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MediaTek to Add NVIDIA G-Sync Support to Monitor Scalers, Make G-Sync Displays More Accessible
NVIDIA on Tuesday said that future monitor scalers from MediaTek will support its G-Sync technologies. NVIDIA is partnering with MediaTek to integrate its full range of G-Sync technologies into future monitors without requiring a standalone G-Sync module, which makes advanced gaming features more accessible across a broader range of displays. Traditionally, G-Sync technology relied on a dedicated G-sync module β based...
Published on: August 20, 2024 | Source:
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Qualcomm Adds Snapdragon 7s Gen 3: Mid-Tier Snapdragon Gets Cortex-A720 Treatment
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcommβs down-market βSβ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family β and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes...
Published on: August 20, 2024 | Source:CXL Gathers Momentum at FMS 2024
The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from 'Flash Memory Summit' to the 'Future of Memory and Storage' this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1's introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having started off as a host to device interconnect standard, it had slowly subsumed other competing standards such as...
Published on: August 19, 2024 | Source:Fadu's FC5161 SSD Controller Breaks Cover in Western Digital's PCIe Gen5 Enterprise Drives
When Western Digital introduced its Ultrastar DC SN861 SSDs earlier this year, the company did not disclose which controller it used for these drives, which made many observers presume that WD was using an in-house controller. But a recent teardown of the drive shows that is not the case; instead, the company is using a controller from Fadu, a South Korean company founded in 2015 that specializes on enterprise-grade...
Published on: August 15, 2024 | Source:PCI-SIG Demonstrates PCIe 6.0 Interoperability at FMS 2024
As the deployment of PCIe 5.0 picks up steam in both datacenter and consumer markets, PCI-SIG is not sitting idle, and is already working on getting the ecosystem ready for the updats to the PCIe specifications. At FMS 2024, some vendors were even talking about PCIe 7.0 with its 128 GT/s capabilities despite PCIe 6.0 not even starting to ship yet. We caught up with PCI-SIG to get some updates on its activities and have...
Published on: August 15, 2024 | Source:DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs
The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia, and Western Digital serving the cloud service providers (CSPs) and the likes of Facebook, a number of companies have been at work...
Published on: August 15, 2024 | Source:Phison Enterprise SSDs at FMS 2024: Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI
At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their tie-up with Seagate for the X1 series (and the subsequent Nytro-branded enterprise SSDs) is quite...
Published on: August 15, 2024 | Source:Intel Sells Its Arm Shares, Reduces Stakes in Other Companies
Intel has divested its entire stake in Arm Holdings during the second quarter, raising approximately $147 million. Alongside this, Intel sold its stake in cybersecurity firm ZeroFox and reduced its holdings in Astera Labs, all as part of a broader effort to manage costs and recover cash amid significant financial challenges. The sale of Intel's 1.18 million shares in Arm Holdings, as reported in a recent SEC filing,...
Published on: August 14, 2024 | Source:The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9900X Review: Flagship Zen 5 Soars - and Stalls
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first twodesktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latestZen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month, the Ryzen AI 300 series (which we reviewed). Today, AMD is launching the remaining two Ryzen 9000 SKUs first...
Published on: August 14, 2024 | Source:G.Skill Intros Low Latency DDR5 Memory Modules: CL30 at 6400 MT/s
G.Skill on Tuesday introduced its ultra-low-latency DDR5-6400 memory modules that feature a CAS latency of 30 clocks, which appears to be the industry's most aggressive timings yet for DDR5-6400 sticks. The modules will be available for both AMD and Intel CPU-based systems. With every new generation of DDR memory comes an increase in data transfer rates and an extension of relative latencies. While for the vast...
Published on: August 13, 2024 | Source:Samsung's 128 TB-Class BM1743 Enterprise SSD Displayed at FMS 2024
Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a 4.1x improvement in I/O performance, improvement in data retention, and a 45% improvement in power efficiency for sequential...
