Intel

TSMC and Samsung Foundry Becoming Dominant Makers of Advanced Chips

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It is well known that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Samsung Foundry dominate the market of contract chip production. They are the only companies to offer leading-edge process technologies and have the largest capacities. Meanwhile, TSMC and Samsung Foundry are on track to become the dominant manufacturers of advanced chips as nobody, including Intel, can match their capital expenditures.

TSMC: Big Can Only Get Bigger

Founded in 1987, TSMC was the world's first pure play foundry that manufactured

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Raspberry Pi CM4 Handheld Project Resembles Pocket C.H.I.P.

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If you're a fan of the Pocket C.H.I.P. Linux-based handheld, you'll appreciate this new project from Diodes Delight featuring the Raspberry Pi CM4 . Diodes Delight is run by the same Timon we featured on a December episode of Pi Cast , Toms Hardware's very own Raspberry Pi-themed podcast. Even back then, Timon was busy developing a carrier board for the CM4.

According to Timon, this prototype was developed

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MSI Rolls Out Less Suprim GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 GPUs

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MSI's Suprim family of graphics cards (pronounced 'supreme'), which was introduced with Ampere, has two new members. The company (via Harukaze5719 ) recently and silently added the GeForce RTX 3070 Suprim SE 8G and GeForce RTX 3080 Suprim SE 10G to the mix. The 3070 and 3080 are two of the best graphics


Sony Unveils PS5 VR Controllers with DualSense Features

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Sony is drip-feeding information about its next PSVR headset . The company today revealed details about the new virtual reality controllers it will be using with the PlayStation 5 .

Hideaki Nishino, senior vice president at PlayStation, wrote that the new "orb" style shape will be just as innovative as DualSense. The design somewhat resembles what we've already seen from Oculus .

Each controller has the adaptive triggers you find in the DualSense PS5 controller, as well as new haptic feedback and finger

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Nvidia Introduces More Expensive GeForce Now Priority Memberships

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Nvidia today announced that it's replaced the Founders membership option for GeForce Now, which offered various benefits over the free tier in exchange for $4.99 per month, with a Priority membership that raises the price to $9.99 per month.

Founders members won't have to worry about the price increase, however, because Nvidia said they would continue to be billed at the $4.99 monthly rate as long as their account remains "in good


Intel

Where to Buy Intel’s 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs

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Intel's new Rocket Lake processors are its big answer to AMD’s Ryzen 5000 chips, and on the face of it, this is going to be a very interesting face-off once the embargo is lifted on reviews. That's because, rather than follow the trend of more cores and a denser architecture, Intel has actually reduced the number of cores.

Intel claims that this change will lead to a 19% improvement in instruction per cycle (IPC

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AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer

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Now that AMD produces most of its CPUs, GPUs, and custom SoCs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the company may become the foundry's second-largest customer, right after Apple (according to a report from Seeking Alpha ). If this happens, AMD will have a much more favorable negotiation position with TSMC than other companies such as Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Broadcom. If AMD becomes TSMC's second-largest client, it will not only be able


Sapphire Announces the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Nitro+ and Pulse Graphics Cards

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Sapphire is back with new custom graphics cards designed around the RX 6700XT graphics card that launches today. Sapphire's new 6700XT models come in the form of the NITRO+ and the lower-end Pulse.

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AMD Pinky Promises FidelityFX Super Resolution Is Still on Track for 2021 Debut

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AMD Radeon CVP and GM Scott Herkelman said in a video interview with PCWorld that FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), the company's response to Nvidia DLSS, is "progressing very well internally" and that he believes it could debut later this year.

Nvidia introduced DLSS in 2018 and released DLSS 2.0 in 2020, so in some ways, AMD's response to the technology is coming later than some might have expected. But that can partly


Alienware's Latest Laptops Debut Cherry MX Ultra-Low Profile Mechanical Switches

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Alienware and Cherry have partnered to bring new Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile switches to the Alienware m15 R4 and m17 R4, the companies announced today. If it works well, it could be a crucial step in making the experience of gaming on those notebooks more like gaming on a desktop.

The MX Ultra Low Profile switches fit in a 3.5mm design with 1.8mm of key travel. It features stainless steel components that look sort of like

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