China-based Jingjia Micro has taped out its next-generation JM9 graphics processing units. The new GPUs will reportedly offer performance comparable to that of Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 10-series ‘Pascal’ GPUs launched in 2016. The new GPUs will hit the market sometime next year. Jingjia Micro’s JM9 family consists of two GPUs: the entry-level JM9231 featuring a 2 FP32…
The Radeon RX 6600 XT launch day is here, and availability is both great and terrible depending on the retailer. Online retailers did not have any RX 6600 XT graphics cards for sale at 9AM EST (the cards release time). However, some of Micro Center’s brick-and-mortar stores have over 100 RX 6600 XT’s available for…
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…
(Image credit: Shutterstock) Micro Center recently showed a clear bias against AMD graphics cards in a blog post on the topic of choosing hardware for your PC build. The company’s CEO has since apologized, claiming that the post doesn’t reflect how Micro Center feels about AMD’s graphics cards. As spotted by Twitter user MeyerTechRants, the…
We’ve finally got our hands on the first of SparkFun’s RP2040 range of boards. The $10 SparkFun Pro Micro RP2040 is the cheapest model on offer and follows a classic design that resembles an Arduino Nano board layout which is at home in a breadboard and embedded into your projects. It also provides us with…