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SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
Star Swarm, DirectX 12 AMD APU Performance Preview
After several requests and a week’s break from our initial DirectX 12 article, we’re back again with an investigation into Star Swarm DirectX 12 performance scaling on AMD APUs...
152 by Ryan Smith & Ian Cutress on 2/13/2015
NVIDIA Releases Q4 FY 2015 And Full Year Results: Record Revenue For Quarter And Full Year
NVIDIA released their earnings report for the fourth quarter of their fiscal year 2015, which ended January 25th, 2015. FY 2015 was a record for the company, with revenues...
61 by Brett Howse on 2/11/2015
NVIDIA 347.52 WHQL: Get Ready to Evolve
Today marks the release of the latest gaming beast: Evolve. Powered by CryEngine, you’d expect this to be another graphically demanding game that will require a lot of GPU...
43 by Jarred Walton on 2/10/2015
Eurocom Now Selling GPU Upgrades For Existing Laptops With GTX 980M and GTX 970M Options
Today Eurocom announced some interesting news. They are now selling new upgrade kits for existing laptops which feature a MXM 3.0b graphics card. This will let owners of older...
36 by Brett Howse on 2/10/2015
The DirectX 12 Performance Preview: AMD, NVIDIA, & Star Swarm
With the various pieces of Microsoft’s latest API finally coming together, today we will be taking our first look at the performance of the future with DirectX 12. The...
245 by Ryan Smith on 2/6/2015
GeForce GTX 970: Correcting The Specs & Exploring Memory Allocation
Over the weekend we reported on a statement released by NVIDIA regarding recent concern over unusual VRAM allocation and VRAM bandwidth performance from the GeForce GTX 970. In brief...
398 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2015
NVIDIA Publishes Statement on GeForce GTX 970 Memory Allocation
On our forums and elsewhere over the past couple of weeks there has been quite a bit of chatter on the subject of VRAM allocation on the GeForce GTX...
93 by Ryan Smith on 1/24/2015
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 960
Editor's Note: Due to personal matters we won’t have a GeForce GTX 960 review published today. But in lieu of that we wanted to go over the basics of...
87 by Ryan Smith on 1/22/2015
AMD Executive Shakeup: Byrne, LaForce, and Naik Leave AMD
Word comes via email and an 8-K filing from AMD this afternoon that AMD’s executive lineup is undergoing a significant shakeup today. All told, 3 AMD executives are leaving...
43 by Ryan Smith on 1/12/2015
MSI Goes USB 3.1 at CES 2015: The MSI Component Suite Tour
Back at Computex we reported that MSI was showing a potential mock-up of USB 3.1 on one of their motherboards. Fast forward a few months and this is slowly...
33 by Ian Cutress on 1/12/2015
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 965M
In a rather unusual turn of events, the first I officially knew of the GeForce GTX 965M was when I saw it in some of MSI’s new gaming notebooks...
16 by Jarred Walton on 1/8/2015
NVIDIA Tegra X1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
In the past few years, we’ve seen NVIDIA shift their mobile strategy dramatically with time. With Tegra 2 and 3, we saw multiple design wins in the smartphone space...
194 by Joshua Ho & Ryan Smith on 1/5/2015
Samsung/NVIDIA Case Progresses: US ITC Begins NVIDIA Investigation
The legal battle between Samsung and NVIDIA over GPU licensing has turned another page this week, with the announcement from the United States International Trade Commission that it is...
30 by Ryan Smith on 12/24/2014
NVIDIA 347.09 Beta Drivers Available
After the last 344.75 NVIDIA driver update, I thought maybe we might not get any more updates until the New Year. Certainly I wasn't expecting to move from the...
15 by Jarred Walton on 12/19/2014
Win7 Driver Issues? Microsoft, AMD Recommend Uninstalling KB3004394
Though we don’t normally report on Windows updates, we’ll make an exception on this one. AMD sends word this evening that they are advising users to remove update KB3004394...
50 by Ryan Smith on 12/11/2014
Benchmarked - Assassin's Creed: Unity
The fifth game in the Assassin's Creed series (depending on how you want to count), Assassin's Creed: Unity is perhaps one of the most demanding games to ever hit...
122 by Jarred Walton on 11/20/2014
Intel's Xeon Phi: After Knights Landing Comes Knights Hill
As SC’14 rolls on this week, taking part in the show’s events is Intel, who was at the show to deliver an update on the Xeon Phi lineup. As...
15 by Ryan Smith on 11/18/2014
NVIDIA 344.75 Drivers - MFAA Arrives for Maxwell
When NVIDIA initially briefed us on their new GM204 GPUs (aka Maxwell 2.0), there were several new features discussed. Most of these are now publicly available – Dynamic Scalable...
28 by Jarred Walton on 11/18/2014
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80, GK210 GPU
Kicking off today is the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, better known as SC. For NVIDIA, next to their annual GPU Technology Conference...
29 by Ryan Smith on 11/17/2014
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