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Raspberry Pi 5 successfully uses external graphics card
The release of the Raspberry Pi 5 has everyone in the maker community excited. The new board has tons of cool new spec upgrades that put it in a whole new bracket of performance. One of the biggest physical changes is the addition of a PCIe port. It didn’t take long for makers to get […]
Uncovered EA patent would use AI to replace professional voice actors with (fake) you
Amid ongoing concerns of AI acting in and outside of video games, Huzaifa Khan writing for Very Ali Gaming has stumbled on an EA games patent with some…very interesting implications. Namely, the EA games patent in question (“Generating speech in the voice of a player of a video game“) is made with the goal of […]
Nvidia reportedly creating new RTX 4090 D ‘Dragon’ GPU to comply with US export regulations for China
Nvidia’s best graphics card for gaming, the RTX 4090 was recently struck with an export ban preventing the GPU from being sold to China. In response, Nvidia is reportedly developing a China-exclusive variant dubbed the RTX 4090 D (for “Dragon”) — that’s according to WCCFTech. The RTX 4090 D will supposedly feature lower performance and […]
The Steam Deck is Valve’s best-selling product once again, and all it took was a discount and an upgrade
Valve’s Steam Deck has reclaimed its place as Valve’s best-selling product to date. The console dropped off of Steam’s top 10 best sellers list a few months ago, but thanks to the introduction of the Steam Deck OLED and the subsequent price cuts of the older LCD variants, the handheld console has managed to not […]
Amazon solidifies push into custom chips that replace Intel and AMD processors, unveils Graviton4 and Trainium2 cloud servers
Amazon on Tuesday introduced two of its new processors, which will be used exclusively by its Amazon Web Service (AWS) division. The two new system-in-packages are the Graviton 4 processor for general-purpose workloads and the Trainium 2 processor for artificial intelligence training. The new devices will power AWS instances that will provide supercomputer-class performance to Amazon clients. Graviton4 Amazon’s […]
Nvidia RTX 4090 cards are reportedly being hoarded for sale to China by unscrupulous scalpers, which could inevitably drive prices up
The Nvidia RTX 4090 currently reigns as the king of consumer graphics cards, sitting atop our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. It’s one of the best graphics cards for gaming, AI, and other work — except RTX 4090 prices have been increasing ever since the cards were put on the U.S. export controls list a few months […]
Germany vows to subsidize Intel and TSMC fabs despite budget crisis — billions in funding still in limbo
The German government is committed to supporting the construction of chip fabs by Intel, TSMC, and Wolfspeed, despite facing financial challenges due to a budget crisis, reports HardwareLuxx. In fact, Intel and Wolfspeed have already received firm funding commitments from the government. “The decisive sentence is, all projects that we have conceived must be made possible,” said Robert Habeck, Minister […]
Ericsson processors built on ‘Intel 4’ process node beat Meteor Lake to deployment
Intel’s biggest foundry customer right now is arguably Ericsson, a company that deals in networking and 5G chips. Ericsson’s latest RAN Compute processors are utilizing the Intel 4 process node, the same node that’s used for Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake CPU tile, and Ericsson apparently beat Intel to market. This new partnership is the latest […]
Microsoft’s 2023 ugly sweater lets you wear the famous Windows XP wallpaper
Microsoft has debuted its annual ugly sweater, which this year is celebrating one of the most iconic wallpapers of all time. That’s right — Microsoft has made a sweater out of “Bliss,” the default background in Windows XP. (Image credit: Microsoft) The sweater is $69.99 over at Microsoft’s Xbox Gear Shop, with some of the […]
AMD Ryzen 8040HS Hawk Point CPU benchmarks show modest gains — Phoenix reborn to fight Intel Meteor Lake
AMD’s Ryzen 7040 series (Phoenix Point) just came out earlier this year. However, the chipmaker appears to already have a refresh ready in the form of the Ryzen 8040 series (Hawk Point). These won’t try to compete with the best CPUs for gaming or the best budget CPUs, at least not directly, as they’re primarily […]