Day: June 22, 2023

Gigabyte has quietly introduced one of the industry’s first inexpensive motherboards for AMD’s AM5 processors in Mini-ITX form-factor. The most unexpected peculiarity of Gigabyte’s A620I AX motherboard — based on AMD’s low-cost A620 chipset that only supports essential features — is that it supports AMD’s top-of-the-range Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7950X processors. Despite its positioning as an […]

Argonne National Laboratory and Intel said on Thursday that they had installed all 10,624 blades for the Aurora supercomputer, a machine announced back in 2015 with a particularly bumpy history. The system promises to deliver a peak theoretical compute performance over 2 FP64 ExaFLOPS using its array of tens of thousands of Xeon Max ‘Sapphire […]

In a rather unexpected move, Intel this week discontinued its Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card, which was its flagship discrete graphics offering for desktops. Intel’s partners will continue to offer their Arc A770 add-in-boards (AIBs) with 8 GB and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. Intel discontinues its Arc A770 Limited Edition graphics card rather […]

Transcend is a well-known manufacturer of digital storage products, particularly in the industrial space. The company also has plays in the consumer segment, with products ranging from both internal and external SSDs to DRAM modules and card readers. In April 2023, the company introduced the ESD310C – a portable SSD in a thumb drive form-factor. […]

Intel on Wednesday announced that it had agreed to sell a 20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication, a company the develops and builds multi e-beam photomask writing tools, for $860 million. The move provides Intel much needed cash and allows IMS to engage into deeper cross-industry collaboration. IMS Nanofabrication develops and builds multi e-beam tools that synthesize photomasks […]