Nearly one in five Americans are now confined to their homes, not to mention other untold millions around the globe, as large swaths of the world engage in social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19. That's putting an unprecedented strain on network infrastructure at every level, and that also equates to strain on servers used in the data center. That means that the supply of chips, long the backbone of the connected world, is incredibly pressing and we could see an
Intel Core i5-L15G7 Lakefield CPU Rivals Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
A second Intel Lakefield processor has finally popped up in the wild. Twitter user @InstLatX64 recently spotted the Core i5-L15G7 in a Geekbench 5 submission. Based on the model name alone, the Core i5-L15G7 should be a lower-specced model in contrast to the previously-tested Core i5-L16G7 .
The Core i5-L15G7 chip is listed with five cores, which correspond to one powerful
Intel Bringing oneAPI to Gaming, Demoes Rendering Toolkit for Graphics
As part of its Virtual Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020, Intel has put a presentation online detailing the features of its oneAPI Rendering Toolkit that are applicable for games. These libraries include Embree, OSPRay, Open VKL, OpenSWR and Open Image Denoise. Intel also announced that some will receive GPU support soon.
The libraries discussed below are part of Intel’s oneAPI suite (which went into beta late last year) focused on rendering. Given the company's push into graphics with its Xe Graphics
ASRock's AMD EPYC Motherboard Flaunts Seven PCIe 4.0 x16 Expansion Slots
German news outlet HardwareLuxx noticed a fascinating LGA4094 motherboard for AMD's EPYC processors in ASRock Rack's arsenal. For the uninitiated, ASRock Rack is ASRock's elite server division.
ASRock Rack engineered the ROMED8-2T to house both EPYC 7001-series (Naples) and EPYC 7002-series (Rome) processors. The motherboard features the standard LGA4094 (Socket SP3) socket and adheres
Saving Face: GameStop Closing Shops Anyway In Favor of Curbside Pickup
Last week when lawmakers ordered all non-essential retail to close to limit the spreading of the Coronavirus, Gamestop somehow considered itself essential enough to stay open, which lead to serious backlash from the company's employees, customers, and local law enforcement. Yesterday, Gamestop's CEO decided it was better to close shop anyway, as reported by CNN .
"This is an unprecedented time and each day brings new information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Our priority has been and
Intel 14nm Rocket Lake-S Leaked: New Core Architecture, Xe Graphics, PCIe 4.0
A new leak by VideoCardz on Sunday suggests that Rocket Lake-S will be a major upgrade from any of Intel’s prior 14nm desktop silicon. Purportedly coming late this year on the 500-series platform, it will bring a new core architecture, Xe graphics, 12-bit AV1, PCIe 4.0, twice the DMI 3.0 lanes and Thunderbolt 4 . Notably, Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security instructions have been removed.
Rocket Lake-S
Glorious Model D Gaming Mouse Review: Ultralight FPS Pointer
Our Verdict
The Model D is great for anyone interested in competitive shooters and battle royales. But its software needs to be fixed.
For
- Helpful lightweight design
- Improved cable
- No lateral movement on left or right mouse buttons
- A real joy in shooters
Against
- Less versatile than the Glorious Model O
- Too few buttons for some game types
- DPI indicator is useless on the underside
Microsoft's Upcoming Surface Go 2 Could Arrive With Outdated Amber Lake CPUs
Hardware finder @_rogame has dug up Time Spy submissions for two unknown Microsoft devices. Given the specifications and hardware, the device might be the company's upcoming Surface Go 2.
As a quick recap, the original Surface Go leverages Intel's Pentium Gold 4415Y (codename Kaby Lake) processor. The 14nm chip has two cores, four threads, 2MB of cache and runs with a static 1.6 GHz clock. The
Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than World's Top 7 Supercomputers, Combined
Propelled by average enthusiasts in their shared quest to defeat COVID-19, the Folding@Home network is now pushing out 470 PetaFLOPS of raw compute power. To put that in perspective, that's twice as fast as Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer, making the network faster than any known supercomputer. It's also faster than the top seven supercomputers in the world, combined.
It's impressive that the Folding@Home network is now more than
Quad-Core Tiger Lake-U 10nm CPU Outperforms The Core i5-9300H
The latest discovery from hardware leaker @TUM_APISAK shows an unidentified Tiger Lake-U (TGL-U) processor with some decent specifications.
The Tiger Lake-U chip seemingly comes with four cores and eight threads. The processor should be packing Intel's upcoming Willow Cove architecture and leveraging the chipmaker's new 10nm process node. This particular model seems to sport a 2.7 GHz base clock and 4.3 GHz boost clock.
In addition to the standard