Tuesday, January 19, 2016

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 20/01/2016





AMD will introduce two Polaris GPUs this year
In a recent interview with VentureBeat, AMD's Raja Koduri spilled a handful of beans on the company's upcoming Polaris GPUs. Most notably, Koduri told the site that AMD is cooking up not one, but two Polaris chip designs for this year. Those parts will be called Polaris 10 and Polaris 11. Koduri says Polaris 10 is the "console-class" GPU for thin-and-light notebooks, while Polaris 11's position in the market wasn't specified. Cards based on the new architecture will be named according to "galaxies, star systems, and stars," but they'll still be sold under the Radeon umbrella.
Koduri also seemed to be confident that AMD is several months ahead of the industry on its transition to FinFET GPU production, "especially for the notebook and mainstream market." He ...
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Samsung begins mass production of 4GB HBM2 memory chips
Just under a week ago, JEDEC updated the High-Bandwidth Memory standard with provisions for bigger, faster memory packages. Hot on JEDEC's heels, Samsung has taken the wraps off its mass-production 4GB HBM2 chips this evening.
The company says it's fabricating these 4GB dies on its 20-nm process. Each of these packages comprises four 8Gb core dies atop a buffer die at the base of the stack. Consistent with JEDEC's specifications, each of these HBM2 dies will offer 256 GB/s of bandwidth. For comparison, Samsung says that ...
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Define Nano S case hints at a Fractal Design shrink ray
Fractal Design's Define S case offers an appealing combination of silencing features, a roomy interior, and a wallet-friendly price tag. Fractal is bringing that same feature set to the Mini-ITX arena today with its Define Nano S mini-tower.
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Win10 will be the only Windows supported on next-gen hardware
Microsoft announced Friday that Windows 10 will be the only version of Windows supported on future CPUs and chipsets. The company will continue to support Windows 7 and 8.1 on older hardware for the next several years, as promised by its support policy.
This announcement will affect those who were planning to run older versions of Windows on Intel's forthcoming Kaby Lake CPUs and AMD's Bristol Ridge APUs, as ...
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