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A Stanford University researcher is studying a technology that could drastically improve the performance of internal caches in modern-day CPUs and GPUs. This technology is known ashybrid gain cell memory (Blocks and Files reports), which combines features from SRAM and DRAM to primarily boost storage density. According to the lead member of the research team, Stanford Professor of Electrical Engineering Philip Wong, there is a “memory wall problem” with a GPU’s built-in SRAM-based cache that has to be loaded with data from comparatively slow DRAM....

The ink cartridge on your printer comes embedded with a microchip that helps communicate with the printer and transmit the print signals. However, if the cartridges are not installed correctly, the printer fails to recognize them and you may encounter error messages like “Ink Cartridge Not Recognized,” “No Cartridge Installed,” or “Ink Cartridge Failure.” Such things often happen when the microchip of the cartridge is not properly aligned with the contact chips of the printer....

We live in rapidly changing times for PC graphics. More and more pixels are being generated by AI or “neural” rendering techniques. The DLSS, FSR, and XeSS upscalers let us boost frame rates at will in exchange for small dings to image quality. Frame generation techniques, especially Nvidia’s multi-frame generation techon its Blackwell cards, let us boost them even higher still with the click of an in-game toggle. When implemented well, we think MFG can be an improvement to the gameplay experience....

Intel late on Wednesday said it had appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new chief executive officer effective June 17, 2025. Lip-Bu Tan is a semiconductor industry veteran who served Intel’s board of directors from 2022 to August, 2024, when heleft allegedly due to disagreements over the company’s strategic direction. He wasamong people who were publicly considered for the role. In addition to becoming the CEO, he will also re-join the BOD....

Intel is collaborating with Morgan Stanley to prepare for potential activist investor challenges, reportsCNBC. Although no formal activist campaigns have been launched, Intel is taking steps to protect itself amid intensified competition with AMD, Arm, and Nvidia and financial struggles. It’s hard to pinpoint Intel’s rationale for the defense. The elephant in the room is, of course, Intel’s manufacturing division and its potential spinoff, something that chief executive Pat Gelsinger strongly opposes....

Intel says it will now be unable to meet its goal of $500 million in Gaudi 3 sales due to software issues. Meanwhile, AMD plans to rake in $3 billion from its AI GPUs, and while Nvidia doesn’t specifically state the amount it makes from AI GPUs for the data center, it is expected to be well north of $80 to $90 billion. Intel claims itsGaudi 3 accelerator for AIoffers tangible performance improvements compared to its predecessors, and given its claimed advantages amid relatively low prices, Intel expected sales of these products toexceed half a billion dollars this year....

Intel Lunar Lake ‘Skymont’ E-core Microarchitecture Lion Cove delivers an impressive number of improvements to the core microarchitecture, but Skymont sees an even bigger advance over the prior gen with a 38% IPC improvement in integer workloads and a 68% IPC gain in floating point work, fueling an up to 2x increase in single-threaded performance and up to 4x more peak performance in multi-threaded workloads than the Meteor Lake LP E-cores....

With theArc B580 and B570, Intel introduced a new suite of upscaling and interpolating technologies under XeSS 2 - now sub-divided into XeSS-SR, XeSS-FG, and XeSS-LL. Modders over atNexus Mods(h/tVideoCardz) have somehow managed to obtain the DLL files for these new modules possibly from leaked game patches that support XeSS 2. But don’t get your hopes up as XeSS 2 implementation mostly hinges on official support from game developers; you can’t swap existing XeSS 1....

While the industry anticipates the launch of its next-gen dedicatedGaudi 3 ASICsfollowed by Falcon Shores, both pushed into 2025; Intel has already revealed Jaguar Shores as the next successor in this lineup, perHPCwire. However, we aren’t sure if Jaguar Shores will combine the CPU and GPU into a single platform, as was initially planned withFalcon Shores. , The report says that Intel’s Habana Labs division - probably unintentionally - revealed this codename during a technical workshop at the SC2024 conference....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict The Klevv CRAS C925 is a competent but relatively boring budget SSD. It has passable performance and good power efficiency, but fails to stand out in any real way. The 2TB model we’re reviewing isn’t currently in stock anywhere either. Decent power efficiency Good pricing High write endurance (TBW) Above average write/copy performance Poor performance in many spots Underwhelming for its class Not available for purchase right now...

In ablog poston the officialRaspberry Piwebsite, the software team has announced that the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS has one big change, but many users won’t even notice it. The change? Moving from the X Window system to the Wayland compositor for all models of Raspberry Pi. The new labwc compositor works across all models of Raspberry Pi, unlike the previous wayfire compositor. This means there is little or no reason to use the X Window system, but the option is still there for those applications that don’t play ball....

From clicking to dragging items, the left mouse click does everything on your PC. The left mouse button acts as a primary button on a mouse, that is, if you have not changed the button configurations. And if this primarymouse button stops working, you will definitely have issues navigating applications and even the Operating System itself. If you think about it, several things can stop the PC from registering the left mouse button....

A Windows PC comes with a wide range of features and customization options. We can change and tweak all these different options according to our preferences. One such feature is theLink State Power Management. This feature enables Windows to work with the PCIe lanes and configure it accordingly to either save power or maximize performance. Having it on/off has different effects on a system. It especially favors laptops, as the power-saving modes can be tweaked according to the capacity of the laptop’s battery....