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(PR) Microsoft launches Windows 11 a day early

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:26:54 +0000

Windows 11: A new era for the PC begins today Today marks an exciting milestone in the history of Windows. As the day becomes October 5 in each time zone around the world, availability of Windows 11 begins through a free upgrade on eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs pre-installed with Windows 11 that can be purchased beginning today. Windows is a driving force for innovation. It’s an enduring platform for each one of us to create. And its home for over a billion people to do their jobs, live their dreams and connect with the people they love....

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(PR) ASUS and Noctua announce GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:11:38 +0000

ASUS and Noctua announce ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition graphics card Taipei/Vienna, October 4th 2021 – ASUS and Noctua today announced the ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition: the world’s first graphics card to use Noctua fans and a tailored heatsink that has been co-engineered by Noctua. Allowing for a reduction in noise levels of up to 15dB(A), this refined cooling setup makes the Noctua Edition the quietest card in its class and the perfect choice for customers who demand serious GPU performance without sacrificing quietness of operation. “Using our extensive thermal R&D experience, we’ve created a new GPU...

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Samsung confirms its next-gen Exynos SoC with AMD RDNA2 GPU will support ray tracing

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:57:22 +0000

Samsung Exynos 2200 with ray tracing support The upcoming chip for Samsung Galaxy S and A 2022 series will feature ray tracing acceleration. AMD and Samsung announced a partnership to bring Radeon graphics to ultra-mobile form factor. The next-generation Samsung Exynos, the in-house design of System on a Chip, will be equipped with an RDNA2-based graphics subsystem. On Weibo (a Chinese media platform) official account for Samsung Exynos confirmed that the next-gen Exynos will support ray tracing technology. This likely means that the chip will be capable of hardware acceleration of ray tracing to some degree. The RDNA2 GPU in...

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NVIDIA rumored to launch RTX 3090 SUPER, RTX 3070 Ti 16GB and RTX 2060 12GB in January

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 08:07:56 +0000

NVIDIA preparing new graphics cards for the January launch According to a Tweet by hongxing2020, NVIDIA will indeed launch RTX 3090 SUPER early next year. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announcing RTX 3090, Source: NVIDIA The tweet claims it is true NVIDIA is launching RTX 3090 SUPER, an updated flagship model with full GA102 GPU, and RTX 2060 12GB a refreshed Turing mid-range GPU with twice the memory. Furthermore, the report claims that NVIDIA will be updating RTX 3070 Ti with 16GB memory, something that we have not heard about yet. NVIDIA will therefore be updating three SKUs representing each tier in...

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Dutch Amazon begins listing Intel Core i9-12900K at 847 EUR, other Alder Lake CPUs listed as well

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:43:42 +0000

Amazon confirms retail packaging design for Alder Lake CPUs Dutch Amazon has started listing 12th Gen Core Intel CPUs. The flagship 16-core CPU named Core i9-12900K is now listed at 847 EUR with 21% VAT. A Core i7-12700K model is now offered for 641 EUR while Core i5-12600K has a price tag of 324 EUR. Those are all K-series models with integrated GPUs enabled. The listings only mention clocks of 3.2 GHz for 12900K, 3.6 GHz for 12700K, and 3.7 GHz for 12600K. It is unclear what those clocks are because they do not match rumored base clocks for Efficient...

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Intel Alder Lake-P featuring up to 14 cores, DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 support listed in leaked roadmap

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 06:51:06 +0000

Intel 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake" mobile with DDR5 memory A roadmap featuring Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M series has been published by Wccftech. Intel partners are set to being the production of Alder Lake-P laptops by the beginning of November, a leaked roadmap suggests. The roadmap actually lists two 12th Gen Core mobile series: Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M, the first being a higher-end version targeting 12W to 45W SKUs, whereas the latter is 7W to 15W. System integrators (OEMs, laptop makers) might start production of the Alder Lake-P series on the 45th week which starts on November 8th....

