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As GPU families enter the later part of their lifecycles, we often see chip manufacturers start to offload stockpiles of salvaged chips that, for one reason or another, didn't make the grade for the tier of cards they normally are used in. These recovered chips are fairly unremarkable overall, but they are unsold silicon that still works and has economic value, leading to them being used in lower-tier cards so that they can be sold. And, judging by the appearance of a new video card design from MSI, it looks like NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace generation of chips has reached that stage, as the Taiwanese video card maker has put out a new GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super card based on a salvaged AD102 GPU. Typically...
NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPUs Set to Ship In 2021, Roadmaps BlueField-3&4 By 2023
Continuing this morning’s run of GTC-related announcements, NVIDIA is offering yet another update on the state of their Data Processing Unit (DPU) project. An initiative inherited from Mellanox as...
12 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2020
Quadro No More? NVIDIA Announces Ampere-based RTX A6000 & A40 Video Cards For Pro Visualization
NVIDIA’s second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang’s “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event. As...
29 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2020
NVIDIA Gives Jetson Nano Dev Kit a Trim: 2GB Model For $59
As part of this morning’s fall GTC 2020 announcements, NVIDIA is revealing that they are releasing an even cheaper version of their budget embedded computing board, the Jetson Nano...
10 by Ryan Smith on 10/5/2020
NVIDIA Delays GeForce RTX 3070 Launch to October 29th
In a brief news post made to their GeForce website last night, NVIDIA has announced that they have delayed the launch of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 video card...
105 by Ryan Smith on 10/2/2020
MinisForum Unveils EliteMini H31G: 65W CPU & 75W GPU in a Compact Mini-PC
MinisForum has been making some interesting moves in the last few months with their computing platforms, ranging from the DMAF5 based on the Ryzen 3000H-series SoCs to the Ice...
3 by Ganesh T S on 9/29/2020
Honor’s First Gaming Laptop: The Hunter V700
With all the political wrangling going on with Huawei and Honor, one product line that both companies seem to be able to push is the laptop and notebook business...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/19/2020
It’s Official: NVIDIA To Acquire Arm For $40 Billion
Following a number of rumors and leaks, NVIDIA this evening announced that it is buying Arm Limited for $40 billion. The cash and stock deal will see NVIDIA buy...
140 by Ryan Smith on 9/13/2020
NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 30 Series: Ampere For Gaming, Starting With RTX 3080 & RTX 3090
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, NVIDIA this morning is announcing the next generation of video cards, the GeForce RTX 30 series. Based upon the gaming...
410 by Ryan Smith on 9/1/2020
The NVIDIA GeForce Special Event 2020 Live Blog (Starts at 9:00 PT/16:00 UTC)
With much anticipation and more than a few leaks, today is NVIDIA's 2020 GeForce Special event. We're expecting the announcement of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 series of cards, based...
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HP Updates The ZBook Lineup With Power And Fury
Today HP is launching updates to their ZBook lineup with the new HP ZBook Fury 15 and 17, and the ZBook Power G7 mobile workstations offering performance, manageability, and...
25 by Brett Howse on 9/1/2020
NVIDIA Confirms 12-pin GPU Power Connector
Today as part of a video showcasing NVIDIA’s mechanical and industrial design of its GPUs, and how it gets a large GPU to dissipate heat, the company went into...
80 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/26/2020
Micron Spills on GDDR6X: PAM4 Signaling For Higher Rates, Coming to NVIDIA’s RTX 3090
It would seem that Micron this morning has accidentally spilled the beans on the future of graphics card memory technologies – and outed one of NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX video...
68 by Ryan Smith on 8/20/2020
NVIDIA Reports Q2 FY2021 Earnings: Datacenter Revenue Surpasses Gaming for the First Time
This afternoon NVIDIA announced their results for the second quarter of their 2021 fiscal year, closing out on an exceptional quarter for the company that set numerous revenue records...
35 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2020
Hot Chips 2020 Live Blog: NVIDIA A100 Performance (5:00pm PT)
Hot Chips has gone virtual this year! Lots of talks on lots of products, including Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, and a special Raja Koduri Keynote...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/17/2020
Update: NVIDIA Teases GeForce Presentation For September 1st - Ampere Inbound?
Update 8/11: A day later, NVIDIA has published a bit more information, clarifying their product teasing and announcement plans. It looks like NVIDIA's Twitter feed jumped the gun a...
49 by Ryan Smith on 8/11/2020
GIGABYTE Updates 4-GPU 2U G242 Server with Rome and PCIe4 for Ampere
As we wait for the big server juggernaut to support PCIe 4.0, a number of OEMs are busy creating AMD EPYC versions to fill that demand for high-speed connectivity...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/6/2020
NVIDIA Launches Rainbow Six: Siege Game Bundle for GeForce RTX 20 Series Cards
Barely a couple of weeks off of their previous Death Stranding game bundle, NVIDIA is back with a new game bundle for GeForce RTX cards. Dubbed the Frames Win...
22 by Ryan Smith on 7/30/2020
NVIDIA and AMD Summer 2020 Video Card Game Bundles: Death Stranding & Godfall
With summer here and the tail-end of at least one series of video cards approaching, both NVIDIA and AMD have launched new video card game bundles in the last...
9 by Ryan Smith on 7/17/2020
Hot Chips 32 (2020) Schedule Announced: Tiger Lake, Xe, POWER10, Xbox Series X, TPUv3, Raja Koduri 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...
65 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/8/2020
NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling
NVIDIA sends word this morning that the company has posted their first DirectX 12 Ultimate-compliant driver. Published as version 451.48 – the first driver out of NVIDIA’s new Release...
63 by Ryan Smith on 6/24/2020
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