Gaming

EVGA brings the insides out with new the E1 platform

When EVGA was founded in 1999 it was the first to introduce heat pipe cooling and iCX Technology along with 4-Way SLI. In 2012, EVGA introduced its first Power Supply. Through quality and features, EVGA has become a top choice for Power Supplies when gamers are building their systems. EVGA continues the tradition of top-tier hardware for gamers. With the launch … Read more

Announced at CES, the entry-level Ampere RTX 3050 is tested

The RTX 3050 in its natural habitat   Nvidia made a splash at CES this year. Nvidia’s senior vice president, Jeff Fisher proclaimed that 150 million new gamers will enter the market in 2022.” The market has grown to $300 billion in sales in 2021, up to $70 billion from just three years ago,” said Fisher, and “Nvidia is well-positioned … Read more

The GPU population continues to expand

The GPU market has expanded with the announcement that Innosilicon, a cryptocurrency ASIC builder, have applied their talents to building a GPU using Imagination Technologies’ BXT 32-1024 MC4 RTL IP. The company was founded in 2006 in Zhuhai, China, a modern city in China’s southern Guangdong province, on the border with Macau, with R&D in Shanghai and Wuhan. The company … Read more

Qualcomm handheld game machine—Snapdragon G

Qualcomm’s handheld, game console, reference design. (Source: Jon Peddie)   In December 2021, Qualcomm announced a handheld game console reference design. Qualcomm has had a long and effective history of developing reference designs to illustrate how their SoCs could be successfully employed. Often, some OEMs would use the entire design either because they had limited design resources, time, or because … Read more

Amazon’s New World has a hard time getting it right

Not for everyone, Amazon’s New World MMO is demanding and has a few glitches, but it has fierce defenders as well. (Source: Amazon)   Dinner out with a young friend who asks, is Amazon still bricking GPUs? Er, what? The gamers among you probably know all about this. Amazon’s new MMO New World, a Windows game introduced last summer, had … Read more

AMD’s Q3 2021 results

AMD reported revenue for the third quarter of 2021 of $4.3 billion, an operating income of $948 million, and a net (GAAP) profit of $923 million. “AMD had another record quarter as revenue grew 54% and operating income doubled year-over-year,” said AMD president and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “3rd Gen EPYC processor shipments ramped significantly in the quarter as our … Read more

Qualcomm and others exploit Wi-Fi gaming

  Qualcomm, Microsoft, Valve and some OEMs think it’s time to redefine wireless expectations for latency-sensitive gaming, productivity, and learning applications on Windows 11 PCs. They are going to do that with Qualcomm’s chip-based FastConnect systems, which enable Wi-Fi Dual Station. Wi-Fi Dual Station using Qualcomm 4-Stream Dual Band Simultaneous is a Windows 11 feature that allows multiple Wi-Fi bands … Read more