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Biostar teases its Valkyrie and Racing Z690 motherboards

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 06:19:47 +0000

Biostar to launch Racing and Valkyrie Z690 motherboards The company became the first to tease its upcoming products featuring LGA1700 socket. There is still no sign of the upcoming release from ASUS, Gigabyte, or MSI, but Biostar is ready to show its new motherboards for the Intel Alder Lake CPU series. Biostar did not confirm the specifications or even the full design of their new motherboards, but we do learn that these are from Valkyrie and Racing series. What is also unclear is whether these are DDR4 or DDR5 boards, as it is hard to guess from the posted teaser....

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Intel Core i9-12900K ES2 engineering sample pictured up close, 16 cores up to 4.5 GHz

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 02:38:56 +0000

Intel Alder Lake i9-12900K "ES2" YuuKi_AnS purchased one of the engineering samples that are now being offered on the Chinese second-hand market. Intel Core i9-12900K ES2, Source: YuuKi_AnS The QX7H is a pre-release engineering sample known as ES2 with clock speeds from 3.5 GHz to 4.5 GHz, according to YuuKi himself. This processor is actually the flagship Core i9-12900K model, except it is not shown in the system as such, but probably shows up as something like Intel 0000. This sample is actually an identical model which was posted by Linus Tech Tips on social media. The photo has already...

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Intel Arc Alchemist reference desktop card shown in new renders, rumored to launch in Q2 2022

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 02:15:24 +0000

Renders of Intel Arc Alchemist series Intel reference cooler for the upcoming Alchemist series has been shown in more detail. Intel desktop Arc Alchemist reference design, Source: Moore's Law is Dead What is typically popular for mobile phone leaks has now reached the graphics card market. Moore's Law is Dead asked a friend to render a quick animation featuring Intel Arc Alchemist reference cooler to show the card up close. Typically we do not see reference cards until a week or month before release, but this time we get to see the reference cooler months ahead of launch. The design...

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Intel Core i9-12900K spotted running alongside overclocked DDR5-8000 memory

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:16:15 +0000

Intel Alder Lake with overclocked DDR5 memory to 8000 MT/s CPU-Z screenshots featuring Intel Core i9-12900K running alongside overclocked DDR5 memory have been posted by REHWK on Twitter. This is not the first time REWHK is sharing a leak featuring Intel Core i9-12900K. The leaker already confirmed the rumors that the CPU will be able to cross 30K points in the multi-threaded Cinebench R23 test. This time around he is sharing a screenshot from CPU-Z software featuring Gigabyte's own DDR5-6200 memory kit (possibly AORUS branded). The memory was overclocked to 8000 MT/s according to the screenshots. The system was equipped...

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5000 “Chagall” now rumored to launch next year

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 09:09:12 +0000

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 5000 next year? Another month another rumor about Threadripper 5000. Enthusiasts waiting for AMD's HEDT platform update since November 2019, when the last Threadripper series launched, might actually need to wait another 3 months. According to AMD leaker Greymon55, the company is not expected to launch its Threadripper this year. The news comes after numerous reports about Threadripper 5000 launch dates, seemingly being delayed again and again. The latest rumor put the HEDT series codenamed "Chagall" launching in November, but this date may no longer be accurate. Chagall seems to be delayed again, probably next year. —...

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Intel Core i9-12900K and Core i7/i5 Alder Lake series packaging has been leaked

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:54:55 +0000

Photos of Intel Alder Lake CPU packaging leaks out We received photos featuring Intel's upcoming 12th Gen Core packaging. At this moment it does not appear that any of the Core i9/i7/i5 K and KF-series CPUs launching in November will be bundled with a reference cooler. While Intel Alder Lake flagship SKU will indeed feature a unique packaging design, the rest of the series will use a standard-sized packaging that we have already seen with the previous series. The Core i9-12900K packaging features a small wafer, possibly as a display element. It is of course not a real wafer, but...

