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Intel and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that Gordon Moore has died. Gordon Moore was Intel’s co-founder and the grandfather of much of modern chip manufacturing. The company says that he died peacefully, at home in Hawaii surrounded by family. Gordon Moore, one of the pioneers of modern technology, had a long career in the then-nascent industry of silicon chip making. Moore, who is best known as the inventor of Moore’s Law and a leader in the semiconductor industry, spent many years at Fairchild Semiconductor before moving to Intel. In addition to numerous industry awards and a Presidential Medal…

11:00AM EST – Thanks for joining us for another CES 11:00AM EST – Kicking things off this year, we have NVIDIA's "special address" presentation 11:00AM EST – Starting things off is Jeff Fisher 11:01AM EST – Expect this to be fast and furious, covering several of NVIDIA's business segments 11:01AM EST – First off, gaming 11:01AM EST – Recapping the Ada Lovelace Architecture 11:02AM EST – Ada introduced the hardware needed for DLSS 3, NVIDIA's frame interpolation technology 11:03AM EST – Look for NVIDIA's next DLSS 3 update later this quarter 11:03AM EST – 50 released or soon-to-be-released DLSS 3…

Intel today announced two major corporate leadership changes, involving both the Intel Foundry Services division (IFS) as well as its graphics/accelerator segment. In brief, IFS is getting new leadership, while Intel GPU guru and chief architect Raja Koduri is leaving the company for new pastures. Intel has announced in a recent press release that Stuart Pann is now the senior vice president and General Manager of Intel Foundry Services. Pann succeeds Dr. Randhir Thakur who was the IFS’s first president. Thakur announced in late 2013 that he would be leaving Intel by the end of the month. We expected Intel…

As the market for notebook computers has expanded, new product categories have been developed to fill the needs of a wider range of audiences, and one area that has been rapidly expanded in recent years is the Content Creator notebook. Demanding more performance than a typical thin and light notebook can provide, the creator notebooks fill a gap between gaming and light use, featuring extra graphics performance and CPU performance, while generally offering a subdued yet stylish form factor that still allows for portability. ASUS has been building notebooks for this market for several years now, and today we are…

09:28PM EST – CES keynote season continues this week with the second major PC-centric keynote of thee event, being held by AMD. Helmed as always by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, AMD is taking the center stage this evening to share their plans and products for consumer electronics for 2023. AMD is in the midst of rolling out their Zen 4 CPU architecture and RDNA 3 GPU architecture across their product lines, so there’s ample space in both AMD’s desktop and mobile product lineups to introduce some new parts – and we don’t expect to come away empty-handed 09:29PM EST -…

With the advent of streaming video games online being a core market for computer hardware manufacturers, a new initiative was announced at TwitchCon 2018 to develop smaller form factor PCs to function as the streaming hardware, alleviating some of the workload for large gaming machines. One of the first models was on display at Zotac’s CES Booth, with the MI553B featuring a mobile processor and a built-in capture card. The system doesn’t look too flash if I’m honest, although Zotac said they were going through the stages of the design to make sure it’s sufficiently quiet. But the goal is…

For most PC enthusiasts, if you ask them to name a cylindrical machine, the Mac Pro comes immediately to mind. Not to tread too heavily on Apple’s toes on what would now be a 2-3-year-old product, Samsung is entering the market with a more consumer focused ‘ArtPC Pulse Premium Desktop’ in a cylindrical aluminium chassis. The PC is self-contained with an Intel 6th generation Core i5 or Core i7, and an AMD Radeon RX based graphics card. On the top is a harmon/kardon 360-degree omni-directional audio speaker. Preorders for both the Skylake-based Core i5 and Skylake-based Core i7 start from…

Underscoring a difficult second half of the year that seems to be shaping up for the entire tech industry, AMD this afternoon has become the latest tech company to warn investors that revenues for the quarter are going to come in significantly under previous guidance. Releasing a preliminary third quarter financial results statement, AMD is reporting that revenues for the quarter will come in at around $5.6 billion, which is over $1 billion below AMD’s previous guidance of $6.7 billion. Driving this unexpected drop in revenues is an exceptionally weak client market, with revenues down 40% versus Q3’21 and resulting…

Over the years Intel has prided itself on its ability to provide processors that fit into the ultraportable, professional market. We’re talking thin and light designs with obscene levels of performance and battery life for the form factor. It’s so important to Intel, that over the years they’ve produced several design and validation standards relating to how the best ultraportables should be developed, such as low power displays, the best connectivity standards, and approaching all-day battery life. It surprised me somewhat that Intel didn’t really discuss its next generation of processors for these devices at CES at the beginning of…

NVIDIA released the company’s GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver on February 28th. It didn’t take long before user reports started to pile up on the NVIDIA forums about a strange bug causing processor usage to spike. The problem would occur after the user exited a game, and the issue would persist until a system restarted. Now a week later, NVIDIA has solved the problem and deployed a hotfix tailored to replace the GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver, bringing the version number up to 531.26. The GeForce 531.18 WHQL driver was an installment with several notable features, including DLSS 3 support and optimizations…