El Salvador Government to Mine Bitcoin with Volcanic Energy
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the country is planning to use volcanic energy to mine Bitcoin.
New Intel DG1 Discrete GPU Pops Up: D-Sub Output Meets Low Profile Design
Chinese PC maker launches Intel DG1 graphics card with a D-Sub output.
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Cards Now ‘Available’ But Insane Retailer Pricing Leaves Us Flummoxed
Another GeForce RTX 30 Series launch from NVIDIA means another exercise in frustration for gamers. We had a chance to review NVIDIA’s latest mid-range GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition yesterday and came away generally impressed with its performance. But, unfortunately, things aren’t looking good for enthusiasts that want a chance to sample
SK Hynix Next-Gen HBM3 Memory Primed To Deliver A Blistering 665GB/s Of Bandwidth
High bandwidth memory (HBM) has always lived up to its name, it just has not been as widely adopted in mainstream graphics cards as GDDR memory chips. Maybe that will change when HBM3 arrives. Regardless, whatever products do end up getting the HBM3 treatment will see a big jump in bandwidth, according to some figures shared by South Korean
Xbox Is Making Streaming Hardware, Already Working on Next Consoles
Xbox is pushing Game Pass and cloud gaming as ways to bring its platform to everyone ahead of big game announcements at E3.
Tiny Keyboard With Pico Controller Looks Like Just Our Type
A tiny mechanical keyboard that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico controller has just 30 keys
Now Your M1 Mac Can Run (some) Windows Apps
Raise a glass to the Wine compatibility app, which will now run 64 bit Windows apps on M1 Macs.
AMD’s Instinct MI200 GPU Uses Multi-Chip Design for Exascale Supercomputer
AMD’s Instinct MI200 ‘Aldebaran’ compute GPU for the Frontier exascale supercomputer appears to use a multi-chip design.
Nvidia RTX 3000 GPU shortages are so bad that the GeForce GT 730 has made a comeback
It’s unlikely that the ongoing shortage of GPUs will end soon, so MSI has resurrected an ‘interesting’ alternative
Intel’s Raptor Lake with 24-core CPU could take on AMD Zen 4 in 2022
A fresh info dump on Alder Lake and Raptor Lake processors makes for interesting reading.