency, rapid and seamless processing. The Gen-Z Consortium was founded in 2016 to create a next-generation fabric capable of bridging existing solutions while enabling new, unbounded innovation in an open, non-proprietary standards body.

In 2019, the CXL™ Consortium

3DMark adds new SSD benchmark for gamers

For more than 20 years, 3DMark has been gamers’ first choice for benchmarking the latest graphics cards and processors.

Today, we’re taking ‘The Gamer’s Benchmark’ into a new area with the 3DMark Storage Benchmark, a dedicated component test for measuring the gaming performance of SSDs, hybrid drives, and other storage devices.

Introducing the 3DMark Storage Benchmark

With fast modern SSD storage, loading times are shorter, levels restart faster

KLEVV Reveals New DDR5 Standard and Gaming Memory

Designed for Intel 12th Generation ‘Alder Lake’ platforms, QVL tested with leading motherboard brands

HONG KONG — KLEVV, an emerging memory brand introduced by Essencore, today announced the latest addition to its lineup of computer memory upgrades with new DDR5 memory series, including DDR5 standard memory and signature DDR5 series of overclocking/gaming RGB memory. KLEVV DDR5 memory offers assurance of QVL testing with major motherboard brands’ Z690 platforms

ASUS B660 motherboards limited to PCIe Gen4 interface?

We received a picture from one of the reviewers of the Intel Alder Lake platform featuring a printed label mentioning the ASUS PRIME B660-PLUS D4 motherboard. According to the source, ASUS shipped a Z690 motherboard in the wrong box, possibly inadvertently revealing important information on a mid-range Intel 600-series chipset:

ASUS PRIME B660 packaging with PCIe Gen4 information, Source: VideoCardz

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NVIDIA A2 is a low-power accelerator for AI

Today NVIDIA launches its entry-level edge interference accelerator.

EVGA releases Precision X1 1.2.7.0

The monitoring and overclocking software update primary focus is on Voltage-Frequency curve modification. The company claims that it now has ‘significant improvements’, such as better visualization of the graph.

NVIDIA Quantum-2 Takes Supercomputing to New Heights, Into the Cloud

New 400Gbps InfiniBand Switch and Networking Platform Features Secure, Cloud-Native, Multi-Tenant, Bare-Metal Performance for AI, Data Analytics, HPC Applications

NVIDIA Sets Path for Future of Edge AI and Autonomous Machines With New Jetson AGX Orin Robotics Computer

NVIDIA Ampere Architecture Comes to Jetson, Delivering up to 200 TOPS and 6x Performance Gain

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 09, 2021 — GTC—NVIDIA today introduced NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin™, the world’s smallest, most powerful and energy-efficient AI supercomputer for robotics, autonomous machines, medical devices and other forms of embedded computing at the edge.