AMD has already officially confirmed plans to launch its 3rd Generation Ryzen Threadripper processors this November, but naturally kept all the details to itself. At the time, it stated that the first products to market will be 24-core products. According to the company’s Product Master document that was published by AMD, it looks like some preliminary information about […]
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More Navi 14 GPUs Might Be Coming Soon
A new driver holds up to 14 different device IDs for Navi 14 graphics cards. Starting with the obvious, AMD has announced the Radeon RX 5500 and RX5500M, which are identified with the 7340:C7 and 7340:C1 device IDs, respectively. That leaves us with 12 unused device IDs. There’s no guarantee that they will all come out […]
Intel to Discontinue Nearly All Desktop Kaby Lake CPUs
Intel has announced End-of-Life plan for most of its desktop Kaby Lake and remaining Skylake processors. The boxed and tray versions of the chips will be available for interested parties for one more year and then will become history. The move will enable Intel to cut the number of product SKUs it offers to partners […]
TRX40 Chipset For Upcoming AMD Ryzen Threadripper Listed
In what is being put down to an inadvertent leak by MSI, it could be that the currently unannounced chipset for AMD’s new 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper series processors has been officially mentioned (not withstanding the unconfirmed leaks from various sources). With the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper third generation set to hit the shelves in […]
MSI Creator TRX40 Motherboard For AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs Leaks Out
AMD will be launching their 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors premiering with 24 cores next month. While there have been various rumors about the platform and socket support, it looks like MSI has leaked out one of their own motherboards, confirming a few theories for AMD’s 3rd HEDT lineup. MSI Readies Creator TRX40 Motherboard For 3rd Gen […]
Lexar NM600 M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Affordable and Efficient
Lexar, which was bought by Chinese SSD maker Longsys back in 2017, has been busy churning out new internal and external SSDs as of late. Here we’re looking at the company’s entry-level NVMe drive, the NM600 and seeing how it stacks up against the competition. The NM600 is poised to displace its SATA competition with aggressive pricing and speedy performance figures. […]
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X
We recently took the then-unannounced Ryzen 9 3900 on a record-breaking spin, but now the chip is officially launched…kind of. AMD announced the Ryzen 9 3900 and Ryzen 5 3500X with little fanfare today, but for OEM and system integrator (SI) customers only. The 3900 is available globally, while the 3500X is only available in China. […]
Samsung Develops 12-Layer 3D TSV DRAM: Up to 24 GB HBM2
Samsung on Monday said that it had developed the industry’s first 12-layer 3D packaging for DRAM products. The technology uses through silicon vias (TSVs) to create high-capacity HBM memory devices for applications that benefit from high memory bandwidth and capacities, such as higher-end graphics, FPGAs, and compute cards. Samsung’s 12-layer DRAM KGSDs (known good stack […]