Intel and UMC team up on older technology
Faster 12-nanometer semiconductors
Intel and UMC have announced a mega-deal to work together on making 12-nanometer semiconductors faster and more powerful.
Seagate shows off its hot new hard drive
I need you to burn
Seagate has revealed the industry's first hard disk drive that uses heat to write data.
Samsung unveils 12nm 32Gb DDR5 DRAM
Enabling 128GB DRAM modules, and paves the way for 1TB DRAM modules
Samsung has announced the development of the industry's first and highest-capacity 32Gb DDR5 DRAM on a 12nm manufacturing process.
Samsung starts mass production of 12nm-class DDR5 DRAM
A 7.2Gbps DRAM with reduced power consumption
Samsung Electronics has announced that it has started mass production of its 16Gb DDR5 DRAM based on the industry’s most advanced 12nm-class process technology.
Samsung shows off 12nm DDR5 DRAM
Works with AMD's Zen
Samsung has unveiled the world’s first 12nm DDR5 DRAM chips.
AMD officially releases Radeon RX 590
Based on 12nm Polaris GPU
As expected, rumored, and leaked earlier this week, AMD has now officially released its latest mid-range graphics card meant to put a bit more pressure on Nvidia's GTX 1060 during this holiday season, the Radeon RX 590.
Sapphire's Radeon RX 590 Nitro+ spotted online
The same RX 580 Nitro+ Special Edition design
Sapphire's RX 590 Nitro+ Special Edition has been spotted online and comes with the same design as the RX 580 Nitro+ Special Edition - confirming earlier reports that we are looking at just a die shrink of the original Polaris chip.
The box shot confirms 12nm Polaris Radeon RX 590
Should be launching this month
A box shot has pretty much confirmed that AMD is likely to soon launch the 12nm Polaris-based Radeon RX 590, which could bring around 10 to 15 percent performance boost compared to the RX 580, at least depending on the actual GPU clock AMD AIB partners hit on their cards.
AMD 12nm Polaris refresh could be called Radeon RX 590
Spotted in 3DMark database
As we already told you earlier, AMD is gearing up to launch a 12nm Polaris refresh which should bring around 10 to 15 percent improvement, and now it appears it could be called the Radeon RX 590.
AMD 12nm Polaris coming in November
Bringing 10 to 15 percent improvement
AMD is gearing up for a slight refresh of its graphics card lineup with a 12nm Polaris GPU, which is likely to bring an improvement of around 10 to 15 percent, mostly thanks to higher clocks.