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INTEL CPUs plagued by a new PLATYPUS side-channel attack Vulnerability, company releases microcode update

Posted on: 12 Nov 2020

INTEL CPUs are once again in the limelight when it comes to security vulnerabilities. Recently international security researchers, including a team of experts from the University of Birmingham, discovered a new security vulnerability in Intel processors that makes it possible to access sensitive data using power side-channel attacks.

ASROCK offers backwards compatibility support for ZEN 3 CPUs on budget 300-series motherboards

Posted on: 12 Nov 2020

As you know AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3 Vermeer desktop CPU lineup. AMD released four SKUs based on Zen 3 arch, the Ryzen 5 5600X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 9 5900X and the Ryzen 9 5950X, respectively. As of late, AMD has been dominating in the desktop processor space.

Pirates VR: Jolly Roger is a new VR game from Split Light Studio, coming soon on Steam

Posted on: 11 Nov 2020

Polish game developer Split Light Studio recently dropped a new teaser trailer for its upcoming game Pirate VR: Jolly Roger, which you can view below. This appears to be a new virtual reality pirate game, and it looks pretty good.

AMD discusses RDNA 2 RX 6000-series GPUs’ ray-tracing and super resolution features

Posted on: 11 Nov 2020

In a recent interview with TheStreet, AMD’s Executive Vice President, Computing and Graphics Business Group, Rick Bergman shared some details on the Ray tracing performance, and AMD’s approach to a super sample resolution technique for their upcoming Radeon RX 6000-series RDNA 2 GPU lineup.

Fresh rumors/leaks surface for Nvidia’s Ampere-based RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3060 Ti GPUs [UPDATE]

Posted on: 11 Nov 2020

Nvidia has already released its Ampere lineup of GPUs, and we have been hearing a lot of chatter on the web regarding the company’s plans to counter AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 GPU lineup of cards. Many new SKUs were already rumored before, some also got cancelled, but some of the cards are still on the … Continue reading Fresh rumors/leaks surface for Nvidia’s Ampere-based RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3060 Ti GPUs [UPDATE] →

AMD’s Frank Azor responds to Ryzen 5000-series ZEN 3 desktop CPU shortages; insists this wasn’t a ‘paper launch’

Posted on: 10 Nov 2020

As you may already know AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3-based Vermeer desktop CPU lineup. According to AMD these CPUs will offer much better single-thread performance in PC games. AMD also lifted the review embargo and some third-party gaming benchmarks were also published.

Nvidia rumored to release entry-level RTX 3050 AMPERE gaming GPU sporting 2304 CUDA cores

Posted on: 10 Nov 2020

Nvidia has already released its Ampere lineup of flagship GPUs, and we have been hearing a lot of chatter on the web regarding the company’s plans to counter AMD’s upcoming RDNA 2 gaming cards. Many new SKUs were already rumored before, some also got cancelled, but some of the cards are still in the launch pipeline, sporting … Continue reading Nvidia rumored to release entry-level RTX 3050 AMPERE gaming GPU sporting 2304 CUDA cores →

AMD Ryzen 5000 Zen 3 ‘Vermeer’ CPU die shot pictured, revealing the core topology and architecture

Posted on: 10 Nov 2020

As you know AMD recently announced its Ryzen 5000-series Zen 3-based Vermeer desktop CPU lineup. According to AMD these CPUs will offer better single-thread performance in PC games. AMD also lifted the review embargo and first third-party gaming benchmarks were also published.

Global 300mm semiconductor fabrication plant spending to boom through 2023 says SEMI, 38 new Fabs expected by 2024

Posted on: 09 Nov 2020

According to one recent report by DigiTimes, the semiconductor industry spending is booming, due to increasing demand from the market, and other contributing factors. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has also sparked a surge in semiconductor fab spending.

AMD has no plans for a hybrid CPU Core architecture reminiscent of ARM’s big.LITTLE topology/design

Posted on: 07 Nov 2020

As some of you may already know that Arm’s Big.Little heterogeneous multi-core CPU technology has been quite successful in Google Android-based smartphones. Intel plans to implement similar hybrid CPU core architecture with its upcoming Desktop PC Alder Lake-S CPU lineup, which is going to land up next year.