It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…
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AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X has been the subject of another leak, with the incoming Zen 5 flagship easily outgunning Intel’s Core i9-14900KS, the fastest chip in Team Blue’s current CPU range.Wccftech noticed that Igor Kavinski posted yet more leaked benchmarks (on the Anandtech forums) using an engineering sample (pre-release chip) of the Ryzen 9950X.When supplied…
A graphical user interface (GUI) is the way many people interact with computing devices, ranging from smartphones and smart TVs, to laptops, desktops and website navigation. Although smart speakers and the likes of Siri on iOS devices have given people an alternative user interface, where they can request information and do a limited range of…
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AMD’s graphics driver for its incoming RDNA 4 graphics cards is apparently more or less ready for action, or at least the Linux flavor is.Phoronix.com reports that ‘GFX12’ (RDNA 4) graphics driver support is in “good shape” and that AMD is enabling the driver right ‘out of the box’ (by default) with the latest patches…
Samsung has successfully validated its new LPDDR5X-10700 memory with MediaTek’s upcoming Dimensity platform. At present, 10.7 GT/s is the highest performing speed grade of LPDDR5X DRAM slated to be released this year, so the upcoming Dimensity 9400 system-on-chip will get the highest memory bandwidth available for a mobile application processor. The verification process involved Samsung’s 16…
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As mainstream power supplies continue to make their subtle shift to the ATX 3.1 standard, the pace of change is picking up. Already most vendors offer at least one ATX 3.1 unit in their lineups, and thanks to the relatively small set of changes that come with the revised standard, PSU vendors have largely been…
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Intel has clarified that its laptop processors are not affected by the instability issues that have been widely reported on desktops with Core i9 CPUs from its 13th and 14th generations.Team Blue was prompted to issue a statement to Digital Trends after the tech site reported that the founder of Alderon Games (developer of Path…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. this week said its revenue for the second quarter 2024 reached $20.82 billion, making it the company’s best quarter (at least in dollars) to date. TSMC’s high-performance computing (HPC) platform revenue share exceeded 52% for the first time in many years due to demand for AI processors and rebound of the…
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Nvidia might not launch its RTX 5000 graphics cards until the start of next year, at CES 2025.This is at odds with many of the rumors thus far, which point to a late 2024 launch for the next-gen Blackwell GPUs, though there have been whispers of a ‘delay’ to 2025 (in other words, that Nvidia…
