Hardware
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Leaks Showcase Microsoft Surface Pro 7, Surface Book 3 & The All New ARM Powered Surface Device
Microsoft’s big flagship event is due tomorrow, October 2nd. The event is rumoured to showcase the new line of surface products. It doesn’t come as a surprise that rumours have already spread the internet space for quite some time now. While the new Surface Pro and Surface Book are confirmed,…
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Rumor: The Playstation 5 May Have An AI-powered Game Assistant
The leak and rumors encompassing around the Playstation 5 console are on a roll since the interview of Mark Cerny. During the exclusive interview with the Wired, Cerny focused on the hardware side of the console using buzz words such as ‘ray tracing’ and ‘8k resolution’. We still do not…
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NVIDIA’s AI Green Screen System Requires No Green Screen!
ESports have evolved from being just a hobby to being a very competitive thing, throughout the world that is. With the growth of this field, there have been an increase in MVPs and celebrities from the eSports world. People like Shroud and Ninja have dominated the online community with their…
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Rumors Suggest That Next Zen Architecture Will Be Equipped With SMT4 Technology
AMD introduced the Zen 2.0 microarchitecture, earlier this year. It minimized the performance gap between AMD’s processors and Intel’s offerings. AMD’s processors scored more than Intel’s processors in some single-core performance tests for the first time. It showcased the performance gain AMD achieved with the generational leap in microarchitecture. We…
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Reports Suggest That The GTX 1660 SUPER Is Coming Next Month
A few weeks back, we reported that Nvidia might release another SUPER graphics card. Previously, it was speculated that it would be another high-end graphics card aimed at the PC master race. The rumors then led to the SUPER version of a mid-range graphics card. Since we already have an…
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Unannounced AMD Radeon RX 5300XT With 4GB VRAM Spotted in HP Desktop Listings
The first batch of Navi cards are in the market. These cards are based on AMD’s new RDNA architecture which, according to AMD, is the first graphics architecture that is scalable. The AMD Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700XT are the mid-range graphics cards. Now that these graphics cards are…
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Leaks and Speculations On the Comet Lake CPUs Continue: Benchmarks Of Core i9-10900X Leaked
The Comet Lake architecture is going to be the next ‘big’ upgrade from Intel for the consumer market. We have already seen the MSI motherboards for the new architecture thanks to ECC database. It is speculated that the new processors under the Comet Lake will be announced at the end…
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HiSilicon Announces A New Chip Supporting 8K/120FPS Playback With Support For AVS3 And HEVC Encoding
As 4K takes more prominence as a display resolution standard, companies and ecosystem providers are already looking at the next big thing. Many companies have showcased their 8K TV sets and some like Samsung already have a few 8K models on sale. Obviously it’s a very expensive standard to get…
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Intel May Unveil Comet Lake Processors Soon: Gigabyte 400 series Motherboards Leak Thanks To EEC Listings
Since the start of the year, AMD has been pushing Intel’s offerings behind. Intel has nothing to compete with AMD in the enterprise market. If we talk about the consumer market, AMD has finally caught up on the peak single-core performance that Intel offers. They were already ahead in multi-core…
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ARM Joining CXL Consortium Could Allow Hardware Developers To Build Better CPUs And Accelerators With Higher Memory Semantics
ARM, the company on which several CPU and System on a Chip (SoC) makers rely heavily, has officially decided to join the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium. This has been a highly anticipated move that would significantly help computing hardware designers and developers build better CPUs and Accelerators. Close collaboration…
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CORSAIR Announces A New DRAM Kit for PC Enthusiasts With Frequencies Extending To 4,866MHz
Corsair is a well-known supplier of high-end memory kits. Their VENGEANCE brand is one of the most used memory kits in high-end systems. Corsair has announced another record-breaking commercially available high-frequency DRAM with clock speeds as high as 4866MHz. The memory will be available in 2x8GB configuration, and it will…
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GTX 1660 SUPER Could Be On The Horizon: Nvidia May Jeopardize Its Own Sales This Time
Despite being the king of the high-end graphics card market, Nvidia seems to be afraid of the upcoming Navi architecture. We have already seen an example of it. Nvidia released the SUPER variants of RTX 2060, 2070 and 2080 days before the launch of RX 5700 series graphics cards. It…
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Amazon France Lists The Unannounced Sapphire Nitro+ Version Of The Radeon RX 5700XT
Sapphire has been the top board partner for AMD for the past few years. The Nitro+ model that they make always use the cherry-picked GPUs to satisfy the thirsts of AMD fans. These graphics cards offer more than generous factory overclocking and beefy heat sinks to dispose of excess heat.…
