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Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 XT Pulse Review
I’m a big fan of Sapphire graphics cards and have been for a very long time. I tend to favour their cards when I build an AMD system, and I think my first one was an HD6770, moving through the R9 280X, RX480, and the RX580 series after that and…
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Intel Confirms 7nm CPUs are on Track for 2023
It’s hard to argue that when AMD began transitioning their CPUs to smaller node designs, they backed, generally speaking, the winning horse. – With Intel still plodding along with 14nm (and the several plus marks after) it’s one of the biggest reasons why AMD Ryzen is competitive and, in many…
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Nvidia Rumored to Move Ampere to 7nm TSMC in 2021
It’s not exactly a secret that getting hold of an Nvidia 3090 or 3080 graphics card isn’t exactly easy at the moment. And with the launch of the 3070 and 3060 Ti expected within the next month, we’re not currently anticipating things getting any easier for those new GPUs either.…
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IBM Reveals its Next-Gen 7nm POWER10 Processor
IBM has today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM POWER10. Designed to offer a platform to meet the unique needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM POWER10 processor uses a design focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7 nm…
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TSMC May Not be the Answer To Intel’s Chip Shortages!
Late last week, we received the surprising news that Intel had officially delayed the launch of any of its 7nm processor designs by at least a year. While Intel’s difficulties in transitioning to smaller node production have been well documented since 2017, it was certainly a moderate shock to find…
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Intel 7nm CPUs are Delayed by a Year!
Intel has had a heck of a fight on its hands this last year, with AMD putting more pressure on than ever before. However, it seems things just got even worse for the blue team. Fabrication issues continue to plague their production, and they’ve reported that their firs t7nm nodes…
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AMD to Swap Ryzen 4000 Desktop CPUs from 7nm to 5nm?
Presuming everything is still going according to plan, AMD should be releasing its 4th-generation Ryzen 4000 desktop CPUs before the end of this year. While the platform was largely expected to follow on from the 7nm designs seen in the third-generation, however, rumors are suggesting that Team Red may have…
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Nvidia TSMC Orders Hints at 7nm & 5nm Graphics Cards!
In just over a week’s time, we expect Nvidia to formally launch their new Ampere based 3XXX graphics cards and, with it, also confirm that they will be transitioning their GPU architecture over to a 7nm node design for the platform. In a report via TechSpot, however, this might be…
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Nvidia Rumored to be Working on a 5nm GPU Chip
With the release of the Nvidia 3XXX series of graphics cards expected before the end of this year, we will see team green transition itself to a 7nm design similar to AMD. Of course, the only key difference being that while AMD is still attempting to catch-up to the Nvidia…
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TSMC 3nm Process Aims For 250m Transistors Per mm2
Given that we’ve only really seen the 7nm node design platform for around a year now (technically, on a consumer level, with the launch of the short-lived AMD Radeon VII GPU) we’re clearly more than a few years away from seeing our first 3nm release. In a report via TechPowerUp,…
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TSMC Move Up 3nm ‘Ready’ Date to 2022
With the launch of the AMD Radeon VII earlier this year, we got our first look at the 7nm node design technology which has been utilized further by Team Red with the launch of the 3rd-generation Ryzen processors and most recently the Radeon 5700 (and XT) graphics cards. With one…
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Intel Officially Names its First 7nm Xe Graphics Card
All going well, 2020 is shaping up to be a pretty exciting year as a new player officially enters the arena of graphics card manufacturing. Well, yes, Intel isn’t technically new. It has, however, been a very long time since they expressed any significant interest in the GPU market. Albeit,…
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MSI Alpha Series – The First 7nm Gaming Laptop
MSI has just announced their new Alpha 15 gaming laptop. Equipped with the new AMD Radeon RX 5500M graphics. That makes the Alpha 15 the first gaming laptop to feature 7nm technology! We actually found out about the RX 5500M recently, as it features the same number of cores as…
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 Graphics Cards Announced
It looks like the rumour mill was right on the money this last few weeks. We knew it was going to be made official pretty soon. The mid-range AMD Radeon RX 5500 series is coming very soon. The cards will feature the new 7nm Navi architecture, paired with some GDDR6…
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Nvidia Ampere GPUs Expected in 1H 2020
So the rumours and expectations for Nvidia’s next-next-gen graphics card have begun. I mean, it’s to be expected, if Nvidia weren’t already building the next big thing, they wouldn’t be a very good graphics card manufacturer. Sources have suggested the cards could arrive in the first half of 2020. Personally,…
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