Fans of the Raspberry Pi alternative, Banana Pi will be getting a new, more powerful board to tinker with following the appearance on Twitter and the company’s wiki of the BPI-M2S. Fitting into the same 2.6 inch footprint as the M2 Pro, what’s notable about this board are its six processor cores and two gigabit…
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Intel dropped a ton of new information during its Intel Architecture Day 2021, and you can check out our other articles for deep dives into the Alder Lake CPUs, Sapphire Rapids, Arc Alchemist GPU, and more. That last one is particularly relevant to what we will discuss here, Intel’s Ponte Vecchio and the Xe HPC…
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Today’s best Corsair HS80 RGB Wireless deals There’s been a bit of a trend amongst gaming tech, including the best gaming headsets, to scale back the stereotypical gaming look in favor of more mature, practical designs. Corsair’s latest headset, the HS80 RGB Wireless, is still clearly for the PC gaming space, thanks to a bit…
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The Intel Architecture Day 2021 covered a bunch of new information, including details on Intel’s Alder Lake CPUs, Sapphire Rapids, Ponte Vecchio and the Xe HPC GPU, and more. But here we’re talking about consumer graphics and the new Arc Alchemist GPUs. Four years after Intel hired GPU guru Raja Koduri away from AMD, its…
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Intel’s Architecture Day 2021 was full of deep-dive disclosures, with this year’s topics focusing on the architectural details of the company’s forthcoming Alder Lake CPUs that will span from the desktop PC down to ultra-mobile applications by combining two types of cores in a hybrid design, a first for an x86 desktop PC chip. However,…
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GlobalFoundries, one of the leading semiconductor manufacturing businesses, has been planning to do an initial public offering (IPO) for some time now. According to the latest report via Reuters , GlobalFoundries has filled an IPO in confidentiality that may value GlobalFoundries at around $25 billion. Last month, we reported on the rumors of Intel buying…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in an interview with The Financial Times admitted to expected delays to the Nvidia-Arm acquisition deal – the result of regulatory scrutiny over the $40 billion (cash and stock) merger. “Our discussions with regulators are taking longer than initially thought, so it’s pushing out the timetable,” Huang told The Financial Times. “It’s not…
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Just days after formally announcing the Arc brand for its discrete gaming graphics processors and the name of the first generation Xe-HPG (DG2) products, Intel has begun to reveal some essential technical details about these GPUs. As it turns out, the new graphics chips will support DisplayPort 2.0 and ultra-high-resolution displays with deep colors. This week Intel published a…
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Packing huge color and a silky smooth refresh rate into a sleek design, we’re big fans of the Gigabyte M27Q 27-inch QHD gaming monitor. In fact, we gave it a high 4-star rating, which is why this deal is an important one for any gaming enthusiast looking for a new screen. At Newegg, you can…
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The journey of Moore’s Law is a technologically complex and expensive one, worth billions of dollars in research and development – just ask semiconductor manufacturers. The much-referred-to “soft” law coined by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore stated that the number of transistors in a densely-packed semiconductor should double every two years. The death of Moore’s Law…
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