So many breaches, see: Cooler Master Hit By Data Breach Exposing Customer Information
“In 2013 The New York Times and other media outlets saw their operations come under attackby a bunch of miscreants calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army. During these incidents, which occurred over a...
"It was revealed during a Q&A session that Intel states that there are two ways to do chips, you either invest in making significant changes to the architecture or just use high-frequency as your model. The latter is more difficult and takes a lot more time so starting with Lunar Lake, Intel has...
Bigger Than Apple
“Nvidia's milestone is the latest stunning mark in a run that has seen the stock soar more than 3,224% over the past five years. The company will split its stock 100-for-1 later this month. Apple was the first U.S. company to reach a $3 trillion market cap during intraday...
Gorgeous backplate, ngl
"At Computex 2024, Colorful has launched an ultra-exclusive new graphics card - the iGame Lab 4090. This limited edition GPU is squarely targeted at hardcore overclockers and performance enthusiasts willing to pay top dollar for the absolute best. With only 300 units...
"At Computex 2024, Colorful has followed the success of their popular COLORFIRE MEOW Series gaming desktops. The company has unleashed two fierce new gaming laptops - the COLORFIRE MEOW R15 and R16. These portable laptops are adorned with designs inspired by Bobi, COLORFIRE's beloved office cat...
“Another issue that CEOs are dealing with is fear of alienating the tech talent they need, which often is comprised of people of Chinese descent.
"The PRC is an authoritarian state and there should be no confusion between that and Chinese Americans and people of Chinese descent," Casey said...
“Often people think Intel's main competition is AMD Ryzen, when it's really Apple M-series and Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite. The latter two are powering super-efficient ultraportable notebooks with smartphone-like battery life and snappiness, and that's something you simply can't counter with a...
Pretty cool
"Although it has been rumoured for a little while now that AMD might be launching Ryzen 5000XT CPUs, that rumour just got some added fuel to the fire courtesy of @CodeCommando_ on X/Twitter. The leaker provided a somewhat pixelated screenshot of two new AM4 CPUs, namely the Ryzen 9...
"That should mean that this concept could theoretically work with ODEL or, if made available as a consumer monitor, QDEL, or direct-view quantum dot displays.
In the meantime, for consumers, Micro LED is only available as 89-inch-plus TVs with six-figure price tags. Regarding the tech, the...
“Often, multiple factors build on top of each other. “One of the ways that we address safety is things like triple voting flops,” says Graham. “If you triple the number of flops, you are driving gate count higher, and that is part of complexity. It is also driving the need for things like 3D-IC...
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Computex 2024 — opening keynote by AMD CEO Lisa Su
Su's speech is set for the morning of June 3, 2024, shortly before the formal start of the show..."
"This year, we expect to learn a lot more about the future of local AI processing on PCs. A number of vendors will show off new systems...
"In a formal notice in the same email, the company wrote, “Pursuant to section 5(a) of the SAC advisor Agreement, we are writing to provide you with notice of termination... This means that the second 2024 payment won’t be issued.”
Twitch Ambassadors are users of the streaming platform “chosen...
“The threat actor also shared data samples, allowing BleepingComputer to confirm with numerous customers listed in the breach that their data was accurate and that they recently requested support or an RMA from Cooler Master. Other data in the samples included product information, employee...
"The Promoter Group companies bring extensive experience creating large-scale AI and HPC solutions based on open standards, efficiency and robust ecosystem support.
Driving Scale-Up for AI Workloads
As the demand for AI compute grows, it is critical to have a robust, low-latency and efficient...
“The bigger issue for Russia is that it's likely wholly incapable of supporting a domestic chipmaking industry. It doesn't have a local labor force capable of operating a full-blown chip fab, nor does it have access to the raw materials needed. Russia has also been sanctioned for its invasion of...
“The company will not build its next generation of chips as either disaggregated devices, or multi-chip modules. Kopite7kimi, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, says that the largest GPU in the generation, the "GB202," is based on a physically monolithic design. The GB202 is expected to power...
“Fortunately, most users who would even consider buying these products shouldn't have too much trouble working around technical difficulties, especially if Thermal Grizzly lives up to its CEO's words and makes impacted customers whole. After all, delidding your CPU is about as far from an...
“Microsoft's interest in acquiring Valve is part of a larger plan to strengthen its foothold in the PC gaming industry and venture into the handheld gaming sector, areas where Valve has made significant strides with its Steam Deck product. If Microsoft were to acquire the Steam Store, it would...
