Computing

Version 20.10 of Ubuntu Linux has been released, a version that will receive nine months of support. A new version is published twice a year and the year and month of publication form the version number. Once every two years, a version…

Intel shipped 11 percent more processors for PCs in the quarter, and that growth is entirely attributable to laptop processors. The turnover from this rose, but Intel mainly supplied cheaper processors for entry-level and school…

The Raspberry Pi organization releases the Compute Module 4 and the accompanying IO Board. There is a choice of 32 versions, with and without wireless connectivity, with 1 to 8 GB of Lpddr4 memory and with or without eMMC flash storage.…

What could be thicker than the fastest video card of the moment? Exactly: twice the fastest video card of the moment. Armed with two GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Editions and Nvidia's new NVLink bridge, in short, almost EUR 3,200 in GPU…

Synology announced the DS1621 +, a six-bay NAS that features an embedded AMD Ryzen V1500B. Compared to the DS1618 +, the nas has a more powerful processor and support for SSDs for caching.The DS1621 + can be seen as the successor to the…

Imagination has announced its IMG B series with GPUs. These chips are available under license and can be integrated into chips from third parties. According to Imagination, the GPU series achieves up to 6Tflops in computing power,…

Nikon has introduced the successors to the Z6 and Z7 released in early 2019. The most important innovations are the addition of a second image processor and the presence of a second card slot. The Z6 II costs 2199 euros and the Z7 II…

Microsoft demonstrates how Fallout 4 runs on Xbox Series S at 60fps. The game appeared for the Xbox One and ran at 30fps. The game can run at 60fps via backwards compatibility, without the need for an update.Microsoft previously promised…

From 2022, the so-called 'big' cores of Arm's Cortex-A generation of socs will only support 64-bit and no longer 32-bit. In 2022, Arm's Makalu chips will be released, which should offer 30 percent higher performance than current…

Nvidia wants to build the UK's most powerful supercomputer this year, delivering 8 petaflops of computing power. The company will use eighty DGX A100 systems for this. The supercomputer will be available for medical research in…