The latest generation of high-bandwidth memory, HBM2E, is around the corner. Now that Samsung and SK Hynix have started mass production of their HBM2E memory stacks, Rambus has unveiled its controller and PHY (physical interface) designs.

Announced last week, Rambus' controller and PHY designs enable specifications that fall right in line with the JEDEC HBM2E standard. The controller supports up to 12-layers of 3D stacked DRAM memory. Each level of DRAM

Following the c ancellation of Nvidia's physical GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in favor of an online-only event, we have been awaiting a new date and time at which Nvidia will broadcast its GTC keynote. It turns out that Nvidia has decided against streaming the keynote and will be sharing the news announcements in text instead.

In its announcement, Nvidia said that "in light of the spread of the coronavirus, it is deferring plans to deliver a webcast keynote" as part of

With its RDNA 2, or Big Navi, GPU set to hit the market later this year, AMD finally seems to be catching up with main competitor NVIDIA by moving away from blower fans towards dual and tri-axial fan designs instead in its future graphics cards.

This reveal comes from AMD’s Financial Analyst Day presentation last Wednesday, which teased what Big Navi would look like. While AMD didn’t announce the change directly, one slide during the 3.5 hour presentation focusing

When it comes to finding the best tech deals on GPUs, it's all relative. The EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super Black Gaming card is selling on Newegg for $490 , a total of $30 off, with promo code "VGAPCJA245" and a $20 rebate.

Nvidia's RTX 2070 Super is largely an RTX 2080 by another name. It uses the same Nvidia TU104

Chinese publication Expreview has put AMD's China-exclusive Radeon RX 590 GME gaming GPU through its paces. The XFX Radeon RX 590 GME 8GB Black Wolf featured in the review is the fastest Radeon Rx 590 GME on the market right now.

The graphics card utilizes the same dual-fan cooling solution as the Black Wolf editions of the Radeon RX 590 and Radeon RX 580

Just last week AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X dropped to $420 , down from its $499 MSRP. Now, it looks like Microcenter has the best tech deal on the chip at just $399 . However, this is with in-store pick-ups only, so the catch is that you'll have to live near a Micro Center, which has just 25 locations across the U.S.

If you do

As Nvidia SLI and AMD Crossfire multi-graphics card systems are losing popularity, we've been wondering what to do with all the spare expansion slots in our full-size ATX PCs. Icy Dock had the same thought, as they just introduced the MB839SP-B adapter last week, as spotted by Hermitage Akihabara .

The adapter turns a PCIe 1x expansion slot into a hot-swappable 2.5-inch drive bay for SATA drives. This means

According to a new, but unverified leak, Intel may be bringing its hybrid architecture from Lakefield to the desktop with Alder Lake-S on 10nm. In an implementation scheme that's known in the smartphone world known as big.Little, it would have eight big and eight small cores.

The leak comes via Twitter user @ momomo_us via Sharkbay , who has often published about unreleased products, but should be treated with caution. Nonetheless, it provides an interesting possibility that big.Little could come

How much can an optional Windows 10 update break? It's starting to seem like Microsoft tried to find out with the KB4535996 update, because Windows Latest reported Saturday that the update has prevented certain devices from staying in sleep mode.

The report cited numerous complaints from Windows 10 users who installed the KB4535996 update. Some claimed the update stopped their devices from going into sleep mode at all;