It was knownWestern Digital has received a number of patents covering the combination of hard disk and tape drive designs and mechanisms. We are talking about embedded tape drives (LTO), which can accommodate hard disk components. Such drives can...
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Almost exactly three years ago, Omar Ishrak, who previously served as an independent board member and ran medical device maker Medtronic for nine years, was elected chairman of the board. It was announced this week that he will be replaced as...
The Chinese company Loongson has released a single-chip platform LS2K2000. It contains two LA364 processor cores with a frequency of 1.5 GHz, 2 MB of L2 cache and an integrated LG120 graphics core. So Loongson got his own graphics. Image source:...
The explosion of the electric vehicle market has produced multiple charging connector standards, which are traditionally more prevalent in some regions than others. If Tesla EVs officially shipped in Europe for the local market immediately use the...
In recent months, automakers have voiced their intentions to accelerate the transition to electric traction, including American giant General Motors’ decision to invest $854 million in the production of eight-cylinder internal combustion...
Many have wondered what would happen if, instead of thermal paste, you used toothpaste or some other substance that can be found in almost every household. One of the readers of the ComputerBase portal decided to find the answer by testing various...
The rapid development of the electric vehicle industry increases the demand for next-generation semiconductor components. In particular, power elements made of silicon carbide can withstand higher loads and offer greater energy efficiency. According...
The restructuring of Western Digital Corporation, which implies the separation of the solid-state memory business, has long been discussed at the rumor level. According to sources Bloomberg, a deal with Kioxia could take place in the coming months...
Excerpts from official documents published in local media confirm that the ban on the supply of advanced lithographic equipment from the Netherlands to China in 2020 was imposed at the urging of that country’s Ministry of Defense, which in...
The professional graphics accelerator NVIDIA RTX A6000 Ada Generation was presented back in September last year. But the sale of graphics cards for workstations has only just begun, writes the VideoCardz portal. Image source: NVIDIA A novelty in Ada...
The Intel Ethernet i226-V network controller used in many Raptor Lake motherboards can have design flaws that cause momentary (on the order of seconds) disruptions and, as a result, the loss of a stable connection to the network. This is reported by...
Previously, a story spread on the Internet that AMD Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards (models on the Navi 21 GPU) began to fail en masse. At the same time, there was critical physical damage to the cards – the silicon graphics processor was...
MSI representatives announced via a forum on Reddit that the company is developing firmware updates for its motherboards that “fix” the previously broken Secure Boot (Secure Boot) function, which is responsible for the secure booting of the system...
The Bavarian car giant BMW has decided to accelerate the development of solid-state batteries by launching production of its prototypes together with the American company Solid Power. The basis for the cooperation between the two companies will be...
Portal ComputerBase detailed comparison Overclocking potential of AMD RDNA 3 and NVIDIA Ada Lovelace graphics architectures, partially confirming AMD’s earlier statement that its architecture was designed to operate at 3 GHz. The results of an...
In March last year, the Intel Corporation announced its intention to spend up to 80 billion euros over the next ten years to set up new companies and research centers in Europe. Italy was listed in this plan as a location for the chip testing and...
A little over a year ago, Jim Keller, who is remembered by all experts in the history of the computer industry for a number of successful processor architectures, took on three positions at the young Canadian company Tenstorrent: in addition to...
ZeroAvia has built and flown the world’s largest hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft to date, the Dornier 228. Yesterday, a 19-seat twin-engine aircraft equipped with a prototype hydrogen-electric power plant completed a 10-minute flight in...
Shortly after taking over as CEO of Intel nearly two years ago, Patrick Gelsinger began forcing the company to increase its spending on building new facilities and mastering advanced lithography technologies. In his opinion, now that the global...
In early October last year, US authorities tightened their own export control rules regarding the supply of certain semiconductor components and equipment to China for their production. Products shipped from the Netherlands and Japan were not fully...
