Crypto Miners Reselling Used GPUs with Painted GDDR Memory Chips
Be careful when buying “refurbished” and “used” graphics cards. You’ll never know where they’ve been and how long it will last (after purchase). Taken from...
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Intel Plans to Invest $20 billion in two Arizona Fabs
After a change in leadership at Intel, they’ve been busy upping their game and want to show everyone they mean business. They’re so serious that...
MediaTek Now The World’s Largest Smartphone Chipset Maker
I’m not surprised. Their chips are everywhere … with a 31% market share in Q3 2020 (and growing!) Taken from Engadget … According to a new...
TSMC to Manufacture Apple Silicon for Arm-Based Macs
There are ONLY a few places that can produce 5nm and 7nm chips … and TSMC is one of them. Taken from TPU … Apple...
Toshiba Unveils BiCS Flash Based e-MMC Ver. 5.1 Devices
Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA), the U.S.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, today announced that it will begin sampling new JEDEC e-MMC Ver. 5.1 compliant...
Intel Unveils a Groundbreaking Way to Make 3D Chips
As it’s getting more difficult to cram transistors next to each other in chips, and we near the end of Moore’s Law, the only choice is...
SSDs Are Cheaper Than Ever, Hit the Magic 10 Cents Per Gigabyte Threshold
They’re cheap as chips! … seriously! It may be quite difficult to find bargains when it comes to DDR4 system memory or high-end graphics cards these days,...
Broadcom Plans to Buy Qualcomm For $100 Billion
Broadcom Ltd. is considering a bid of more than $100 billion for Qualcomm Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest-ever...
AMD Packs Radeon Vega Graphics in to Mobile Ryzen Chips
It’s been a revival year for AMD. Its Ryzen chips thrust it back into the desktop arena — so much so that it practically forced Intel to...
AMD’s new Zen CPU beats Intel’s Core i7-6900K – Expected to Launch Q1 of 2017
In a quiet launch event, AMD announced their Zen CPU which will be launched in Q1 of 2017 … and from what we’ve heard and...