Month: March 2021

The 512GB capacity DDR5 module is made possible by an 8-layer TSV structure HKMG material that reduces power by 13 percent while doubling the speed of DDR4. Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced that it has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with the industry’s first 512GB DDR5 module based…

NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. To fit within the available accommodations provided by the Perseverance rover, the Ingenuity helicopter must be small. To fly in the Mars environment, it must be lightweight….

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for more than $10 Billion. Discord has been talking to potential buyers and software giant Microsoft is in the running, but no deal is imminent, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. Discord is more likely to…

AMD announced the AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series Mobile Processors, bringing the performance and efficiency of the “Zen 3” core architecture to business laptops. The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U processor, with 8 cores and 16 threads, delivers leadership CPU performance, offering up to 57%2 more multi-threaded performance than the competition. AMD Ryzen 7 PRO…

The 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) launched worldwide earlier this week, led by the Intel Core i9-11900K. Reaching speeds of up to 5.3GHz with Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost1, the Intel Core i9-11900K delivers even more performance to gamers and PC enthusiasts. Engineered on the new Cypress Cove architecture, 11th Gen…

Oops! That’s not how you implement a new feature. Despite the efforts made by the company, a certain mistake has unlocked the desirable hash rate for cryptominers making the GPUs still good for mining. For more, check out this Tech Times story.

Intel had hoped 3D Xpoint memory technology would take off. Micron Technology Inc MU.O on Tuesday said it will put a chip factory in Lehi, Utah up for sale as it quits making a type of memory chip it jointly developed with Intel Corp INTC.O nearly a decade ago. For more, check out this NASDAQ…

A supermassive black hole has been discovered wandering through space. Researchers and the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have identified the clearest example yet of a black hole in motion, publishing their findings in The Astrophysical Journal. About 230 million light years away, at the center of a galaxy named J0437+2456, the team…

It’s amazing to think a company could weather three explosions in a row. SpaceX has not publicly confirmed why the rocket exploded. Kenneth Chang, a science reporter for the New York Times, claimed a leak in SN10’s propellant tank may have caused the blast. Other reports specified a possible methane leak. Newsweek has contacted SpaceX…

Magnetic field over the Earth weakened 42,000 years ago, possibly influencing climate, evolution, and the organisms that inhabit the planet. All around the same time, the Neanderthals and large megafauna died out, cave art started popping up in Asia and Europe, North America saw swaths of new ice sheets, and, if that wasn’t enough, the…