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AMD's RDNA 2 flagship is going to be big - GPU die size leaks

AMD's next-generation flagship will be 2x larger than AMD's RX 5700 XT.

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QEMU 5.0 Released For This Important Open-Source Emulator For Linux Virtualization

QEMU 5.0 is out today for this processor emulator that is a key piece to the Linux virtualization stack...


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(PR) MSI Announces MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi Motherboard

MSI, a world-leading motherboard manufacturer, proudly introduces the all new X570 motherboard, MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI. For the 3rd Gen Ryzen processors, the new MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI motherboard is optimized with best performance in every aspects. Military totem style coupled with a rugged and powerful heat dissipation design, the MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI successfully subverts all other key players in the mainstream market. The 12X60A SPS Power Stages design, canNone
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RADV Picks Up A Performance Boost For id Tech Vulkan-Powered Games On Linux + AMD APUs

Those running the RADV Vulkan driver on AMD APUs could soon find themselves having even better performance in select games...


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Intel B460 Motherboards Could Land With Overclocking Functionality

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Maxsun B460 iCraft Gaming Endless (Image credit: VideoCardz)

VideoCardz has shared photographs of Maxsun's B460 iCraft Gaming Endless (MS-iCraft B460M) motherboard. More importantly, the leaked marketing materials suggest that Intel might enable overclocking on the upcoming B460 motherboards.

Out of the two chipmakers, AMD has always been more generous towards overclocking as the company enables the feature from the premium X-series chipsets all the way down to the A-series chipsets

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MSI MEG Z490 ACE, MAG Z490 Tomahawk and MPG Z490 Gaming Carbon leaks

MSI is launching at least seven Z490 motherboards. MSI MAG Z490 Tomahawk We have not seen a MAG Z490 model yet, so this is the first (and only) board from the series. The MAG Tomahawk is a standard ATX form factor entry-level motherboard. Overall, the Tomahawk received the biggest design change since the Z390 series for Coffee Lake-S series. MSI Z490 Tomahawk (left) vs MSI Z390 Tomahawk (None

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TSMC Starts 2nm Process Development for Fast, Efficient Chips

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At the start of this year we heard that TSMC was investing heavily in 5nm fabrication, and it's no secret that the next step after that is TSMC's 3nm process .The Taiwanese silicon manufacturer is looking beyond that process too, as it just announced to shareholders that it is starting development of its 2nm lithographic process, as spotted by DigiTimes .

Painstakingly few details are available about the 2nm process. All we know is that TSMC is starting development --


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NVIDIA is Secretly Working on a 5 nm Chip

According to the report of DigiTimes, which talked about TSMC's 5 nm silicon manufacturing node, they have reported that NVIDIA is also going to be a customer for it. And that is very interesting information, knowing that these chips will not go in the next generation of GPUs. Why is that? Because we know that NVIDIA will utilize Samsung's 7 nm manufacturing node for its next-generation Ampere GPUs that will end up in designs like GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 graphicsNVIDIA Xavier SoC

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Apple Rumored to Launch New Mac in 2021 with Custom 5 nm A14 SoC

In a recent report by Bloomberg it was revealed that Apple is planning to start selling Mac computers featuring their upcoming in-house A14 chip which will power the next generation iPhone & iPad in 2021. According to sources familiar with the matter Apple is developing three new processors based on the A14 to power some 2021 Mac products. One of the new processors is expected to be more powerful then the iPhone counterpart and will be built on TSMCs 5 nm process.

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(PR) OWC Releases 4 TB Aura P12 M.2 NVMe SSD

OWC ; a leading zero emissions Mac and PC technology company founded in 1988, and one of the world's most respected providers of Memory, External Drives, SSDs, Mac & PC docking solutions and performance upgrade kits, is first to announce the availability of a 4 TB M.2 drive. For the first time ever, the new 4 TB Aura P12 M.2 NVMe SSDs will be utilized in OWC's Envoy Pro EX line (Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C) forNone
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