AMD Ryzen-Powered Raspberry Pi Rival Uses Radeon Vega Graphics

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Axiomtek announced a new embedded single-board computer (SBC) this month known as the CAPA13R. With its compact form factor, the board is fit to compete against the Raspberry Pi and does so with a key secret weapon: an AMD Ryzen APU .

With an embedded AMD Ryzen V1807B or Ryzen V1605B APU, the CAPA13R offers integrated graphics, making it ideal for more graphically intense applications, like 3D

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Forget PS5: PCs With RTX 2070 Super Can Handle Unreal Engine 5 Demo

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Just a few days ago Epic Games showed off its new Unreal Engine 5 demo , which blew us away with its impressive graphics. Running on an AMD RDNA-infused PlayStation 5 (PS5) it made console gaming -- or at least its future -- look exciting and promising.  And that just in time for the PS5 vs. Xbox Series X next-gen console war to start raging.

But what about the best gaming PCs ? Did Unreal's demo prove


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AMD Ryzen 4000 Vermeer 16-Core Spotted With 4.6 GHz Boost Clock

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Hot on the heels of the Ryzen 4000-series (codename Renoir) APU leak , German news outlet Igor's Lab has shared further information on the APUs as well as the preliminary specifications for the upcoming Ryzen 4000-series (codename Vermeer) desktop chips.

Igor's Lab believes that the Ryzen 5 4400G and Ryzen 3 4200G are the other two rumored desktop


Fluid Framework Comes to Outlook, Office.com, Gets Open Sourced

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The first usable instances of Microsoft’s Fluid Framework were announced at Microsoft Build, the company’s developer conference being hosted online this year. We’ll first see it on Office.com and Outlook. We first learned about the Framework just before Build 2019 and heard more about it at Ignite.

Components of documents should stay up to date and connected across apps. Here’s how Microsoft describes it:

“For example, tables, charts, and task lists


Project Reunion Is Microsoft’s Attempt to Get More Windows 10 Apps

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Microsoft Build, the company’s annual developer conference, is starting with a bold vision for Windows 10 development. It’s called Project Reunion, and it will increase the effort to tear down the barrier between Windows API (Win32) development and the newer Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

The Project is supposed to “unify access” to both APIs and also make them accessible to developers separate from the operating systems. Microsoft’s Kevin Gallo, corporate vice president

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Microsoft Announces Massive AI Supercomputer, Claims Top 5 Ranking

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Microsoft today announced it’s built a supercomputer hosted in its Azure cloud services, which it claims is among the top five supercomputers in the world. The announcement came at its Build 2020 developer conference, being hosted online due to COVID-19 .

The supercomputer was built for OpenAI, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence lab, and should be able to train large-scale AI models and make the framework for training them available to more developers

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AMD Reverses Course, Will Enable Zen 3 and Ryzen 4000 Support on B450 and X470 Motherboards

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After receiving withering criticism from its passionate fan base and casual users alike, AMD has reversed its decision to not enable Zen 3 and Ryzen 4000 compatibility with existing B450 and X470 motherboards. Instead, AMD will enable support through optional AGESA code that it will supply to motherboard vendors. However, multiple caveats apply. Here's AMD's quick breakdown, and we also have the full announcement at the end of the article:

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Coronavirus Tech Show Cancellations: What’s Gone, What’s Still On

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As COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel Coronavirus , spreads internationally, it has caused tech companies and event organizers to reconsider whether it’s safe to hold large conferences and tradeshows.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that you avoid being close to people who are sick, wash your hands frequently, stay home when you are ill and disinfect surfaces you touch. However, when you put a lot of people in the same


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Gigabyte Supports First-Gen Ryzen AF CPUs On X570 Motherboards

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Gigabyte Japan has confirmed via Twitter that the Ryzen 5 1600 AF is compatible with X570 motherboards. Consequently, the Ryzen 3 1300 AF is also supported.

When AMD launched the X570 chipset last year, the chipmaker made it pretty clear that the corresponding motherboards wouldn't support the first generation of Ryzen processors (codenamed Summit Ridge). Some X570 motherboards have been found to work fine with a Ryzen


Dev Proves You Can Do 3D Modeling With Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Pi projects are more about what you can do with a Pi, not what you should do. Earlier this week, Shane with the Game Dev Academy YouTube channel pushed the Raspberry Pi to its limits by using it for 3D modeling with Blender .

Don't get too excited. A Raspberry Pi is far from being the ideal 3D modeling computer. You'd still be much better off running Blender on a more capable desktop PC . But this developer