MSI dropped some bombs today during the transmission of its MSI Insider Show . In addition to revealing the pricing for its B560 and H510 motherboards, the company the also teased its upcoming MEG Z590 Unify/Unify-X motherboards for Rocket Lake-S processors.
MSI's Unify series of motherboards are recognized for two main traits. They arrive with a pure black design that lacks RGB lighting (for those that
Dell has extended its sitewide Presidents’ Day sale further into the week, meaning you can still pick up huge discounts across its entire product line, including on some of the market's best desktops , like the RTX 3070 Alienware Aurora R11.
Discounts on gaming PCs and laptops range up to $650, and aside from the Aurora, include multiple other options armed with RTX 30 Series GPUs.
There has been very little news of Microsoft's development with its next feature update for Windows 10, codenamed 21H1. But a blog post on the Windows Hardware Certification channel has shared details on hardware compatibility with the next revision of Windows. Indicating that this build will be another minor update, like 20H2.
The blog post points out the 21H1 update will still be based on the 2004 build of Windows with no major changes
Update, 2/17/2021 11:15am PT: Intel responded to our request for comment; we've included it below.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found that Intel discriminated against older workers, The Oregonian reported today, in 2015. Yet the commission has reportedly decided not to formally sue Intel over the issue.
The Oregonian reported that accusations of age discrimination were lobbied against Intel following layoffs
In its latest installment of the MSI Insider Show , MSI has shared the pricing for its complete stack of B560 and H510 motherboards. The budget-friendly offerings are designed for consumers to squeeze every bit of performance out of Intel's imminent 11th Generation Rocket Lake-S processors.
MSI is pricing the new B560 and H510 motherboards very closely to their counterparts from the previous generation.
Anecdotal reports from frustrated shoppers have indicated that the supply of some AMD Ryzen processors at retail is improving recently, and analyzing the recent pricing trends for scalped chips on eBay suggests that could be the case. Pricing for at least a few Ryzen 5000 SKUs is on the downtrend, possibly indicating the shortage is receding for key models on our list of Best CPUs . The recovering supply couldn't come at a better time; Intel has cut its pricing on several
Today, Samsung announced that its new HBM2-based memory has an integrated AI processor that can push out (up to) 1.2 TFLOPS of embedded computing power, allowing the memory itself to perform operations that are usually reserved for CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, or FPGAs.
The new HBM-PIM (processing-in-memory) chips inject an AI engine inside each memory bank, thus offloading processing operations to the HBM itself. The new class of memory is designed to
In a development that certainly isn't going to help the ongoing global chip shortage, according to a report from the Austin-American Statesman , Samsung has been ordered to completely shut down its fabs in Austin, Texas, due to power shortages in the state. The unprecedented move also impacts NXP Semiconductors and Infineon Semiconductors, and all of the impacted companies have complied with the order and ceased chip production operations.
Unplanned fab shutdowns can have long-lasting impacts; for instance, a thirty
Major American tech companies are joining in on calls for antitrust enforcement against Nvidia’s forthcoming acquisition of ARM, according to Bloomberg . This follows news from earlier this January that UK authorities would be performing their own investigation into the merger, as ARM is a UK-based licenser.
According to Bloomberg’s sources, the group of companies calling for these extra checks includes Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm, with at least one of the three wanting “the deal killed.”
Google’s
A report has emerged that Adata has altered its XPG SX8200 Pro again by swapping in SK Hynix flash, making this the fourth known SSD configuration. According to the report, the latest revision is purportedly 23.6% percent slower in sequential read speed than the previous revision, and it also takes a 14.3% haircut in sequential write performance. As before, Adata ships this drive with the same model number as