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Aug 22 2023

Intel Core i7-14700K leak gives us a load of benchmarks – and it looks a tempting CPU

3 minutes of reading / 5G, Intel, Tech / By Comkex

Intel’s Core i7-14700K processor, one of the key next-gen chips for Raptor Lake Refresh later this year, has been spotted in another leak, this time providing a raft of benchmarks.Wccftech flagged up the benchmarks which were provided by a content creator on Bilibili. That’s a Chinese forum, and we should note that we regard any…

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Aug 22 2023

Arm to Be Public Once More, Files for IPO on Nasdaq

3 minutes of reading / Intel, Tech / By Comkex

The ongoing saga of ownership of Arm appears to be finally nearing its end, as Arm has announced this afternoon that the company has made its long-awaited filing for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange. Share prices and listing dates have not been set as of this time, but Arm has secured…

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Aug 22 2023

Simplyblock targets ‘complex’ Ceph with software-defined NVMe

4 minutes of reading / API, AWS, Azure, Computer, containers, Intel, Kubernetes, open source, Tech / By Comkex

IOPS at 66.9 million and latency of 6.2µs on an eight-node software-defined hyper-converged cluster compared with 0.77 million IOPS and latency of 3.35ms on the same configuration but in Ceph. That’s the claim of Simplyblock, which has been launched by a German startup of the same name that will target private cloud hosting providers. “Our…

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Aug 21 2023

New Intel Arc GPU driver gives a big free frame rate boost with some popular games

3 minutes of reading / Intel, Tech / By Comkex

Intel’s Arc GPUs just got a lot faster with a new driver update – and apparently the graphics cards may have received a small performance bump for clock speeds (at least in one case – more on that later).First off, let’s look at the driver improvements Intel has ushered in, which as Tweak Town spotted…

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Aug 18 2023

Crucial X9 Pro Portable SSD Review: Micron 176L 3D NAND Delivers Record UFD Consistency

8 minutes of reading / Hardware, Intel, Samsung, Tech / By Comkex

Crucial’s flash-based storage lineup has had a distinctive focus on internal SSDs, with a range of options catering to both mainstream and power users. On the portable SSD front, the company’s X6 and X8 Portable SSDs have been attractive budget options for the mainstream consumers. However, these drives use QLC and are not entirely suitable…

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Aug 18 2023

Intel Cuts Some R&D Positions in California to Reduce Costs

2 minutes of reading / Intel, SK Hynix, Tech / By Comkex

As Intel continues to refocus on its core competencies, the company has been no stranger to shedding business units and jobs in the process. And while the roughly 132,000 headcount company hasn’t enacted any massive layoffs, there have been numerous cuts at all levels over the past couple of years, with these layoffs now extending…

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Aug 18 2023

Zotac Taps Desktop and Laptop GeForce RTX 4070s For New SFF Zbox PCs

3 minutes of reading / Intel, Tech / By Comkex

Zotac this week introduced two new compact desktops, both packing versions of NVIDIA’s higher-end GeForce RTX 4070-series graphics processors. The Zbox Magnus One is an upgradable, desktop-style SFF machine with an 8.3-liter chassis and includes a desktop GeForce RTX 4070 card inside. Meanwhile the Zbox Magnus is a tiny machine that’s close to a NUC…

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Aug 17 2023

AMD vs Intel war isn’t over as Team Blue claws back market share

2 minutes of reading / Intel, Tech / By Comkex

New figures from Mercury Research suggest the struggling CPU market may be on the uptick in the second quarter of 2023. Intel has gained three points of market share over AMD and seems to be leading CPU shipments.Chris Szewczyk from PCGamer breaks down the graph from Mercury Research and points out that the three percentage…

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Aug 17 2023

Intel Calls Off Tower Acquisition, Forced to Focus Solely on Leading-Edge Nodes

4 minutes of reading / automation, Intel, MediaTek, Samsung, Tech / By Comkex

Intel Corp. will not proceed with its $5.4 billion deal to acquire Tower Semiconductor foundry due to a lack of regulatory approval from China, the two companies announced on Wednesday. Instead of renegotiating, Intel will pay Tower a $353 million break-up fee to walk away. The move will force Intel to focus the business strategy of its…

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Aug 16 2023

AMD survey finds AI hardware lacking in many IT departments

3 minutes of reading / AI, automation, Intel, natural language processing, Tech / By Comkex

An online survey of 2,500 IT decision-makers conducted by Edelman Data & Intelligence for AMD has found that many are concerned about whether their hardware can cope with artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. AI systems are made up of training data, run on powerful, usually cloud-based graphics processing units (GPU) hardware, which is used to build…

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