Published on: August 13, 2024 | Source:Kioxia Demonstrates Optical Interface SSDs for Data Centers
A few years back, the Japanese government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO ) allocated funding for the development of green datacenter technologies. With the aim to obtain up to 40% savings in overall power consumption, several Japanese companies have been developing an optical interface for their enterprise SSDs. And at this year's FMS, Kioxia had their optical interface on...
Published on: August 13, 2024 | Source:Silicon Motion Demonstrates Flexible Data Placement on MonTitan Gen 5 Enterprise SSD Platform
At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline - ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized for different stages of the pipeline. At the same time,...
Published on: August 13, 2024 | Source:Rapidus Wants to Offer Fully Automated Packaging for 2nm Fab to Cut Chip Lead Times
One of the core challenges that Rapidus will face when it kicks off volume production of chips on its 2nm-class process technology in 2027 is lining up customers. With Intel, Samsung, and TSMC all slated to offer their own 2nm-class nodes by that time, Rapidus will need some kind of advantage to attract customers away from its more established rivals. To that end, the company thinks they've found their edge: fully...
Published on: August 13, 2024 | Source:Kioxia Demonstrates RAID Offload Scheme for NVMe Drives
At FMS 2024, Kioxia had a proof-of-concept demonstration of their proposed a new RAID offload methodology for enterprise SSDs. The impetus for this is quite clear: as SSDs get faster in each generation, RAID arrays have a major problem of maintaining (and scaling up) performance. Even in cases where the RAID operations are handled by a dedicated RAID card, a simple write request in, say, a RAID 5 array would involve...
Published on: August 12, 2024 | Source:Western Digital Introduces 4 TB microSDUC, 8 TB SDUC, and 16 TB External SSDs
Western Digital's BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND is being put to good use in a wide range of client and enterprise platforms, including WD's upcoming Gen 5 client SSDs and 128 TB-class datacenter SSD. On the external storage front, the company demonstrated four different products: for card-based media, 4 TB microSDUC and 8 TB SDUC cards with UHS-I speeds, and on the portable SSD front we had two 16 TB drives. One will be a...
Published on: August 12, 2024 | Source:The Noctua NH-D15 G2 LBC Cooler Review: Notoriously Big, Incredibly Good
When you buy a retail computer CPU, it usually comes with a standard cooler. However, most enthusiasts find that the stock cooler just does not cut it in terms of performance. So, they often end up getting a more advanced cooler that better suits their needs. Choosing the right cooler isn't a one-size-fits-all deal β it is a bit of a journey. You have to consider what you need, what you want, your budget, and how much...
Published on: August 12, 2024 | Source:Kioxia Details BiCS 8 NAND at FMS 2024: 218 Layers With Superior Scaling
Kioxia's booth at FMS 2024 was a busy one with multiple technology demonstrations keeping visitors occupied. A walk-through of the BiCS 8 manufacturing process was the first to grab my attention. Kioxia and Western Digital announced the sampling of BiCS 8 in March 2023. We had touched briefly upon its CMOS Bonded Array (CBA) scheme in our coverage of Kioxial's 2Tb QLC NAND device and coverage of Western Digital's 128...
Published on: August 12, 2024 | Source:Intel Publishes First Microcode Update for Raptor Lake Stability Issue, BIOSes Going Out Now
Following Intelβs run of financial woes and Raptor Lake chip stability issues, the company could use some good news on a Friday. And this week theyβre delivering just that, with the first version of the eagerly awaited microcode fix for desktop Raptor Lake processors β as well as the first detailed explanation of the underlying issue. The new microcode release, version 0x129, is Intelβs first stab at addressing the...
Published on: August 09, 2024 | Source:Phison Introduces E29T Gen 4 Controller for Mainstream Client SSDs
At FMS 2024, Phison gave us the usual updates on their client flash solutions. The E31T Gen 5 mainstream controller has already been seen at a few tradeshows starting with Computex 2023, while the USB4 native flash controller for high-end PSSDs was unveiled at CES 2024. The new solution being demonstrated was the E29T Gen 4 mainstream DRAM-less controller. Phison believes that there is still performance to be eked out...
