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Manufacturer TSMC will start producing chips at 7nm within two years. The Taiwanese processor maker has announced this. TSMC first takes the step to 10nm, before it starts producing on the even smaller process.Mass production will begin…

AMD has announced a new version of the FirePro W9100: a model that will be equipped with 32GB instead of 16GB gddr5. The card is intended for workstations, and AMD is aligning its introduction with a FireRender plug-in for 3ds Max.Apart…

Nvidia will announce the GeForce GTX 1080 in May, a Taiwanese site claims. The manufacturer would provide the card with a GP104 GPU based on the Pascal architecture. Nvidia would not yet use HBM2, but would opt for gddr5x.The exact date…

Nvidia is said to be planning to introduce GPUs based on the new Pascal architecture in mid-June during the Computex trade show in Taiwan. It will probably be the mobile variants and not the desktop card version.The introduction of the…

Intel is rumored to release a third chip generation at 10nm, after Cannonlake and Icelake. It may be released in the second half of 2019. The rumor comes when TSMC announces that it will produce the first 7nm chips in early 2018.The…

Samsung has started production of processors on the second generation of its 14nm finfet process. The South Korean manufacturer has announced this. The socs that Samsung makes include the Snapdragon 820 from Qualcomm and Exynos 8…

Samsung has started production of processors on the second generation of its 14nm finfet process. The South Korean manufacturer has announced this. The socs that Samsung makes include the Snapdragon 820 from Qualcomm and Exynos 8…

AMD has announced a new architecture for video cards and embedded GPUs. The architecture has been given the name Polaris and should be produced with 16nm finfet technology in the course of 2016.AMD releases few details in its…

Analyzes of the soc used in the Apple iPad Pro have shown that the tablet has a 12-core GPU on board and that the soc is made using TSMC's 16nm finfet process. It is also striking that this soc, unlike other socs from Apple, does not have…

Now that the Apple iPad Pro is available, the first benchmarks are emerging. They provide insight into the structure and performance of the new A9X soc. With two cores at 2.26GHz and 4GB lpddr4 memory, the soc seems to set scores that…