Meta is Building New Supercomputer With 16,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs By Aaron Klotz published 24 January 22 Meta (Facebook), is currently building out a new supercomputer called the AI Research SuperCluster. Meta believes RSC will be the fastest supercomputer in the world once completed.
GPU Prices Drop Along With Crypto By Aaron Klotz published 24 January 22 Thanks to imploding cryptocurrency prices for Bitcoin and Ethereum, GPU prices are starting to drop. Even with 10% or larger dips on some cards, however, prices remain extremely inflated.
Alder Lake i7-12700H Shows Impressive Performance at 115W TDP By Aaron Klotz published 24 January 22 Intel's upcoming Alder Lake Core i7-12700H mobile processor shows incredible performance in several new Cinebench results shared on Twitter.
Steam Breaks Records Again: Next Stop, 30 Million Concurrent Users By Mark Tyson published 24 January 22 This popular PC gaming store and platform is going from strength to strength, giving hope that the PC gaming market isn't being too badly affected by hardware supply issues.
Get a 32-inch QHD 144Hz Gaming Monitor for Just $200 — Real Deals By Jason England published 24 January 22 Today, after a $100 discount, you can pick up a 32-inch QHD gaming monitor with 144Hz refresh rate from Westinghouse for just under $200!
Hail Hydro: Bitmain Goes Liquid-Cooled for 198 TH/s Mining Rig By Nathaniel Mott published 24 January 22 Bitmain's new liquid-cooled mining rig, the Antminer S19 Pro+ Hyd, is said to offer up to 198 TH/s of compute power.
Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board Features Circular IPS Display By Ash Hill published 24 January 22 SB Components has teased a new RP2040-based board with GPIO access and a round OLED display.
GPU Supply Hopes Grow as ABF Substrate Shortages Reportedly Ease By Mark Tyson published 24 January 22 A report says that essential semiconductor manufacturing material supply was revealed by industry sources close to ASRock and TUL (PowerColor).
Intel's DG2 Laptop Plans Allegedly Exposed by Leaked Slide By Mark Tyson published 24 January 22 Five laptop Xe-HPG architecture GPUs have their EU counts and VRAM configurations apparently outlined in a leaked slide.
Johnny 5 Iron is Alive: Raspberry Pi Golf Robot Selects Club and Launches it By Ian Evenden published 24 January 22 Voice controlled golf club launcher adds a little danger to the game of golf, thanks to the Raspberry Pi.
Japanese AIBs Revive AMD's Radeon RX 550 for $155 By Mark Tyson published 23 January 22 The "Expert-Oriented" Radeon RX 550 single-slot and low-profile graphics card sells for an equivalent of $155 in Japan. Retailers say there is "sufficient demand for low profile" GPUs.
Intel May Bet on Stacked Forksheet Transistor Tech for Sub-2nm Chips By Francisco Pires published 23 January 22 An Intel patent for stacked forksheet transistors may point the way for increased performance, power efficiency, and density beyond 2 nm - or perhaps even sooner.
Minecraft DDoS Attack Leaves Small European Country Without Internet By Mark Tyson published 23 January 22 Andorran Minecraft SquidCraft Games Twitch tournament participants eliminated after second daily DDoS on nation's only ISP.
GeForce RTX 3050 Pricing Skyrockets Ahead of Release By Aaron Klotz published 23 January 22 Two retailers are preselling Nvidia's "budget" friendly GeForce RTX 3050 8GB for two to three times over MSRP.
Raspberry Pi RP2040 StackyPi is Pi Zero Sized and Supports HATs By Ash Hill published 23 January 22 The new StackyPi Kickstarter promises a Raspberry Pi Zero form factor with added support for regular 40-pin Pi HATs.
Intel Core i5-12400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Face-Off: The Gaming Value Showdown By Paul Alcorn published 23 January 22 We put the Core i5-12400, Ryzen 5 5600X and Ryzen 5 5600G through a six-round fight to see which gaming chip comes out on top.
How To Build a Simon Game with Raspberry Pi Pico By Les Pounder published 23 January 22 The Raspberry Pi Pico is one year old and to celebrate we made a classic game using some NeoPixels, buttons and just a touch of CircuitPython.
AMD 3D V-Cache Benchmarks Show Mixed Results For Milan-X CPUs By Aaron Klotz published 22 January 22 A new review has revealed the performance, latency, and bandwidth capabilities of AMD's 3D V-Cache technology for Zen 3 CPUs.
GeForce RTX 3050 Defeats Radeon RX 6500 XT In Leaked Benchmarks By Mark Tyson published 22 January 22 The new GeForce RTX 3050 looks like it is a very close competitor to the GTX 1660 Ti, but its architecture, DLSS-ability and 8GB VRAM will boost its longevity.
Intel's Core i5-12490F Hits 5.7 GHz With BCLK Overclocking By Anton Shilov published 22 January 22 Overclocker pushes Intel’s Core i5-12490F to 5.7 GHz by hiking up the BCLK, representing a 90% overclock.
