Ray tracing support will arrive for PC players in March 2023 when Season 3 kicks off, according to AMD. Features include ray-traced shadows in both Big Team Battle and Arena with improved performance, better shadows, and improved lighting on AMD’s new Radeon RX 7000 “RDNA 3” GPUs. Halo Infinite Season 3 was supposed to launch by the end of this year, but back in September of this year, 343 Industries and Microsoft delayed the arrival of the new season by four months to March 2023....

The Galaxy S22 and Tab S8 run One UI 4.1 based on Android 12 and now Samsung has announced a list of features that will be coming to older Galaxy smartphones and tablets, too. The company has just started rolling out the update on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3, and will soon be arriving on a number of other devices, too. Samsung Publishes the Entire List of Galaxy S22 Features Coming to Older Devices Through One UI 4....

Vietnamese Shop Repurposes Hundreds of NVIDIA’s RTX A4000 Workstation Cards Into Crypto Mining Machines With the Ethereum proof of stake on the horizon, crypto mining isn’t as lucrative as it used to be however, there are other options or alternatives that miners are investing in right now such as Raven, CHR, etc. And since Vietnam has been a very popular crypto mining market, tech retailers are now investing in NVIDIA RTX workstation graphics cards for mining purposes....

This is coincidentally the same CPU that will be powering the Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory. These will also be sent to Los Alamos National Laboratory and Kyoto University. Intel also states that the integration of HBM memory will require no code change and should be seamlessly transparent to the end-user. The 56 cores, formerly codenammed Sapphire Rapids, are constructed out of four tiles and connected using Intel’s multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB)....

Intel Arc A380 Delivers Impressive Graphics Performance When Overclocked aka Unleashing Its Power Limits The results from Pro Hi-Tech were pretty amazing, with the Intel A380 showing staggering performance on elevated power increases and offsets of voltage to the point where you would almost not realize it is one of the lower-level Intel graphics cards. The Russian overclocking specialist on YouTube overclocked the Intel A380 graphics card by doing something not generally seen in overclocking techniques....

Intel Arc Alchemist GPUs Will Be Getting Resizable BAR Support on Linux In a report by Phoronix, the latest Linux graphics kernel has mentioned ’ Resizable BAR’ or ReBAR support within the patches. The latest patches include a small BAR recovery support for the Intel’s Kernel graphics driver on the Linuxx platform. Following is what the patch states: Considering the patch was sent out for Linux 5.17, it is likely that we can see the Resizable BAR supprort being added as early as Linux 5....

Intel’s Arc Truck Rolling Out To LANFest In Colorado, In September - Comes With Several Gaming PCs Equipped With Arc GPUs Intel has dedicated a truck full of Arc GPU-powered gaming PCs for this year’s LANFest In Colorado which will be held in late September. Pictures tweeted by Evan Stenger reveal the Trick is fitted with at least 30 Gaming PCs which will allow gamers to show off their skills and also get a first taste of the Intel Arc desktop discrete graphics cards which are scheduled for launch in Q3 2022....

Intel CEO assures his company is better prepared than others during the consistent chip shortage Gelsinger and other well noted CEOs, such as Dr. Lisa Su and Jensen Huang of AMD and NVIDIA, have estimated when the shortage will end. Initially, the three companies anticipated that the deficit would be over later this year. However, with resources being sparse and other pitstops during this time, that time frame has changed. Now, Gelsinger is quoted as stating that 2024 will be the year that the chip shortage will end....

Intel has not launched a crucial driver for the new game Elden Ring which it promised, leaving players with a deplorable gaming experience The headache for Intel is that the company has ensured gamers that they would release a Day-0 graphics driver, precisely for Elden Ring. Upon further searching, the website redirect for the Intel driver takes gamers to the 101.1121 drivers that Intel initially released in November of last year, which is in no way fully optimized for the new game....

Intel continued their patchwork around the 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake architecture in GCC and introduced drivers and support for their 14th Gen Core Meteor Lake series and Sierra Forest processors. Sierra Forest is the company’s new fully Xeon E-core-based processor for data centers. The recent work by the company for Raptor Lake and GCC support surrounded the addition of the “-march=raptorlake” target. Michael Larabel of Phoronix notes that Raptor Lake carries similarities in its instruction set architecture and points out that if developers had replaced “raptorlake” with “alderlake,” it may very well display similar, if not identical, results....

