EnGenius ECW336 Wi-Fi 6e Cloud Managed Access Point Review

EnGenius ECW336 Wi-Fi 6e Cloud Managed Access Point Review

The EnGenius ECW336 Wi-Fi 6e Cloud Managed Access Point offers solid performance and stability, but it comes with a mighty big price tag.

TT Show Episode 26 - Dune gets an epic new game and Samsung sends Galaxy phones into Space

Kosta Andreadis | TweakTown | Mar 15, 2024 12:33 AM CDT

The TT show is back, and this week, Jak and Kosta take a closer look at several cool-looking games on the horizon. With the smash hit Dune Part Two now in cinemas, the sci-fi franchise is getting a massive open-world survival MMO called Dune Awakening from the creators of Conan Exiles. With new info and gameplay, the Arrakis-set title is looking very spicy.

TT Show Episode 26 - Dune gets an epic new game and Samsung sends Galaxy phones into Space

The duo also looks at PlayStation classic Ghost of Tsushima, finally coming to PC (Assassin's Creed meets Shogun), and the breathtaking indie action RPG No Rest for the Wicked.

In the world of science and space, Jak brings up Samsung's recent (and super fun) marketing stunt, which sent Galaxy phones into the lower atmosphere to take a few snaps of planet Earth. Plus, new solar-powered implants that can restore someone's vision are paving the way for a Cyberpunk future.

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GIGABYTE teases DGX, Superchips, PCIe cards based on NVIDIA's new Blackwell B200 AI GPUs

Anthony Garreffa | Artificial Intelligence | Mar 18, 2024 9:00 PM CDT

GIGABYTE is showing off its next-gen compact GPU cluster scalable unit: a new rack with GIGABYTE G593-SD2 servers, which have NVIDIA HGX H100 8-GPU designs and Intel 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors inside.

GIGABYTE teases DGX, Superchips, PCIe cards based on NVIDIA's new Blackwell B200 AI GPUs

The company has said it will support NVIDIA's new Blackwell GPU that succeeds Hopper, with enterprise servers "ready for the market according to NVIDIA's production schedule". The new NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPU for generative AI and accelerated computing will have "significant benefits," says GIGABYTE, especially in LLM inference workloads.

GIGABYTE will have products for HGX baseboards, Superchips, and PCIe cards with more details to be provided "later this year," adds the company.

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Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 should hit 4K 120FPS or 8K 60FPS thanks to PSSR upscaling tech

Anthony Garreffa | Gaming | Mar 18, 2024 8:37 PM CDT

Sony reportedly awarded AMD with the contract to build a next-generation SoC for its next-generation PlayStation 6 console... which could be capable of 4K 120FPS or 8K 60FPS gaming.

Sony's next-gen PlayStation 6 should hit 4K 120FPS or 8K 60FPS thanks to PSSR upscaling tech

We've had plenty of leaks and rumors about the beefed-up PlayStation 5 Pro console coming later this year, as well as Sony's new PlayStation Spatial Super Resolution (PSSR) technology, which is "currently aiming" for 4K 60FPS and 8K 30FPS gaming, with leaker Tom Henderson reporting "but it's unclear if those internal milestones can be passed".

The upgraded PlayStation 5 Pro playing games at 4K 60FPS and 8K 30FPS will most likely be driven with PSSR upscaling, and that makes sense: 45% more rendering power, with 2-3x the ray tracing performance in PS5 Pro-powered games at 4K 60FPS... and some, not all, at 8K 30FPS would be huge for Sony.

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TSMC rumored to build new CoWoS advanced packaging facility in Japan, only place outside Taiwan

Anthony Garreffa | Business, Financial & Legal | Mar 18, 2024 7:02 PM CDT

TSMC is reportedly considering building advanced packaging capacity in Japan, which would fuel Japan's efforts to reboot its semiconductor industry.

TSMC rumored to build new CoWoS advanced packaging facility in Japan, only place outside Taiwan

In a new report from Reuters, "two sources familiar with the matter" report that the Taiwanese giant is in the early stages, with the sources "declining to be identified as the information was not public." According to one of the sources who was briefed on the matter, TSMC is considering building a chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology in Japan.

All of TSMC's new CoWoS capacity is located in Taiwan, so this would be a significant move for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. TSMC recently built a new fab in Japan in just two hours, with workers working 24-hour days around the clock, which has earned the site the nickname "Nightless Castle." I'm sure there will be many more sleepless nights if TSMC does indeed build new CoWoS packaging technology in Japan.

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NVIDIA's new Project GROOT: fully humanoid robot to compete against Tesla Optimus AI robot

NVIDIA had plenty to announce during its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) event, with the launch of Project GROOT: a new foundational model that helps in the development of robots for industrial use (and more).

NVIDIA's new Project GROOT: fully humanoid robot to compete against Tesla Optimus AI robot

The new Project GROOT stands for "Generalist Robot 00 Technology," with NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang teasing robots powered by Project GROOT during GTC 2024, which have been designed to understand natural language and emulate movements made by humans by watching them.

Huang said: "Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today. The enabling technologies are coming together for leading roboticists around the world to take giant leaps towards artificial general robotics".

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NVIDIA's new Blackwell-based DGX SuperPOD: ready for trillion-parameter scale for generative AI

Anthony Garreffa | Artificial Intelligence | Mar 18, 2024 5:22 PM CDT

NVIDIA has just revealed its new Blackwell B200 GPU, with its new DGX B200 systems ready for the future of AI supercomputing platforms for AI model training, fine-tuning, and inference.

