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(PR) Exxact Launches New Line of Workstations Featuring AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors

Exxact Corporation, a leading provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data center solutions, announced their new line of Valence and TENSOREX Workstations featuring the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO Processors. These professional grade workstations geared towards engineers, visual graphic artists, and scientists provide game changing single and multithreaded performance and provide unrivaled memory bandwidth1. Exxact has positioned itself to be one of the first system integrators to provide workstations equipped with these powerful new processors.

"The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper


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Intel被裁定侵犯專利,賠償金高達22億美元

Intel被 裁定 侵犯他人專利,需支付22億美元賠償,Intel表示不服,並且將會上訴。美國德州一個聯邦法院裁定,Intel侵犯了一家半導體公司VLSI的兩項專利,需要分別向VLSI賠償15億以及6.75億美元。不過目前圍繞Intel以及VLSI的官司


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NASA's Mars Perseverance rover uses the same CPU as Apple's iMac from 1998

Editor's take: Conventional wisdom would suggest that when sending a robot to explore another planet, you’d want to outfit it with the latest and greatest technology available to maximize its potential. As it turns out, that wasn’t a top priority for NASA.

When the space agency’s Mars Perseverance rover touched down on the surface of the Red Planet last month, it did so with a modified PowerPC 750 processor on board. If you recall, that’s the same chip that came

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TSMC will produce 3nm chips by year's end with Apple as its partner

Why it matters: Apple will reportedly be TSMC’s partner on the risk production run, which is exactly what it sounds like. TSMC believes the run will be successful and everything should work, but there is a risk that something could need tweaking. It’s a gamble that Apple is seemingly willing to take, because if everything goes according to plan, they’ll have access to 3nm chips much sooner than the competition.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is reportedly moving ahead with production of 3

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MSI Unlocks PCIe 4.0 Support on Z490 Motherboards

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MSI has officially unlocked PCIe Gen 4.0 support for Intel's upcoming Rocket Lake CPUs that will soon vie for a spot on our list of Best CPUs . The update comes through new BIOS updates for MSI's entire Z490 lineup, following up on Z490's potential to bring PCIe 4.0 support to Rocket Lake platforms.

MSI says it designed its Z490 boards specifically for Gen 4.0 support from the very beginning by

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TSMC's expanding its 5nm capacity thanks to strong demand from major clients

TSMC needs to produce more wafers - AMD, Apple and Mediatek are hungry!

Published: 2nd March 2021 | Source: Digitimes | Author: Mark Campbell

TSMC's expanding its 5nm capacity thanks to strong demand from major clients

TSMC's customers a hungry for chips, with Apple releasing more Mac devices with Apple Silicon processors, AMD shipping ever-larger volumes of Zen-based processors and companies like Mediatek powering the 5G revolution with their latest silicon. TSMC needs to increase its manufacturing capacity
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(PR) MSI announces that all Z490 motherboards will support PCI Express 4.0 with Rocket Lake-S CPUs

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MSI Z490 Motherboards Unleash the Performance of PCIe 4.0 Graphics Cards and SSDs

[Taipei, Taiwan] All of the MSI Z490 motherboards will be supporting PCIe 4.0 with the coming Intel 11th Gen Intel Processors. Through an update to the latest BIOS, MSI Z490 motherboards offer great bandwidth and performance for PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs and graphics cards.

To be PCIe 4.0 compatible, several components on the motherboards are

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MacBook插第三方USB-C擴充基座當機?蘋果釋出新版macOS

你的MacBook若發生插上非原廠的USB-C擴充基座或集線器而當機的情形,那你並非唯一一個。不過現在有救了,蘋果上週釋出 macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 解決這個問題。

大約從去年底、今年初起就 陸續有用户反映 ,M1 MacBook插上市售的USB-C


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(PR) MSI Z490 Motherboards Unleash the Performance of PCIe 4.0 Graphics Cards and SSDs

All of the MSI Z490 motherboards will be supporting PCIe 4.0 with the coming Intel 11th Gen Intel Processors. Through an update to the latest BIOS, MSI Z490 motherboards offer great bandwidth and performance for PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSDs and graphics cards.

To be PCIe 4.0 compatible, several components on the motherboards are necessary, including PCIe 4.0 ready clock generator, lane switch, redriver, PCIe slots, and M.2 connectors. Thanks to

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The Intel SSD 670p (2TB) Review: Improving QLC, But Crazy Pricing?!?

Intel's third generation QLC SSD delivers much-needed performance improvements due to its new 144-layer 3D QLC NAND and a new low-cost SSD controller from Silicon Motion.

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