Rumors have been swirling surrounding a potential price hike to Intel’s CPUs, which the tech company has directly addressed, dismissing the claims.German media outlet PCGamesHardware ran a story that claimed Intel had explicitly told multiple German wholesalers that the company would be raising the pricing of its ‘Core’ processors.The original report from PCGH originated from…
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IBM is using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help enterprises monitor and manage the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by their use of the tech giant’s various cloud-based products and services. The IBM Cloud Carbon Calculator is generally available now and consists of an AI-based dashboard that will enable enterprise IT leaders to spot patterns…
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In addition to unveiling its first HBM3 memory products yesterday, Micron also published a fresh DRAM roadmap for its AI customers for the coming years. Being one of the world’s largest memory manufacturers, Micron has a lot of interesting things planned, including high-capacity DDR5 memory devices and modules, GDDR7 chips for graphics cards and other…
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It has been a couple of decades since a Japanese fab has offered a leading-edge chip manufacturing process. Even to this day, none of the Japanese chipmakers have made it as far as adopting FinFETs, something that U.S. and Taiwanese companies adopted in early-to-mid-2010s. But Rapidus, a semiconductor consortium backed by the Japanese government and…
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Having reviewed and dissected almost a dozen ATX 3.0 power supplies in the last year, thus far we’ve seen an interesting mix in design pedigrees for PSUs targeting the newest power standard. For some manufacturers this has meant bringing up entirely new PSU designs by OEMs new and old, developing fresh platforms to accommodate the…
Intel has announced two new x86-64 instruction sets designed to bolster and offer more performance in AVX-based workloads with their hybrid architecture of performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores. The first of Intel’s announcements is their latest Intel Advanced Performance Extensions, or Intel APX as it’s known. It is designed to bring generational, instruction set-driven improvements to…
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) unveiled its latest Stampede supercomputer for open science research projects, Stampede3. TACC anticipates that Stampede3 will come online this fall and will deliver its full performance in early 2024. The supercomputer will be a crucial component of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) ACCESS scientific supercomputing ecosystem, and it…
TACC’s Stampede3 Supercomputer Uses Intel’s Xeon Max with HBM2E and Ponte Vecchio Read More »
According to new rumors along the tech grapevine, the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D CPU has been spotted in the wild along with some possible specs.The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D might be based on the Zen 4 core architecture with 16 cores, 32 threads, and support for PBO overclocking and tuning capabilities. The leaker’s Weibo tech account…
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Cryptography forms an essential part of organisations’ information security and is indispensable for preventing the theft of sensitive data, verifying that received data is correct, and preventing unauthorised access to systems. With the rise of quantum computers, current cryptographic standards are no longer adequate, says Marc Stevens, senior researcher in the Cryptology research group at the Dutch Centrum…
Handbook helps Dutch organisations migrate to quantum-safe communication Read More »
Many datacentre operators will struggle to meet emerging sustainability reporting requirements and regulations because of how little data they collect on the energy and water usage habits of their sites, suggests data from the 13th annual Uptime Institute annual global datacentre survey. With operators under growing pressure to shrink the environmental footprint of their datacentres, as…
