Intel has again pulled off some big frame rate gains with a new graphics driver, Arc GPU owners will doubtless be pleased to hear – with both discrete and integrated graphics getting considerable benefits.Intel’s Arc driver version 31.0.101.5379 comes with support for some freshly released games, namely Horizon Forbidden West and the apparently excellent but…
The Nvidia RTX 5080 graphics card, which will most likely be based on the Nvidia Blackwell architecture, may offer superior ray tracing capabilities and general performance over the current-gen RTX 4090, currently the best graphics card on the consumer market.New rumors have emerged concerning the possible RTX 5080 graphics card, with Twitter / X tech…
At Intel’s Vision 2024 event, which is being held in Phoenix, AZ, has seen several key announcements. On the datacenter CPU front, Intel is using the show to unveil their newest branding for their venerable family of Xeon processors. Beginning with this year’s sixth generation of processors, Intel is “evolving” the Xeon brand by retiring…
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Microsoft might have a trick up its sleeve that makes ray tracing more feasible with the best GPUs that have lower amounts of VRAM, or are a lesser spec in general, perhaps – though we should be cautious at this point.The broad idea is to make ray tracing less demanding, in short, as outlined in…
Microsoft has been going over what its incoming DirectSR tech is all about at GDC 2024 recently – although according to the grapevine, the catch is we might have a long time to wait before this nifty piece of the upscaling puzzle is realized.For those who need a quick refresher, we heard about DirectSR back…
Intel this morning is kicking off the second day of their Vision 2024 conference, the company’s annual closed-door business and customer-focused get-together. While Vision is not typically a hotbed for new silicon announcements from Intel – that’s more of an Innovation thing in the fall – attendees of this year’s show are not coming away…
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Google was among the first hyperscalers build custom silicon for its services, starting first with tensor processing units (TPUs) for its AI initiatives, and then video transcoding units (VCUs) for the YouTube service. But unlike its industry peers, the company has been slower to adopt custom CPU designs, prefering to stick to off-the-shelf chips from the major…
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Vast Data will boost write performance in its storage by 50% in an operating system upgrade in April, followed by a 100% boost expected later in 2024 in a further OS upgrade. Both moves are aimed at checkpointing operations in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. That roadmap pointer comes after Vast recently announced it would support…
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In late 2024, Apple is expected to introduce the Apple Watch Series 10 – or Apple Watch X. This smartwatch will mark ten years of Cupertino in this market. While the Apple Watch Series 9 was a mild update with some interesting features, there’s a lot we could see in this upcoming model. Here’s everything…
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Security services and technology have again maintained the number one priority for IT spending across the EMEA region, according to this year’s Technology spending intentions research from TechTarget and ESG, to the extent that it’s also leading investment in areas beyond merely cyber, including networking, infrastructure, applications (DevSecOps) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). With 48%…
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