General Tech

If you've been keeping an eye on tech news this afternoon, then you will be well aware that AMD B550 motherboards have officially launched. We've already had the opportunity to review two ASUS ROG boards and the Gigabyte B550 Aorus Master. Now, we are taking a wider look at UK …

Major semiconductor companies spend billions upon billions of dollars each year and are dependent on massive orders to stay profitable. With that in mind, the halting of all new orders from Huawei, one of the world's biggest smartphone companies, could have had an impact on TSMC's bottom line. As it turns out …

ASUS has become the latest in a long line of companies to announce a form of noise-cancelling technology. The Taiwanese giant has unveiled noise-cancelling tech for its microphones and said that its “smart mic reduces distracting chatter, keyboard clatter and mouse clicks by up to 95%”. Over the past year, more …

It's no secret that semiconductor factories are expensive, with companies often pouring billions upon billions into new plants. However, 2021 looks to be a record-breaking year, with an expected growth of 24 percent. Back in 2011, it was estimated that semiconductor equipment reached sales of $41.8 billion – a number …

AMD has announced that the third generation of Nvidia DGX A100, “the world’s most advanced AI system“, features 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors equipped with 128 cores. The AI system from Nvidia is capable of delivering 5 petaflops of computational performance and is designed to handle “diverse AI workloads such …

The Chinese-based memory manufacturer, YMTC, is expected move into the SSD market in Q3 2020. The company is reported to have started mass-producing 64-layer 3D NAND that will be used in the upcoming SSDs. Yangtze Memory Technologies, also known as YMTC, was founded in Wuhan, China in July 2016 – …

This year, most events have been cancelled due to the coronavirus and while some were more optimistic and attempted to postpone until the summer, the situation hasn’t turned around enough for physical events to come back in full force. The team behind the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is optimistic about …

AMD has launched a 360-degree virtual tour of the flagship ‘Hawk' supercomputer – which is among the fastest supercomputers worldwide and is the fastest general-purpose system for scientific and industrial computing in Europe. The Hawk system is located at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), part of the University of Stuttgart …

Apple is one of the biggest companies in the world, and is known to invest heavily in new technology. Now it's reported that Apple is considering investing over $330 million in a Micro-LED factory with the goal of bringing the technology to its future devices. The factory in question is …

AMD has announced that it will donate AMD-powered computing systems from the AMD HPC Fund for COVID-19 research to a number of universities in the US – with a combined computation power of seven petaflops. The first universities to receive equipment from the AMD fund are New York University (NYU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) …

Lenovo announced a “new VR solution for enterprise” during this year's VR/AR Global Summit Online Conference. The Lenovo Mirage VR S3 headset with ThinkReality is being developed by Lenovo alongside Pico Interactive, a company specialising in VR and enterprise solutions. Built for professional use, the Lenovo Mirage VR S3 comes …

The first generation Raspberry Pi single board computers (SBC) were released back in February 2012, and featured just 512 MB RAM. Since then, SBCs have come a long way and now the Raspberry Pi 4 has been made available with 8GB of memory. 8GB is a lot of RAM for …

In April this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FFC) set the standards for Wi-Fi 6E, and now Qualcomm has announced its FastConnect 6900 and 6700 chips that feature support for Wi-Fi 6E, with speeds of up to 3.6 Gbps. FastConnect 6900 is the faster of the two chips with speeds of up …

News about Apple's 2020 lineup of iPhones is continuing to ramp up, and we already know all the iPhones expected to launch later this year are likely to come equipped with OLED screens. Now it's reported that Samsung Display will deliver a majority of the screens for the upcoming iPhones. Apple …

The Internet is growing at an exponential rate, and with such growth comes the need for faster speeds. To meet that need, researchers work hard on finding faster ways of transmitting data from one point to another. Now, a team based in Australia report that they have reached a speed of …

iPad and iPhone users have been experiencing some weird update bugs recently, with several of Apple's own apps reissuing old updates for seemingly no reason and some even failing to launch and delivering error messages.  At this point in time, Apple has not commented but both Macrumors and The Verge …

Tensions between the US and Huawei can be traced back to at least early 2018, and resulted in the company being blacklisted in the US. However, the UK allowed Huawei to continue to sell its 5G infrastructure domestically, albeit with some limitations. Now it looks like the UK is preparing …

Samsung has announced that it plans to expand its foundry capacity with a new production line in Pyongtaek, Korea. Samsung said that the new line will become the “core manufacturing base” for the company's production of 5G, high performance computing and AI solutions with 5nm EUV.  Samsung said that construction of …

Intel has announced that it is acquiring Rivet Networks – a company mainly known for its network solutions, with its Killer series often used in various gaming machines. Intel said that the acquisition will boost “Intel's Wi-Fi offerings for PC Platforms”. The world is growing ever more dependent on Wi-Fi …

Over the last 18 months, hackers have made great progress on opening up the Nintendo Switch console for piracy and homebrew software. Nintendo has been cracking down on these exploits with software updates but the latest tactic is to take things to the courtroom.  At the end of last week, …

The OnePlus 8 Pro has been shipping for a little while now and early adopters were quick to notice the new ‘X-Ray' filter in the camera application, which can see through certain plastics and clothing materials. As you might expect, a camera feature that can see through clothes kicked up …

The trade dispute between the US and China is continuing this week, with reports saying that TSMC has stopped taking new orders from Huawei as the US attempts to limit chip supplies.  The US government announced last Friday that semiconductors making chips abroad with U.S. technology would require licenses for …

Back in April, as more and more people went into quarantine due to coronavirus, Netflix and other streaming services made adjustments to video quality in an effort to reduce bandwidth usage and avoid internet blackouts. Now, bitrates are slowly beginning to rise once again.  We are still some ways off …

PC Engine CoreGrafx Mini was originally expected to launch worldwide on March 19. However, due to production delays, the launch had to be indefinitely delayed everywhere except for Japan. Now Konami says that the console will be shipping to North American customers starting May 22, with availability in other regions expected …

The COVID-19 outbreak has shaken the market in many ways that would have been impossible to predict just a few months ago. Foxconn is one of the companies that has been hit hard by the pandemic and has reported a 90% decline in profit for Q1 2020. Hon Hai Precision …

Facebook has made a number of huge acquisitions over the years to maintain its dominance in the social media landscape. From the $19 billion and and $1 billion purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram respectively, to the $2 billion buyout that brought Oculus under Facebook's umbrella. The next frontier appears to …

Things change fast in the world of technology. On May 11 it was reported that the Trump administration had reached out to several semiconductor manufacturers to discuss the possibility of building a chip plant in the US. Now, just four days later, TSMC has announced that it's planning to build and …

Cincoze recently revealed the GM-1000, a compact GPU computing platform that supports MXM GPUs. Cincoze claims it offers all the features required for “field applications in machine vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence.” Cincoze's GM-1000 is based on the Intel Coffee Lake-R platform and supports 8th/9th generation workstation-grade processors with …

Over the last few years we've heard a number of tech-related news stories emerge from the Trump administration, including Huawei being added to the US' blacklist. Now, the administration is conducting negotiations with semiconductor companies about building chip factories in the United States, according to reports from Wall Street Journal. …

The Japanese company Sharp has revised its forecast for earnings last year, and has also reduced its expected full-year profit by 48%. It is believed that a big factor for the downturn is decreased demand as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Major shifts are happening across the worldwide market …