2024

Realtek Outlines SSD Controller Roadmap: High-End PCIe 5.0 x4 Platform in the Works

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While Realtek is best known in the enthusiast space for for its peripheral controllers such as audio codecs and network controllers, the company also has a small-but-respectable SSD controller business that tends to fly under the radar due to its focus on entry-level and mainstream drives. But Realtek’s stature in the SSD space is on…

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AMD Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs might go on sale in September, which would be a disaster for Intel

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AMD’s next-gen 3D V-Cache processors – which will be Ryzen 9000X3D models – could be out soon after vanilla Ryzen 9000 CPUs arrive, and that’d be serious trouble for Intel.Now, we should arm ourselves with a whole lot of caution upfront, because this is just a rumor, but according to Club386, AMD’s plan is to…

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Chinese scientists create the first AI military commander the world has ever seen

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China may forbid the use of AI to lead armed forces, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese scientists from creating an AI military commander to take part in lab-driven war games. According to the South China Morning Post, the AI is based on human military leaders and mirrors not only their strengths and weaknesses but also…

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Antec’s ‘Performance 1M’ Mini-ITX Chassis Can House a GeForce RTX 4090

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With the highly integrated nature of PCs these days, the Mini-ITX form-factor has become a very viable option for high-performance gaming system. With plenty of motherboards available for both AMD and Intel’s latest platforms, equipping an ITX system with a CPU is easy enough. But the small size of the form factor means that housing…

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VMware/Broadcom: Prepare for legacy support

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, Broadcom, Cloud, cloud-native, containers, IT strategy, Oracle, Tech / By

Broadcom’s $69bn acquisition of VMware last year follows on from a number of smaller but significant software acquisitions the company has made over the past few years. These all appear to point to the company’s appetite to develop a software business built on acquiring the customers of these businesses. In 2018, Broadcom acquired CA Technologies.…

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Silicon Motion Demos Low-Power PCie 5.0 SSD Controller: SM2508

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Rounding out our Computex 2024 SSD controller news, let’s talk about the final major controller vendor at the show: Silicon Motion. Silicon Motion has been somewhat late to the PCIe Gen5 SSD party, as its rival Phison has been offering their high-end PS5026-E26 controller for almost 18 months now. But as Silicon Motion gets ready…

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Tech industry losing steam for DE&I, finds TTC report

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While the technology industry has made progress with diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives over the past five years, carelessness, budget cuts and rollbacks threaten to pause or reverse progress, the Tech Talent Charter (TTC) has found. In its 2023 annual benchmarking report, the not-for-profit warned of “concerning changes” across the tech landscape, including a…

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Samsung workers are on strike for the first time in the company’s history

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For the first time since the company’s founding, Samsung workers are on strike. The New York Times reports that Samsung workers in the chip division are expected to make up a majority of the employees skipping work on Friday for the one-day strike. Samsung union representatives explained that negotiations over pay increases and bonuses had…

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Best practices to beat container misconfiguration

7 minutes of reading / automation, Cloud, compliance, containers, Kubernetes, open source, risk management, Tech / By

While misconfigured containers are a major challenge in cloud security, this can often be traced to shortcuts to cloud and containerisation divorced from the overall strategy. Focus on technical and tactical migrations, or even managing revenues, can be to the detriment of risk management and business results, with Drew Firment, chief cloud strategist at learning…

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RIP Windows 10: AMD’s new Ryzen AI 300 CPUs will skip older OS for Windows 11

4 minutes of reading / AI, Hardware, Microsoft, Tech / By

AMD’s incoming Ryzen AI 300 processors (Strix Point) for laptops have dropped support for Windows 10, as buzz on the rumor mill previously indicated might happen.Tom’s Hardware let us know that AMD has canned Windows 10 with its new Zen 5-toting laptop chips, after stumbling upon the official Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page.On…

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