Average selling prices of high-end graphics cards more than doubled in the recent quarters due to insufficient GPU and components supply amid growing demand from gamers and miners. But as supply gets better and demand from miners is lowering, the prices of graphics cards are projected to get lower starting this quarter. Demand for modern high end graphics…
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Intel recently launched its 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable CPU for data centers, which means that the Xeon W lineup for workstations shouldn’t be far behind. Technology provider CompSource has already listed a couple of Intel’s looming Ice Lake Xeon W 10nm chips on its online store, pointing to an upcoming core-heavy rival to AMD Ryzen…
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China’s restrictions on cryptocurrency mining have continued to expand. CoinDesk today reported that authorities in the Anhui, Gansu, and Henan provinces ordered local mining operations to shut down due to the central government’s policies. The official motivations behind this crackdown are two-fold. The first is China’s hope to be carbon neutral within five years, and…
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The Raspberry Pi 4 B has been on the market for more than two years and, during that time, we’ve seen a number of new, related models hit the shelves, including an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4, a Compute Module 4 and the Raspberry Pi 400, which is basically a Pi 4 inside a keyboard. However,…
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Pimoroni has said its PicoSystem handheld gaming device is “coming soon” since the Raspberry Pi Pico was released on January 21. Now it seems like the miniature console’s debut might actually be approaching, because today Pimoroni software lead Phil Howard published two videos showing the device in action to Twitter. PicoSystem is based on the…
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According to independent benchmarking from Jarrod’sTech on YouTube, the mobile RTX 3050 Ti could prove to be one of the worst mobile GPUs in Nvidia’s 30-series lineup—along with the RTX 3050 it would seem, since that will basically be just as bad. Thanks to some lackluster specifications, the 3050 Ti is around 35% slower than…
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Windows 11 has some interesting new features, but its UI is polarizing. If you’re like me, you want to play around with the new operating system, but don’t like its version of the Start menu because it takes much more screen real estate. In the first preview build of Windows 11, you were able to…
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Microsoft today announced Windows 365, a cloud-based operating system that can be provided as a service for enterprise users. The new Windows 365 product effectively delivers an instance of either Windows 10 or Windows 11 according to a businesses’ needs, and will effectively enable users to have their own personal OS – including settings, app,…
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TrendForce finally had some good news for enthusiasts today with its prediction that, with the notable exception of Chia and enterprise-ready SSDs, NAND flash contract prices should remain fairly stable heading into the third quarter of 2021. The firm said that quarter-over-quarter price increases should be in the single digits for the eMMC, client SSD,…
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Razer is revamping the Blade 17, its largest gaming laptop, with the latest Intel processors and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs. In one of Razer’s biggest lineups yet, the Blade 17 (with the word “Pro” removed from the name) will come in seven separate configurations, starting at $2,399. While the design isn’t changing, Razer is…
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