You may remember the announcement of the re-launch of the Atari Video Console System back in the summer of 2017, though by now you may have decided that it is going the way of the ZX Spectrum Vega+. If you do still hold hope, Atari is once again testing your patience by announcing another delay to the end of 2019. There is a reason however, which you may or may not find acceptable. They will be upgrading the AMD Ryzen chip at the heart of the system, with the new generation of Vega graphics offering modern performance. Atari is also suggesting this will offer much quieter and cooler performance in a quote over at The Inquirer.
"The Atari VCS launched on Indiegogo and was originally set to arrive in spring 2018, but the company has announced that it will now arrive at the butt-end of 2019 (and that projection is just for the US and Canada)."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- NVIDIA GTC 2019: RTX Servers, Omniverse Collaboration, CUDA-X AI, And More @ Techgage
- Corporations, not consumers, drive demand for HP’s new VR headset @ Ars Technica
- MacBook users have taken to giving oral relief to frustrated keyboards @ The Inquirer
- Firefox 66 Arrives With Autoplaying Blocked by Default, Smoother Scrolling, and Better Search @ Slashdot
- NVIDIA Jetson Nano: A Feature-Packed Arm Developer Kit For $99 USD @ Phoronix
- This headline is proudly brought to you by wired keyboards: Wireless Fujitsu model hacked @ The Register
- Apple finally updates the iMac with significantly more powerful CPU and GPU options @ Ars Technica
- TSMC seeing chip orders for Android devices ramp up @ DigiTimes
- QNAP QSW-1208-8C-US 12-Port Unmanaged 10GbE Switch @ Modders-Inc
- ASUS RT-AX88U Dual band AX6000 router @ Guru of 3D
IF the hardware is decent
IF the hardware is decent enough in perf, then this almost seems like what a steambox should have been. And now I want one.
AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1202B is
AMD Ryzen™ Embedded V1202B is the matching product.
They have said numerous times they will be using embedded chips.
This dual core just happens to have vega 3 with newer decoders so that Netflix 4k won’t absolutely murder the cpu side of things. The older apu they were going to use couldn’t handle it.
I dropped out and didn’t back them because of their original hardware choice. If it was a custom AM4 board… I would have backed it. The ability to upgrade to newer APUs would have been great.
ah, I never did look into it
ah, I never did look into it that far for specs, dissappointing, but it makes sense.
I give up, now I don’t want one that much anymore, lol
Oh no! Intel’s hiring the
Oh no! Intel’s hiring the entire remaining technology press(1) and soon there will be none remaining. I’ve never been that trusting of the Online Tech Press but really the more billions these ginormous tech corps have the more Tech Press that they directly hire! And they’re buying up all the technology press folks and it’s become a more accelerating occurence since Anand of Anandtech was hired up by Apple, then Scott Wasson to AMD and most of PCper’s top dogs to Intel and now Kyle Bennett.
Everybody in the online tech press is becoming a talking head, and not in the band sort of way! With such a cozy relationship with the big industry players the Technology Press has to be the most cosy and really can not be trusted to actually be anything more than marketing first and reporting last.
(1)
“Goodbye HardOCP – Hello Intel
We have some big changes happening here at HardOCP. Kyle Bennett will be taking on new challenges very soon with Intel working as its Director of Enthusiast Engagement.”
https://www.hardocp.com/article/2019/03/19/goodbye_hardocp_hello_intel/
Director of Enthusiast
Director of Enthusiast Engagement sounds like Chief Happiness Officer… what a bullshit job!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Happiness_Officer