Microsoft Is Making Edge Better For Gaming By Andrew E. Freedman published 9 June 22 Microsoft is adding new gaming features to Microsoft Edge, including one that makes streamed games appear more clearly, as well as a homepage dedicated to gaming.
Xbox to Let You Bring Your Games to Cloud Gaming, Adds Smart TV App By Andrew E. Freedman published 9 June 22 Xbox is expanding its cloud gaming to more platforms, more games and new countries.
Intel Tightens Purse, Halts Hiring for Two Weeks By Francisco Pires published 9 June 22 Chip giant Intel has elected to freeze new hirings for its Client Computing Group as part of a series of cost-cutting and strategy review measure.
AMD Finds Another Graphics Card Partner For RDNA 2 GPUs By Anton Shilov published 8 June 22 Weikeng creates a new brand for AMD Radeon graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture.
Chinese Loongson Claims Next-Gen CPU Matches AMD's Zen 3 By Anton Shilov published 8 June 22 Loongson expects its next-generation microarchitecture to match Zen 3's IPC.
Quantum Chip Brings 9,000 Years of Compute Down to Microseconds By Francisco Pires published 8 June 22 Toronto-based Xanadu has claimed quantum advantage for its Borealis Quantum Processing Unit (QPU), a programmable, photonics-based quantum processor.
GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile Kicks Intel's Arc A730M Around By Zhiye Liu published 8 June 22 Bilibili user shares the first review of the Intel Arc A730M mobile graphics card.
Intel Releases Graphics Driver Supporting Arc A730M By Ian Evenden published 8 June 22 Fans of Sniper Elite 5 should be first in the queue for the new mobile graphics chips
Prototype Photonic Chip Reportedly Classifies Nearly 2 Billion Images per Second By Mark Tyson published 8 June 22 If that isn't fast enough, the University of Pennsylvania scientists say that the current chip design would be pushed up to 5x faster using the best commercial fabrication processes.
Microsoft Trying to Kill HDD Boot Drives By 2023: Report By Paul Alcorn published 8 June 22 Industry analyst firm Trendfocus reports that Microsoft is moving to force OEMs to stop using HDDs for boot drives.
Intel's Sapphire Rapids Delayed Yet Again By Anton Shilov published 8 June 22 Intel's volume ramp of its 4th gen Xeon Scalable Sapphire Rapids is taking longer than expected.
Despite Massive Investments, Samsung Chip Businesses Seem to Falter By Anton Shilov published 8 June 22 Samsung's foundry, memory, and LSI businesses appear to be struggling.
Custom LEGO Computer Brick Has Working OLED Display By Ash Hill published 8 June 22 Maker and developer James Brown has brought the computer terminal LEGO brick to life with a custom PCB that uses an ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller and super tiny OLED display.
Purported AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU Delidded By Mark Tyson published 8 June 22 An overclocker reportedly took this photo after delidding a new Ryzen 7000 CPU, ready for some extreme overclocking fun. Hopefully, this means the benchmarks will leak, too.
TSMC: Chip Sales Set to Rise, But Expansion Plans Face Hurdles By Anton Shilov published 8 June 22 TSMC confident of revenue increases, but Arizona fab costs are growing.
Colorful Unchains GeForce GT 1010 With DDR4 to Rival iGPUs By Zhiye Liu published 8 June 22 Colorful quietly launches the GeForce GT 1010 with DDR4 memory.
Nvidia Switches Gears, Chooses Sapphire Rapids Over AMD EPYC By Aaron Klotz published 7 June 22 Nvidia has switched from AMD Zen 3 EPYC chips to Intel's new Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs for its new Hopper DGX H100 AI unit.
Intel Germany Mega Site Gets €6.8bn in European Chips Act Funding By Mark Tyson published 7 June 22 Intel's Magdeburg, Germany mega site will have two fabs producing Intel 20A and better chips for Intel and its Foundry Services customers. It is expected to be fully operational by 2027.
Dell Announces Threadripper 5000 Pro Workstations By Aaron Klotz published 7 June 22 Dell has announced an all-new workstation chassis capable of housing AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 5000WX CPUs and up to twin Nvidia or AMD workstation GPUs.
"We Must Seize TSMC" Urges Senior Chinese Economist By Mark Tyson published 7 June 22 An economist from a China government-run research group warns that TSMC is passing its secrets to the US, and that China must act if Russia-war style sanctions are applied against it.