We have several missions This Week in Rocket Launches but the most interesting will be the launch of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission.
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Amazon has begun rolling out its internally developed operating system to devices starting with the 3rd generation Echo Show 5. The OS, known as Vega, is a web-centric platform based on Linux.
An AMD spokesperson has confirmed that the company is reducing driver support for Vega and Polaris-based graphics cards. From now on, those GPUs will only get separate drives with critical updates.
We have a number of satellite launches coming up this week but the most notable is the launch of two prototype Project Kuiper satellites from Amazon. Like Starlink, they will beam internet to Earth.
There will be two launches in the upcoming week. Arianespace will launch satellites for the French military while Rocket Lab will use its Electron rocket to put two BlackSky satellites in orbit.
The launches this week will be quite ordinary. OneWeb will get 34 new internet satellites in space and China even wants to launch an internet satellite as a test before establishing a constellation.
After igniting its upper stage eight minutes after liftoff, the Vega rocket lost nominal speed and went on a degraded trajectory, taking with it the Spanish and French payload onboard.
AMD's Radeon VII is selling for a very attractive price of $499. The GPU is the world's first 7nm consumer-level graphics card. The unit comes equipped with an impressive 16GB of HBM2 memory.
AMD's Adrenalin 19.9.3 driver is bringing Radeon Image Sharpening to Vega-based GPUs due to high demand from the community. The new driver also adds support for Ghost Recon Breakpoint.
With less than a month to go before its official release, AMD will be hosting the unveiling of the full version of Star Control: Origins. Stardock will also optimize the title for AMD technologies.
AMD is having a great success with Raven Ridge chips featuring a quad-core Ryzen and a small integrated Vega GPU. Now the Red Team revealed a new chip with an even bigger Vega GPU.
What's next after working 7nm GPU samples? Some sweet leaked benchmarks of course. If this alleged 3DMark entry for Vega 20 is to be believed, AMD could be sitting on a beast of a GPU.
Radeon parts based on the new 7nm process node already in testing and on track for sampling in H2 2018. Optimized for AI/ML workloads, lower TDP and modest bump to compute performance.
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AMD has announced that its latest APU range, will go on sale worldwide, offering gamers console-like 1080p gaming at prices too hard to ignore, combining both Ryzen and Vega in a single chip.
Intel revealed in November that it was working with AMD on a CPU-GPU combination chip that would be aimed at gamers. Now, through a potential slip up, Intel has given us more details on the new chip.
Samsung mobile chief DJ Koh confirmed that the company is developing a new smart speaker, like so many other big tech companies. "Maybe soon we will announce it. I am already working on it," he said.
If you just purchased a new AMD-powered desktop PC from several OEM's, you might be eligible for several free games thanks to a new initiative by AMD and Square Enix that was announced today.
AMD is heating up the high-end market after it announced the official pricing and specifications of its new Threadripper platform and took the fight to Intel with extremely competitive prices.
Samsung is said to be working on a new smart speaker running its Bixby digital assistant, which it introduced on the Galaxy S8 and S8+. But its development seems to have been hindered by Bixby issues.
AMD's first announced its Radeon Vega Frontier Edition a few months back. Now, it has made the card available for purchase, with the standard air-cooled variant retailing for $999.