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Intel Core i9-12900K samples are already available on the Chinese black market for 700 USD

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 20:26:17 +0000

Intel Alder Lake-S engineering samples on sale in China What was happening on closed forums for a few weeks now, has now spread to public platforms. Intel 12th Gen Core CPUs are now available on the black market, as discovered by @yuuki_ans. Intel Alder Lake engineering samples, Source: Taobabo Intel supplies thousands of engineering samples prior to each launch to system integrators, OEMs, and motherboard makers. Eventually, a number of those chips are offered on the black market. This is not really happening unbeknownst to Intel, the company is well aware of the CPUs being sold before launch. However, the...

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(PR) Intel announces Loihi 2, a neuromorphic chip based on Intel 4 process technology

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:41:45 +0000

Intel Advances Neuromorphic with Loihi 2, New Lava Software Framework and New Partners Second-generation research chip uses pre-production Intel 4 process, grows to 1 million neurons. Intel adds open software framework to accelerate developer innovation and path to commercialization. What’s New: Today, Intel introduced Loihi 2, its second-generation neuromorphic research chip, and Lava, an open-source software framework for developing neuro-inspired applications. Their introduction signals Intel’s ongoing progress in advancing neuromorphic technology. “Loihi 2 and Lava harvest insights from several years of collaborative research using Loihi. Our second-generation chip greatly improves the speed, programmability, and capacity of neuromorphic processing, broadening its...

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Lenovo Legion 9000K is officially the first gaming PC with 12th Gen Core Alder Lake CPU

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:30:21 +0000

Legion 9000K desktop PC features Intel Alder Lake CPU with PCIe Gen5 and DDR5 support Lenovo today announces its new gaming desktop PC will launch on October 29th. It appears that Lenovo is the first company to announce the Intel Alder Lake system. The company revealed that their Legion 9000K 2022 PC will feature 12th Gen CPU, but does not mention Intel directly in the marketing picture. The Legion 9000K 2022 will support DDR5 memory as well as PCIe 5.0 which means it likely ships with an Intel Z690 motherboard. The GPU featured in the marketing slide is GeForce RTX...

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Forza Horizon 5 PC requirements list GeForce RTX 3080 and Radeon RX 6800 XT under ideal spec

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 10:48:58 +0000

Minimum requirements list GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 470 Xbox Game Studios revealed the minimum, recommended, and ideal specs for Forza Horizon 5. According to the chart prepared by the developer, the game will require a GeForce GTX 970 with 3.5 GB VRAM as a minimum. Alternatively, an all-AMD system is provided with Radeon RX 470. For the game to work, at least Ryzen 3 1200 or Core i5-4460 CPUs are needed. Recommended specifications include graphics cards with at least 8GB of VRAM, such as Radeon RX 590 or GeForce GTX 1070. An ideal specs, which in this case...

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ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 with Noctua cooling has been pictured

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:37:07 +0000

ASUS x NOCTUA graphics card is BROWN We finally have the first pictures of ASUS graphics cards designed with collaboration with Noctua. On the ASUS ROG Vietnam page, a sales representative shared what appear to be the first renders of the upcoming Noctua design. The first indication that ASUS is even working with Noctua, an Austrian cooling technology manufacturer, appeared last month when the card has hit the Eurasian Economic Commission website. We have heard that the renders of these cards are floating around the web, but thus far we have not seen any photos. It looks like the effects...

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(PR) ADATA industrial DDR5-4800 memory to enter mass production

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:16:59 +0000

ADATA Industrial Launches Industrial-Grade DDR5 Memory Driving the future of high-speed computing, 5G, and other emerging applications Taipei, Taiwan – Oct.4, 2021 – ADATA Technology (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 3260.TWO), a leading manufacturer of high-performance DRAM modules, NAND Flash products, and mobile accessories today announces the launch of a new generation of industrial-grade DDR5 memory modules that offer a major leap forward in performance. They are geared toward assisting the development of 5G, AI, Edge Computing, High-Performance Computing, Automated Vehicles, and Smart Healthcare, to name a few. According to Yole Developments, DDR5 memory shipments will exceed DDR4 by 2023 and DDR5...

