Vendors have been quick to adopt the latest NVIDIA RTX Spark SoC in their devices, and MSI has deployed it in both mini PCs and laptops. MSI Power EdgeMesa N AI+ Mini PC and Prestige Flip AI+ Laptop With NVIDIA RTX Spark, Delivering a Powerful Arm+Blackwell Combo for Strong Compute and AI Performance With the introduction of the "New era of PC" by NVIDIA, its partners are quickly adopting its recently developed RTX Spark SoC, which brings 20 Arm-based CPU cores coupled with 6144 CUDA Cores based on the Blackwell architecture. The SoC is a powerful chip that brings 128 […]

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New LLVM patches confirm additional RDNA 4m variants alongside GFX1170 with similar instruction capabilities. AMD Quietly Expands Next-Gen iGPU Roadmap by Adding New RDNA 4m Graphics Targets, GFX1171 and GFX1172 Earlier compiler patches showed that RDNA 4m incorporates several RDNA 4-style instruction-set upgrades, such as support for FP8 and BF8 data formats, along with WMMA matrix instructions used in AI workloads. Now, AMD is further expanding its next-gen integrated GPU roadmap, as new Linux compiler patches unveil two additional RDNA 4m graphics targets. These are the GFX1171 and GFX1172. These targets are now joining the recently discovered GFX1170, confirming that […]

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Weirdly, the latest open-world title developed by Pearl Abyss doesn't even run on Intel GPUs. Crimson Desert Developer, Pearl Abyss, Confirms The Game Does Not Support Intel Arc GPUs; No Indication of Future Support Either [Update - 3/21/2026] - Intel has offered a statement on the lack of Arc GPU support in Crimson Desert: "We’re aware that Crimson Desert currently doesn’t launch on systems with Intel GPUs and we’re hugely disappointed that players using Intel graphics hardware can’t jump into the world of Pywel at launch. Getting games running smoothly is always a partnership between developers and hardware makers. Over the […]

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Rambus has announced the development of its fastest HBM controller yet, based on the HBM4E standard, offering up to 16 Gbps transfer speeds per pin. Ready For Next-Gen AI Data Center Superchips, Rambus Intros HBM4E Memory Controller As expected, Rambus has developed the world's fastest HBM4E memory controller, offering a 60% boost over its HBM4 controller with up to 16 Gbps pin speeds (vs 10 Gbps on HBM4) and up to 4.1 TB/s of total bandwidth per module (vs 2.56 GB/s on HBM4). The HBM4E standard will be utilized by NVIDIA's Rubin Ultra GPUs and AMD's MI500 series accelerators. Press […]

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