Samsung brings AI performance to its HBM memory to deliver breakthrough performance and efficiency - HBM PIM

Even memory has compute now!

Published: 17th February 2021 | Source: Samsung | Author: Mark Campbell

Samsung brings AI performance to its HBM memory to deliver breakthrough performance and efficiency

Samsung's latest HBM memory promises to deliver tremendous performance and efficiency improvements by bringing the power of AI processing to its latest chips, enabling higher performance levels than today's HBM chips by non-traditional means.

It is claimed that these new HBM-PIM (High BandWidth Memory-Processing In Memory) chips

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SSDs outsold HDDs in 2020, despite reduced enterprise SSD shipments

333 million SSDs shipped in 2020

Published: 17th February 2021 | Source: Storage Newsletter | Author: Mark Campbell

SSDs outsold HDDs in 2020, despite reduced enterprise SSD shipments

Over 333 million SSDs shipped in 2020, with the Storage Newsletter reporting shipment growth of over 20% Year-over-Year (YoY) while HDD shipments decreased by 18%.

With that 20% increase in SSD unit shipments, the capacities
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Visuals by Impulse is joining Elgato - Corsair Acquires Visuals by Impulse

Corsair has embedded itself deeper into the streaming landscape

Published: 16th February 2021 | Source: Corsair | Author: Mark Campbell

Visuals by Impulse is joining Elgato - Corsair Acquires Visuals by Impulse

Corsair has announced that they have acquired Visuals by Impulse, confirming that the brand will become part of Elgato, a sub-division of Corsair. This deal was created after months of interactions between both companies and will allow Visuals by Impulse to expand and create new products with Corsair's resources.

Visuals by Impulse
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Bitcoin's value has hit a new peak of over $50,000 - Will it continue rising?

Will Bitcoin's value continue to skyrocket?

Published: 16th February 2021 | Source: Various Sources | Author: Mark Campbell

Bitcoin's value has hit a new peak of over $50,000 - Will it continue rising?

Bitcoin's value has hit a new peak of over $50,000, with Coindesk listing a new all-time high value of $50,584.85. This milestone was driven by many
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Law firm files Class Action Lawsuit against Sony over PS5 DualSense drift

The law firm claims that Sony's PS5 gamepad design is defective

Published: 16th February 2021 | Source: GamesIndustry.biz | Author: Mark Campbell

Law firm files Class Action Lawsuit against Sony over PS5 DualSense drift

The Law Firm Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP ( CSK&D) filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony regarding alleged PlayStation 5's DualSense controller drift issues. This class-action was filed after the firm asked affected customers to report their Dualsesne problems
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Intel

Are Ryzen 5000 CPU failure rates as high as claimed?

Our sources say NO

Published: 16th February 2021 | Source: OC3D External Sources | Author: Mark Campbell

Are Ryzen 5000 CPU failure rates as high as claimed?

Over the weekend, many websites reported on high failure rates for Ryzen 5000 series CPUs, citing a now-deleted Tweet from PowerGPU, who claimed that eight out of their 50 Ryzen 9 5950X CPUs were DOA (Dead On Arrival) and that the same was true

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Sapphire teases their RX 6000 series of TOXIC GPUs

Sapphire's first TOXIC GPU since Hawaii

Published: 15th February 2021 | Source: Sapphire | Author: Mark Campbell

Sapphire teases their RX 6000 series of TOXIC GPUs

Sapphire has started to tease their latest graphics card, and it is rumoured to be a new TOXIC series GPU, a new flagship for the company's Radeon RX 6000 series product line.

Sapphire has not released a high-end TOXIC series graphics card since the Radeon R9 390X
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A4 Games reveals Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition - Ray Tracing is Mandatory

Metro Exodus is getting a next-generation update

Published: 15th February 2021 | Source: Metro Exodus | Author: Mark Campbell

A4 Games reveals Metro Exodus PC Enhanced Edition - Ray Tracing is Mandatory

Metro Exodus is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series consoles, arriving as a free next-generation upgrade in 2021 that supports ray tracing, a next-generation temporal reconstruction technology, a fully ray-traced lighting system and "thousands of optimised shaders".

The next-generation
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Intel

Pat Gelsinger is now Intel's CEO

Pat's goal is to make Intel a

Published: 15th February 2021 | Source: Intel | Author: Mark Campbell

Pat Gelsinger is now Intel's CEO

Intel now has a new CEO, with Pat Gelsinger returning to take the company back into its leadership role. Bob Swan is gone, Pat is back, bringing back his 30 years of experience within the company and his technologist spirit.

Bringing Gelsinger on as CEO will give Intel a CEO with an engineering background, a factor which

Is your PC ready for Kingdom Hearts 3? PC system requirements revealed

These system specs are very detailed

Published: 15th February 2021 | Source: Epic Games Store | Author: Mark Campbell

Is your PC ready for Kingdom Hearts 3? PC system requirements revealed

Kingdom Hearts 3 is coming to PC on March 30th, arriving exclusively on the Epic Games Store. To prepare PC gamers for the franchise's arrival on PC, Square Enix has released detailed system requirements for Kingdom Hearts 3, letting PC gamers know if their hardware is ready for the Disney-themed

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