We recently covered the announcement of Intel’s Arc Alchemist discrete gaming GPUs, but the company’s Graphics Twitter account recently posted a one-minute video showing a dual-fan GPU. Perhaps this will be the cooling design that will be used on the upcoming release of Intel’s Alchemist GPU. Intel hasn’t confirmed the specs on Arc as a…
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DRAM prices have begun to fall by 5-10% in both the United States and European markets. In Europe, Cowcotland reports that prices of several Corsair and G.Skill memory kits have already dropped by 5-15 Euros this month. In the U.S., we’re starting to see prices of 16GB and 32GB memory kits as a whole dropping…
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The Consumer Technology Association today announced that CES 2022 attendees will have to prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 to make it onto the show floor when the annual tradeshow returns to Las Vegas in January. “Based on today’s science, we understand vaccines offer us the best hope for stopping the spread of COVID-19,” CTA…
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AMD’s upcoming lineup of Raphael processors based on the Zen 4 architecture will come with a new home courtesy of their brand new LGA1718 package, aka CPU socket AM5. According to the latest information, Twitter user @TtLexington has concluded that the AM5 socket could retain cooler compatibility with the prior socket AM4 that’s been used…
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Future GPUs are about to get a whole lot faster. Details of HBM3 have trickled out slowly, with the first vague specs coming from SK hynix. But Rambus’ announcement that the company has developed a new HBM3-ready combined PHY and memory controller brings much more information to light. That includes a potential for HBM3 to…
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SK hynix has expanded its Gold P31 family of SSDs with a high-capacity 2TB option. These drives are considered to be among the fastest and most energy-efficient SSDs with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface in the industry, holding a spot on our Best SSDs page as our favorite pick for laptops. With the addition of 2TB versions,…
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A dark web service called Antinalysis that made it easier for cybercriminals to launder money with cryptocurrency by analyzing their risk of being flagged by law enforcement was brought down shortly after it was revealed to the public. The service was discovered by a firm called Elliptic that uses blockchain analysis to help crypto asset…
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Its been almost two years since the release of AMD’s current Ryzen Threadripper CPUs, giving AMD plenty of time to prepare a successor. Now, it appears that a successor is on the way, at least according to leaked details from a Gigabyte hack about new Zen 3 ‘Chagall’ Ryzen Threadripper 5000 series chips. As noted…
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Switzerland’s University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week announced (via The Register) that it had set a new world record for calculating Pi. The mathematical constant was computed to 62.8 trillion digits in 108 days and 9 hours, a record both in terms of precision and performance. The result hasn’t been verified yet, however. To set the record,…
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In a recent Gigabyte hacking event that happened a bit over a week ago, attackers stole 112GB of data from the Gigabyte server. This included confidential files of the upcoming products and information shared under NDAs and contracts. Today, according to a new report, information regarding AMD’s EPYC processors (codenamed Genoa) has emerged after the…
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