AMD Ryzen 4000 Laptops Listed With March 16 Release Date

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Update 3/10/2020: Since we've published this article we've spotted AMD Ryzen 4000 laptops from Asus on Newegg Canada as well. They're listed with a release date of March 16.

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AMD announced its new Ryzen 4000 H-Series high-performance laptop CPUs in January, and ever since it's been a waiting game for devices sporting them. But the wait is over

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Intel Refutes Decade-Old Fine for Anticompetitive Practices Against AMD

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Way back in 2009, the EU placed a €1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) fine on Intel for anti-competitive practices against AMD. For the years since, a back-and-forth battle has endured. Today, Intel claimed that the fine laid on by the EU's antitrust regulators is flawed, as reported by Reuters .

The charges against Intel are that it attempted to block AMD's growth in the market by offering


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Intel Demonstrates 10nm 116 Gbps Transceiver Test Chip on Agilex-I FPGA

Intel on Monday demonstrated a long-reach transceiver test chip operating at 116 Gbps with PAM4 modulation and built on its 10nm process. It complies with the specification for 112G PAM4 transceivers and will be used in next year's Agilex-I series of FPGAs.

Intel said the test chip’s 116 Gbps operation demonstrates the design’s added margin compared to the 112G standard. It supports existing 100, 200 and 40


AMD Americas Partner Summit Delayed Over Coronavirus Concerns

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AMD was set to hold its Partner Summit in the Americas from April 28 to April 30; however, the vendor has postponed its New Orleans event amid the coronavirus outbreak, as reported by CRN Monday.

"We postponed our Americas Partner Summit due to factors related to COVID-19 and wanting to help ensure the health and safety of our employees, customers and partners," an AMD spokesperson told CRN in an email. "We have not announced an updated date for the


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Xilinx Unveils 7nm Versal Premium: 123TB/s Bandwidth, PCIe 5.0, CXL, 112G Transceivers

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Xilinx unveiled its Versal Premium lineup of Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAPs) that wield a new take on FPGA design, building on its Versal AI Core and Prime series . Last year, Xilinx started sampling the Prime and AI Core series, two of the six Versal product lines that it has planned, and today it is unveiling more details about the higher-end Premium series, although it won’t start sampling until 2021.

Xilinx designed the Versal Prime series for high

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Intel Adds Bare-Metal oneAPI Support to Linux via its Compute Runtime

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Intel has added bare-metal oneAPI support to its open-source Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL and oneAPI, according to a Phoronix report on Monday. This brings oneAPI Level Zero to Linux.

Intel’s bare-metal specification for oneAPI is known as Level Zero and provides the lowest-level access to hardware, such as accelerators. Intel has now brought initial support for Level Zero to its Graphics Compute Runtime for OpenCL and oneAPI, as evidenced by a commit on GitHub .

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Full 10th-Gen Comet Lake CPU Tray Pricing Listed

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Several European retailers posted the prices for some of Intel's looming Comet Lake desktop processors a little over two weeks ago. However, the more succulent SKUs, including the Core i7 and Core i9 parts, were left out of the mix. As per a tip from hardware detective @momomo_us , Belgium retailer 2Compute has filled in the missing pieces for us.

First of all, it's important to differentiate between a boxed and a tray processor. The first

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First 'Real' AMD B550 Motherboard Appears: Soyo Beggar B550M

We've been expecting AMD to unveil its B550 chipset for quite some time now, but to no avail. The B550A chipset did rear its head , but underneath its fancy naming, it was really just a B450 chipset for OEMs that didn't have PCIe 4.0 disabled on its main PCIe x16 slot when used in tandem with a Ryzen 3000-series CPU. However, it looks like the waiting might be coming to an

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Corsair 275R Airflow Review: Impressive Performance, Outlandish Style

Our Verdict

With impressive performance and a good internal layout, plus a low price, the only thing that lets the Cardbide 275R Airflow down is its dated cable management.

For

  • Bold styling
  • Good value
  • Impressive stock performance
  • Good cooling support

Against

  • Limited management options
  • No RGB (a plus for many)
  • No USB Type C
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Philips' Ultrawide 346P1CRH Packs USB-C Daisy-Chaining, 100 Hz, HDR & Adaptive-Sync

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Philips is back again with a new monitor, this time unveiling the 346P1CRH. This creatively-named display follows the recipe of a curved 34-inch ultrawide, but with a few unique qualities that make it a very attractive contender for office users who want to fire up a casual game from time to time.

Beneath the tidy, no-fuss exterior styling of the display resides a VA panel with a 1500R curve and a 34

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