It's all bad news. What you need to know A global semiconductor shortage is crippling technology supply chains. It affects everything from GPU to car production. As the shortage's effects snowball, supply recovery times lengthen. Semiconductors have quickly become one of the world's most rare and precious assets. As a result, the companies that rely on them, … [Read more...] about NVIDIA, Intel, Micron, and TSMC weigh in on semiconductor shortages
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MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards spotted in transit
A Facebook user has shared photos taken of MSI packing boxes in transit from Hong Kong to the USA. LokLok shared the images on Saturday and it is thought that the photos were taken at or near an MSI transfer warehouse in Sheung Shui, HK. It is easy to read that, among the various models of graphics cards seen packed up and ready to go, there is a carton full of MSI GeForce RTX … [Read more...] about MSI Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti graphics cards spotted in transit
Nvidia plans to refresh RTX 3060 and re-nerf crypto mining
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3060 crypto mining perf-nerf was surprisingly easy to bypass, given that the company is a leader in the IT and AI industries. Now it looks like the green team has learned some hard lessons and will refresh the GPU powering the mass-market targeted RTX 3060 to properly prevent miners fiddling with these cards to make them worth snatching out of the eager … [Read more...] about Nvidia plans to refresh RTX 3060 and re-nerf crypto mining
NVIDIA Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm Server CPU For Use In Big AI Systems
Kicking off another busy Spring GPU Technology Conference for NVIDIA, this morning the graphics and accelerator designer is announcing that they are going to once again design their own Arm-based CPU/SoC. Dubbed Grace – after Grace Hopper, the computer programming pioneer and US Navy rear admiral – the CPU is NVIDIA’s latest stab at more fully vertically integrating their … [Read more...] about NVIDIA Unveils Grace: A High-Performance Arm Server CPU For Use In Big AI Systems
NVIDIA DLSS Now Available In Major Game Engines With No AMD Alternative In Sight
The magical NVIDIA DLSS technology is now available in Unity, increasing its engine adoption to new heights with Unreal Engine 4 joining earlier this year. This is leading to a continuous rise in adoption with no competitor from AMD, leading to more PC games adopting the new performance-enhancing feature. The news, coming from NVIDIA’s recent GTC conference, shows the rapid … [Read more...] about NVIDIA DLSS Now Available In Major Game Engines With No AMD Alternative In Sight
Chromebooks with NVIDIA RTX graphics, MediaTek CPU might be coming
It hasn’t been approved yet but NVIDIA has just made it known that it is very intent on investing in the Arm computing ecosystem. The company, which does use Arm technology for a few of its own products, just made a rather big announcement of new processors and partners geared towards expanding that ecosystem, from the usual culprits like the DRIVE Atlan for … [Read more...] about Chromebooks with NVIDIA RTX graphics, MediaTek CPU might be coming
How to Install Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint [Beginner’s Guide]
Linux Mint is a fantastic Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to make it easy for newbies to experience Linux by minimizing the learning curve. Not just limited to being one of the best beginner-friendly Linux distros, it also does a few things better than Ubuntu. Of course, if you’re using Linux Mint like I do, you’re probably already aware of it. We have many … [Read more...] about How to Install Nvidia Drivers on Linux Mint [Beginner’s Guide]
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 ETH limiter bypassed by dumb dongle
About a week ago HEXUS reported upon the release of the Nvidia GeForce 470.05 driver which accidentally allowed owners of the RTX 3060 12GB to run the GPU at its full hash rate in ETH mining software. It was pretty quickly noticed that the crypto-mining limited bypass driver would only work its magic on a single RTX 3060 card in a system. This drew a nice line under the gaffe, … [Read more...] about Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 ETH limiter bypassed by dumb dongle
NVIDIA Raises GeForce NOW Paid Subscription Plans to $10 Per Month, $100 Per Year
Just over a year ago, NVIDIA finally brought GeForce NOW, its PC game streaming service, out of beta. The commercial launch of the service saw the introduction of two tiers: a feature and time-limited free tier, and a paid Founders tier that offered a full set of features (including RTX) and priority access. Now as the company is in its second year of operating the commercial … [Read more...] about NVIDIA Raises GeForce NOW Paid Subscription Plans to $10 Per Month, $100 Per Year
NVIDIA Fumbles, Releases GeForce RTX 3060 Driver Without Anti-Mining Throttle
In an effort to partially mitigate the market chaos that has come from the cryptocurrency mining boom over the last 6 months, last month NVIDIA very publicly introduced a mining throttling mechanism for its then-new GeForce RTX 3060 cards. By throttling the performance of Ethereum mining on these cards to half their native rate, it would ideally keep miners from immediately … [Read more...] about NVIDIA Fumbles, Releases GeForce RTX 3060 Driver Without Anti-Mining Throttle