I hate to say I told you. But back in October, I wondered if AMD would give up on PC gaming graphics chips. Now AMD has released its latest financial results and things are only looking uglier. For the first quarter of 2024, AMD said its gaming revenues were down as much as 48% compared … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — In high school, the only thing Pablo Nava Barrera knew about was Nvidia, which made the graphics card in his video game computer. But when he started looking for internships last fall, the second-year computer science student at San José State University discovered that the company’s chips were behind “generative” AI tools … Read more
Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super. Asus’s latest big boi GPU is the TUF Gaming RTX 4080 Super, a reference-priced, modestly overclocked card from classic Nvidia board partner. That makes it a $999 GPU, $200 less than the original RTX 4080, but with essentially the same performance. Job done. And if you can’t get your … Read more
Beautiful Seven: Tesla, Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Nvidia. Photo: Alamy/Getty/AP/Reuters (©Alamy/Getty/AP/Reuters) The Magnificent Seven accounted for about two-thirds of the S&P 500’s (^GSPC) gains last year, but can they repeat these extraordinary returns in 2024? This group of mega-cap tech giants – Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), … Read more
LG CES. We’re just a few weeks away from the biggest tech jamboree of the year, the Consumer Electronics Show, or CES. 130,000 visitors and 3,500 vendors are expected to descend on Las Vegas’ sprawling complex of exhibit centers and trade show floors for the event, which kicks off on January 9. Among them is … Read more
A silicon wafer with chips etched into it at a research facility in Sunnyvale, California, US. (SWIMMING POOL New / Reuters) Semiconductors and chips emerged as a major talking point for businesses in 2023, with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and what appeared to be the end of a long-term supply chain shortage. Covid-19 … Read more