At CES last week, Nvidia announced its mid-cycle refresh for the RTX 40-series. The refresh consists of three Super GPUs launching throughout January and includes Super versions of the RTX 4070, 4070 Ti, and 4080. AMD seems particularly concerned about the 4070 Ti Super, as it has officially lowered the …
Read More »Ripple Effect for AMD, Intel, And Nvidia
In what is becoming a predictable and somber trend, a new report in Digitimes indicates that prices for almost every type of processor are set to increase in 2022. The culprit is chip-maker TSMC raising wafer prices on its biggest customers. The report lays out the cascading effect this development …
Read More »Samsung Galaxy S21
Samsung’s annual Unpacked event is taking place a bit earlier than usual this year, but the company’s new flagship Galaxy S phones are official all the same. As expected, there are three devices in the S21 family. All three devices have the latest Snapdragon 888 ARM chip, lower price …
Read More »Imagination Technologies’ share price collapses as Apple dumps company
Ever since Apple launched the original iPhone, it’s worked closely with Imagination Technologies. Even after Apple began building its own GPU architecture, it relied on Imagination for other building blocks of its total solution. Apple, however, appears to be bringing that relationship to an end, and Imagination Technologies’ stock has …
Read More »Aukey Cortex 4K VR headset review: A lot of pixels at a low price
Not enough resolution is one of the most common complaints about the current crop of VR headsets. They’re all more or less roughly 1080p (or 2K), split between the two lenses. So I was really interested when Aukey came out with the Cortex 4K VR headset at $399.99 — substantially below …
Read More »Apple found guilty of price-fixing in Russia, strong-arming its retail partners
Apple has run into trouble with US regulators on several occasions to date, including its attempt to illegally collude with book publishers to manipulate eBook prices. Up until now, the company has never been accused of breaking the law on iPhone prices. Earlier this week, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service …
Read More »Nvidia turns everything to 11 with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, GTX 1080 price cuts
SAN FRANCISCO — At GDC 2017, Nvidia announced its long-expected GTX 1080 Ti. The GPU, which has been rumored since at least the Nvidia Titan X’s unveil, is a potent upgrade compared with Nvidia’s previous top-end consumer card, the GTX 1080. The gap between the GTX 1080 Ti and the 1080 …
Read More »Microsoft slashes Xbox One price to $250 ahead of Slim launch
This weekend, Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox One for the third time since May, giving users access to the Xbox 360 successor for a mere $250. Remember, the Xbox One originally launched with a 500GB drive and a Kinect sensor for $499, all the way back in November …
Read More »Nvidia slashes price of GTX 280, 260: Now on par with ATi’s prices
Hope you didn’t buy an Nvidia GTX 260 or 280 in the past month, since their prices were just slashed overnight. The GTX 280, once retailing for $649, will now set you back only $499. Meanwhile, the GTX 260, once $399, is now $299. Or, in scary percentages, that’s a …
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