SiPearl's 72-Core Rhea HPC SoC to Be Made Using TSMC's N6 Node By Anton Shilov SiPearl's Rhea SoC for supercomputers will be developed in India, produced in Taiwan.
Lenovo Unveils P40w-20 5K Curved Ultra-Wide Monitor with Thunderbolt 4 & Intel AMT By Anton Shilov Lenovo's P40w-20 5K curved ultra-wide display has TB4, built-in hub, and Intel's AMT.
Sony Preps New VR Headset: Across-The-Board Improvements By Anton Shilov Sony's PlayStation 5 VR headset promises massive improvements, but will not launch in 2021.
Chip Shortages to Persist For at Least Another Year: Analysts By Anton Shilov Imbalance in the semiconductor supply chain is expected to get worse.
Gigabyte Launches EPYC Server With 4 Nvidia A100 By Anton Shilov Gigabyte's G262-ZR0 offers highest GPU compute performance in 2U form-factor
Samsung's S2 Fab Shutdown in Texas Expected to Impact 1% to 2% of 300mm Capacity By Anton Shilov A controlled blackout in Austin, Texas, is expected to have a limited impact on chip supply.
John Carmack Proposes a Way to Fight GPU & Console Shortages By Anton Shilov Game developer proposes 'transparent' auctions to fight hardware shortages.
Vaio Z Laptops Reinvented: Molded Carbon Fiber Chassis, Starts at $3,579 By Anton Shilov Vaio's new Z-series 2.3-pound laptops tap Intel's Tiger Lake-H35 CPU series.
Seven-Screen Aurora A7 Laptop Costs Up to $20,000 By Anton Shilov Expanscape's multi-display Aurora laptops are rather expensive, but the company says demand is still high.
TSMC & Samsung Foundry Could Build Leading-Edge Fabs in Europe By Anton Shilov Europe considers Samsung and TSMC as instruments to achieve digital sovereignty.
Architecture of Chinese Exascale Supercomputer Proposed: 80,000 Hybrid CPUs with 512-Bit Vector Units By Anton Shilov China explores exascale supercomputer architectures, but it needs advanced fabrication process to build hybrid CPUs.
Russia's Elbrus Development: A Homebrew SSD Controller By Anton Shilov Kraftway develops own SSD controller for the Elbrus ecosystem.
842 Chips Per Second: 6.7 Billion Arm-Based Chips Produced in Q4 2020 By Anton Shilov Arm continues to strengthen its position as the world's most widely used processor architecture.
Fanless Music Server for Audiophiles Launched: The Undentia Cirrus7-SE By Anton Shilov Undentia's Cirrus7-SE Music Server is a silent PC which can stream your media and be used like a regular desktop PC.
Activist Hedge Fund Praises Pat Gelsinger as CEO: 'Opportunity Is Enormous' By Anton Shilov Third Point plans to be a long-term shareholder of Intel following the announcement that Pat Gelsinger would take over as CEO.
Intel's Phantom Canyon NUCs: TDPs Hit 150W with Tiger Lake and GeForce By Anton Shilov Intel's NUC 11 for enthusiasts will probably won't get the passive cooling treatment due to high TDPs.
Nvidia's RTX A6000: 48GB of Memory Powers Twice The Performance By Anton Shilov Nvidia's RTX A6000 48GB offers twice the performance compared to other professional graphics cards.
AMD Updates StoreMi: Adds Support for Threadripper Pro, SSD Partitions By Anton Shilov AMD's StoreMi now supports Ryzen Threadripper Pro, WRX80, and SSD partitions.
World's Smallest Tiger Lake: A Pico-ITX with Quad-Core CPU & Iris Xe By Anton Shilov The Commell LP-179 Pico-ITX motherboard enables building UCFF Tiger Lake-based systems.
Extreme SSD Card With 28 GBps Speeds Now Available By Anton Shilov HighPoint's SSD7540 can provide 64TB of storage at 28GB/s.
Silicon Motion: PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller to Debut Next Year By Anton Shilov Silicon Motion to tape out the first PCIe Gen 5 enterprise SSD controller in early 2021.
Reports Of PC HDDs' Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: 139M Shipped in 2020 By Anton Shilov Sales of client HDDs drop, but capacities set records.
Fujistu To Cram 1PB of Storage Into a Single Tape Drive By Anton Shilov Fujifilm to use epsilon iron oxide nanoparticles, focused‐millimeter‐wave‐assisted magnetic recording for future tapes.
The Aurora 7 Is A Seven Screen Laptop Battlestation By Anton Shilov An ultimate desktop replacement notebook comes with seven screens and weighs 12 kilograms.
Intel’s Massive Sapphire Rapids Processor Poses for Camera (Updated) By Anton Shilov Photos of Intel's looming Sapphire Rapids chips have emerged.