Zak Killian
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Comcast just dropped a press release touting its latest technological breakthrough: "pioneering open standard low latency tech" that purports to deliver snappier gaming, smoother video calls, and better virtual reality performance for Xfinity customers. It turns out that Comcast is teaming up with Meta, NVIDIA, and...
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AMD is gearing up to launch its RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9000 series, but if you're a Red Team faithful hoping for new Radeon GPUs in gaming laptops, you might be waiting a while. The company officially announced the first desktop GPUs in the lineup—the Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT—at CES 2025, but conspicuously absent...
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Before we get started, let's clarify this headline. "DeepSeek" is the name of a Chinese AI startup that has produced some very impressive AI models, given the limited resources at its disposal. It is also the name of that startup's mobile app, and it's the latter that we're specifically concerned about today. That is...
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DOOM never dies, and neither does its modding scene. The official KEX-powered port of DOOM + DOOM II on every major platform just got a huge upgrade: support for mods in multiplayer. Now you and your friends can rip and tear through demons and custom WADs together without being shackled to the base game's maps and...
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Much of the discussion around upstart Chinese AI firm Deepseek's technology has been centered around the idea that it can be deployed using considerably less powerful hardware than is typically required for useful language models. That means you can run it directly on your home PC; no internet connection required at...
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Qualcomm's ambitions to dominate the ARM-based laptop market took another step forward with the apparent shipping of the Snapdragon X2 Ultra (Premium?) chip, as revealed by recent shipping logs spotted by enthusiast and occasional leaker Everest (@Olrak29_ on X/Twitter). The logs, dated around New Year's, reference...
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Intel has quietly cut the prices of its Xeon 6 processor family, codenamed "Granite Rapids," just four months after their launch in September 2024. The move comes as AMD's 5th-gen EPYC "Turin" processors, which debuted three months ago, continue to gain traction in the data center market. These price reductions, which...
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In a recent interview, with Notebookcheck, AMD's Ben Conrad made a bold claim: Strix Halo's integrated GPU offers memory bandwidth equivalent to NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4070 mobile GPU. Well, maybe it's not that bold, really; both data points are known, so it's easy to compare. Let's do that.
The Ryzen AI MAX...
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It seems the AI party on Wall Street might have hit an unexpected snag—and it's got a Made in China tag. In some circles, the debut of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's new models have shaken confidence in the dominance of western AI giants like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google. DeepSeek's advancements, particularly...
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Element Six (E6), a subsidiary of the ever-dominant De Beers Group, just put out a press release unveiling its new "Copper Diamond Composite Material" (Cu-Diamond composite), a material it claims can revolutionize cooling solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) chips and GaN RF devices. This shiny innovation...
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Whatever your stance on environmental conservation as a whole, you have to agree that generating millions of tons of e-waste due to obsolescent hardware is sub-optimal. There are a lot of reasons to want to reduce this number, both ecological and economical. Intel has an idea to help, and interestingly, it aligns with...
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If you just want to know the date, well, here it is: DOOM: The Dark Ages hits on May 15th. The game's coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PCs via both Steam and Game Pass. That's probably all that DOOM hardcore fans really need to know, but if you're playing on PC and concerned about your specs, read on for...
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Gamers are eating good recently, with great game releases like Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Dynasty Warriors Origins, Synduality: Echo of Ada, and Marvel Rivals. The industry as a whole is in a dire state, though, as major AAA publishers launch flop after flop into the market. EA is no exception, and it's...
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It was just this Monday that we learned we'd be waiting until March before AMD's next-generation Radeon GPUs made it retail shelves. A tweet from AMD's David Mcafee, the company's Corporate Vice President and General Manager, was the first formal acknowledgment of a narrower release window for the RDNA 4 GPUs than...
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By now, if you're reading this site, you've almost certainly seen plenty of the GeForce RTX 5090—and if you haven't, check out some of our past coverage. Contrary to expectations, the card and its cooler are actually incredibly small in comparison with the GeForce RTX 4090, to say nothing of the massive prototypes...
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The PlayStation 3 launched in 2006, and seven years later, we got the PlayStation 4 in 2013. Then, after another seven years, we got the PlayStation 5. Given this steady cadence, we'd expect the PlayStation 6 to launch in 2027. That gives Sony the better part of three years (counting the remainder of this year) to...
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If you're using an NVIDIA RTX, Quadro, NVS, or Tesla GPU, sit up and take notice. NVIDIA has just released a driver update that addresses several security vulnerabilities in its GPU drivers and vGPU software. We're used to seeing driver updates aimed at improving stability or performance, but this one is primarily...
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As we've discussed before, AMD didn't really talk about its RDNA 4-based graphics cards at CES 2025, despite briefing the press on the topic. The company gave a vague "Q1 2025" release window for the cards, but given that product has already started showing up at retailers, many have expected that the GPUs would be...
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When NVIDIA originally unveiled DLSS Frame Generation with the GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs (codenamed "Ada Lovelace"), it noted that this technology couldn't come to the GeForce RTX 30 Series "Ampere" GPUs because it required a specific hardware block built into the RTX 40 series, known as the "Optical Flow...
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AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to be the fastest GPU that the company launches using its RDNA 4 architecture. Despite that, by AMD's own estimates, it seems like it will probably perform around the same level as the GeForce RTX 5070. That's far off from the higher-end NVIDIA GPUs, which would seem to prove true...
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If you read the headline and thought "wait, what about PCIe 6?" then you must have missed when the spec was finalized back in January... of 2022. That's only three years ago, though, and it is true that PCI-SIG has been accelerating the pace of interconnect development. But why?
The simple answer is "AI". Neural...
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AMD briefed us on the Radeon RX 9070 series and the RDNA 4 architecture when going into CES 2025, but the company's brief 45-minute keynote completely skipped over the topic of graphics and GPUs, with nary a mention of the word "Radeon" outside of the context of AI processing. The company's excuse was that it simply...
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