Computex 2024: Not only about the consumer market

Noctua showcased several new products and prototypes at the Computex 2024 show, including new Ampere Altra family of CPU coolers and the upcoming NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchip CPU cooler.

x86 has reached its limits

Oracle said that it has modified its flagship database software to work on a new category of computing chip, starting with chips from Ampere Computing.

Uses its Arm-based Ampere Altra

Microsoft announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. 

For the 3D classes of the Ampere GPU

The GPU maker named after a Roman vengence daemon Nvidia has published 73k lines worth of header files to document the 3D classes for their Fermi through current-generation Ampere GPUs.

Uses Ampere chips

Former maker of expensive printer ink Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced today that it will offer a new cloud-native server in Q3 of 2022 using Ampere chips.

Probably too late to do any damage

Nvidia’s code which borks its cards if they are used for Ethereum mining has been cracked.

An impressive increase in SM count

An alleged set of specifications for Nvidia's Ada Lovelace GPU has leaked online, showing a lot of details including an impressive increase in SM count over Ampere.

Pushed back to mid-February

According to a report, a part of Nvidia's upcoming refresh has been pushed back to after the Chinese New Year, so only one SKU could be announced at the CES 2022 event.

Based on GA107 GPU with 2GB of GDDR6 memory

Nvidia's MX550 entry-level mobile GPU has appeared online and according to rumors, it should be based on GA107 Ampere GPU and paired up with 2GB of GDDR6 memory.

The GA106, GA104, and GA102

According to various rumors around the net, it appears that Nvidia is preparing updated Ampere GPUs that will limit crypto-mining, eventually covering the entire RTX 30 series lineup.