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Nvidia has a surprise GPU launch today – but is the new RTX 4070 worth buying?

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Nvidia’s new version of the RTX 4070 has been officially announced, and the graphics card is pretty much just as previously rumored, carrying slightly slower video memory – but the good news is that there’s seemingly no meaningful impact on performance.Wccftech was quick to spot the release of the new variant of the 4070, which…

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Asus provides another clue that AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D CPUs could be here soon – which would be seriously bad news for Intel

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Asus has prematurely listed AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors on its microsite for incoming 800 series motherboards, in what’s another hint that next-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs might be here sooner than expected.As VideoCardz noticed, the site lists X870 (and X870E), B850 and B840 motherboards for Ryzen 9000 (second-gen AM5 boards still based on the same socket…

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AWS profits and revenue rise as public cloud giant plots AI infrastructure investments

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported a 19% year-on-year (YoY) increase in revenue, and a 72% uptick in operating income in its second quarter results, and pledged to grow its artificial intelligence (AI)-related datacentre investments. The quarter covers the three months to 30 June 2024, which also saw Amazon.com report a total revenue of $148bn,…

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Second round of ChipStart sees 11 more companies receive support

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A further 11 companies have received funding through the government-backed ChipStart incubator, which is being delivered by Silicon Catalyst. The initiative was launched in October 2023, providing funding and support for 12 semiconductor startups to help them bring new products to market.  The second round of startup companies to receive support includes HeronIC, which is…

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Wish your Ryzen CPU was faster? Good news – a Windows 11 patch coming soon will give all newer AMD chips a free speed boost

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AMD’s Ryzen 9000 (Zen 5) processors, and some previous Ryzen generations, are going to get a performance boost courtesy of an update to Windows 11 in the near future.An optional patch Microsoft is set to roll out “soon,” according to AMD, will ensure faster frame rates in games (and overall performance elsewhere) for Ryzen 9000,…

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Intel Arrow Lake CPUs could hit shelves on October 17 – striking back against AMD Ryzen 9000 sooner than expected

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Intel’s next-gen Arrow Lake desktop processors will go on sale come October 17, or that’s the latest word from the grapevine.VideoCardz got the scoop on this one, with the source being the Board Channels over in China (which we’d classify as a reasonable outlet for rumors, albeit one that has to be approached with a…

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Hoping for some cheap new GPUs from AMD soon? Sadly, new rumor suggests RX 7400 and 7300 aren’t happening

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If you were hoping AMD might launch some new budget RDNA 3 GPUs in the near future, we’ve got bad news: unfortunately, the latest word from the grapevine is that this isn’t happening.We’ve previously been treated to rumors of an expansion for the current-gen range of graphics cards, with the possibility that AMD might debut…

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Now anyone can use Midjourney’s website to generate AI images

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If you wanted to use the AI image generator Midjourney when it first launched, your only choice was to join a Discord server and interact with a bot. Late last year, the Midjourney team created a website for the service, but only for users who had already generated at least 10,000 images on Discord. Months…

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Update: Intel Accelerated Ireland EUV Fab Ramp-Up as Meteor Lake Chips Were In Short Supply

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Update 08/02: Patrick Moorhead has published a further tweet, clarifying that “Pat [Gelsinger] didn’t tell me l that there were yield issues. This was *my* interpretation.” The text of the article has been updated accordingly to reflect this tweet, as well as Intel statements about accelerating their Ireland Fab 34 ramp-up. Alongside Intel’s weak Q2…

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Intel’s fix for unstable CPUs is here, in beta, and if you’re scared it might slow down your PC it seems that’s not the case

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Intel’s much-awaited microcode update designed to fix instability issues with its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs – or at least act as a preventative measure – is on the cusp of arriving, and Team Blue has assured us that it doesn’t come with any nasty side-effects on the performance front.Indeed, the patch is now in beta…

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