Images of a Glenfly Arise-GT10C0 discrete graphics card, and its exposed GPU, have been shared on Chinese social media platform Bilibili by user Hoki. This is a very basic graphics card by modern measures, with a boxy and utilitarian half-shroud cooler, and outputs limited to just VGA and HDMI. Moreover, the Bilibili post indicates that…
Having launched its first 16-core CPU for servers earlier this week, Loongson is looking forward to releasing a 32-core processor in the coming months and matching the performance of AMD’s Zen 3-based products in the coming years. Chinese CPU developer Loongson formally introduced and started to ship its first 16-core 3C5000 processor based on its proprietary LoongArch instruction set architecture earlier…
China’s government has an intense craving to take control of TSMC, reveals a report shared by Bloomberg today. The financial news organization has published some alarming quotes from Chen Wenling, chief economist at the government-run China Center for International Economic Exchanges. In brief, Chen called on Chinese authorities to “seize TSMC” if the US and…
A mysterious GPU from China has been spotted in the Geekbench online results browser. The benchmarking app was used to run tests on a system that appears to be mostly based on technology from Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Company. It has a Zhaoxin KaiXian CPU, Zhaoxin motherboard, and a “Zhaoxin Glenfly GPU.” That last one is…
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti already resides quite comfortably at the summit of consumer graphics card performance, particularly if you like to play your games with real-time raytracing effects. However, there are always graphics card partners looking to grab the halo from such a product for their own marketing ends. Today momomo_us spotted a…
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities across China recently published a paper (PDF, via Underfox) sketching an efficient and scalable route to solving some of the most complex problems facing scientists today. Among the team’s hardware and software innovations, perhaps the most eyebrow-raising claim is that they solved a huge problem with very high…
Synopsys, one of the leading suppliers of electronic design automation (EDA) software tools used to design chips, is being probed for allegedly supplying their products to blacklisted Chinese companies. Investigators from the U.S. Department of Commerce are looking into allegations that Synopsys has provided EDA tools to Huawei’s HiSilicon unit to make chips at Semiconductor…
Apple is reportedly considering adding China-based Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) to its list of 3D NAND memory producers to diversify its supply chain and protect against sudden interruptions. YMTC would hardly become a major Apple supplier, but adoption of its memory by one of the world’s largest makers of electronics will be a huge…
Some interesting comments made by an Intel senior executive in China have come to light. According to a report from Taiwan’s DigiTimes, an Intel exec said that it is clear Chinese CPU makers will become “strong competitors” to Intel in the next three to five years. Rui Wang, SVP of Intel Corporation and chair of…
Some AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics processing units were seized by the Chinese customs. Authorities that the confiscated GPUs were being shipped between the border of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. (US) IN STOCK ALERT – NEWEGG: Open Box: PowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming Graphics Card with 12GB GDDR6 Memory, Powered by…