Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD Radeon RX 6700XT spotted running on HiFive Unmatched (RISC-V) based PC

AMD Radeon RX 6700XT (RDNA2) on SiFive Unmatched

Computer Scientists patches Linux kernel to add AMD’s latest desktop GPU support.

René Rebe managed to add ad Radeon RX 6700 XT (Navi 22/Navy Flounder) support to the Linux kernel for its HiFive Unmatched development board.

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Apple Silicon|Intel

World's First Desktop PC RISC-V Board Meets AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT

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When SiFive introduced its HiFive Unmatchd RISC-V desktop motherboard for developers last year, it was clear from the start that sooner or later an enthusiast would attempt to try using its U7 SoC for something it is not meant for: general PC usage with high-performance graphics and video decoding. This time has come as an enthusiast has managed to make AMD's Radeon RX 6700 XT work with a RISC-V SoC under Linux.

Computer scientist René Rebe decided

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Supermicro Ultra SYS-120U-TNR Review: Testing Dual 10nm Ice Lake Xeon in 1U

With the launch of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable platform comes a new socket and a range of features that vendors like Supermicro have to design for. The server and enterprise market is so vast that every design can come in a range of configurations and settings, however one of the key elements is managing compute density with memory and accelerator support. The SYS-120U-TNR we are testing today is a dense system with lots of trimmings all within a 1U, to which Supermicro is aiming at


Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel Starts Bringing Up Thunder Bay Full + Prime SoC Support For Linux

More details are coming to light on "Thunder Bay" as a forthcoming Intel SoC now that the open-source Linux driver enablement patches have begun.

Thunder Bay was rumored last year to be a SoC with a mix of Xeon CPU and Movidius VPU cores. Well, Thunder Bay is indeed with Movidius but isn't using Xeon cores but rather Arm Cortex A53 cores as confirmed by the Linux patches this week. Intel's use of Arm cores for this SoC is an evolution of the Keem Bay design

Apple Silicon

Adobe Premiere Pro已正式適配蘋果M1芯片,最高有77%的性能提升

去年蘋果推出搭載M1芯片的Mac電腦後,憑藉相對低廉的價格,以及可以應付高清視頻剪輯的能力,受到了很多視頻創作者的喜歡,當然這僅限於使用蘋果自家Final Cut Pro X剪輯的用户,因為另外一個主流視頻剪輯軟件Premiere Pro沒有適配


Apple Silicon|Intel

Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Pro AX Review

The Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Pro AX promises high-end performance at a mainstream price. Featuring a direct 13-phase VRM with top of the line power stages, four M.2 slots with double-sided heatsinks, and Gigabyte’s signature AORUS styling, the Z590 AORUS Pro AX is an extremely compelling option for Rocket Lake.


Apple Silicon|Intel

Majority of Puget Systems' Workstations Ship with AMD Processors

Puget Systems is a company that specializes in workstations and servers that are popular with the scientific community. The company just revealed that a majority of its systems shipped are now powered by AMD processors. These include Ryzen desktop or Ryzen Threadripper HEDT/workstation processors. "AMD has made enormous improvements to its CPU line year over year. In fact, more than 50% of our recommended systems are powered by AMD Ryzen
or Threadripper CPUs!," the company tweeted. The Ryzen Threadripper lineup has dominated the HEDT and workstation


Apple Silicon|Intel

Aaeon Stuffed Intel's 11th Gen CPUs Into a Single-Board Computer

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How powerful can a single-board computer (SBC) be? ZDNet reported that Aaeon tried to find out by cramming Intel's 11th Gen Core G processors, support for up to 32GB of LPDDR4 memory, and an abundance of ports into the PICO-TGU4 product line. But it might also have discovered this category's price ceiling in the process.

The most well-known SBCs, including the ever-popular Raspberry Pi lineup, feature Arm


Apple Silicon|Intel

First Mini-PCs with AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processors spotted

AMD Ryzen 5000 powered MiniPCs

While AMD Ryzen 5000 series are seeing much wider adoption in the laptop market, the Mini-PC market is still lagging behind. The good news is that the first information on the ‘Cezanne’ based Mini-PCs are beginning to surface.

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NVIDIA Brings RTX and DLSS to Arm Platform

NVIDIA at GDC dropped a major hint at where it wants to take PC gaming post the Arm acquisition. The company is demonstrating its RTX real-time raytracing technology, and the DLSS performance enhancement, on an Arm processor by MediaTek. To the PC, this means NVIDIA is laying the foundations of gaming in the post-x86 world where it holds Arm IP; foundations that were dug up by Apple and its mighty M1 chip, based on Arm CPU technology.

Making this unequivocal, was MediaTek. "