China ditches silicon in transistor leap
New 2D material could trash Chipzilla’s best with faster, leaner chips
Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs with a transistor that could outgun current US chip tech while guzzling less power.
Nvidia officially announces Geforce RTX 5060 series
$299 for RTX 5060 and $379/$429 for RTX 5060 Ti 8GB/16GB
Nvidia has officially annnounced its latest Geforce RTX 5060 series graphics cards, starting with Geforce RTX 5060 Ti, which will be available at $379 for 8GB and $429 for 16GB versions and available as of today, April 16th, while the RTX 5060 8GB graphics card will be coming in May, priced at $299.
First speculative performance leaks
Qualcomm’s second-generation Snapdragon X processors — the ones set to power its next wave of client PCs — are now deep in development, and the first speculative performance leaks have started to surface.
AMD’s RX 9070 XT clobbers RTX 5080 in sales
RDNA 4 continues steamrolling as NVIDIA struggles with stock, pricing
AMD's RDNA 4 cards are on an absolute tear, with the Radeon RX 9070 XT outselling NVIDIA’s RTX 5080 by a staggering ten to one margin at MindFactory — one of the EU’s biggest component retailers.
Might revive AVX-512
Chipzilla’s engineers have confirmed the existence of a P-core-only variant of its Bartlett Lake-S platform in a fresh Linux kernel patch, giving the rumour mill a much-needed shot of validation.