Posts by Metal Messiah:

Intel plans to use “nanoribbon/nanowire” transistor tech within 5 years, going from FinFET to Gate-All-Around design

Posted on: 28 Jun 2020

At this year’s international VLSI conference, Intel CTO Mike Mayberry revealed that the company expects to have new nanowire/nanoribbon transistors in high-volume production within the next five years. Intel is planning to move beyond its current FinFET transistor technology layouts.

AMD’s next-gen Navi 31 references have been spotted in Apple macOS 11’s “Big Sur” OS

Posted on: 27 Jun 2020

Earlier this week Apple introduced its new Big Sur macOS during the WWDC conference. It is named after the coastal region of Big Sur in the Central Coast of California. In a symbolic gesture accompanying Apple’s transition of the Macintosh to a new CPU architecture, the primary version number of the operating system has been … Continue reading AMD’s next-gen Navi 31 references have been spotted in Apple macOS 11’s “Big Sur” OS →

Tokyo Game Show 2020 will go digital this September as an online-only stream event

Posted on: 27 Jun 2020

Japan’s biggest gaming show is still going to happen this September as a digital-only online stream, as reported by Famitsu. The online show will be held from September 23 to 27th. New game titles will be announced by both major and indie Game developers.

Intel’s next-gen “Alder Lake-S” lineup of desktop processors confirmed to support a new LGA1700 socket

Posted on: 27 Jun 2020

If you have been following INTEL’s roadmap, then you must be aware that Intel recently introduced its LGA 1200 socket platform for Comet Lake-S, and also promised to offer support for Rocket Lake-S CPUs. Previously, according to one report posted by Lit-Tech, it was rumored that the LGA 1200 socket would soon be replaced with the arrival … Continue reading Intel’s next-gen “Alder Lake-S” lineup of desktop processors confirmed to support a new LGA1700 socket →

Some photos of Intel’s upcoming “XE graphics family” GPUs have been teased by Raja Koduri

Posted on: 25 Jun 2020

Senior vice president of Intel’s discrete graphics division, Raja Koduri, teased some photos of the “Arctic Sound” Intel Xe discrete graphics processing units on Twitter over here, and under this Tweet.

Select custom AIB RX 5600 XT NAVI GPUs with 14Gbps memory modules are now available for purchase

Posted on: 25 Jun 2020

When the RX 5600 XT GPU was launched there was chaos and confusion amongst reviewers, Retailers, AIBs and gamers like, because AMD made some last minute changes to the specs and parameters of this GPU. It was sort of a messy launch.

Epic Games Store has crossed 61 million monthly active users during “The Vault” free game campaign

Posted on: 24 Jun 2020

Havas Media agency recently partnered with Epic Games Store for the recent game giveaway campaign “The Vault”, which ran from May 14th through June 18th.

Here are the Device IDs for AMD’s upcoming next-gen Ryzen 5000 ‘Cezanne’ APUs

Posted on: 24 Jun 2020

AMD’s next-generation Ryzen 5000 APUs codenamed as “Cezanne” have once again been spotted, but this time with proper device IDs for these chips. AMD Cezanne APUs will fall under the 1638 Device ID and several PCI IDs have been spotted by _Rogame, coming via Komachi.

Google’s Chrome web browser will receive the same “Segment Heap” memory optimizing feature as Edge

Posted on: 24 Jun 2020

Microsoft recently introduced the Windows segment heap memory improvement feature for the Edge browser to reduce high system memory requirements. The company announced major memory usage reductions in its Chromium-based Edge browser on Windows 10 2004 that appear to come from Project Reunion, a new API that attempts to unify Win32 and the Universal Windows … Continue reading Google’s Chrome web browser will receive the same “Segment Heap” memory optimizing feature as Edge →

Intel claims to have ‘superior gaming performance’ over AMD, but compares two different gaming systems

Posted on: 23 Jun 2020

According to some leaked internal marketing slides from INTEL coming via _rogame on twitter, it has come to our attention that Intel has made some very bold claims with regards to the gaming performance of their notebooks equipped with the Core i7-H and similar mobile processors.