NVIDIA ends support for "Kepler" graphics cards
The Maxwell, Pascal, Turing and Ampere architectures are of course still fully supported by NVIDIA, which is (very) slowly making a clean sweep of the past. Last May, NVIDIA announced [...]
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Graphics cards: a $12.5 billion market in the first quarter of 2021
Strong demand growth, limited supply and skyrocketing prices are the main reasons for the outstanding results of the major graphics card manufacturers. The health situation we [...]
ARM v9: the next generation ARM with 3 CPUs and 4 GPUs
After the presentation of its new architecture - the v9 - a few weeks ago, ARM gives an update on what to expect from Cortex CPUs [...]
Intel is giving up on PCI Express 5.0 for Alder Lake chipsets
No doubt in order to limit the production costs and prices of a new platform that is already very expensive. In the world of microprocessors, we often talk about the CPU [...]
Microsoft will meet us on June 24th... to present Windows 11?
An event exclusively online, Covid-19 pandemic obliges, but which should reserve its share of surprises around the famous operating system. The initial release of Windows 10 occurred [...]
Xe-HPG DG2: the new Intel graphics card close to the RTX 3080?
Is Intel about to take significant market share from AMD and NVIDIA? Two years ago, Intel first mentioned a [...]
AMD introduces a RYZEN 9 5900X CPU, 15% faster in video games
A new organization of the CPU cache allows to triple it for better performance. From June 1 to 5, 2021 is held - in remote however - the Computex [...]
AMD : already the Ryzen 8000 in the line of fire
It is rumored that these desktop processors designed around the Zen 5 cores would be codenamed Granite Ridge / Strix Point. The multiple successes of the various [...]
Mach.2 Exos 2X14: Seagate signs the fastest hard drive on the market
In fact, two 7TB hard drives running in parallel in a single 3.5-inch enclosure. For almost four years, Seagate has been promoting its [...]
Cryptocurrencies: Elon Musk tries to reduce the environmental impact of mining
After driving up the price of bitcoin in February 2021 and then driving it down during mid-May, Elon Musk is now addressing the environmental issue raised by the [...]
Ethereum: blockchain's energy consumption expected to drop by 99.95
The transition from proof of work to proof of stake should revolutionize the Ethereum blockchain [...]
AMD AM5 Socket: LGA with 1718 pins and DDR5 / PCIe 4 compatibility
For the first time on a desktop consumer processor, AMD would in turn move the pins - formerly on the CPU - to the motherboard, for more [...]
Microsoft confirms the end of Windows 10X, but keeps many technologies
The end of a software does not mean throwing away everything that has been developed around it. There are at most a dozen [...]
Miner dogecoin with his PC: complicated but not impossible
Created and launched in 2013, dogecoin started out as a joke, yet since Tesla's famed chairman Elon Musk has taken a keen interest in the cryptocurrency, his [...]
Microsoft deploys Patch Tuesday for its "old" Windows, 7 and 8.1
For several years now, we have been talking about Windows 10, yet Patch Tuesday continues for older versions of the operating system [...]