Pangoly's blog: a journey through the world of silicon and bits (Page 4)

ASUS has announced the production of its first SSD. The teaser image shows the ROG STRIX SQ7, 1TB of storage with M.2 PCIe Gen4 interface.

Intel has revealed its ARC A series GPUs for laptops, starting with the base model ARC A3. For the first desktop video cards, however, we will have to wait for the summer.

AMD announced the AM5 platform and the Zen 4 "Raphael" CPU family at CES 2022, providing the second half of the year as the launch window for the new platform. The upcoming processors and AM5 platform will introduce support for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 memory to the AMD ecosystem as well.

Nvidia and AMD unveiled their respective low-end video cards at CES in Las Vegas. The RTX 3050 GPU offers ray tracing and DLSS for limited budgets, while the Radeon RX 6500 XT at the (theoretical) price of $200 would be the cheapest upgrade available to all gamers stuck by the current market situation with video cards of obsolete generations.

Final versions of Intel's upcoming non-K CPUs (with locked multiplier) have emerged online, along with their first images and specifications. For official information, we will have to wait for CES 2022, scheduled for early January.