Xbox Cloud Gaming: Now Running on Xbox Series X; Expanded PC and Apple Device Availability

At Xbox, our mission is simple: bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. To achieve that, we aspire to empower everyone to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want.

We are creating a future that combines the gaming heritage of Xbox and the power of Azure. A future where we bring high fidelity, immersive games to the 3 billion

Intel Xe-HPG is now sampling

At ISC 2021 Intel also provided a short update on Xe Architecture deployment.

According to Intel, Xe-HPC (known as Ponte Vecchio) has powered on and it is currently invalidated. We have seen this high-performance accelerator being teased by Raja Koduri and Pat Gelsinger before, so Intel is definitely expecting it to deliver. This HPC-focused accelerator is set to launch next year at best.

Ponte Vecchio will be available in at least three form factors, Intel

Intel confirms Sapphire Rapids will be offered with HBM

At ISC 2021 Intel confirmed that Sapphire Rapids will at some point be equipped with High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM).

Those variants codenamed SPR-HBM will not be vendor-specific, but rather launch for all partners at a later date. According to AnandTech , those CPUs will deploy later in 2022, which confirms those HBM variants will not launch be part of the Sapphire Rapids launch.

Recently we have had a leak featuring a four compute

Intel LGA1700 socket for Alder Lake-S CPUs

Just today we reported on a new leak from Igor’sLAB featuring confidential information on Intel LGA1700 socket, only to see the actual socket one in the first photos hours later.

The socket went on sale on Chinese Taobao, as spotted by @9550pro . It is now listed at 35 RMB which is 5.4 USD. The offers features the full socket, including the mounting mechanism for the new CPU

TeamGroup DDR5-4800 memory now available for preorder, shipping soon

The first DDR5 memory is now available for sale .

TeamGroup’s DDR5 memory, which only launched this month, is now available for preorder on Amazon. A 32 GB kit with JEDEC DDR5-4800 specs is listed at around 310 USD. This is the first commercially available kit before any actual consumer DDR5 motherboard is available.

This ELITE memory kit features two modules each with 16

AMD confirms to TechPowerUP that Navi 23 GPU features 64 ROPs

Navi 23 GPU specs are almost fully complete.

Although AMD announced as many as three Navi 23 products already, none of them has shipped to customers yet. That’s despite AMD claiming that Radeon RX 6600M is shipping now , although no drivers were released for this SKU.

The announcement of the Radeon PRO W6600 provided information on transistor count as well as the die size of the Navi 23 GPU

NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB

NVIDIA formally introduces its A100 variant with a PCI Express interface and 80GB of memory.

Back in November NVIDIA introduced an 80GB variant of the A100 accelerator based on the SXM4 form factor. This variant offered twice the memory capacity of the original Ampere GA100 based model as well as higher bandwidth. Seven months later, NVIDIA also introduces a PCIe-based model featuring the exact same features, except on a standard

Intel Alder Lake LGA1700 socket detailed

Igor Wallosek from Igor’sLAB , revealed further details on the new rectangular LGA1700 socket that will debut with the upcoming 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake-S” series later this year.

First and foremost, Igor’s leak finally confirms the shape of the CPU mounted in the socket. The rectangular shape was so far only seen in a very early photograph of the engineering sample that we leaked last year. Newly leaked diagrams also do

ZOTAC introduces GeForce RTX 3060 X-Gaming H-BOX Edition

ZOTAC H-Box is a custom variant designed for a special sale on T-Mall (judging from the logo).