Microsoft is hosting an online event today at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT, in which the company is expected to announce a whole slew of new Surface-branded devices, including laptops, tablets and perhaps even a phone. You’ll be able to tune in two different ways. Microsoft will be airing the event on its…
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Seagate has discontinued its Barracuda Pro family of high-end hard drives for desktops. But a replacement is coming, according to Seagate. “Never, fear — we are in the middle of a little shuffle on that drive, but I’ll let you know when we are ready to talk about the replacement model,” a spokesman for Seagate…
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In the latest report from TrendForce, a Taiwanese semiconductor market analyst firm, we have an updated estimation DRAM pricing structure for the upcoming quarter. As the report notes, DRAM prices are set to decline by 3-8% in the fourth quarter of 2021 (4Q21), due to the rising inventory of DRAM clients. According to the report…
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Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30-series (Ampere) products are some of the best graphics cards on the market right now. However, they may get even faster according to the recent rumors of an Ampere refresh. It’s almost a given that Nvidia will give its Ampere graphics cards the same Super treatment as it did with Turing. Now,…
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AMD’s Radeon Adrenalin driver 21.9.2 just hit the streets, packing support for three new titles: World War Z: Aftermath, Diablo II: Resurrected, and New World. It also has four new bug fixes. But arguably the most anticipated feature is still missing in action: There’s no official Windows 11 support. Besides support for New World and…
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Intel’s NUC 11 Extreme (Beast Canyon) NUC has gone up for purchase on Amazon. The barebone kit sells for $1,769.95, while the complete mini PC starts at $1,839.95. (Hat tip to FanlessTech.) Beast Canyon is available with three different processor options. The model on Amazon (NUC11BTMi9) corresponds to the flagship SKU with the Core i9-11900KB…
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Researchers with Purdue University have reached a milestone in an attempt to design the next-generation transistor, which could allow for a life extension for silicon-based semiconductors. The new design, entitled CasFET (Cascade Field Effect Transistor) is yet another step on the road of transistor miniaturization, allowing for lower switching voltages, lower power consumption, and denser…
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In preparation for the Steam Deck launch in the coming months, AMD and Valve have been hard at work building a new CPU driver that will enhance the performance and power efficiency of Ryzen-based processors on the Linux platform. One of AMD’s developers, Ray Huang, shared details of the new driver in a presentation last…
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At Newegg, the EVGA Z20 RGB mechanical gaming keyboard is now over 50% off — taking the price down to just $70. EVGA has been busy cutting the prices across all its best gaming keyboards recently, and it’s a welcome sight to see this premium option put on sale too. EVGA Z20 RGB optical mechanical…
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Semiconductor companies have been exploring ways to step out of the traditional monolithic GPU die design for a while now, searching for something that will enable better performance scaling while keeping production costs at a sane level. Nvidia’s latest approach to driving things forward is the introduction of 3D die stacking using through-silicon via (TSV)…
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