TSMC jumps in to save Moore’s Law
Published in AI
Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:37

TSMC jumps in to save Moore’s Law


2500 mm2 interposer and 5nm N5P EUV to the rescue

Usually, it is Intel which talks about Moore’s Law, but this time our long-time industry friend Godfrey Cheng at TSMC talked about potential and the future of the world’s finest manufacturing facility.

Nvidia driver 431.60 can fail installation
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 07 August 2019 14:06

Nvidia driver 431.60 can fail installation


Disconnect the internet to make it work

Finally finding the time to update a PC is not easy but finally, a Core i9 9900K found its way into the Asus ROG Maximus XI Extreme motherboard. Installation went well until Geforce 2080 Ti installation using the official driver from website kept failing to install the control panel. Here is how to fix it.

Is AMD Rome burning?
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 07 August 2019 10:18

Is AMD Rome burning?


Updated: Will High voltages on AMD's 7nm Ryzen 3000 plague Rome launch?

Today is the day when AMD plans to launch its 7nm datacenter CPU with up to 64 cores, codenamed Rome. As AMD gets ready for it’s most important launch ever today, there is a lot of anticipation and excitement for newfound competition with Intel. Still, well-informed sources are confirming that the Rome default voltages are exceeding TSMC’s 7nm maximum voltage.

Xilinx Alveo U50 adaptable compute is out
Published in AI
Tuesday, 06 August 2019 18:47

Xilinx Alveo U50 adaptable compute is out


Wins against Xeon and Tesla

Xilinx has a data center first strategy that Victor Peng and his team are executing flawlessly so far, and part of that plan is to launch an adaptable compute, network and storage card and call it Alveo U50.

Intel Ice Lake Gen 10 Core is out
Published in Graphics
Friday, 02 August 2019 14:09

Intel Ice Lake Gen 10 Core is out


10nm with a big push on Intel Iris Plus Graphics

Intel has officially announced the 11 PC notebook SKUs of the 10 Generation Intel core processors. The one that we know as Ice Lake clocks and specs are out, and Ran Senderovitz, VP Mobile product marketing Intel client computing group, shared a few details.

Xilinx finalized the acquisition of Solarflare
Published in Network


SmartNIC intelligent NIC

The 'datacenter first' strategy at Xilinx required certain laser-sharp acquisitions. After the Deephi acquisition focused on the AI and ML, the company just closed another key strategy acquisition of a smart NIC company by the name of Solarflare.

Nvidia Shield gets Android 9 update
Published in Gaming
Friday, 02 August 2019 11:59

Nvidia Shield gets Android 9 update


Experience upgrade 8.0 for 2015 and 2017 consoles

Nvidia original Shield TV, as well as the updated Shield TV 2017, have got an Experience upgrade 8.0 including Android 9.0 Pie.

Xilinx EVP: How 5G makes data plans cheaper
Published in Mobiles
Thursday, 01 August 2019 17:12

Xilinx EVP: How 5G makes data plans cheaper


5G makes unlimited data affordable

Liam Madden, EVP and GM at Xilinx of the wired and wireless group, painted an excellent picture why 5G will be so successful in solving a data hunger problem.

Jim Jeffers takes Intel Exascale to Hollywood
Published in Graphics


Outlines Exascale Vision for a decade

Intel has been part of the Hollywood production scene for more than a decade, but it hA just decided to give us a bit more details about the present and the future of the movie production, all part of the Exascale vision set by Raja Koduri, Jim Keller and Jim Jeffers.

Godfrey Cheng goes to TSMC
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 30 July 2019 08:53

Godfrey Cheng goes to TSMC


Head of Global Marketing


Godfrey sounded surprised when I mentioned that I still remember our first meetings when he was running the marketing for the legendary ATI AllinWonder cards, but at the time in the early 2000s, these were some of the most prominent cards ever created. They could do a TV-out.