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VMware's New Licensing Fees are Going to Hurt AMD's 64-core EPYC Rome

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AMD's beefy core counts on its EPYC Rome processors , not to mention its far lower per-core price points, are a big advantage for the company as it grapples for data center market share against Intel. However, an announcement from VMWare today appears to blunt some of that advantage: VMWare will essentially double the price of licensing the company's software for CPUs that have more than 32 cores.

The new move applies to all of VMWare's software

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HardRock64 Is an Upcoming Raspberry Pi Rival That Needs a Heatsink

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Developers at Pine64 today unveiled a list of upcoming hardware planned for a 2020 release, one of which is a new single-board computer (SBC) called the HardRock64. With its small form factor, GPIO pins , wireless support and four USB ports, it's hard not to compare it to the Raspberry Pi .

Below we compare the HardRock64 to the most recent Pi, the Raspberry Pi 4 .

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Raspberry Pi to Get Vulkan Graphics Driver (Eventually)

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Raspberry Pi , the popular single-board computers for makers, is getting an open-source version of the Vulkan graphics driver, The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced Friday. Vulkan is a cross-platform API that's supposed to enable improved graphics performance no matter what hardware it's running on.

Companies like AMD, Arm, Intel and Nvidia have all released drivers that support the API; now the Raspberry Pi Foundation will follow in those companies' footsteps. As the announcement noted,


AMD Radeon Pro W5500 Workstation Graphics Card Listed Ahead of Release for $392

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Coming as no surprise, AMD is seemingly preparing another workstation-class graphics card based on the Navi microarchitecture. As spotted by a hardware leaker known as @momomo_us on Twitter, U.S. retailer SabrePC has already listed the upcoming AMD Radeon Pro W5500 (100-506095 part number), even though AMD hasn't made any official announcement yet.

Judging from the model


DRAMeXchange Doesn't Expect Coronavirus to Impact Memory Supplies

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People around the world are living in fear of the Coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, China a few weeks ago. But the memory market probably doesn't have anything to worry about, at least according to research firm DRAMeXchange, which today said that the epidemic isn't expected to affect NAND or DRAM supply in the immediate future.

Tech companies were quick to respond to concerns over the Coronavirus outbreak. Several companies, including Facebook, Razer and LG, restricted employee


Go 1440p With Acer's 27-inch Monitor for Just $210

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Acer's 27-inch KG271U monitor is down to just $206 at Amazon (if it's sold out there, you can also find it for $210 at Newegg ), which makes it one of the best tech deals on a FreeSync monitor currently available. It comes with a 1440p resolution panel with a very fast 1ms response time.

This monitor is a great fit if you want your games to

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Check Out This Awesome LG 27UL600 4K IPS HDR Gaming Monitor, Now Only £270 (34% Off)

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A whisker over £270 for a 27-inch 4K monitor with an IPS panel and HDR support? Where do we sign up? This new Amazon deal for the LG 27UL600 PC monitor is a corker.

The headline specs involve a quality 27-inch IPS panel with 3,840 by 2,60 pixels. LG says it's good for 1,000:1 contrast, 5ms response and

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Enermax Takes AquaFusion All-in-One Cooler Line to 360mm

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Enermax has expanded its AquaFusion line-up with a 360mm RGB-capable unit . as spotted by German publication HardwareLuxx . This is the predictably named the AquaFusion 360 and seems very similar to other all-in-one CPU coolers of this size.

The AquaFusion 360 comes with a dual-chamber water block that keeps the pump in the colder water stream to extend its life. After this, the fluid travels to the cold plate, where it gets

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Razer Huntsman Elite Opto-Mechanical Keyboard Now on Sale in UK (31% Off)

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Finding the right keyboard switch can be a challenging endeavour for even us peripheral experts. Yet the opto-mechanical switch encapsulated at the heart of Razer’s Huntsman Elite is one of our favourites. And with that very same keyboard on sale right now for just £137 (£63 off its retail price), it’s one seriously svelte deal for those looking to amp up their gaming and typing experience.

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Nvidia's Latest Driver Is Game-Ready for Apex Legends Season 4

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Nvidia today released a new GeForce Game Ready 442.19 WHQL driver with support for the fourth season of Apex Legends , the Sam's Story expansion to Metro Exodus, Zombie Army: Dead War 4, as well as three additional G-Sync Compatible displays.

Those displays are the Dell AW2521HF , Asus VG259QM and LG 34GN850 . Nvidia already said that the gaming monitors would be joining the G