Intel made a slew of announcements at the International Supercomputing (ISC) 2021 conference today, talking up its broad range of solutions for supercomputing and HPC applications. The big news on the hardware front is that Intel’s Ponte Vecchio GPUs will come in an OAM form factor that purportedly consumes up to 600W per package. The…
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DRAM stands for dynamic random access memory and is a type of semiconductor memory seen in RAM and GPUs (aka graphics cards). DRAM memory works by storing bits of data in a capacitor inside an integrated circuit. It requires periodic refreshing (unlike SRAM) to keep data because its capacitors slowly release energy. DRAM is cheaper than…
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TeamGroup’s DDR5-4800 32GB (2x16GB) memory kit (via momomo_us) has gone up for purchase on Amazon and Newegg for $310.99. Currently, there’s no processor or motherboard that supports DDR5 memory, but Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake chips should change that very soon. The memory modules arrive with a naked black PCB, lacking a fancy heat spreader…
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Nvidia is making friends. Broadcom, MediaTek, and Marvell have all reportedly signaled their approval of the company’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm as regulators around the world consider the effect it might have on the global electronics industry. Higher-profile Arm licensees like Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm have publicly objected to Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of the…
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Multiple teasers suggest Microsoft is targeting an October launch window for Windows 11, but according to the official Windows account on Twitter, the upgrade won’t start rolling out to devices already running Windows 10 until early 2022. Microsoft officially announced on June 24 that it planned to release Windows 11 during the holiday season. It…
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If you’ve got a spare Raspberry Pi and a few old BBC Micro floppy disks lying around, this may be the project for you. Jasper Renow-Clarke, also known as Picosonic, has created a floppy disk interface PCB for the Raspberry Pi. Some of the best Raspberry Pi projects we’ve seen use custom PCBs and this…
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Nvidia’s powerful A100 GPUs will be part of its HGX AI super-computing platform, the Californian graphics-crunching colossus announced today, with new technologies including its 80GB memory modules, 400G Infiniband networking, and Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage software also being added. (Image credit: Nvidia) The A100, which recently flexed its Ampere-powered muscles to overtake the Titan V…
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If you’ve been following the PC space for a decade or more, you probably remember Antec for making a few boring, but high-quality silence-focused cases like the P180 series with their triple-layered side panels for extremely quiet acoustics. But the truth is, that Antec doesn’t exist anymore. The company hasn’t made a case like that…
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A debate over whether this is a tablet that doubles as an external display or an external display that happens to run Android will no doubt rage following Lenovo’s announcement of the Yoga Tab 13. It’s an Android tablet with a micro HDMI input, which sees the tablet pulling a double duty as an external…
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The devs behind the Neotron Pico, a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered ATX motherboard project that we first covered in April, unveiled the first prototype board in a recent update. Jonathan Pallant posted pictures to Twitter of a freshly manufactured PCB ready for testing. Some of the best Raspberry Pi projects use custom PCBs and the Neotron…
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