Last year AMD significantly overhauled its StoreMi software that's designed to speed up storage performance on its consumer platforms. This week the company continued to polish off its StoreMi suite by enabling support for its ultra-high-end Threadripper Pro workstations, as well as the ability to use SSD partitions for caching.
Introduced in 2018, AMD's StoreMi was AMD's way to improve its platforms' storage performance, therefore responding to Apple's Fusion Drive and Intel'
It seems like Intel’s cutting prices across the board for its 10th generation processors, hitting AMD hard while the company deals with low Ryzen 5000 series stock and capacity competition at TSMC that's exacerbated by a shortage of chip packaging materials .
Normally, Intel’s processors tend to cost more than AMD’s, but according to the latest listings for the company’s 10th generation CPUs, that trend appears to have reversed for
Big, ultra wide gaming monitors with a high refresh rate and razor sharp 1440p resolution provide an incredible gaming experience, but they usually come at a high price. But MSI and Newegg are bucking the trend with this deal.
Right now, you can pick up the MSI Optix MAG341CQ 34-inch ultrawide monitor for $60 off the list price
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Yesterday, news broke that hackers breached CyberPunk 2077 studio CD Project Red (CDPR) . The hackers gave CDPR 48 hours to respond to their ransom demands, and it seems that time is already up. The group claiming to be behind the hack has now posted the source code of CD Projekt Red's 'Gwent' card game on a hacking forum and claim to be auctioning off the source code
One maker's Pico is another maker's exercise bike controller board! This project was made by a maker known on Reddit as Pubudeux. After spinning their wheels, Pubudeux decided to use a Raspberry Pi Pico to help monitor exercise bike sessions and provide audio output for cycling classes.
The project is designed to be housed inside a case with the various sensors necessary to accurately monitor things like speed and duration on the bike. It will also house the speakers.
Commell has unveiled one of the industry's first Pico-ITX motherboards featuring Intel's Tiger Lake-UP3 processor with built-in Iris Xe graphics core. Not designed to compete with the best motherboards for PCs, The tiny LP-179 board is aimed primarily at embedded systems, yet it can enable everyone to build an ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) desktop featuring a decent quad-core CPU with an advanced GPU.
Intel's Chief Architect, Raja Koduri, Tweeted out an image showcasing Xe HPG running an unreleased version of 3DMark with a new mesh shader feature test, demonstrating that the Xe HPG architecture is now at a fully functional state.
It's cool to see Xe HPG, which is designed to compete directly with the best graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia, already working with the mesh shader feature set, which was just released with DX12 ultimate and allows greater optimization of the
Component shortages including display panels and circuits for LCD screens may extend the laptop shortage into the first quarter of 2021, according to a new report from Digitimes .
This runs counter to the publication's previous research, which estimated that increased interest in remote work and study would cause laptop shipments for 2021's first quarter to drop by less than 10% as opposed to the typical 15-25% of past years. Digitimes was even speculating
Valve officially released its China-specific version of Steam today. The storefront's launch doesn't exactly come as a surprise—Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad predicted this version of Steam's debut last week—but its lack of content might. There are currently only 41 games (and 12 pieces of DLC) on the platform .
That number pales in comparison to the 48,615 titles listed by the U.S. version of Steam if
The Gigabyte M27Q is a very capable and speedy gaming monitor with few flaws. Though it has a huge color gamut, red is a little under-saturated, and it doesn’t offer extra contrast in HDR mode. But you do get superb gaming performance with 170 Hz and super-low input lag. As a value choice, it’s hard to beat.
