Samsung starts mass production of 16Gb GDDR6 chips
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Based on 10nm-class manufacturing process

Samsung has announced that it has started mass production of 16Gb GDDR6 memory chips, offering twice the speed and density levels compared to currently available GDDR5 memory chips.

There's Chery news for Nvidia
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Chinese will use its self-driving tech

Nvidia said  China’s Chery Automobile would use its self-driving technology that it has developed with Baidu and Friedrichshafen.

Nvidia may launch Max-Q versions of GTX 1050/1050 Ti
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Spotted in latest Linux driver

It appears that Nvidia is preparing for a counter move to the recent cooperation between Intel and AMD, in the form of Max-Q versions of the GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti.

Samsung Aquabolt 8GB HBM2 2.4Gbps chips are go
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Codename Aquabolt

Samsung said  it has started mass production of its 2nd generation 8GB HBM2 chips, codename Aquabolt.

AMD announces 7nm Vega
Published in Graphics
08 January 2018

AMD announces 7nm Vega


Instinct, artificial intelligence first

Lisa Su has announced Vega 7nm as a machine learning "instinct part" first. AMD is quite clear that this is for machine learning first and don’t want to comment on our curiosity whether Vega 7nm can make it to the market as a gaming product soon.