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World’s First 5G-Integrated All-In-One Smartphone Processor With Advanced GPU, NPU And CPU Launched: Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 990 SoC Also Comes In 4G
Huawei has become the first semiconductor and mobile processor manufacturer to successfully launch a smartphone System on a Chip (SoC) with integrated 5G modem. The Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 990 SoC packs a lot of power in an efficient and small form factor that beats even the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 which…
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Intel Claims That The Upcoming Cascade Lake X CPUs Offer 2x Better performance Per Dollar Compared To The 2nd Gen Threadrippers
We know that AMD has pretty much demolished Intel in the HEDT markets. The Threadripper processors from the 2nd gen (released last year) perform better than Intel’s relatively new Skylake X Xeon processors. On top of it, AMD’s offering was far cheaper, which increased the performance per dollar metric. Intel…
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Asus Announces The World’s First Gaming Laptop With A 300Hz Display, The Future is Now Old Man
Gaming Laptops were never a mainstay for competitive players. You can play new games on beefier laptops but thermals and frames were always a limitation. However, with the RTX platform, Nvidia has largely closed the gap between laptop and desktop GPU chips and you can now buy laptops that deliver…
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AMD’s Upcoming Renior APUs May Be The First Processors To Support The LPDDR4X Memory Standard
AMD has always been one step ahead of its competition when it comes to APUs. Their processors may lack the luster of high single-core compute performance, but their APUs show their mettle in the gaming environments. This is the reason why the affordable Ryzen APUs became so popular even at…
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AMD Navi 14 Support To Be Backwards Compatible With Mesa 19.2 And Arrive In Lower-End Affordable Graphics Cards?
AMD is yet to officially confirm its Navi 14 GPU. However, the AMD’s Navi 10 GPU which uses the RDNA 1.0 architecture and is made using a 7 nm production process at TSMC, could debut soon, indicated multiple entries. The Navi 10 GPU succeeds the ‘Polaris’ GPU, indicated a Linux…
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Microsoft Announces The Surface Event: A New Dual Screen Device On The Horizon
The Surface series of laptops from Microsoft are due for a 2019 hardware update. The 2-in-1 laptop system is considered to be the best devices for students since these devices offer features such as the ability to take notes on the go. Microsoft has announced a Surface event to be…
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Nvidia’s Gamescom Game Ready Driver 436.02 Causes Performance Issues With Popular Titles
Nvidia rolled out Gamescom Game Ready Driver 436.02 last week. It looks like the update didn’t go well for many players. Many of them are experiencing some major issues with the latest graphics drivers released by Nvidia. The gaming community reported that they experienced shuttering issues and major drops in…
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Huawei Ascend 910 Claimed To Be Most Powerful AI Processor And MindSpore, An AI Computing Framework Launched
Huawei may be battling a tough case against the American trade ban. However, that hasn’t stopped the company from developing and launching multiple products. In addition to the recently announced alternative to Google’s Android OS, Huawei has launched two interesting components to the increasingly attractive and competitive Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
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Intel 10th-Gen Comet Lake-S To Arrive Early Next Year With 10 Cores, But Will Be Based On Old 14nm Fabrication Tech
Intel could be readying 10th Gen Comet Lake-S processors. A series of slides, that were leaked recently, indicate Intel will launch its new mainstream desktop series early next year. The Intel Comet Lake-S will also be called the 10th Gen Core Series. They will reportedly pack a higher number of…
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[Update: Mfg. Statement] Popular SoC Boards Have An Unpatchable Security Flaw, Leaving Many Automotive, Industrial And Military Components At Risk
Researchers conducting a routine security audit recently discovered two serious security flaws within a popular brand of System on a Chip (SoC) boards. The security vulnerability undermines secure boot capabilities. What’s most concerning is the fact that the SoC is deployed in several critical components that go into mainstream industry…
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Early Samples Of Intel Tiger Lake CPUs With Xe Graphics Seen in User benchmark Databases
After a lot of delays, Intel finally released the Ice Lake CPU architecture which is based on its new 10nm process node. It is worth noting that Intel is the last firm to join the better manufacturing process. Other Silicon producers have already moved to the 7nm process, and according…
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Largest Processor Ever Built Packs 1.2 Trillion Transistors, Leaves Top-End Intel And AMD CPUs and GPUs Behind
A company has managed to create the largest ever processing chip that far exceeds anything that Intel or AMD has ever produced. With an insane 1.2 Trillion transistors on the silicon wafer, the processor is by far the biggest semiconductor chip ever built. The company behind the processor is planning…