Apple is increasingly focusing on building its own devices and expanding its ecosystem by taking steps towards a more native experience for users and relying less on third-party accessories. While the Cupertino-based tech giant's HomePod and AppleTV have left quite the mark in the smart home category, it generally relies more on outsourcing cameras and other hardware for smart homes. Now, a new report suggests that the company intends to create a fully integrated experience by developing its own smart home accessories. Gurman hints about Apple working on making smart home products like security cameras for a more integrated experience […]
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Blizzard has announced that two decades after its release, World of Warcraft is finally going to let players build a home and live in it. The feature has long been requested by WoW players and now it’s finally coming in the game’s next expansion.Read m...
Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds will receive the Godspawn update, adding a new 50-player boss battle, a new 10-player raid, and a legendary spear. Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds is getting the first major update "Godspawn" on November 19th, expanding the story with new story chapters The MMORPG Guild Wars 2 by ArenaNet is receiving its first major update for the Janthir Wilds expansion soon. It's the first of three major updates, and it'll land on November 19. The update will add new content to the game for the players. The Janthir Wilds expansion DLC was released in August this year, […]
Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPU has been delidded, revealing the rather elegant CPU die design & validating the possibility of using direct die cooling technologies. Intel's Arrow Lake SKU Gets Delidded Before Official Launch, Showing Us The Tile Configuration Changes Made Someone did take the risk of delidding Intel's newest Arrow Lake SKU, showing us how the onboard CPU die is configured, and initial impressions do show us that Team Blue managed to create some of the nicest CPU dies out there. The hardware expert @Madness727 (via X) posted images of what seems to be Intel's Arrow Lake CPU die […]
NVIDIA decided to drop one of the industry's biggest "Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct" LLM, surpassing OpenAI GPT-4o & Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet. NVIDIA Is Looking To Dominate The AI Segment, Revealing Its Newest LLM, Targeted Towards Refining User Responses Team Green is pushing up the gears when it comes to innovating the AI segment in ways deemed impossible, and after apparently dominating the "AI hardware" segment, the firm is now looking towards showing its magic in open-source LLM models, collaborating with Meta. The newest Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct LLM from NVIDIA hasn't seen much mainstream coverage yet, but based on the initial information available along with […]
Rambus has showcased new DDR5 memory standards to provide "breakthrough" performance with up to 12,800 MT/s speeds. Rambus Pushes DDR5 Speeds Up To 12,800 MT/s With New MRDIMMs [Press Release]: Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today unveiled industry-first, complete memory interface chipsets for Gen5 DDR5 RDIMMs and next-generation DDR5 Multiplexed Rank Dual Inline Memory Modules (MRDIMMs). These innovative new products for RDIMMs and MRDIMMs will seamlessly extend DDR5 performance with unparalleled bandwidth and memory capacity for compute-intensive data centers and AI workloads. The new Rambus chips include: The Gen5 Registering Clock Driver (RCD), […]
Intel has given up the AI race with NVIDIA & is now in pursuit of launching cost-effective solutions with its new Gaudi 3 AI offerings. Intel's Gaudi 3 AI GPUs Will Feature Industry-Leading Performance-Per-Dollar Value, But Won't Compete With NVIDIA As Blue Team Shifts Target Market Well, it seems like Team Blue has finally realized that competing in the "compute power" race with NVIDIA isn't the viable path for them to have a sustainable business. Instead, the firm is now tapping into a relatively unpopulated AI business segment, which is a cost-efficient implementation of AI accelerators, which is likely going […]
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has responded to the newly merged "x86" alliance involving Intel and AMD, stating that such a step is necessary to keep x86 alive. Intel, AMD & Others Form An x86 Alliance To Counter Growing Market Competition, NVIDIA Believes That It Is a Necessary Step Well, we recently reported on how Intel, AMD, and several other mainstream companies formed an "x86 advisory" group with the intent of moving together to progress the future of the architecture and ensure cross-compatibility between platforms. When the news initially surfaced, it was claimed that this move indirectly combats the influence of […]
Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K flagship CPU along with the Core Ultra 7 265K and Core Ultra 5 245K have been tested in various benchmarks. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU achieves up to 19% performance over 14900K in Blender Benchmark, Core Ultra 7 265K & Core Ultra 5 245K Tested Too Intel revealed its latest Core Ultra 200 Series aka Arrow Lake processors on 10th October, which comprises five SKUs for the initial launch. The Core Ultra 9 285K is the fastest in the series, featuring 24 cores/24 threads, challenging the current flagship Core i9 14900K from the Raptor […]