Intel launches On Demand service for Sapphire Rapids Xeon data center CPUs with unlockable upgrades for various price tiers Intel’s feature is unique and hints at where chips can be designed. Intel’s Software Defined Silicon will offer servers, data centers, and more options. Intel previously discussed the concept of an upgradeable chip where you could purchase individual features for each for different pricing. Security Upgrade Software Guard Extensions Communications & Storage Suite...

Chip designer Intel Corporation’s 18A semiconductor manufacturing technology is ahead of schedule according to rumors from China. The company is currently spending heavily in order to revive and expand its chip manufacturing. This is a part of a strategy announced by Intel chief Mr. Patrick Gelsinger last year through which the company plans to introduce new manufacturing technologies to the market and expand its production to also allow other companies to submit their designs to Intel for manufacturing....

Unofficial pictures, specifications, and benchmarks reveal a possible Intel Studio 12 Pro system utilizing Alder Lake-P processors The source on Chiphell discusses in length the new system, noting that it copies the similar NUC 4 x 4 design, keeping the ports parallel with the previous NUC 11 system. The front shows two USB 3.2 Gen2 ports, reaching data speeds of 10 Gbps, and a single audio jack. The power adapter is upgraded from the NUC 11 systems, offering more length but lacking a GaN technology-based power supply unit....

Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 “Sapphire Rapids” CPUs With 96 Cores On Par With AMD’s EPYC 7763 Milan 128-Core CPUs In Leaked Benchmark The latest benchmark comes from Geekbench 5 (via Benchleaks) where we can see an entry of the Intel Xeon Platinum 8468 CPU. This is an upcoming Sapphire Rapids chip that will be offering 48 cores and 96 threads based on the Golden Cove architecture. The 8468 will come in two configs, a standard 300W with a 2....

iPad Air 5 Rumored to House Apple’s M1 Chip Coupled With 8GB of RAM and 128GB Storage The news was shared in a post on the Korean blog Naver by “yeux1122”, suggesting that the iPad Air 5 will come with an M1 chip and 8GB of RAM. Other than this, the upcoming iPad Air 5 is rumored to feature 128GB of storage for the baseline model instead of 64GB. Despite double the amount of storage and enhanced processing power, the iPad Air 5 is expected to be priced the same at $599....

Qualcomm’s X65 Modem in iPhone 14 Pro Makes Room For 50 Percent Faster Download Speeds Against The Galaxy S22 Lineup and the iPhone 13 Pro Models The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max features enhanced cellular performance compared to the last generation’s iPhone 13 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S22. Initially, it was observed that Apple’s latest flagship iPhone 14 Pro models show 38 percent faster 5G speeds compared to the iPhone 13 Pro....

Aiming to Ship 90 Million iPhone 14 Units Previously, Apple Has Trimmed That Figure Down to 87 Million Following Apple’s statement that there would be lower shipments of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max due to a COVID-19 lockdown executed in an assembly facility located in Zhengzhou, Bloomberg has pushed out a report, revising the technology giant’s iPhone 14 shipment figure for 2022. The initial shipments target was set at 90 million but has now been reduced to 87 million....

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Well, in a way at least as some crafty Halo Infinite Co-Op campaign testers have found a way to access the upcoming Halo Forge mod and recreate Kojima’s masterpiece within Infinite’s Forge mode, allowing Xbox and PC players owning Halo Infinite to experience a part of the former PlayStation-exclusive Silent Hills teaser (which, unfortunately, never saw the light). Created by Forge horror map creator ‘DT’, his Forge creation features the iconic intro hallway from the P....

The new mod, which is in the works by known modder theboy181, is a 60 FPS mod that already seems to work great, judging by the videos shared on Twitter. As bad performance is among the many technical issues plaguing the latest entries in the Pokémon series, this will be a very welcome mod when it launches in the future. — theboy181 (@theboy181) November 27, 2022 While Scarlet and Violet suffer from a variety of technical issues, they did not prevent our own Nathan from enjoying the games, as he feels the games deliver the open-world RPG experience that fans of the series have been asking for....