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ASML has announced it has made a significant development in its multi-beam inspectional tool line. The new eScan1000 moves a single beam scanning process into a nine-beam scanning process, which ASML claims increases the throughput of such tools by up to 600% for in-line defect inspection applications. This tool is suitable for all major process nodes in current production as well as 5nm and beyond.
Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence
2019 was a great year for Arm. On the mobile side of things one could say it was business as usual, as the company continued to see successes with...
177 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
Arm Announces The Mali-G78 GPU: Evolution to 24 Cores
Today as part of Arm’s 2020 TechDay announcements, alongside the release of the brand-new Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 CPUs, Arm is also revealing its brand-new Mali-G78 and Mali-G68 GPU...
34 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
NVIDIA Reports Q1 FY2021 Earnings: Let The Good Times Roll
This week NVIDIA announced their earnings for the first quarter of their 2021 fiscal year. The current fiscal year is an especially important one for NVIDIA on both a...
31 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2020
Gaming AIs: NVIDIA Teaches A Neural Network to Recreate Pac-Man
Following last week’s virtual GTC keynote and the announcement of their Ampere architecture, this week NVIDIA has been holding the back-half of their conference schedule. As with the real...
18 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2020
Hot Chips 32 (2020) Schedule Announced: Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, Jim Keller Keynote
I’ve said it a million times and I’ll say it again – the best industry conference I go to every year is Hot Chips. The event has grown over...
40 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/21/2020
NVIDIA Ampere Unleashed: NVIDIA Announces New GPU Architecture, A100 GPU, and Accelerator
While NVIDIA’s usual presentation efforts for the year were dashed by the current coronavirus outbreak, the company’s march towards developing and releasing newer products has continued unabated. To that...
125 by Ryan Smith on 5/14/2020
AMD Reveals Radeon Pro VII: A Workstation Card For When You Need It All
This morning AMD is taking the wraps off of a new high-end video card aimed at the workstation market, the Radeon Pro VII. True to its namesake, this is...
60 by Ryan Smith on 5/13/2020
NVIDIA Teases Next-Gen GPUs, DGX Hardware Ahead of GTC 2020 Keynote
Among the many events delayed or canceled due to the current coronavirus pandemic is NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference. After a false start, the spring event was rescheduled as...
46 by Ryan Smith on 5/12/2020
Powercolor goes ITX with RX 5600 XT for $299
Small cards and small systems are always exciting to see, especially if there’s an avenue to create a nice PC within a small volume at multiple price points. There...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/12/2020
AMD Reports Q1 2020 Earnings: CPU Sales Fuel Big Gains
As the first quarter 2020 earnings period continues, up next is AMD, who has reported their earnings for the first three months of the year. The company, enjoying an...
11 by Ryan Smith on 4/29/2020
GPUs Unleashed: Intel Releases First Unlocked GPU Driver For OEM Systems
While Intel’s integrated GPUs have made immense strides over the past decade, there’s been one particular legacy they’ve been unable to break free from: OEM driver locking. Due to...
33 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2020
NVIDIA Closes Mellanox Acquisition, Adds High-Speed Networking to Tech Portfolio
Just over a year ago, NVIDIA announced its intentions to acquire Mellanox, a leading datacenter networking and interconnect provider. And, after going through some prolonged regulatory hurdles, including approval...
21 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2020
Khronos Announces OpenCL 3.0: Hitting the Reset Button on Compute Frameworks
Today something is happening for which I’m not sure there’s any parallel for in the computing industry – and certainly, there’s never been anything like it in the GPU...
70 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2020
NVIDIA's GTC 2020 Keynote Is Back On: To Be Broadcast on May 14th
After becoming the victim of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus not once but twice, NVIDIA’s GTC 2020 keynote address has finally been rescheduled. The virtual keynote is now set to be...
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ASRock Unveils Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger ITX 8 GB Graphics Card
ASRock has announced its latest ITX graphics card for small form factors, the Radeon RX 5500 XT Challenger ITX. This new mini-ITX card is based on AMD's Navi 14...
65 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/16/2020
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund: Initial $15m Donation of EPYC and Radeon Hardware
One element to the recent pandemic has been the number of organizations banding together to unite for specific research into SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We are in an era now...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/16/2020
ASUS Launches An Old GPU: The NVIDIA GT 710 with Four 4K HDMI Ports
I've noticed of late that certain companies are 'relaunching' older parts in new designs. We've seen it recently with some of the older AMD APUs finding their way into...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/13/2020
EVGA Announces GeForce RTX 2070 Super KO & RTX 2080 Super KO
Expanding its series from its first KO graphics card in years, EVGA unveiled its GeForce RTX 2060 KO at CES 2020, which made waves as was one of the...
38 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/10/2020
NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6 Released: GDDR6 Reaching Price Parity With GDDR5
Tucked inside NVIDIA’s announcement of their spring refresh of their mobile GPU lineup, the company included a new low-end mobile part, the GeForce GTX 1650 GDDR6. Exactly as it...
34 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2020
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