Intel’s first Arc Alchemist graphics cards will be officially revealed on March 30, in just a few days, and will be followed in short order by the launch of the initial batch of gaming laptops carrying these GPUs. We’d already been told about the press event on March 30, although now we know the exact…
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GPD has officially announced the Win Max 2. The new design includes the transition from an 8 to a 10.1-inch screen and adopting a new Intel Alder Lake mobile processor with up to 14C/20T. It earns its ‘Max’ moniker in several ways; you will be able to buy this portable with up to 32GB of…
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French research institutions CEA and C12 Quantum Electronics have announced a novel quantum computer design. One that can only describe as a waferscale engine… for quantum. In an approach to CMOS manufacturing techniques and backed by the CEA’s $5 billion annual funding, the companies aim to manufacture carbon nanotube-based qubits at scale – a 200…
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Modern enthusiast-grade solid-state drives (SSDs) deliver unbeatable performance. Still, they tend to produce a significant amount of heat, which can hurt performance and harm data on NAND flash chips. Phison says that as drives get more advanced, they are getting hotter too, so expect high-end PCIe Gen 5 SSDs to require active cooling using a…
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Intel Graphics has shared a video featuring the 3D rendering app Blender accelerated by an Intel Arc Alchemist GPU. Senior Software Evangelist & Developer Affinity Programs Manager at Intel, Bob Duffy, shows us how slickly the real-time rendering preview works with a bit of Arc desktop muscle applied to it. After a short and sweet…
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There are so many memory vendors in the market that it’s impossible to count them all with just two hands. In addition, some computer brands that didn’t initially sell memory also ventured into the business. However, very few vendors make their integrated circuits (ICs) and source the essential ingredient from the big three, such as…
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In this how-to, we’ll look at the zip command, a useful utility that enables us to specify lists of files, set a level of data compression and create compressed archives. Whilst you become accustomed to these commands it’s good to work with example test files and directories and you should take extra care to ensure…
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Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti graphics card, which is rumored to arrive imminently, could offer a performance boost of around 10% compared to the vanilla RTX 3090, according to the latest leak. This comes from the developer of the CapframeX utility (used for frame times capture and analysis), who posted some “first impressions” of the RTX…
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When Nimbus Data launched the 100TB ExaDrive DC on March 19, 2018, it was by far the largest solid state drive ever launched, noticeably larger than your average SSD as it used a 3.5-inch form factor rather than the usual 2.5-inch laptop hard disk drives fit into. Since then, no one has even come close…
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The smaller a computer gets, the more sophisticated it becomes. Smartphones like the iPhone happen to be the smallest computers available right now, and you can’t easily upgrade one on your own. But it’s not impossible to turn an off-the-shelf iPhone 13 Pro Max into a device that has USB-C connectivity, a 3.5mm headphone jack,…
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