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AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.1.2 Beta Drivers
AMD Brings Resident Evil 2, Tropico 6 and Anthem Support AMD has been really quick with their drivers lately. Earlier in the month, the company released their first driver for the year, the beta optional 19.1.1 release. Following up recently, the 19.1.1 release for a WHQL official certified version. Now, we…
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AMD Releases Radeon Software 19.1.1 With WHQL Certification
AMD Certifies 19.1.1 as WHQL Earlier in the month, AMD released their first driver for the year. Radeon Software Adrenalin 2019 Edition 19.1.1 promised to bring improved performance a and a lot of bug fixes. At the time of release, it was a beta optional driver. However, AMD’s beta drivers…
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TSMC’s 7nm Largest Share of Firm Revenue
TSMC Sees Strong 7nm Uptake As we head into 2019, TSMC is set to lead the way with the latest process nodes. Along with Samsung, the company is leading the way forward with the new 7nm process. As silicon gets harder to manufacture, fewer customers are taking up the new…
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Windows 10 Will Soon Reserve 7GB For Future Updates
Windows 10 Will Set Aside 7GB of Reserved Storage Back in 2015, Microsoft revamped their operating system product with Windows 10. Breaking with the previous service pack model, the company decided to make Windows 10 into service. Under the new software as a service model, the OS would get constant updates, with…
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AMD Shows Off Ryzen 3 and Zen 2 at CES Keynote
AMD Will Bring Ryzen 3000 With Zen 2 in Mid 2019 During their CES keynote today, AMD revealed their new Radeon VII graphics card. Beyond the new Vega 2 GPU, the company also talked gaming. Key to the company gaming push is, of course, a strong CPU. As part of…
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AMD Unveils New Radeon VII Vega GPU
AMD Debuts World’s First 7nm GPU Back in 2017, AMD launched their current Vega graphics architecture. As 5th generation Graphics Core Next, the new designs brought new improvement to performance. Building upon Polaris GCN 4, Vega has since been integrated into desktop and mobile GPUs and APUs. As part of their…
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AMD May Not Be Using Chiplets For Ryzen 3000
AMD May Be Reserving Chiplets for EPYC and HEDT Late last year, AMD unveiled their new designs for 2019 and forwards. Chief among them was the new Rome platform for the enterprise. The company debuted the new design with 2 new features. First was the new Zen 2 architecture…
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IBM Chooses Samsung 7nm For POWER and z CPUs
IBM Will Use Custom Samsung 7nm Process Despite all the focus on ARM and x86, there are other alternate CPU architectures. One of the biggest ones is IBM’s POWER and z series processors. While you won’t find them in Apple devices anymore, they are used quite a bit in the…
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Microsoft Looking Into Magnetic USB-C Charger
Microsoft Files Patent for Magnetic USB-C Charger When it comes to mobile devices, one of the common troubles is charging. Due to the extended length of cable, it’s quite common for either the cable or connectors to be damaged over time. To avoid this problem, some device manufacturers have used magnetic…
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Intel May Be Killing Custom Fab Business
Intel Custom Foundry May Be No More Nearly 5 years ago, Intel made a surprising announcement. After decades of only allowing their cutting-edge fabs to be used in-house, the company started up a custom foundry business. By opening up its fabs, the company hoped to better utilize them and recoup…
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Foxconn Building New Chip Fab In China
Foxconn Finally Moves Into Silicon Fab Bussiness Even as the silicon market has consolidated over the past couple of years, new entrants are still lining up. The latest to join the competitive industry appears to be Foxconn. Apple’s iPhone are the companies most well-known product. The company also does work for many other…
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Linux Adds AMD Rome and Zen 2 Support
Linux Integrating AMD Platform QoS Back in November, AMD debuted their new Zen 2 architecture. The new chips will offer a massive boost in performance, building on Zen and Zen+. To achieve the performance numbers, AMD has made a number of major changes to the underlying designs. Ahead of launch next…
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Intel 9th Gen KF iGPU-less Processor Listed
Four Intel KF CPUs Without iGPUs Listed Nearly a decade ago, Intel started putting graphics onto the CPU. Since then, it has been a complaint by some in the gaming community. Some users perceive the iGPU as wasted space that could be put to better use. Perhaps in a move…
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TSMC Cleared to Start New 3nm Fab in Taiwan
TSMC Approved To Build New 3nm Fab To keep up with increasing demand, all the silicon manufacturers are expanding their operations. As one of the leading third-party fab, TSMC is seeing a lot of new business. Furthermore, in order to keep up with customer demands, the Taiwanese firm is building a number of…
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Intel Spinning Up Additional Production Capacity
Intel Planning Global Capacity Increases Over the past couple of months, an ongoing story is the Intel shortage. After delays to the 10nm process, the 14nm process supply has become bogged down. In order to meet customer demand, the company has been investing a lot into new fabs and production capacity.…
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