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Valve is currently hiring a “psychologist” to help develop future games and its storefront

Posted on: 06 Jan 2021

Valve, the studio behind Half Life: Alyx, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is currently looking to hire one psychologist. As per a new listing posted on their official site, the developer is looking for a psychologist to join their team to help develop its future games and the STEAM storefront.

AMD files a patent application for a “CPU and FPGA hybrid processor” design

Posted on: 06 Jan 2021

AMD has already made great strides with their high performing Zen 2 and Zen 3-based lineup of processors, and now the company wants to further expand its presence in the CPU industry. The company claims it wants to improve performance not just through faster and efficient CPU cores, but also through the use of FPGAs.

Intel discontinues its 300-series chipset motherboards based on the LGA 1151 socket

Posted on: 06 Jan 2021

According to ComputerBase, Intel has just confirmed that the company would be discontinuing the 300-series motherboard chipsets, sporting the LGA 1151 socket.  What this basically means is that the production of Intel’s 300 series chipset motherboards, including the high-end H310, H370, Z370 and Z390 models is officially coming to an end.

AMD is reportedly rumored to launch its Radeon RX 6700 series RDNA 2-based gaming GPUs by Q1 2021

Posted on: 06 Jan 2021

According to a recent report posted by Cowcotland, AMD is now expected to launch its Radeon RX 6700 series by the end of March 2021. It appears that these Navi 22 GPUs are launching later than previously expected, as previous rumors actually pointed out for a January release date.

NVIDIA readies a new entry in the Ampere GPU lineup, GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB ULTRA variant, ASUS TUF OC pictured

Posted on: 06 Jan 2021

If you have been following the latest tech news and Nvidia’s roadmap since past few months or so, then you might have heard rumors that Nvidia was allegedly prepping to launch more SKUs in the current Ampere GPU lineup.

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, calls out Intel on the importance of ECC RAM in the consumer market space

Posted on: 05 Jan 2021

Linus Torvalds, the principal developer and creator of the Linux kernel, recently criticized INTEL for undermining the importance of error-correcting code (ECC) memory. In a recent tech forum post discussing ECC memory, Linus openly blamed Intel for not making ECC RAM mainstream on consumer market, while at the same time praised AMD for supporting it … Continue reading Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, calls out Intel on the importance of ECC RAM in the consumer market space →

Rumor: AMD might be prepping new NAVI RDNA 2-based GPUs, “XTXH” and “Nashira Point” codenames spotted

Posted on: 03 Jan 2021

According to a recent listing spotted in the USB Implementers Forum website, it is expected that AMD might have few more NAVI RX 6000-series Graphics cards based on the RDNA 2 architecture in the pipeline. However, the submitted entries do not confirm whether the GPU codenames listed refers to the Navi 21 or Navi 22 … Continue reading Rumor: AMD might be prepping new NAVI RDNA 2-based GPUs, “XTXH” and “Nashira Point” codenames spotted →

INTEL’s leaked roadmap confirms 11th gen Rocket Lake-S CPU lineup’s launch date window between Q1-Q2 2021 [UPDATE]

Posted on: 03 Jan 2021

Back in October, Intel officially revealed its upcoming 11th Gen Rocket Lake-S desktop CPU lineup, based on the Cypress Cove core architecture. Rocket Lake (RKL) is a planned microarchitecture designed by Intel as a direct successor to the Comet Lake-S series of desktop CPUs and high-performance mobile devices.

AMD submits a new patent for an MCM “GPU chiplet” design for future RDNA architectures

Posted on: 03 Jan 2021

It appears that AMD has recently submitted a new patent to the US Patent and trademark Office/USPTO on December 31 2020, which outlines the company’s plan for its future GPU technology. This leak comes via Twitter user @davideneco25320 who spotted this entry.

Intel 12th gen Alder Lake-S desktop CPU platform’s “PCIe 5.0” configuration support reportedly spotted

Posted on: 01 Jan 2021

Some new details have emerged regarding Intel’s 12th generation of Alder Lake-S Core processor lineup. As you may already know by now that Alder Lake-S Core processors are said to be the company’s first 10nm SuperFin-based mainstream desktop SKUs. We have also seen documents, datasheets, and release notes for these CPUs which have also appeared … Continue reading Intel 12th gen Alder Lake-S desktop CPU platform’s “PCIe 5.0” configuration support reportedly spotted →