If you were hoping AMD might launch some new budget RDNA 3 GPUs in the near future, we’ve got bad news: unfortunately, the latest word from the grapevine is that this isn’t happening.We’ve previously been treated to rumors of an expansion for the current-gen range of graphics cards, with the possibility that AMD might debut…
April 1980, Toulouse. As the offices of multinational technology firms Philips Data Systems and CII-Honeywell-Bull sit burning, French authorities frantically search for the culprits of the suspected arson and bombing attacks. While there was some confusion in the immediate wake of the destruction over who was responsible, with militant left wing group Action Directe initially…
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Intel’s much-awaited microcode update designed to fix instability issues with its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs – or at least act as a preventative measure – is on the cusp of arriving, and Team Blue has assured us that it doesn’t come with any nasty side-effects on the performance front.Indeed, the patch is now in beta…
Cloud computing underpins countless applications, services, and company initiatives. However, the environmental footprint of these activities has started to come under scrutiny. Today’s IT leaders find themselves at a crossroads. On one hand they must embrace innovation – which includes using AI, machine learning, and big data analytics – to propel their organisations forward. And…
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Oracle’s recently announced Exadata Database Service on Exascale (ExaDB-XS) aims to improve performance for database workloads and reduce costs. The architecture in Exascale, which is Oracle’s multi-tenant architecture that intelligently allocates pools of compute optimised for its databases, is built on the same appliances – X8M, X9M and X10M – Oracle uses on its Exadata Database…
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At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by…
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There have been plenty of rumors surrounding the upcoming Intel Panther Lake processor launch, including that it’s set to arrive in 2025. But now new rumors are painting a different story — one that confirms prior whisperings of Panther Lake being mobile-only and that a new series, the Nova Lake, will be Arrow Lake’s true…
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Nvidia’s previously rumored new spin on the RTX 4070 – with slightly slower video memory – is apparently real, as a graphics card maker appears to have such a variant in the works.This is Galax which has a new RTX 4070 OC 2X version incoming, or at least that’s what leaked materials obtained by VideoCardz…
Rumors and reports for Intel’s upcoming Battlemage graphics cards have been steady since at least 2023, which, if true, could be a boon for gamers looking for more budget-minded components.Now there’s a brand new leak, shared on the Weibo forums by Chinese tech blogger Little Pigeon (reported on by VideoCardz), which alleges the new cards…
At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline – ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the…
