GPUs
As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't make the grade for the tier of cards they normally are used in. These recovered chips are fairly unremarkable overall, but they are unsold silicon that still works and has economic value, leading to them being used in lower-tier cards so that they can be sold. And, judging by the appearance of a new video card design from MSI, it looks like NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace generation of chips has reached that stage, as the Taiwanese video card maker has put out a new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super card based on a salvaged AD102 GPU. Typically...
SK hynix Now Sampling 24GB HBM3 Stacks, Preparing for Mass Production
When SK hynix initially announced its HBM3 memory portfolio in late 2021, the company said it was developing both 8-Hi 16GB memory stacks as well as even more technically...
1 by Anton Shilov on 4/21/2023
AMD Announces Radeon Pro W7900 & W7800: RDNA 3 Comes To Workstation Cards
With their initial consumer desktop and mobile RDNA 3 graphics products now out the door, AMD today is turning their attention to the professional visualization market. The more lucrative...
31 by Ryan Smith on 4/13/2023
Samsung and AMD Renew GPU Architecture Licensing Agreement: More RDNA Exynos Chips to Come
In a joint press release released this evening, AMD and Samsung have announced that the two companies are renewing their GPU architecture licensing agreement for Samsung’s Exynos SoCs. The...
3 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2023
AMD Computing & Graphics EVP Rick Bergman to Retire - Jack Huynh Named Replacement
In a brief press release sent out yesterday afternoon, AMD has announced that its executive leadership team is going to see some changes. Rick Bergman, the current executive vice...
1 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2023
Intel Leadership Shuffle: Stuart Pann in for IFS, Raja Koduri out for GPUs & off to AI Startup
In a combination of a press release and series of tweets from CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel this afternoon has announced a pair of significant corporate leadership changes at the...
50 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023
NVIDIA Unveils Ada Lovelace RTX Workstation GPUs for Laptops; Desktop RTX 4000 SFF
Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack. NVIDIA’s laptop lineup...
15 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023
NVIDIA Announces H100 NVL - Max Memory Server Card for Large Language Models
While this year’s Spring GTC event doesn’t feature any new GPUs or GPU architectures from NVIDIA, the company is still in the process of rolling out new products based...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023
The NVIDIA GTC Spring 2023 Keynote Live Blog (8:00am PT/15:00 UTC)
Please join us at 8:00am PT (15:00 UTC) for our live blog coverage of NVIDIA’s Spring GTC keynote address. The traditional kick-off to the show – be it physical...
18 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2023
NVIDIA Bundles Redfall Bite Back Edition With GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs
NVIDIA has launched a new RTX game bundle for the chipmaker's latest generation GeForce RTX 40 series (Ada Lovelace) video cards. For their latest promotional offer, the company has...
4 by Zhiye Liu on 3/16/2023
Cadence Delivers Technical Details on GDDR7: 36 Gbps with PAM3 Encoding
When Samsung teased the ongoing development of GDDR7 memory last October, the company did not disclose any other technical details of the incoming specification. But Cadence recently introduced the...
29 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2023
NVIDIA Releases Hotfix For GeForce Driver To Resolve CPU Usage Spikes
NVIDIA released the company’s GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver on February 28th. It didn’t take long before user reports started to pile up on the NVIDIA forums about a strange...
1 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023
AMD Announces The Last of Us Part 1 Game Bundle For Radeon RX 6000 & 7000 Video Cards
The Last of Us Part 1, a remaster of the original Playstation-hit, is making its way to the PC on March 28. To celebrate the feat or to let...
7 by Zhiye Liu on 3/8/2023
Intel Scraps Rialto Bridge GPU, Next Server GPU Will Be Falcon Shores In 2025
On Friday afternoon, Intel published a letter by Jeff McVeigh, the company’s interim GM of their Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics group (AXG). In it, McVeigh offered a brief...
47 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2023
CES 2023: AMD Instinct MI300 Data Center APU Silicon In Hand - 146B Transistors, Shipping H2’23
Alongside AMD’s widely expected client product announcements this evening for desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and mobile GPUs, AMD’s CEO Dr. Lisa Su also had a surprise up her sleeve...
38 by Ryan Smith on 1/5/2023
The AMD CES 2023 Keynote Live Blog (6:30pm PT/02:30 UTC)
CES keynote season continues this week with the second major PC-centric keynote of the event, being held by AMD. Helmed as always by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD is...
7 by Ryan Smith on 1/4/2023
NVIDIA CES 2023 Special Address Live Blog (8am PT/16:00 UTC)
Kicking off CES 2023, the first presentation of the week comes from NVIDIA. The prolific GPU vendor is at the show to talk about new consumer hardware for desktops...
9 by Ryan Smith on 1/3/2023
AMD Reveals Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT: First RDNA 3 Parts To Hit Shelves in December
With AMD’s first-wave of Zen 4 CPUs now in the books with the Ryzen 7000 series, the consumer arm of AMD is now shifting its attention over to its...
197 by Ryan Smith on 11/3/2022
AMD RDNA 3 GPU Unveil "together we advance_gaming” Live Blog (1pm PT/20:00 UTC)
Following hot on the heels of AMD’s major CPU launch of the year – the Zen 4 architecture and Ryzen 7000 family – today AMD will be giving their...
16 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 11/3/2022
AMD Announces Radeon RDNA 3 GPU Livestream Event for November 3rd
Following on the heels of AMD’s CPU-centric event back in August, AMD today has sent out a press release announcing that they will be holding a similar event in...
18 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2022
NVIDIA Scrubs GeForce RTX 4080 12GB Launch; 16GB To Be Sole RTX 4080 Card
In a short post published on NVIDIA’s website today, the company has announced that it is “unlaunching” their planned GeForce RTX 4080 12GB card. The lowest-end of the initially...
100 by Ryan Smith on 10/14/2022
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