It may sound like an April Fool’s joke at first, but it’s true. The company ASUS is launching a new Power Station for gamers that is entirely in the design of Thor’s mighty hammer Mjolnir. The whole thing was revealed on their X account and thus a new part of the Thor series has been added to Asus. Various power supplies have [...]
AMD has announced that it will release parts of its ROCm software stack and hardware documentation as open source in a future update. This is in response to community feedback requesting improvements to software and AI support for Radeon GPUs. In the past, AMD has been criticized for the lack of software support for ROCm. Companies such as The [...]
According to MyDrivers, the Chinese company Intellifusion has announced the launch of a new AI box called “DeepEye”, which is set to enter the market. The first standard version of the AI module box “Shenmu” is equipped with the company’s own DeepEdge10 Max chip. The chip has a chiplet configuration with a D2D [...]
With a groundbreaking update, Llamafile catapults the performance of AMD Ryzen CPUs with AVX-512 to a new level. The result: up to ten times faster execution of complex LLM models on local systems. By utilizing the AVX-512 instruction set, specifically designed for AI and machine learning applications, Llamafile 0.7 enables developers and data [...]
An entry on AMD’s website has quietly listed two new APUs that have not yet been officially announced by the company. These are based on the Zen 3 architecture and are positioned in the Ryzen 5 series. Accordingly, the APUs are the AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS, which has a 4-core and 8-thread configuration and offers a base clock of 3.2 GHz [...]
New information on the upcoming AMD RDNA 4 “Radeon RX 8000” GPUs and their performance placement has been published by Twitter user @All_The_Watts. According to this, the GPUs will comprise two different chipsets: the top-of-the-range Navi 48 chip and the mid-range Navi 44 chip. The Navi 48 chip is said to be slightly slower than the [...]
With the new Pulse Pocket Portable, Sapphire is also following the trend towards minimization and, in AMD, has the right partner for the new, so-called PP form factor. The new graphics chip is called Navi39 and is also economical enough to be powered directly from the USB port. As AMD is also allowed to participate in the new HVS program (High [...]
It is currently not easy for China to obtain state-of-the-art technology due to the sanctions imposed by the USA. There are also strict sanctions on the import of graphics cards. China is helping itself with a weaker RTX 4090 D, which can keep up with the standard version when overclocked, as HKPEC reveals. But first things first: The USA has [...]
TomsHardware reports that Intel’s next-generation discrete graphics card, Battlemage, is finally taking shape. Excerpts from shipping documents published by @momomo_us show that the company is working on at least two GPUs: Battlemage G10 and Battlemage G21. Battlemage G10 is expected to be the more powerful chip, while Battlemage G21 is [...]
The company Zotac has announced the launch of three new mini AI PCs that offer some exciting features. These are mini AI PCs powered by Intel and AMD processors with dedicated Neural Processing Units. Users then have the opportunity to use this new generation of PC with artificial intelligence. The ZOTAC ZBOX Edge MI672 / MI652 will be presented [...]
In recent days, shipping manifests have become an important source of leaks in the hardware sector, reports TechPowerUP. For example, prototypes of the AMD mobile processors “Strix Point” and “Fire Range” were recently discovered. Now further leaks have emerged that point to the upcoming desktop processors of the Ryzen 9000 [...]
Taipei, March 27, 2024 – At Intel’s AI Summit in Taipei, Intel executives confirmed that Microsoft’s Copilot AI service will soon run locally on PCs, reports TomsHardware. This groundbreaking development will allow users to take advantage of AI-powered assistance directly on their device without relying on the cloud. In order to [...]
Most people know that technology is never 100% secure. One well-known method of obtaining sensitive data is the Rowhammer method, which has been around since 2014. Researchers at ETH Zurich recently published a report on the threat posed by AMD’s Zen 2 & 3 CPUs. But first, what is Rowhammer? A rowhammer attack is a method in which the [...]
The rumor mill has been active for months, but I recently received a few slides that confirm much of this. The Lunar Lake processors are said to have up to 8 cores, combining a maximum of 4 powerful Lion Cove P cores with 4 efficiency-oriented Skymont E cores. This configuration once again confirms Intel’s continued focus on the balance [...]
It is clear to everyone that NVIDIA is a global leader in AI. However, the competition does not like this at all and so, according to Reuters, Intel, Qualcomm and Google have joined forces to act together against NVIDIA. NVIDIA is making a fortune from the sale of AI chips. According to recent reports, the market capitalization is said to amount [...]
Things are going back and forth when it comes to the Radeon 7900. It was only recently announced that Acer is launching the Predator BiFrost Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC on the market. Now Saphhire is also launching a new version, which is sensibly packaged in the box as the “PURE AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE OC”. This is a completely white [...]
Our colleagues at Tweaktown reported that AMD presented details of its upcoming next-generation Strix Point APUs at the AI PC Innovation Summit in Beijing. The new APUs will feature a number of improvements, including: Zen 5 CPU architecture: AMD’s latest CPU architecture offers improved performance and efficiency. RDNA 3 GPU architecture: [...]
Until now, it was not possible to overclock the AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE as much as many would have liked due to a limitation imposed by AMD. However, this is now possible thanks to a new driver update. Thanks to the new Adrenalin 24.3.1 update, it is now possible to overclock AMD’s GPU more. Although nothing was mentioned in the patches from [...]
Our colleagues at TomsHardware report that Microsoft has published a new patent that is intended to make ray tracing graphics more efficient. The patent describes a method to reduce the memory requirements of ray tracing, which can be particularly advantageous for GPUs with limited VRAM. The solution uses a detail level system that dynamically [...]
Micron has unveiled 256GB MCRDIMM memory modules designed for next-generation servers at the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC), reports TomsHardware. These modules offer a significantly higher capacity and performance boost and are ideal for applications such as AI and big data that need to process large amounts of data efficiently. The new [...]
