SEMI's Semiconductor Watch Group, which monitors more than 1300 silicon wafer processing plants, has released its latest growth and expansion cost outlook report. Alas, 2019 in this regard will be a year of cost savings, while in 2020 the industry will again return to the growth of purchases of production equipment. Thus, SEMI predicts that in […]
It looks like hope for smartphones with long battery life is fading again. Neither new technical processes, nor SoC optimization, nor an increase in battery capacity, nor many other "chips" can bring the appearance of mobile devices closer, which, with intensive use during the day, would not have to be charged every night. Moreover, manufacturers of cooling systems expect the appearance in the new […]
Dutch studio Nixxes, known for its PC versions of Square Enix games (particularly the Tomb Raider and Deus Ex series), announced during GDC 2019 that the newest update for Shadow of the Tomb Raider has finally added support for shadows based on RTX ray tracing and NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). We are talking about a patch [...]
A release version of the Firefox 66 browser has been released for desktop platforms, as well as a mobile version for Android OS. These versions introduced support for the “Scroll Anchoring” mechanism, which avoids the situation where scrolling immediately after opening a page leads to a gradual shift in position and the need to scroll through the content again and again as images and external inserts load. The long-awaited […]
The shooter Quake II from id Software was released back in 1997, during the reign of the long-dead 3DFx. The game offered a new single-player campaign, an exciting multiplayer mode that many had been playing for years on dialup modems, colored lighting, dynamic visual effects and much more - all of this was available in a stunning resolution of 640 × 480 for that time, or […]
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An event for advanced schoolchildren: first, an online course with career guidance on the development of modern microcircuits (parts 1, 2, 3), and then a practical seminar on digital circuitry and the Verilog hardware description language, with FPGA / FPGA synthesis. Those who excel will receive fees as prizes. The video shows an invitation to a seminar in front of a plate of Apple headquarters, which begins with the words "what […]
Counterpoint Research has released its forecast for the global fully wireless in-ear headphones market in the coming years. We are talking about devices like Apple AirPods. These headphones do not have a wired connection between the modules for the left and right ears. It is estimated that last year the global market for these products amounted to approximately 46 million units in volume terms. Moreover, about 35 […]
According to the IEEE Spectrum website, from late February to early March, a laboratory was created on the basis of the Belgian center Imec together with the American company KMLabs to study problems with semiconductor photolithography under the influence of EUV radiation (in the ultra-hard ultraviolet range). It would seem, what is there to study? No, there is a subject for study, but why establish a new laboratory for this? Company […]
Inno3D has announced the GeForce GTX 1660 Twin X2 graphics accelerator, which is based on the TU116 chip with the NVIDIA Turing architecture. The video card has 1408 CUDA cores. The equipment includes 6 GB of GDDR5 memory with a 192-bit bus and an effective frequency of 8000 MHz. The base frequency of the chip core is 1530 MHz, the increased frequency is 1785 MHz, which corresponds to the […]
During the GDC 2019 Game Developers Conference, NVIDIA made an important announcement regarding the development of its hybrid ray tracing and rasterized rendering technology, NVIDIA RTX. As a rule, this technology is associated with the public with games, although it has so far only found real use in Battlefield V and Metro Exodus. However, perhaps more importantly (at least […]
BMW and Daimler are in talks to collaborate on developing platforms for electric vehicles, which will save each automaker at least 7 billion euros, according to Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Auto Bild. The two automakers already have a joint procurement program and have recently expanded their collaboration to include the development of advanced driver assistance systems and mobility services. However, according to the Sueddeutsche […]
