AMD's innovative chiplet-based Zen microarchitecture allows the company to tie together several die into single multi-chip modules (MCM) like the Ryzen and EPYC processors, but the company isn't stopping there: Today at its Financial Analyst Day 2020 the company unveiled its new X3D chip packaging technology that will bring its MCMs into the third dimension and provide up to an 10X improvement in bandwidth density.
The new technology is a combination of 2.
The Valve Index VR headset is currently the best VR headset for PCs, except that it hasn't been available for some time now. Valve says that the shortages are due to the Coronavirus, which has made it difficult to keep supplies high.
Valve has emailed interested users that the headset will be available for order again through Steam on Monday March 9th at 10am PT. However, Valve also noted that "we expect available stock to sell out on Monday. All purchases
The AMD Ryzen 5 1600 was the first Ryzen chip to receive the 12nm makeover , and the hexa- core processor will reportedly not be the last either. According to a tip from VideoCardz , the Ryzen 3 1200 appears to be following suit.
Similar to the Ryzen 5 1600's case, the renewed Ryzen 3 1200 is tagged with the "AF" suffix. This change
AMD has received some flack for driver issues of late, but it says it's doing its best to improve the situation. The team released the Radeon Adrenalin 20.2.2 driver, last week, and now, after a week of further testing, the driver has received WHQL certification.
In a blog post today, AMD said its latest driver is a direct response to AMD's vocal fan base.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today released the Raspberry Pi Imager utility for Windows, macOS and Ubuntu to make it easier than ever to set up a Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi devices can technically run various operating systems--including Windows 10 --but their official operating system (OS) is called Raspbian. Pis don't come with Raspbian pre-installed, however, and instead require new Raspberry Pi owners to burn the OS onto an SD card from which their favorite new
Nokia today announced its collaboration with Intel on 5G infrastructure silicon, including working together on Intel's recently announced Atom P5900 processor (formerly Snow Ridge). Nokia will also adopt Cascade Lake in its cloud data center solution for a common architecture "from cloud to edge."
Intel announced its portfolio of silicon for 5G New Radio network infrastructure early last week (it originally planned to announce this at Mobile World Congress). It introduced the Atom P59
Google Stadia users can now enjoy 4K streaming via the web, 9to5Google reported today, instead of having to rely on the dedicated Chromecast Ultra streaming dongle.
Limiting 4K visuals to the Chromecast Ultra was part of Stadia's less-than-complete launch . The service debuted in November 2019 without several key features, support for most hardware or even parity between devices with streaming performance.
Stadia's performance varies based on the user's internet connection
The latest optional Windows 10 update might be worse than we thought. Windows Latest reported yesterday that the KB4535996 update released on February 27 has caused slow boot times, lower frame rates and other problems for its users.
We already knew the KB4535996 update was responsible for random freezes , audio stuttering and other problems. But now it seems Windows 10 users have complained of additional issues on various social platforms over the
Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon told employees in Seattle to stay home yesterday as novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread throughout the Emerald City.
Microsoft said that "all employees who are in a job that can be done from home should do so through March 25." People who have to work from the company's offices are encouraged to come in, however, unless they meet these criteria:
Updated 11:00am PT: Corrected the article to reflect that the tests were conducted with a single V100 GPU.
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Computer scientists from Rice University, in collaboration with Intel Labs, have announced a breakthrough new deep learning algorithm – called SLIDE – that trains AI models faster on CPUs than traditional algorithms on GPUs. For some types of computation, this effectively moves the performance crown of fastest chip for training to CPUs.
In particular, the researchers benchmarked