Published on: August 09, 2024 | Source:U.S. Signs $1.5B in CHIPS Act Agreements With Amkor and SKhynix for Chip Packaging Plants
Under the CHIPS & Science Act, the U.S. government provided tens of billions of dollars in grants and loans to the world's leading maker of chips, such as Intel, Samsung, and TSMC, which will significantly expand the country's semiconductor production industry in the coming years. However, most chips are typically tested, assembled, and packaged in Asia, which has left the American supply chain incomplete....
Published on: August 09, 2024 | Source:Intel Postpones Innovation 2024 Event, Cites Poor Finances
As Intel looks to streamline its business operations and get back to profitability in the face of weak revenues and other business struggles, nothing is off the table as the company looks to cut costs into 2025 β not even Intelβs trade shows. In an unexpected announcement this afternoon, Intel has begun informing attendees of its fall Innovation 2024 trade show that the event has been postponed. Previously scheduled...
Published on: August 08, 2024 | Source:Microchip Demonstrates Flashtec 5016 Enterprise SSD Controller
Microchip recently announced the availability of their second PCIe Gen 5 enterprise SSD controller - the Flashtec 5016. Like the 4016, this is also a 16-channel controller, but there are some key updates: PCIe 5.0 lane organization: Operation in x4 or dual independent x2 / x2 mode in the 5016, compared to the x8, or x4, or dual independent x4 / x2 mode in the 4016. DRAM support: Four ranks of DDR5-5200 in the 5016,...
Published on: August 08, 2024 | Source:Sling TV Review: The Best Budget Live TV Streaming Service
Sling TV Blue offers cord-cutters a wealth of live channels for an affordable price, but you may need to bring your own antenna.
Published on: August 01, 2024 | Source:2022 GMC Hummer EV Pickup Review: One-Trick Pony
After the allure of the Hummer's physics-defying acceleration wears off, there isn't a whole lot left to love.
Published on: January 02, 2023 | Source:Amazon Fire TV Stick Lite Review: Capable Streamer, Cheap Price
The first ultrabudget streamer with a voice remote talks circles around Roku.
Published on: December 19, 2022 | Source:2023 Land Rover Range Rover Review: Running Out of Room for Improvement
The latest generation of the ubiquitous luxury SUV is damn near perfect.
Published on: December 14, 2022 | Source:Roku Streambar Review: Instant Sound and 4K Streaming Upgrade
Editor's Choice: This tiny bar adds great 4K HDR streaming, and solid sound, to any TV.
Published on: December 04, 2022 | Source:Anker Nebula Mars II Pro Review: Petite Portable Projector Performs Proficiently
Editor's Choice: This tiny, battery-powered entertainment machine does a lot of things right.
Published on: December 01, 2022 | Source:BenQ HT2050A Review: Great (Big) Picture for the Money
Editor's Choice: Excellent contrast, accurate color and solid features make it our favorite sub-$1,000 projector for 2020.
Published on: December 01, 2022 | Source:Epson Home Cinema 5050UB: Big, Bold and Beautiful
Editor's Choice: A higher-end projector worthy of the "home cinema" moniker.
Published on: November 30, 2022 | Source:2023 BMW iX M60 Review: Electric Excess, Not Necessarily the Best
The more powerful spec of BMW's iX electric SUV is certainly quicker than the base model, but that extra oomph comes at too high a cost.
Published on: November 24, 2022 | Source:LG C2 OLED TV Review: Best High-End TV for the Money
The C2 sets the pace for 2022 with superb picture quality, numerous sizes and a track record of success.
Published on: November 15, 2022 | Source:Blink Mini Review: A Low-Cost Camera With Pan-Tilt Mount Now Available
Available in black or white, Amazon's Blink Mini sports many features for a reasonable price.
Published on: October 21, 2022 | Source:2023 BMW i4 M50 Review: Treat Yo' Self
You don't need to pay more for dual-motor i4 M50 to have a good time, but it's hard to argue with more power and fun.
Published on: October 14, 2022 | Source: