Jim Keller joins Tenstorrent
A big win for AI hardware startup
Tenstorrent, a Toronto based hardware startup developing next-generation computers, announced the addition of industry veteran Jim Keller as President, CTO, and board member.
Cristiano Amon appointed CEO-Elect at Qualcomm
Steve Mollenkopf to Retire as CEO in June
Qualcomm finished strong with Snapdragon 888 and started the first working day of January with its Snapdragon 480 5G announcement. After 26 years at the company, the new big announcement is that Steve Mollenkopf will retire as a CEO. He was CEO since March 2014.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 480 5G
Enables affordable 5G headsets in Q1 2021
Qualcomm is enormously benefiting from fast 5G deployment around the globe. Two years after introducing its first 5G device in the 8 series, the company announced an affordable Snapdragon 4 series chipset for affordable 5G devices.
Intel Rocket Lake to reach 5.3GHz
Double-digit IPC confirmed
Intel’s John Bonini, Intel VP and GM of Client Computing Group Desktop, Workstations and Gaming, has already confirmed a few juicy details about the Intel 11th Generation desktop part codename Rocket Lake-S. Now the latest leak reveals a healthy 5.3GHz speed.
Team Group sampling DDR5
Ready in Q3 2021 for Intel and AMD
It was rumored for a while that the Alder Lake platform expected in the latter part of 2021 has support for DDR5. Team Group is now reporting that they have successfully developed consumer-grade DDR5 memory validation. The company announced the beginning of validation.
FinalWire Aida v6.32 is out
AMD Zen 3 and AMD Radeon RX 6000 optimisation
FinalWire, a company behind Aida benchmark and info tool, has released a new version.
GeIL has ORION RGB Gaming Memory for AMD
AMD RYZEN 5000 Series
GeIL announced ORION RGB Gaming Memory for AMD targeting better support for AMD RYZEN 5000 Series processor. At the same time it underlines the message that it has the memory optimized for the latest AMD and Intel latest platforms, frequencies from 2666MHz to 4400MHz, and capacities from 8GB to 128GB kit.
G.SKILL helps Ryzen 5000 overclock well
Most used for breaking OC records
It turns out that G.SKILL is an almost sovereign leader in the AMD Vermeer Ryzen 5900 series overclocking scores at the HWbot.
AMD sneak Warcraft, Dirt5 more RDNA2 features
Far Cry 6, Godfall, The Riftbreaker and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
AMD is off to a great start with the Radeon RX 6000 series and managed to seriously confront Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 3000 series. Now the company wants to show off its Partner showcase and the impressive list of games.
Coumi ANC-860 Bluetooth 5.0 ANC headphones are good
Review: Decent performance for $57 (With code 50% off)
A few years back, we saw a clear indication that wired mobile phone headphones will be the thing of the past, with a strong tendency toward Bluetooth 5, charging case, and ANC combo use scenario. Today we have a chance to present COUMI that offers Bluetooth 5.0, ANC headphones for $50-ish.