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Nvidia Pascal GP106 To Arrive Late 2016
Both AMD and Nvidia have tended to launch higher end flagships before moving to fill the rest of the lineup. The same is expected for Nvidia’s Pascal launch, with the “flagship” GP104 based cards set to…
TSMC to Double 16nmFF+ Chip Production
After the recent Taiwanese earthquake, many Nvidia and AMD watchers may have worried about their upcoming Pascal and Polaris GPUs. While TSMC did eventually reveal that there would be a hit to their chip production, especially…
Samsung 750 EVO SATA SSD Goes Global
After introducing their latest SSD two months ago in China and Japan, Samsung is bringing their latest drive to the rest of the world. Based off of the long-standing TLC tradition at Samsung, the 750 EVO uses the…
Taiwan Earthquake Will Affect TSMC Fab More Than Expected
In the hours after the Taiwanese earthquake, TSMC was one of the major tech firms affected by the magnitude 6.4 quake. While the semiconductor manufacturer has initially stated that only minor damaged has occurred, it looks like effects…
Nvidia Pascal Launch May Be Sooner Than We Thought
Last month we received word that the first Pascal chips would be launching a bit sooner than expected. At that time, GP100 was expected to drop in April and GP104 in June. According to the latest…
Expensive $1600 AMD Polaris GPU Spotted Shipping
Remember the $600 and $700 Polaris GPUs we spotted last month in a shipping manifest? It turns out that those chips may not be the top end Polaris chip launching this year. According to the shipping…
Nvidia GP100 and GP104 Release Dates Revealed?
For those waiting on Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs, the wait may not be as long as expected. Last week, we found out that Pascal would be arriving a bit sooner than expected, in the earlier parts of…
AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Spotted in HWiNFO Changelog
More and more information is pointing to the state of readiness for AMD’s upcoming Polaris GPUs. According to information spotted in AIDA64 and HWiNFO Changelog, support for 3 new GPUs, Ellesmere, Baffin and Greenland has appeared. As…
Nvidia Pascal Flagship May Arrive Sooner Than Expected
Even as this generation’s GPUs are continuing to fly off the shelves, Nvidia is already gearing up for their Pascal launch. Despite being quieter than AMD, it looks like Nvidia will launch their Pascal cards around the…
AMD Polaris Will use HBM2 and GDDR5
Ever since HBM1 was revealed and launched with Fury X, many have been looking forwards to what HBM2 would bring along in 2016. While HBM1 brought large power savings and a major boost in memory bandwidth,…
Nvidia GP104 Pascal Spotted Shipping
Nvidia has been mum about their upcoming Pascal architecture, even as rival AMD has been showing off their new Polaris chips at CES. Set to launch in 2016 as well, we’re now getting a hint that…
AMD Polaris GPUs Spotted Shipping
When AMD unveiled their new Polaris architecture last week, details about the timeline were a bit scarce. Other than previous confirms about a mid -2016 launch for one of the Polaris cards, AMD had been mum about…
AMD Polaris GPU Architecture Offically Unveiled
First leaked yesterday, we’re now able to bring you the full AMD presentation on their upcoming Polaris GPU architecture. Set to ship mid-2016, Polaris will be using a 14/16nm FinFET process and bring massive power consumption…
AMD to Launch Next-Gen Greenland on 14nm in Summer 2016
AMD has largely been building off of GCN since its initial debut in 2011, with incremental improvements made via GCn 1.1 and 1.2. Combined with the limitations of having to use the 28nm process, the GPU…
AMD Arctic Islands Will Double Performance Per Watt
With both AMD and Nvidia set to debut new GPU architectures next year, many are expecting both greater performance and improved performance per watt. While Nvidia has recently taken the lead in this area, it looks like…
Micron Buys Tidal Systems – Acquires In-House SSD Controller
Right after announcing their 16nm TLC plans, Micron has acquired an SSD controller firm. Tidal Systems, made up of engineers from Link-A-Media Devices (LAMD) and SandForce was founded last year and has managed to create 2…
Micron to start selling TLC SSDs this quarter
Micron Technologies is finally moving into the TLC (Triple-Level Cell) NAND market, with shipments of consumer SDDs starting in Q4 this year. TLC is generally cheaper than MLC, holding up to 3 bits compared to the…
AMD Zen to use TSMC 16nm as GF 14nm Falters
TSMC has just scored a major CPU customer as AMD is allegedly moving their Zen CPUs over to the fab. Originally meant for GlobalFoundries 14nm process, delays at the once AMD owned fab have led to…
Nvidia’s Next-Gen GP100 Silicon Enters Testing Phase
It’s no secret that Nvidia are working their next-generation graphics hardware, even with their flagship 980Ti and Titan series of cards doing well, there’s always going to be something better on the horizon. The next Nvidia…
Nvidia Will Use TSMC 16nm for Pascal
While there had been some rumours that Nvidia would turn to Samsung’s 14nm process for GPUs, it appears those were wrong. For the longest time, Nvidia has relied on TSMC to manufacture their chips and it…
AMD Prepping Post-GCN Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere GPUs
According to multiple sources, AMD is working on 3 new GPUs as part of their 2016 lineup. Likely part of the Arctic Islands release, the 3 chips all fit the theme being called Greenland, Baffin and Ellesmere.…
Nvidia Pascal GPU Will Have Impressive 17 Billion Transistors
After being stuck for what seems like forever on 28nm, we’re finally getting a glimpse of the monsters set to arrive with TSMC’s 16nm process. Code-named Pascal, Nvidia’s top end 16nm GPU is reportedly pushing 17…
Nvidia Reportedly Working on Two New GPUs With HBM2 Memory
We have known for a while now that Nvidia wanted to get onto the HBM wagon too and that is pretty much a given. It’s the next generation video memory and it looks extremely promising so…
TSMC Ships 16nm FinFET Chips – 10nm and 7nm On Their Way
In a move that is sure to please AMD and Nvidia fans, TSMC has started volume production of 16nm FinFET chips. According to TSMC president and co-CEO Mark Liu, the ramp up for 16nm will be more…
AMD Tapes Out First FinFET Chips – Expect Arrival Q2/Q3 2016
While much of the focus from yesterday’s financial call was the poor state of finances, another small tidbit about future plans was mentioned. CEO Lisa Su revealed that AMD has taped out their first FinFET chips back…
AMD’s Official Roadmaps Reveals the Company’s Plans for the next 5 Years
AMD has revealed what the company plans to do with its GPUs and CPUs in the next 5 years at the PC Cluster Consortium event in Osaka Japan, where AMD’s Junji Hayashi revealed the company’s roadmap.…
Patriot Torch SSD Listed and Available Ahead of Launch
Some people just have a keen eye when being at the right place at the right time, and as such the Patriot Torch SSD has been spotted as listed on Amazon ahead of its launch. While…
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