“Dr. Lisa Su delivers the Computex 2024 opening keynote and shares the latest on how AMD and our partners are pushing the envelope with our next generation of high-performance PC, data center and AI solutions," the brief release said.
AMD is widely expected to unveil its next-generation Ryzen...
“A lot rides on the continued success of "Zen 5" to deliver a double-digit percentage IPC increase over its predecessor, while also introducing new microarchitecture-level features; and leveraging new foundry processes at TSMC, to deliver competitive processors to Intel. Unlike Intel, which has...
“The new benchmark comes in two formats: a vanilla Steel Nomad version and Steel Nomad Light, a much lighter counterpart aimed at lightweight devices with integrated graphics and smartphones. The hallmark of Steel Nomad is its rasterized-only graphics, which sets it apart from 3DMark's other...
Cool
“The answer picked by Irimajiri and Sega wound up being a $5 million investment into Nvidia, since Irimajiri had previously met Huang and taken a liking to him. While Irimajiri eventually stepped down from executive positions at Sega (and was briefly president of the whole company, not...
"A stock GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card scores 8525 points in the Unigine Superposition 8K benchmark, and a stock-speed Manli RTX 4070 Ti SUPER does 7212 points, on account of fewer shaders (66 SM vs. 76 SM) and slower memory (21 Gbps vs. 22.4 Gbps). With a 24 Gbps memory speed mod, and GPU...
"Intel may need to develop proprietary hardware modules or a new Open Accelerator Module (OAM) spec to support such extreme power levels, as the current OAM 2.0 tops out around 1000 W. Slated for release in 2025, the Falcon Shores GPU will be Intel's GPU IP based on its next-gen Xe graphics...
Nice
"TUF Gaming TR120 ARGB fans are designed for panoramic builds and PCs with more than a glimpse of their case fans. They feature an 8+8 double-layer LED array that emits light evenly through each fan blade and frame, providing high-performance fans in standard or reverse-airflow models...
"Over the past few weeks, we have been working on refreshing some old low-power racks in one of our colocation facilities. The lower power per rack means that to hit minimum cluster sizes, we can no longer utilize the highest-power CPUs. That is why we have our Cloud Native Efficient Computing...
Pretty baller, ngl
"Starting with the details, the ASUS Vivobook S 15 laptop has been previously teased but now we get a better taste of what it's packing under the hood. The PC is powered by the Snapdragon X Elite X1E 78 100 CPU which features 12 cores, 42 MB of cache, up to 4.3 GHz clock...
Pretty impressive
"Machining Composition of EK-Pro Water Blocks
The EK-Pro GPU WB RTX 4090 WindForce V2 water block is specifically engineered to enhance integration and stability. It spans the entire length of the PCB and includes a black anodized aluminium retention backplate that improves...
"NetBSD committers are now banned from using any AI-generated code from ChatGPT, CoPilot, or other AI tools. Time will tell how this plays out with both their users and core team."If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into...
"Aside from the new SKUs, there are a few new features with AmpereOne. First is AmpereOne FlexSpeed, which gives deterministic clock speed increases without rebooting. The second is AmpereOne FlexSKU, which allows the core count and frequency of a chip to be adjusted in BIOS so one can deploy...
"ASUS has paired the SoC with 32 GB of LPDDR5X memory of an unknown clock speed, although Qualcomm officially supports speed of up to 8,448 MT/s in a to PC users unusual configuration of eight channels at 16-bit wide, for a bandwidth of up to 135 GB/s. For comparison, Intel's latest Core Ultra...
… and it felt better [Higher quality materials and plastics?]
“While I mentioned earlier that the Ally melted into my hands, I do feel saying that is a bit premature: the engineering sample I saw was an entirely unfinished, smooth, cheap-looking piano black, and Asus plans to stipple and...
"Linux kernel and Git creator Linus Torvalds is known for his current use of an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation as his main system after years of using Intel hardware. The past few years he's also been doing more ARM64 testing now that he has an Apple MacBook using Apple Silicon that serves...
"The other technology is MAMR, which uses microwaves to enhance magnetic recording capabilities. Toshiba was the first to demonstrate its effectiveness and started mass production of first-generation drives in 2021. Toshiba achieved 31 TB by stacking 11 disks, utilizing SMR technology, and...