ASRock Announces X299 Creator, Steel Legend, Taichi CLX By Thomas Soderstrom Preparing for Cascade Lake X’s extra lanes.
Galax's Work The Frames RTX Graphics Cards Go Cosmic With Celestial Backplate By Zhiye Liu Galax has introduced a new series of graphics cards under the Work The Frames branding. The initial lineup includes custom models for the RTX 2080 Super and RTX 2070 Super.
New AMD Ryzen Microcode Demoed: Reported 1.9 Percent Gain in Boost Clock By Zhiye Liu AMD Ryzen 7 3800X reportedly saw 1.9% improvement in all-core boost clock.
Researchers Find Way to Extend Wi-Fi Range Without New Hardware By Nathaniel Mott Researchers developed software capable of extending the Wi-Fi range of existing devices without requiring any changes to their hardware.
Minecraft With Ray Tracing Will Likely Require RTX 2060 or Better for 1080p at 60 FPS By Niels Broekhuijsen Ouch.
Google Officially Claims Quantum Supremacy, Despite IBM's Objections By Lucian Armasu Google published research saying its 54-qubit quantum computer achieved quantum supremacy. IBM already started disputing the claim earlier this week.
AMD's 64-Core EPYC and Ryzen CPUs Stripped: A Detailed Inside Look By Niels Broekhuijsen If you've ever wanted to see what a 64-core CPU looks like from the inside, here's your chance!
Intel Sues SoftBank-Owned Fortress Over Patent Abuse By Lucian Armasu Intel launched an antitrust lawsuit against Fortress, alleging that the company stockpiled patents for the purpose of forcing technology companies to pay royalties.
Intel to Cut Skylake-X Pricing in Half: Report By Paul Alcorn A German media outlet reports that Intel is halving the price of its Skylake-X processors.
Windows 10 Xbox Game Bar Gets Frame Rate Counter, Achievements By Nathaniel Mott Microsoft updated the Xbox Game Bar with an Achievements overlay and customizable frame rate counter.
Arm Announces Machine Learning Processors For ‘Every Market Segment’ By Lucian Armasu Arm announced the new Ethos-N57 and Ethos-N37 neural processing units targeting mid-range and low-end devices, as well as new GPU and display processor IP.
AMD ROCm Code Suggests BFloat16 Support in Future GPU By Arne Verheyde A GitHub commit to AMD's ROCm GPU software suggests AMD will support the BFloat16 numeric data format for deep learning.
New 4K Philips Monitor Offers RJ-45 Ethernet, USB-C Charging By Ash Puckett The Philips Brilliance 272P7VUBNB is a 4K 27-inch monitor with an interesting docking station.
Intel Linux Graphics Drivers Show Multi-GPU Xe Support By Arne Verheyde The Intel graphics driver work for the Linux 5.5 kernel contains work on multi-GPU support, including handling integrated and discrete graphics concurrently.
Intel's Ice Lake Might Work Its Way Into Desktop PCs By Zhiye Liu Linux kernel patch show signs of Ice Lake desktop chips.
New Firefox Feature Shows You How Many Online Trackers It's Blocked By Nathaniel Mott Firefox will now offer a Privacy Protections report detailing the browser's attempts to block online trackers.
AMD Might Have More 280W EPYC CPUs In The Works By Zhiye Liu AMD Product Master document lists two unknown EPYC Rome processors with a 280W TDP.
Xiaomi Jumps Into Gaming Monitors With 144Hz Curved 34-Incher By Niels Broekhuijsen Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is now making gaming monitors too.
Nvidia's Game Ready for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare By Nathaniel Mott Nvidia released a new Game Ready Driver for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
IBM: No, Google Didn't Achieve Quantum Supremacy By Lucian Armasu Leaked Google research said it'd take a classical supercomputer 10,000 years to complete a particular task. IBM said it did it in 2.5 days.