Storage NAND Flash prices are dropping continuously this year & are expected to fall by up to 8%, due to poor SSD demand. Client SSD, eMMC UFS, & 3D NAND Wafers to see a significant price reduction as the NAND Flash storage demand diminishes According to the latest statistics, the prices of storage drives will drop noticeably in the fourth quarter of 2024. The reduction in the prices of SSDs is reportedly due to weakened demand and increased production of the NAND Flash and will continue till the end of 2024. As per TrendForce, most segments are going to see […]
Samsung has developed its next-gen 24 Gb GDDR7 memory solution, offering higher VRAM capacities & speeds of up to 42.5 Gbps. Samsung Plans To Bring Higher Capacity "24 Gb" GDDR7 Memory To Consumer GPUs Early Next Year, Up To 42.5 Gbps & 32 Gb Modules Also Hinted Samsung was among the first memory makers to announce its next-gen GDDR7 memory last year. Initially, Samsung listed speeds of up to 32 Gbps and 16 Gb flavors (2 GB). As we have recently reported, the first round of GDDR7 memory will likely be rated at speeds ranging from 28 to 32 Gbps, […]
Intel's next-gen NPUs have been listed in the latest drivers with NPU5 targeting Panther Lake & NPU6 being the AI engine for Nova Lake CPUs. Intel Plans On Rapidly Innovating The AI NPU Segment By Iterating Generationally With Each CPU Architecture: NPU5 For Panther Lake & NPU6 For Nova Lake Intel's NPUs are targeted towards making AI possible on local machines, and with this, Team Blue has managed to significantly upscale AI computing performance on its CPU architectures, such as Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake, delivering up to 48 TOPs of AI performance. Now, the firm is planning to ramp […]
Qualcomm hasn't written off the Intel acquisition for now, as the firm is reportedly waiting for the US presidential elections to pass by, before eventually deciding on the deal. Qualcomm Is Eying For The Next US Administration To Come In Power, Likely Analyzing Policies & Antitrust Laws To Proceed With The Deal Well, it is surely interesting to see where we have come along from the past, given that in modern times, we are literally speaking about a "dominant" mobile chipmaker planning to take over Intel, the company that has reigned for the PC CPU markets for quite some time […]
Google is yet another player to use the custom NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 NVL racks for improved computing performance for its Cloud platform. Google Cloud shows off its first NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 NVL Rack, featuring liquid-cooled B200 GPUs The search engine giant, Google today showed off its first GB200 NVL-based server on X, deployed to power its Cloud platform. The company has a big 12% share in the cloud system market worldwide, and being the third largest cloud service provider, it now wants to expand its operations by offering faster services. The official Google Cloud account on X announced that it […]
Intel & AMD are testing the new 12V-2x6 power connectors which might be featured in their next-generation consumer GPUs. Intel & AMD To Follow NVIDIA For Future Next-Gen GPUs, Might Utilize 12V-2x6 Power Connector Interface Well, everyone is quite aware of how the debut of the 12VHPWR power connectors bothered the markets, with the widespread "burning" issues that were dominant in NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GPUs. Not only did the connectors create a whole new fiasco, but it also resulted in severe financial cutbacks for AIB partners, who were forced to comply with their RMA services simply because of an erroneous […]
Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPU has been delidded, revealing the rather elegant CPU die design & validating the possibility of using direct die cooling technologies. Intel's Arrow Lake SKU Gets Delidded Before Official Launch, Showing Us The Tile Configuration Changes Made Someone did take the risk of delidding Intel's newest Arrow Lake SKU, showing us how the onboard CPU die is configured, and initial impressions do show us that Team Blue managed to create some of the nicest CPU dies out there. The hardware expert @Madness727 (via X) posted images of what seems to be Intel's Arrow Lake CPU die […]
NVIDIA decided to drop one of the industry's biggest "Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct" LLM, surpassing OpenAI GPT-4o & Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet. NVIDIA Is Looking To Dominate The AI Segment, Revealing Its Newest LLM, Targeted Towards Refining User Responses Team Green is pushing up the gears when it comes to innovating the AI segment in ways deemed impossible, and after apparently dominating the "AI hardware" segment, the firm is now looking towards showing its magic in open-source LLM models, collaborating with Meta. The newest Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct LLM from NVIDIA hasn't seen much mainstream coverage yet, but based on the initial information available along with […]
Rambus has showcased new DDR5 memory standards to provide "breakthrough" performance with up to 12,800 MT/s speeds. Rambus Pushes DDR5 Speeds Up To 12,800 MT/s With New MRDIMMs [Press Release]: Rambus, a premier chip and silicon IP provider making data faster and safer, today unveiled industry-first, complete memory interface chipsets for Gen5 DDR5 RDIMMs and next-generation DDR5 Multiplexed Rank Dual Inline Memory Modules (MRDIMMs). These innovative new products for RDIMMs and MRDIMMs will seamlessly extend DDR5 performance with unparalleled bandwidth and memory capacity for compute-intensive data centers and AI workloads. The new Rambus chips include: The Gen5 Registering Clock Driver (RCD), […]