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(PR) NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to unveil new AI technologies and products at GTC Keynote in November

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:24:30 +0000

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to Unveil New AI Technologies, Products in GTC Keynote; Hundreds of Industry and AI Leaders to Speak at November Event Top Speakers for Nov. 8-11 Conference Include Stanford’s Fei-Fei Li, Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney, Apple’s Samy Bengio, OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC -- NVIDIA today announced that it will host a global, virtual GTC from Nov. 8-11, featuring a news-filled keynote by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and talks from some of the world’s preeminent AI research and industry leaders. Huang’s keynote will be livestreamed on Nov. 9...

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(PR) AMD’s new goal is to increase energy efficiency by 30x in AI and HPC by 2025

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 13:21:22 +0000

AMD Announces Ambitious Goal to Increase Energy Efficiency of Processors Running AI Training and High Performance Computing Applications 30x by 2025 High-performance AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ accelerators target delivering unprecedented advance in energy efficiency for Artificial Intelligence training and Supercomputing applications SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a goal to deliver a 30x increase in energy efficiency for AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct accelerators in Artificial Intelligence (AI) training and High Performance Computing (HPC) applications running on accelerated compute nodes by 2025.1 Accomplishing this ambitious goal will require AMD to increase the energy efficiency...

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(PR) be quiet! announces free Intel LGA1700 mounting kits for compatible CPU coolers

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:16:20 +0000

Inside be quiet! With the Intel® LGA-1700 socket, new times are dawning for Intel® desktop CPUs and CPU coolers. be quiet! coolers become compatible. Intel® LGA-1700 – All new? At CES 2021, Intel® announced their new socket LGA-1700. The matching CPUs, which are expected to be available in 2021, will follow a new hybrid architecture and should be more powerful than previous generations through the use of high-performance and efficiency cores. This time, the new architecture also has a direct effect on the appearance, as it features an additional 500 contacts compared to its predecessor (which is why the number...

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Emtek launches Diablo 2 Resurrected inspired GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3070 Ti graphics cards

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:09:24 +0000

Emtek RTX 30 with Diablo 2 Resurrected theme South Korean Emtek introduces game-inspired graphics cards. The company introduces two models: RTX 3060 and RTX 3070 Ti. The company did not state whether the RTX 3060 model is LHR, but assuming that it launches 4 months since the introduction of the series, it simply cannot be anything else. The dual-fan card is actually based on the Storm X Dual OC model, with a new fan sticker and default orange LED color (the lighting is capable of displaying all colors though). The RTX 3060 card, therefore, offers a full-custom solution with factory-overlock...

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Intel Core i9-12900 CPU spotted alongside ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme motherboard

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:43:55 +0000

Intel Alder Lake i9-12900 non-K sample tested An engineer at ASUS HQ forgot to unplug a benchmarked system from the Internet. While the specifications of Intel Core i9-12900K are pretty much known at this point, there is not much data on the non-K variant, which is feature-reduced TDP to 65W (the K-series are 125W). It appears that the CPU has just appeared on UserBenchmark where a Taiwanese user used an ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme motherboard, the flagship DDR5-memory based platform to test the CPU. It is worth noting that this is by no means a full-fledged benchmark, the system...

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Silicon Lottery store which was offering prebinned Intel and AMD CPUs is shutting down

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:59:51 +0000

Silicon Lottery, a specialized webstore offering prebinned CPUs is shutting down After years of operation, prested and often delidded CPUs from Silicon Lottery are a thing of the past. Just a month away from Intel launching its Alder Lake processor series, the retailer announced that it is shutting down its service. The company says that the store had to be shut down for a combination of reasons, mainly the fact that current Intel K-series CPUs are already prebinned by the manufacturer and offered as different SKUs. This severely limits the lottery part, because customers are already offered a faster and...

