DirectStorage Reduces 'Forspoken' Load Times to Less Than Two Seconds By Francisco Pires published 24 March 22 Forspoken developer Luminous Productions showcases the improvements DirectStorage brings to its open-world game - from NVMe SSDs through SATA SSDs and even spinning-disk drives.
U.S. Lifts Chinese Import Tariffs Hitting GPUs, Motherboards By Francisco Pires last updated 24 March 22 Hopefully some hardware prices decrease.
CD Projekt RED Confirms Next "The Witcher" Game Will Use Unreal Engine 5 By Francisco Pires published 21 March 22 The company may shed its in-house RED Engine little by little.
Microsoft Investigating Alleged Lapsus$ Intrusion of AzureDevOps Repositories By Francisco Pires last updated 22 March 22 Another month, another suspected infiltration by the group that previously hit Nvidia, Samsung and others.
Litho Machine Maker Could Be Major Chip Bottleneck Until 2024 By Francisco Pires published 21 March 22 There's a risk some factories will remain shells after their completion.
Microsoft Chooses Exotic "Topological Qubits" as Future of Quantum Computing By Francisco Pires published 20 March 22 Microsoft is taking the road less traveled, hoping it will make all the difference.
Intel Announces "Silicon Junction," an $80 Billion Semiconductor Investment in the EU By Francisco Pires published 15 March 22 EU's share of global semiconductor manufacturing expected to reach 20% by 2030.
Microsoft DirectStorage API Now Available on Windows PCs By Francisco Pires published 15 March 22 But a crucial feature for gaming will take longer to implement.
Intel to Detail Arc Ray-Tracing, XeSS Tech at GDC 2022 By Francisco Pires published 14 March 22 Intel has added several events to its GDC 2022 presentation lineup - one of which may finally shed some light on the company's hardware ray-tracing implementation.
Smuggler Tapes 160 Intel CPUs to Body, Gets Busted Entering China By Francisco Pires last updated 14 March 22 Duct tape may solve every problem in space - but customs are too hard a nut to crack.
Researchers Develop Sidewall Transistor With Atom-Thick Features By Francisco Pires published 11 March 22 "Sidewall" transistors could ultimately prove less complex and more efficient than other options.
Intel Bitcoin Bonanza Chips to Double Giant Mining Farm's Hashrate By Francisco Pires last updated 12 March 22 Intel's blockchain strategy is winning big client contracts.
Intel ARC Alchemist Lineup Gets Tentative May–June 2022 Release Window By Francisco Pires published 8 March 22 Engineering Qualification Samples should be shipping in two weeks
Intel Pivots FPGAs Toward Cryptocurrency With New Agilex M-Series By Francisco Pires last updated 8 March 22 Widening the market appeal of Intel's FPGAs toward the broader blockchain market.
Researchers Unveil Hybrid 512-Qubit Quantum Array With Zero Downtime By Francisco Pires published 7 March 22 Building an array of two different qubit types can be key for quantum scaling.
Gas Used to Make Semiconductors Threatened by Russian Invasion of Ukraine By Francisco Pires last updated 4 March 22 Adding supply bottlenecks for noble gases to the already ugly picture.
Open Source Community Ponders Removing Code Optimizations for Russian Processors By Francisco Pires published 3 March 22 OpenBLAS wants to close itself to Elbrus optimizations - but is it too late already?
Almost a Month Later Contaminated WD, Kioxia NAND Fabs Resume Operations By Francisco Pires published 3 March 22 Almost a month after the contamination was detected.
Amidst Trade War, US May Ask for China's Help to Sanction Russia By Francisco Pires published 2 March 22 One hand takes away, while the other asks for something in return.
Nvidia Hackers Threaten to Release Mining-Limiter Killer By Francisco Pires published 28 February 22 But they also request that Nvidia remove the mining performance limiter itself.
China Makes Crypto Transactions Illegal, Threatens up to 10 Years in Prison By Francisco Pires published 25 February 22 And fines up to RMB 500,000 ($79,000).
AMD CPU Shipments in Japan Sink to 25% of Total, Intel Achieves 74% By Francisco Pires published 22 February 22 AMD's CPU shipments hit their lowest in three years in the Japanese market in January of this year, selling one CPU for every three sold by its arch-rival Intel.
Vendor Warns of Gaming Laptop Supply Bottlenecks, Delayed Launches By Francisco Pires published 21 February 22 Supply issues, COVID, and industrial accidents may affect launches of laptops featuring the latest tech.
Crypto Mining GPU Pricing Plummets as Demand Cools By Francisco Pires published 18 February 22 As Ethereum and crypto prices in general face a downtrend, Sapphire's GPRO X080 mining-specific graphics card has seen its pricing plummet by ~$600 in a single month.
Ampere, Rigetti to Accelerate Hybrid Quantum Computing in HPC Environments By Francisco Pires published 16 February 22 Accelerating cloud-based machine learning and quantum computing deployments.
