Nvidia announced today that its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox had cleared the final hurdle from Chinese antitrust authorities, paving the way for the graphics card company to take control of the networking giant by April 27. The move could help Nvidia bolster its presence in the HPC and supercomputer segments as the company finds itself without any new notable exascale contracts despite its overwhelming market presence in GPU-driven AI and compute workloads in the data center. Meanwhile, Intel and AMD have both been

Today marks the public beta of Minecraft RTX —we've already tested Minecraft RTX performance on a bunch of graphics cards and CPUs to see how it runs. But how low can you go with your hardware and still get a good experience? If you want ray tracing, which is likely why you're here as it's the only real change with Minecraft RTX , you'll need one specific piece of hardware: a GeForce RTX graphics card.

It's uncertain if this will be a trend going forward, but MSI has launched the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Z Trio that aims to be one of the best graphics cards by introducing a nice memory uplift. MSI's latest offering is the first GeForce RTX 2080 Ti to come with 16 GBps of GDDR6 memory.

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Gaming Z Trio is aesthetically identical to MSI's previous Gaming X

For the next 13 hours, Newegg is selling Acer’s 144 Hz 1440p EI272UR Pbmiiipx curved gaming monitor for $80 off, making it $270 and its lowest price ever, according to price-tracking website CamelCamelCamel . The sale is split between a $50 price drop and a $30 limited-time promo code, 93XPH93 , so act fast.

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AMD may be secretly developing quad-core CPUs based on its Zen 2 architecture to compete with Intel's looming 10th Generation Comet Lake-S Core i3 offerings, which feature Hyper-Threading . That's if information from hardware leaker @momomo_us is accurate,

AMD deployed its army of Ryzen 3000-series (codename Matisse) desktop CPUs in May. The lineup started with the Ryzen 5 3

Intel's Comet Lake-S chips have yet to make their debut, but meanwhile, an engineering sample of a Rocket Lake CPU is already poking its head out of the water, thanks to a leak is spotted by hardware leaker @_Rogame .

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The Nintendo Switch ’s 10.0.0 firmware update seems to be hiding information on a potential new Switch model featuring dual-screens, according to Twitter user and self-confessed “reverse engineer and infosec enthusiast” Mike Heskin.

Earlier this week, Nintendo released the Switch’s latest firmware update, version 10.0.0, to the public, adding accessibility features, like full button remapping to the device. However, according to Heskin,

News emerged earlier this week that Western Digital was sneaking out hard drives using inferior SMR technology -- which results in devastatingly slow performance in some types of applications -- without disclosing that fact to customers in marketing materials or specification sheets. After a bit of continued prodding, storage industry sage Chris Mellor secured statements from both Seagate and Toshiba that confirmed that those companies, too, engage in the misleading tactic of selling drives using the slow SMR technology without informing their customers. The latter two even

RGB lighting has made a name for itself in the computing space, especially when it comes to gaming. But what if you could bring the trend from your gaming den to the living room? With this project shared on Reddit this week by a maker known as Moe7863, you can bring RGB to your TV with a Raspberry Pi .

The setup relies on a Raspberry Pi 4 to control 116 individually addressable LEDs . It also uses a USB