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Battlefield 2042 minimum PC requirements list GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 560

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:09:44 +0000

Here's what you need to run Battlefield 2042 open beta EA/Dice's latest installment in the Battlefield series will require a quad-core CPU at a minimum and NVIDIA Pascal/AMD Polaris series GPU. The game developer revealed the minimum and recommended specs for its upcoming title. The game will only run on 64-bit Windows 10. Although the beta launches nearly on the same day as Windows 11, the latest operating system is not mentioned in the recommended requirements. It appears that minimum specs will require at least Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i5-6600K CPU. In terms of graphics, NVIDIA "Pascal" GeForce GTX...

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AMD CEO Lisa Su expects chip shortages to ease in the second half of 2022

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:33:41 +0000

Chip shortages are to continue in early 2022 but should ease in the second half of the year AMD CEO and President Dr. Lisa Su took part in Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California. During an on-stage interview with Code Conference producer Kara Swisher and CNBC tech reporter Jon Fortt, Dr. Lisa Su spoke about silicon and component shortages that have struck the PC market since the COVID-19 pandemic had begun in late 2019. Nearly a year after the prices of chips have skyrocketed, gamers and hardware enthusiasts are struggling to find processors, graphics cards, and gaming consoles at reasonable...

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Sapphire RX 6600 Pulse with 8GB memory pictured and listed at 590 EUR, launches October 13th

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 13:01:24 +0000

Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 non-XT for 590 EUR Portuguese retailer lists Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 PULSE graphics card ahead of launch. Sapphire is soon to launch a dual-fan model (11310-01-20G) called Radeon RX 6600 Pulse. This model is actually even smaller than the XT PULSE variant from Sapphire, making it the smallest RDNA2 card the company had released thus far. Sapphire Radeon RX 6600 non-XT PULSE, Source: PCDIGA The retailer has the card listed at 589.90 EUR with an expected stock date of September 28th. The card is not expected to go on sale till October 13th though as we...

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AMD CEO Lisa Su awarded with IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 12:43:35 +0000

Dr. Lisa Su was awarded Robert N. Noyce Medal, the most prestigious semiconductor industry award Just a month after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang received the Robert N. Noyce Award from SIA (Semiconductor Industry Association), AMD CEO Lisa Su has become the first woman to receive a similarly named award from IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). Robert N. Noyce medal is just one of the many awards the IEEE honors people in the semiconductor industry. It is worth noting that this award is not the same award that was the one that was awarded to Jensen Huang a month...

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Intel Arc graphics card with DG2-128 GPU might feature 6GB memory, leaked photo suggests

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:54:16 +0000

Intel DG2-128EU, the entry-level desktop card pictured with 6GB memory A blurry photo of an alleged Intel DG2-128 discrete desktop graphics card from the Alchemist a### series has just been posted on Chiphell. The photo appears to match the official and unofficial pictures of the DG2 family. Intel already revealed the design of its entry-level DG2-128EU GPU, alongside the flagship 512EU model. Both dies are not centered on the GPU package, which might make the custom cooling solution design a bit more complicated for the board partners. The leaker claims that the card is very short and has a typical...

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MSI has just confirmed Intel Alder Lake CPU launch date (November 4th)

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:56:13 +0000

MSI confirms Intel Alder Lake launch date According to the MSI LGA1700 upgrade kit promo, Intel's 12th Gen Core launch date is November 4th. MSI today announced a free upgrade kit for Intel LGA1700 CPUs and their Coreliquid CPU coolers. The press release did not mention any dates, but the form, which must be used to apply for a free upgrade kit, will only be available on November 4th, which made us curious why. We have quickly reached out to our sources who confirmed that Intel Alder Lake-S will be available on November 4th. This date is attached to the...

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