Bitspower Quietly Launches its First Ever Air CPU Cooler, The Phantom
More known for its custom water cooling components, Bitspower has released its first-ever air-based CPU cooler, the Phantom. Designed for the entry-level market, the Phantom includes a single 120...
10 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/28/2022
Netgear Launches WAX630E AX7800 Wi-Fi 6E Access Point for SMBs
Netgear has been building up a portfolio of software-defined networking (SDN) products over the last few years. The introduction of the cloud-based Insight management feature to their lineup of...
9 by Ganesh T S on 2/22/2022
EVGA Unleashes Z690 Dark K|NGP|N Edition Motherboard: Alder Lake Goes Extreme
Although these long, cold, and dark nights are starting to come to an end, EVGA has launched its darkest and most devilish desktop motherboard to date, the EVGA Z690...
25 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/18/2022
From There to Here, and Beyond
I’ll be the first to admit, I had no history with AnandTech before I joined. It was by sheer chance, meeting one of the writers at an overclocking event...
74 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/18/2022
Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
One of Intel’s more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet...
28 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel’s Arctic Sound-M Server Accelerator To Land Mid-2022 With Hardware AV1 Encoding
Rounding out Intel’s direct GPU-related announcements from this morning as part of the company’s annual investor meeting, Intel has confirmed that the company is also getting ready to deliver...
18 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel Meteor Lake Client Processors to use Arc Graphics Chiplets
Continuing with this morning’s spate of Intel news coming from Intel’s annual Investor meeting, we also have some new information on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake processors, courtesy of this...
20 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel Arc Update: Alchemist Laptops Q1, Desktops Q2; 4mil GPUs Total for 2022
As part of Intel’s annual investor meeting taking place today, Raja Koduri, Intel’s SVP and GM of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) Group delivered an update to...
13 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Crucial Ballistix Memory Goes End-of-Life, Micron Realigns its DRAM Strategy
Underscoring the fast-paced nature of the computer hardware market, Micron this week has decided to discontinue all of its current Crucial Ballistix memory products. The move to end-of-life (EOL...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/17/2022
Ampere Goes Quantum: Get Your Qubits in the Cloud
When we talk about quantum computing, there is always the focus on what the ‘quantum’ part of the solution is. Alongside those qubits is often a set of control...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/16/2022
Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B To Expand IFS Capabilities
Continuing their recent spending spree in expanding their foundry capabilities, Intel this morning has announced that it has struck a deal to acquire specialty foundry Tower Semiconductor for $5.4...
7 by Ryan Smith on 2/15/2022
Update: AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx. The final value of...
34 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2022
NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition Officially Nixed, SoftBank to IPO Arm Instead
NVIDIA’s year-and-a-half long effort to acquire Arm has come to an end this morning, as NVIDIA and Arm owner SoftBank have announced that the two companies are officially calling...
108 by Ryan Smith on 2/8/2022
Western Digital Introduces WD_BLACK SN770: A DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD
The initial wave of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs put emphasis on raw benchmark numbers, with power consumption remaining an afterthought. The targeting of high-end desktop platforms ensured that it...
31 by Ganesh T S on 2/2/2022
AMD Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Turning Silicon Into Gold
As the full year 2021 earnings season rolls along, the next major chip maker out of the gate is AMD, who has been enjoying a very positive trajectory in...
26 by Ryan Smith on 2/1/2022
Intel Reports Q4 2021 and FY 2021 Earnings: Ending 2021 On A High Note
Kicking off yet another earnings season, we once again start with Intel. The reigning 800lb gorilla of the chipmaking world is reporting its Q4 2021 and full-year financial results...
18 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2022
Launching This Week: NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3050 - Ampere For Low-End Gaming
First announced as part of NVIDIA’s CES 2022 presentation, the company’s new GeForce RTX 3050 desktop video card is finally rolling out to retailers this month. The low-end video...
44 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2022
G.Skill Blitzes DDR5 World Record With Trident Z5 at DDR5-8888
For users buying a memory kit of DDR5, if they want to adhere to Intel specifications, will buy a DDR5-4800 kit. Though through XMP, there are other faster kits...
15 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/25/2022
Vulkan 1.3 Specification Released: Fighting Fragmentation with Profiles
Khronos this morning is taking the wraps off of Vulkan 1.3, the newest iteration of the group’s open and cross-platform API for graphics programming. Vulkan 1.3 follows Khronos’s usual 2...
12 by Ryan Smith on 1/25/2022
Intel Has Two Generations of Bitcoin ASIC: BZM1 is Built on 7nm, 137 GigaHash/sec at 2.5 W
It has been noted in the media that at the upcoming ISSCC conference at the end of February, Intel is set to give a talk entitled ‘Bonanza Mine: An...
109 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/20/2022
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