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As retail video card prices drop back down to more normal prices following 18 months of cryptocurrency-fueled madness, AMD and its partners are quickly finding themselves with a new concern: AMD video card prices are dropping too much. As Ethereum mining profitability has plummeted, so has the price on video cards, especially the highest margin cards at the high-end of AMD’s product stack. As a result, the company is undertaking a rapid effort to shore up video card prices by bringing back game bundles with a new Raise The Game campaign. The tried and true tool for boosting the value of video cards in slower times, game bundles are a favored tactic of video card makers to improve the value of their product, allowing them...
AMD Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Records All Around
Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q3’21, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying explosive growth...
35 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2021
Intel Reaffirms: Our Discrete GPUs Will Be On Shelves in Q1 2022
Today is when Intel does its third-quarter 2021 financial disclosures, and there’s one little tidbit in the earnings presentation about its upcoming new discrete GPU offerings. The earnings are...
75 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/21/2021
SK Hynix Announces Its First HBM3 Memory: 24GB Stacks, Clocked at up to 6.4Gbps
Though the formal specification has yet to be ratified by JEDEC, the memory industry as a whole is already gearing up for the upcoming launch of the next generation...
19 by Ryan Smith on 10/20/2021
AMD Launches Radeon RX 6600: More Mainstream Gaming For $329
AMD this morning is once again expanding its Radeon RX 6000 family of video cards, this time with the addition of a second, cheaper mainstream offering: the Radeon RX...
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ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition Announced
One thing Noctua is famed for, other than its high-end design and engineering team delivering top quality air-cooling products, is the brown/beige color scheme. Some users may detest the...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 10/4/2021
Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Graphics (Intel, AMD, Google, Xilinx)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021
Hot Chips 2021 Keynote Live Blog: Designing Chips with AI, Synopsys
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021
Intel Architecture Day 2021: Intel Unveils XeSS Image Upscaling Technology
Alongside a sneak peek at their forthcoming Xe-HPG architecture, the other big reveal today from Intel’s consumer graphics group comes from the software side of the business. Along with...
45 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2021
Intel Architecture Day 2021: A Sneak Peek At The Xe-HPG GPU Architecture
For Intel’s 2021 Architecture Day presentations, the yin to the CPU company’s traditional yang is GPUs. Intel has spent the last few years preparing to enter the market for...
72 by Ryan Smith on 8/19/2021
Intel Video Cards Get a Brand Name: Arc, Starting with "Alchemist" in Q1 2022
After several months of various teasers, Intel is finally starting to put the band together for their first high-performance discrete GPUs and video cards. This morning the company is...
56 by Ryan Smith on 8/16/2021
NVIDIA Announces RTX A2000 Video Card: Low Profile & Low Power for ProViz
As part of a suite of SIGGRAPH-related announcements, NVIDIA this morning is announcing a new addition to their RTX line of professional video cards, the RTX A2000. Following NVIDIA’s...
33 by Ryan Smith on 8/10/2021
AMD Announces Radeon RX 6600 XT: Mainstream RDNA2 Lands August 11th For $379
Starting next month, AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 desktop product stack is about to get a little deeper – and a little cheaper – with the addition of the forthcoming...
66 by Ryan Smith on 7/29/2021
AMD Reports Q2 2021 Earnings: Company-wide Growth Drives Doubled Revenue
Continuing our Q2 earnings coverage this month, AMD is next out the gate in reporting their earnings. And, has been the story now for most of the last year...
105 by Ryan Smith on 7/27/2021
Cadence Cerebrus to Enable Chip Design with ML: PPA Optimization in Hours, not Months
The design of most leading edge processors and ASICs rely on steps of optimization, with the three key optimization points being Performance, Power, and Area (and sometimes Cost). Once...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021
Testing the New 3DMark CPU Benchmark: For the Boids
A couple of weeks ago, UL (formerly Futuremark) released the latest test in its ongoing 3DMark gaming benchmark suite, CPU Profile. The premise behind this new CPU-specific test is...
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Intel Accelerated Webcast on July 26th: Update on Process Technology and Roadmaps
Earlier this year, new Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined his new ‘IDM 2.0’ vision for Intel. This vision was a three pronged strategy based on improving its own process...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/12/2021
NVIDIA Unveils PCIe version of 80GB A100 Accelerator: Pushing PCIe to 300 Watts
As part of today’s burst of ISC 2021 trade show announcements, NVIDIA this morning is announcing that they’re bringing the 80GB version of their A100 accelerator to the PCIe...
16 by Ryan Smith on 6/28/2021
AMD Moves GCN 1, 2, & 3-based GPUs and APUs To Legacy; Also Drops Win7 Support
Alongside today’s release of their new Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.6.1 driver – the first to bring support for FidelityFX Super Resolution tech – AMD is also using this opportunity...
59 by Ryan Smith on 6/22/2021
An AnandTech Interview with TSMC: Dr. Kevin Zhang and Dr. Maria Marced
In the past week, TSMC ran its 2021 Technology Symposium, covering its latest developments in process node technology designed to improve the performance, costs, and capabilities for its customers...
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/8/2021
AMD confirms Ray-Tracing and VRS in Samsung Exynos RDNA GPU IP
At this year’s AMD Computex 2021 keynote event, CEO Lisa Su, among a series of various new product announcements and technology disclosures, has teased some new details on the...
49 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/1/2021
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