Samsung's foundry flounders
Published in PC Hardware


Drop in market share expected

Taiwanese market research institute TrendForce claims that Samsung's foundry business will lose market share in 2022.

Nvidia turns to AI for design process improvements
Published in AI

Better than humans 

Nvidia expects the complexity of integrated circuit design to increase exponentially in the coming years, and is looking to AI to help out.

Nvidia Geforce RTX 3090 Ti could launch at $1,999
Published in Graphics

 
First 3DMark results show slight performance improvement

It appears that the upcoming Geforce RTX 3090 Ti could come with a $500 premium over the RTX 3090, so we are looking at $1,999 for the RTX 3090 Ti Founder's Edition. Considering the first leaked 3DMark results, it will be hard to justify the higher price tag, especially at a significantly higher TDP.

Nvidia fleshes out 2D
Published in News


Tech can turn a 2D into a 3D landscape

AI boffins at Nvidia have developed a way to convert 2D images into a 3D scene by using ultra-fast neural network training alongside rapid rendering.

UK bobbies arrest more of the Lapsus$ gang
Published in News


Seven people between the ages of 16 and 21

Inspector Gnasher of the Yard has fingered the collar of seven members of the Lapsus$ hacking group which targeted Samsung, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Okta.

Nvidia wants to team up with Intel
Published in News


Make our chips

Nvidia is thinking of using Intel to make its chips, Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang told hacks.

Nvidia unveils the Hopper-based H100 accelerator
Published in Graphics


Brings 16,896 CUDA cores and up to 80GB of HBM3 memory

During the GTC 2022 keynote, Nvidia has unveiled its latest H100 accelerator, a beast that uses 4nm GH100 GPU and packs 80 billion transistors, 4th gen Tensor cores, and promises some impressive performance gains thanks to the new Hopper architecture.

Nvidia announces hopper
Published in Graphics


Rabbiting on

The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia has announced the release of its Hopper GPU architecture.

GPU sells for under MSRP in Germany
Published in Graphics


What next, a Brazilian planting a tree?

In a move that the GPU shortage might finally becoming to an end, a Radeon RX 6500 XT has been selling in Germany at a price which is 35 per cent less than MSRP.

More evidence that M1 Ultra can’t match real GPUs
Published in News


Two to three years behind Nvidia and AMD

The fruity and nutty cargo cult Apple’s claims that it has created a chip with a GPU which can match the best on the market is proving to be about as fake as Putin’s claim to be winning the Ukraine war.