Intel has given up the AI race with NVIDIA & is now in pursuit of launching cost-effective solutions with its new Gaudi 3 AI offerings. Intel's Gaudi 3 AI GPUs Will Feature Industry-Leading Performance-Per-Dollar Value, But Won't Compete With NVIDIA As Blue Team Shifts Target Market Well, it seems like Team Blue has finally realized that competing in the "compute power" race with NVIDIA isn't the viable path for them to have a sustainable business. Instead, the firm is now tapping into a relatively unpopulated AI business segment, which is a cost-efficient implementation of AI accelerators, which is likely going […]
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang has responded to the newly merged "x86" alliance involving Intel and AMD, stating that such a step is necessary to keep x86 alive. Intel, AMD & Others Form An x86 Alliance To Counter Growing Market Competition, NVIDIA Believes That It Is a Necessary Step Well, we recently reported on how Intel, AMD, and several other mainstream companies formed an "x86 advisory" group with the intent of moving together to progress the future of the architecture and ensure cross-compatibility between platforms. When the news initially surfaced, it was claimed that this move indirectly combats the influence of […]
Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K flagship CPU along with the Core Ultra 7 265K and Core Ultra 5 245K have been tested in various benchmarks. Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU achieves up to 19% performance over 14900K in Blender Benchmark, Core Ultra 7 265K & Core Ultra 5 245K Tested Too Intel revealed its latest Core Ultra 200 Series aka Arrow Lake processors on 10th October, which comprises five SKUs for the initial launch. The Core Ultra 9 285K is the fastest in the series, featuring 24 cores/24 threads, challenging the current flagship Core i9 14900K from the Raptor […]
Storage NAND Flash prices are dropping continuously this year & are expected to fall by up to 8%, due to poor SSD demand. Client SSD, eMMC UFS, & 3D NAND Wafers to see a significant price reduction as the NAND Flash storage demand diminishes According to the latest statistics, the prices of storage drives will drop noticeably in the fourth quarter of 2024. The reduction in the prices of SSDs is reportedly due to weakened demand and increased production of the NAND Flash and will continue till the end of 2024. As per TrendForce, most segments are going to see […]
Samsung has developed its next-gen 24 Gb GDDR7 memory solution, offering higher VRAM capacities & speeds of up to 42.5 Gbps. Samsung Plans To Bring Higher Capacity "24 Gb" GDDR7 Memory To Consumer GPUs Early Next Year, Up To 42.5 Gbps & 32 Gb Modules Also Hinted Samsung was among the first memory makers to announce its next-gen GDDR7 memory last year. Initially, Samsung listed speeds of up to 32 Gbps and 16 Gb flavors (2 GB). As we have recently reported, the first round of GDDR7 memory will likely be rated at speeds ranging from 28 to 32 Gbps, […]
Intel's next-gen NPUs have been listed in the latest drivers with NPU5 targeting Panther Lake & NPU6 being the AI engine for Nova Lake CPUs. Intel Plans On Rapidly Innovating The AI NPU Segment By Iterating Generationally With Each CPU Architecture: NPU5 For Panther Lake & NPU6 For Nova Lake Intel's NPUs are targeted towards making AI possible on local machines, and with this, Team Blue has managed to significantly upscale AI computing performance on its CPU architectures, such as Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake, delivering up to 48 TOPs of AI performance. Now, the firm is planning to ramp […]
Qualcomm hasn't written off the Intel acquisition for now, as the firm is reportedly waiting for the US presidential elections to pass by, before eventually deciding on the deal. Qualcomm Is Eying For The Next US Administration To Come In Power, Likely Analyzing Policies & Antitrust Laws To Proceed With The Deal Well, it is surely interesting to see where we have come along from the past, given that in modern times, we are literally speaking about a "dominant" mobile chipmaker planning to take over Intel, the company that has reigned for the PC CPU markets for quite some time […]
Google is yet another player to use the custom NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 NVL racks for improved computing performance for its Cloud platform. Google Cloud shows off its first NVIDIA Blackwell GB200 NVL Rack, featuring liquid-cooled B200 GPUs The search engine giant, Google today showed off its first GB200 NVL-based server on X, deployed to power its Cloud platform. The company has a big 12% share in the cloud system market worldwide, and being the third largest cloud service provider, it now wants to expand its operations by offering faster services. The official Google Cloud account on X announced that it […]
Intel & AMD are testing the new 12V-2x6 power connectors which might be featured in their next-generation consumer GPUs. Intel & AMD To Follow NVIDIA For Future Next-Gen GPUs, Might Utilize 12V-2x6 Power Connector Interface Well, everyone is quite aware of how the debut of the 12VHPWR power connectors bothered the markets, with the widespread "burning" issues that were dominant in NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace GPUs. Not only did the connectors create a whole new fiasco, but it also resulted in severe financial cutbacks for AIB partners, who were forced to comply with their RMA services simply because of an erroneous […]