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AMD CEO Lisa Su Has Set Her Sights on Energy Efficiency
Advancements In Power Efficient Computing One of the biggest talking points with enthusiast PC building hardware at the moment is power requirements, primarily with the newest Nvidia Graphics cards with the high-end RTX 3090ti and 4090 reaching an almost 500W TDP. Consumers are desperate for more power-efficient components, especially with…
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Nvidia DRIVE AGX Orin Platform Revealed
Nvidia has just revealed its new Nvidia Drive AGX Orin. It’s their latest advanced software-defined platform for the autonomous vehicle and robotics markets. We know that their hardware has been featured in products from brands like Tesla and Audi in the past, and we expect this will pave the way…
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Intel Acquires Indian SoC Designer to Bolster GPU Development
Accelerating Discrete GPU Plans Intel is acquiring Ineda Systems, a Hyderabad-based, fabless semiconductor company. According to The Times of India, the all-cash deal was sealed last week for an undisclosed amount. Unlike other acquisitions however, this is more of an “acquihire”. Meaning chipzilla is taking on the Indian company due…
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Biostar Launches the A10N-8800E SoC Motherboard
AMD-Based Mini-ITX Board Biostar is introducing the A10N-8800E, a mini-ITX motherboard that uses an AMD System-on-Chip (SoC) solution. It actually integrates the AMD FX-8800P quad-core processor, which is a mobile computing CPU. The result is AMD FX-level performance (up 3.4GHz) with mobile efficiency. Furthermore, it also integrates Radeon R7 graphics…
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AMD Reveal New SOC Design For Ryzen And Vega
AMD Reveal New SOC Design For Ryzen And Vega AMD is, without doubt, one of the market leaders in terms of SOC design. SOC (system-on-a-chip) platforms are exceptionally popular. It is, after all, largely what drives most of the current console market in terms of the combined CPU and GPU…
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ASUS Launches Prime J4005I-C Gemini Lake SoC Motherboard
New Mini-ITX Option with Built-in CPU ASUS is announcing the new Prime J4005I-C mini-ITX mainboard. Unlike other boards, this one does not come with a socketed CPU. Instead, it uses an Intel Gemini Lake J4005 Celeron SoC. So users can readily use it out of the box. It even comes…
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AMD Preparing Ryzen V1000 SoC Against Intel’s Gemini Lake
AMD V1000 SoC is Almost Here It appears that AMD’s long-awaited next generation embedded R-series SoC line is almost here. Naturally, it features the same AMD Zen CPU Core and is part of the Raven Ridge APU family. This pits it in perfect alignment to take on Intel’s current generation…
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Gigabyte Launches Gemini Lake SoC Motherboards
The latest generation of Intel Celeron SoC processors codename “Gemini Lake” are here. Gigabyte even has a new motherboard sporting the new SoC built-in called the J4005N D2P. It is a mini-ITX solution built on a glass fabric PCB with Gigabyte ‘Ultra Durable’ components. Gemini Lake introduces several efficiency improvements…
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Intel Launches Atom C3000 Series System-on-Chip Processors
Intel is due to announce their latest Coffee Lake desktop processors on Monday, August 21, but they are also announcing their new C3000 processors over the weekend. The Atom C3000 processors represent Intel’s 3rd generation Atom System-on-Chip based CPU, manufactured on Intel’s 14nm process technology. They are ideal solutions for…
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Zotac Announces Apollo Lake ZBOX Nano CI327 Mini-PC
Zotac is more or less the source from which all mini PCs originate from and as such it’s only logical for the company to refresh their systems with the latest generation processors. The nano series has the smallest systems and it is in that series that Zotac now announced their new…
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Imagination Technologies Shares Plummet After Being Ditched by Apple
UK chip company Imagination Technologies has seen its shares fall by 70% after Apple revealed that is will stop using the company’s intellectual property in its hardware from 2019 onwards. Apple has used the British outfit’s PowerVR GPUs since its A4 SoC – which powered the iPhone 4 and 4th-gen…
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Qualcomm Releases 205 Mobile Platform Budget LTE SoC
In the last couple of years, mobile SoCs have come a long way. From meagre low clocked single core designs, we now have dual core even quad core chips making their way into budget designs. In an effort to boost the usability of low-cost smartphones, Qualcomm is bringing their LTE…
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Qualcomm Rebrands Snapdragon Away From Just ‘Processors’
For those of you knowledge of smartphone technology, it’s impossible to not know about the Snapdragon processors and their maker Qualcomm. Despite some up and downs, Qualcomm has managed to maintain a strong grip on the smartphone processor market with their Snapdragon SoCs. Despite this success, the company now wants…
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Via Debuts VTS-8589 OPS Card at EW 2017
VIA Technology announced that they will debut and showcase their new VIA VTS-8589 OPS board at the 2017 Embedded World Exhibition and Conference which starts tomorrow. The VTS-8589 is built and optimised for Digital Signage and compliant with Intel’s Open Pluggable Specifications (OPS). The new module can be installed into any OPS…
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AMD Confirms Ryzen APU for 2H 2017
With all of the excitement around the new AMD Ryzen CPUs, it might be easy to forget that the company is also a GPU graphics company as well. One of their crowning achievements was to bring the APU to market, combining the CPU and GPU together. In light of the success…
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