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3 Min Read BEIJING (Reuters) -Earnings at China’s industrial firms grew at a slower pace in April, with high commodity prices and weaker performance in the consumer goods sector limiting overall profitability from manufacturing. FILE PHOTO: Workers wearing face masks following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak load steel products for export to a cargo ship at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China May 27, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS Profits at China’s industrial firms r...

08:43 | RTX 3070 Ti Rumored With the 3080 Ti now functionally confirmed to exist in a 12GB SKU, and with a freshly rumored May 26th release date (and 25th review date), we can all declare our boredom of this GPU and move on to the next rumor. The next one is the RTX 3070 Ti, alleged to exist by HKEPC. HKEPC’s Chinese-language coverage cited AIB partners in Taiwan (most of them) as the source for the information.  HKEPC says that the RTX 3070 Ti will be available in early June. The media outl...

09:37 | GTX 1080 Ti Revival Rumors Are False Just as a quick update: There was a story circulating this past week about the GTX 1080 Ti allegedly being revived, particularly by EVGA, as a means to quell some of the shortage concerns. We called EVGA and asked if the 1080 Ti was getting remade, and the official answer was “no, it is not being remade. The 1080 Ti is no longer in production.” The unofficial answer when we first posed the question was “HAHA! No.” Sorry to shoot that one down...

05:37 | AMD Building Linux Team In a recent report by Michael Larabel at Phoronix -- a site we’re happy to recommend for its Linux-specific benchmarks -- it was reported that AMD is growing its team of Linux developers. AMD currently has job listings for a Linux Kernel development manager, described on the AMD careers page as a mentor to a team of developers to enable design and implementation of “Linux operating system features supporting AMD CPUs.” The job lists responsibilities as incl...