NVIDIA's new Blackwell-based DGX SuperPOD: ready for trillion-parameter scale for generative AI

The new NVIDIA DGX B200 is a sixth-generation system that's air-cooled in a traditional rack-mounted DGX design used worldwide. Inside, the new Blackwell GPU architecture powers the DGX B200 system using 8 x NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 2 x Intel 5th Gen Xeon CPUs.

Each DGX B200 system features up to 144 petaFLOPS of AI performance, an insane 1.4TB/sec of GPU memory (HBM3E) with a bonkers 64TB/sec of memory bandwidth, driving 15x faster real-time inference for trillion-parameter models over the previous-gen Hopper GPU architecture.

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NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 864GB HBM3E memory, 16TB/sec memory bandwidth

Anthony Garreffa | Artificial Intelligence | Mar 18, 2024 4:48 PM CDT

NVIDIA has finally announced its new Blackwell GPU, DGX system, and Superchip platforms all powered by Blackwell B200 AI GPU and Grace CPU.

NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip: 864GB HBM3E memory, 16TB/sec memory bandwidth

The new NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip is a processor for trillion-parameter-scale generative AI, with 40 petaFLOPS of AI performance, a whopping 864GB of ultra-fast HBM3E memory with an even more incredible 16TB/sec of memory bandwidth.

Each of the new GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips will feature 2 x B200 AI GPUs and a single Grace CPU with 72 Arm-based Neoverse V2 cores. Alongside the 864GB HBM3E memory pool, 16TB/sec memory bandwidth is joined by a super-fast 3.6TB/sec NVLink connection.

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Winxvideo AI - Complete AI toolkit to convert, record, edit & enhance videos and images

Kosta Andreadis | Software & Apps | Mar 18, 2024 4:01 PM CDT

Winxvideo AI is a powerful suite that includes AI tools for enhancing images and video quality, a versatile video converter and compressor, a screen recorder, a video editor, and even a downloader that can download media from various streaming sources. It does all of this while leveraging the power of graphics cards with full hardware acceleration for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA GPUs.

Winxvideo AI - Complete AI toolkit to convert, record, edit & enhance videos and images

At the heart of Winxvideo AI is the AI video enhancer, which offers three AI tools to enhance video quality. The first is AI Upscaling, which can take a low-quality or low-resolution source and upscale it to 720p, 1080p, and even 4K. This is great for improving the quality of older videos, removing unwanted noise, and enhancing image fidelity.

The second is AI Frame Interpolation, similar to what DLSS 3 and Frame Generation bring to games; it increases the frame rate by a factor of 2X, 3X, 4X, or even 5X. With a one-click 'slow-motion' option, it is perfect for creating smooth videos similar to what you might see in a sports broadcast replay.

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NVIDIA's next-gen Blackwell AI GPU: multi-chip GPU die, 208 billion transistors, 192GB HBM3E

Anthony Garreffa | Artificial Intelligence | Mar 18, 2024 3:48 PM CDT

NVIDIA has just revealed its next-gen Blackwell GPU with a few new announcements: B100, B200, and GH200 Superchip, and they're all mega-exciting.

NVIDIA's next-gen Blackwell AI GPU: multi-chip GPU die, 208 billion transistors, 192GB HBM3E

The new NVIDIA B200 AI GPU features a whopping 208 billion transistors made on TSMC's new N4P process node. It also has 192GB of ultra-fast HBM3E memory with 8TB/sec of memory bandwidth. NVIDIA is not using a single GPU die here, but a multi-GPU die with a small line between the dies differentiating the two dies, a first for NVIDIA.

The two chips think they're a single chip, with 10TB/sec of bandwidth between the GPU dies, which have no idea they're separate. The two B100 GPU dies think they're a single chip, with no memory locality issues and no cache issues... it just thinks it's a single GPU and does its (AI) thing at blistering speeds, which is thanks to NV-HBI (NVIDIA High Bandwidth Interface).

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Poker-based roguelike deckbuilder Balatro is another big hit from out of nowhere for 2024

Darren Allan | Gaming | Mar 18, 2024 2:36 PM CDT

Balatro emerged a month ago on Steam and is the latest game on Valve's service to swiftly build up an immense amount of traction from out of nowhere, really grabbing the attention of PC gamers.

Poker-based roguelike deckbuilder Balatro is another big hit from out of nowhere for 2024

The big announcement for Balatro (which is also out on consoles: PlayStation, Switch and Xbox) is that the game has just sold a million copies.

It's a compact and streamlined game, a deckbuilder based on poker - although the mention of the traditional card game might well put you off. However, all the critics and reviews say don't worry about the poker influence, you don't need to know, or like, poker to enjoy Balatro.

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Two Apple AirPods 4 models now expected to arrive in September or October this year

Oliver Haslam | Audio, Sound & Speakers | Mar 18, 2024 1:45 PM CDT

If you're in the market for a new pair of wireless earbuds but have been waiting to see what Apple's plans are, you might have to wait until September or October. That's according to a new report by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Two Apple AirPods 4 models now expected to arrive in September or October this year

Gurman was writing in the weekly Power On newsletter when he said that Apple is expected to put two new fourth-generation AirPods into mass production in or around May, and based on that he then expects them to be ready for market in September or October.

The new AirPods 4 are expected to feature a new design to aid an improved fit in the ear while improving sound quality is also thought to be a key feature. There will also be an update to the existing charging case as well, adding a USB-C port and removing the Lightning port that has been there for years.

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