IBM Research successfully produces 7-nm test chips
The next leap for semiconductors after the 10-nm process node is 7 nm, and it appears that IBM Research is helping to pave the way. According to a report by Ars Technica, the company has announced successful production of 7-nm test chips at its joint research facilities at the SUNY Polytechnic Insititute.
Ars reports that the test product uses 7-nm FinFETs with silicon-germanium (SiGe) alloy channels. This new alloy is apparently one of three advancements ...
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Catalyst 15.7 drivers enable FreeSync with CrossFire
AMD released its Catalyst 15.7 graphics drivers today. This WHQL driver enables FreeSync with CrossFire multi-GPU setups, and it's also supposed to provide some Windows 10 feature support like HEVC decode for Xbox Video Player, game streaming from Xbox One consoles to the PC, and WDDM 2.0.
Other features in the new release include Frame Rate Target Control, which can reduce power consumption and lower heat output by capping frame rates. FRTC was previously available for certain 300-series cards in the Catalyst 15.15 beta, and it's ...
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FirePro S9170 mates Hawaii GPU with 32GB of RAM
AMD has announced the FirePro S9170, its new flagship "server GPU." This new model comes with 32GB of GDDR5 memory onboard, double that of the previous FirePro S9150, on a 512-bit bus for a claimed 320GB/s of throughput. With all that GDDR5 memory, it's a pretty safe bet that Fiji is not a good candidate for this market, given its memory capacity restraints. The extra RAM is supposed to improve the performance of applications that need to keep large data sets as close to the GPU as possible.
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Wednesday Shortbread
Eight Is Enough
- Reuters: Apple persuades U.S. judge to void $533 million iTunes award
- Microsoft: We will focus on value phones,
business devices and flagship Windows phones - SamMobile's exclusive: Details about the pricing
of Samsung Galaxy Tab S 2 and Galaxy Tab E - WCCFtech: Asus Strix Radeon R9 Fury graphics card pictured
- 3DCenter posts AMD & Nvidia graphics roadmap 2015 (in German)
- Computerworld: Mozilla to pick up Firefox
release pace, ship version 'soon' for Windows 10 - Neowin's hands-on with Windows 10 build 10163
- DSOGaming: Here is Super Mario powered by Nvidia's
HairWorks tech in UE4 + Super Mario Nvidia Flex Tech demo
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AOC joins the budget 4K party with its 28" U2870VQE
AOC announced its new U2870VQE 28" 4K display today, at a budget-friendly suggested price of $349. The display features a matte, eight-bit TN panel with frame-rate control dithering (FRC), good for an effective 10 bits of color depth, or 1.07 billion colors. The panel also boasts a 1ms response time and 300 cd/m2 maximum brightness.
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Microsoft restructures phone hardware business, cuts 7,800 jobs
Microsoft has announced plans to restructure its phone hardware business, including the elimination of 7,800 jobs. The restructuring effort will result in a one-time charge of $7.6 billion related to assets acquired with Nokia's Devices and Services divsion, a deal that was finalized only 15 months ago. It will also take a restructuring charge of between $750 million and $850 million. The company says these changes should be mostly completed by the end of 2015, and completely finalized by the end of its next fiscal year.
An additional charge related to the "impairment of assets and goodwill in [Microsoft's] Phone Hardware segment" will ...
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Logitech shows off new logo, introduces Logi brand
These days, companies seem to be all about reinventing themselves. Today, it's Logitech's turn. The company has unveiled a new corporate identity and logo, along with a new product line called Logi. First, have a look at the new logo in all of its glory:
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Zero-day Windows vulnerability exposed by Hacking Team leak
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Flash vulnerability, the leak of internal documents from Hacking Team has revealed another zero-day vulnerability, this time in a Windows kernel component. Attackers can exploit it to gain administrator privileges on a target system. All versions of Windows from XP up to 8.1 are reported to be affected, in both 32 and 64-bit variants.
The vulnerability resides in the Adobe-provided atmfd.dll, which is a kernel-level driver for rendering OpenType fonts . TrendMicro has a page up with a brief technical description about the vulnerability (which is essentially a ...
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Startup Knowm has an AHaH moment with memristors
We've been hearing about commercially feasible memristors—a type of electrical component that's persistent like flash memory, but as fast as DRAM to access—for quite some time now. Most prominently, HP got its proof of the memristor's existence published in Nature back in 2008, and it partnered with SK Hynix to produce memristors in 2010, but there's been little new fruit on that front since (aside from the HP Labs project called "The Machine," which has since been redesigned around more conventional technologies). Now, a new startup called Knowm is taking its own shot at bringing the memristor to market, this time as part of a machine-learning solution.
At the hardware level, Knowm is taking a different tack than HP's "crossbar" memristor design, according to this EE Times article . Instead, the company builds memristors using a technology it calls "Thermodynamic RAM," which appears to be fabricated using ...
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