Gaming consoles are a bad business
For chip manufacturers, not Sony
Reuters broke an exclusive story about Intel losing the PlayStation 6 deal to AMD. My argument is that it is hard to lose something that you didn’t have. What actually happened is that Intel simply didn’t want to go lower than AMD to secure the deal. The process is called negotiation. Sony as any other business will give the business away to a competitor at a lower price than it is paying right now.
AMD shuns GPU enthusiast crowd
Wants to focus on low to mid range
A dark satanic rumour claiming that AMD wants to move away from the high-end enthusiast GPU crowd to focus on cheap and cheerful chips has been confirmed.
AMD’s Instinct MI300X is competitive with Nvidia's H100 on AI
MLCommons benchmarks are in
MLCommons has released benchmarks comparing AMD's Instinct MI300X GPU with Nvidia's Hopper H100, H200, and Blackwell B200 GPUs.
Nvidia’s stellar results fail to impress cocaine-fuelled Wall Street
Even if it made what said analysts it should
Nvidia's quarterly forecast failed to meet the insane expectations of the cocaine nose-jobs of Wall Street.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gets new launch trailer
Game launching on December 9th with NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 support
Bethesda has released the new Gamescom date reveal trailer for its upcoming Indiana Jones and the Great Circle game, which will be coming on December 9th to PC, Xbox Xbox Series X/S, and Game Pass. The game will also get full NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 with Ray Reconstruction.
Nvidia messes around with aging G-Sync
Wants to keep the band together
Nvidia has announced a strategic shift that aims to preserve G-Sync as a distinct technology while eliminating the need for costly additional hardware.
Nvidia working on new Geforce RTX 3050 A Laptop graphics card
To be powered by Ada Lovelace AD106 GPU
A rather interesting new graphics card has been spotted in Nvidia's latest driver release and PCI ID database. Called the Geforce RTX 3050 A Laptop, the new graphics card will be powred by the AD106 GPU, packing more CUDA cores compared to the current lineup.
TSMC rejected Nvidia’s request for a dedicated packaging line
Too much like hard work
The Taiwanese press is abuzz about the fact that TSMC has turned down NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's request to set up a dedicated packaging manufacturing line for NVIDIA's products.
Simply NUC adds NUC 14 Performance to its lineup
Scorpion Canyon with Intel Core CPUs and optional RTX 4060/4070 GPU
Simply NUC, a well-known custom computing company, has added the new Scorpion Canyon NUC 14 Performance to its lineup. This small NUC packs a workstation-class performance with Intel's latest Core Ultra Meteor Lake CPUs with Intel Arc integrated graphics and an optional Nvidia RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 graphics.
Nvidia releases Geforce 560.70 WHQL Game Ready driver
One to have for Dungeonborne, Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn, and Stormgate
Nvidia has released its latest Geforce 560.70 WHQL Game Ready driver which features optimizations for new games, adds several new G-Sync monitors to the support list, and fixes some bugs.