Intel publishes a dev article to better explain oneVPL acceleration in FFmpeg The oneVPL Video Processing Library helps executions within the processor and the company’s in-house GPU acceleration for the most recent 12th Gen Core Alder Lake and Intel Xe hardware. The focus of the acceleration is on Intel Arc Graphics and DG2 hardware, directing to the Media SDK to support previous-generation graphics cards, with the ability to be acclimated for other potential CPU and GPU back-ends....

Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs & 700-Series Motherboard Prices To See Price Hike In Q4, Up To 20% Increase Expected on Components Previously, Intel had only stated that CPUs & a list of components will be affected by the price hike in the fourth quarter of 2022. Now ITHome (via Board Channels) has learned that the price hike will also affect motherboards. The reason is that the chipsets used by Intel motherboards are designed by the blue team themselves rather than a 3rd party....

Intel Sapphire Rapids-SP Xeon CPU Lineup Specs & Tiers Detailed, At Least 23 SKUs In The Works The Sapphire Rapids-SP family will be replacing the Ice Lake-SP family and will go all on board with the ‘Intel 7’ process node (formerly 10nm Enhanced SuperFin) that will be making its formal debut later this year in the Alder Lake consumer family. The server lineup will feature the performance-optimized Golden Cove core architecture which delivers a 20% IPC improvement over Willow Cove core architecture....

Intel’s NUC 13 Extreme “Raptor Canyon” Features 13th Gen CPUs, Triple-Slot dGPU Support & Starts at $1179 US The newest Intel NUC 13 Extreme “Raptor Canyon” PC offers the unlocked 13th Gen Core CPUs and still provides space for the latest twelve-inch triple-slotted graphics cards. Intel aims at high-end “enthusiast gamers” and power content creators. The Intel NUC 13 Extreme “Raptor Canyon” PC offers superior cooling and high performance in a small form factor while providing users with features not seen in previous models....

iPad 10 snaps from the middle, which is a common weakness for larger-display tablets With its $449 starting price tag for the Wi-Fi-only model, you would expect the iPad 10 to be a little more sturdy thanks to its all-metal chassis, but Zach from JerryRigEverything proves the majority of us wrong. For some reason, he decided to perform the durability test on the pink version of the 10.9-inch tablet, but the color does not matter when the materials used are the same....

Additional Info States the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max Will Arrive With a 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch Display, Respectively Sources close to 9to5Mac state the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Max will have codenames D27 and D28. With no iPhone 14 mini expected later this year, Apple is expected to use a 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch panel for the upcoming handsets, giving customers more screen real estate. These sources also confirm that the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will exclusively arrive with the A16 Bionic, and with its design rumored to be completed, TSMC should be ramping up its 4nm chip production soon....

False 911 Calls Were Being Made Because Apple’s Crash Detection Was Being Tricked Into Believing That an Actual Accident Took Place A pattern was recently noticed by Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern in amusement parks like Dollywood and Kings Island, where an iPhone 14 or the latest Apple Watch triggered the Crash Detection feature by accident. Six separate emergency calls were made from Kings Island when visitors hopped on board and left the feature enabled....

All Six Finishes and Three Storage Models of the iPod touch Are out of Stock on Apple’s Website At the time of writing, no iPod touch version on Apple’s online store in the U.S. is available for purchase. It is unclear how many units were stocked, but considering that there were six finishes to choose from and with 32GB, 128GB, and 256GB storage variants to pick, there would have to be several hundred needed to be removed from inventory....

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Vulkan 1.3.233 offers new NVIDIA vendor extensions and includes extended and updated documentation for the Vulkan API. The latest Vulkan NVIDIA implementations are Memory decompression Ray tracing invocation reorder Copy memory indirect Michael Larabel has broken down the individual additions to Vulkan for NVIDIA, which you can read on the website Phoronix. We will provide a summary below for easy reference. Decompression for memory-to-memory is the most minimal addition to the newest API integration and allows for more efficient decompressing between graphics memory....

Patrick Holland from CNET reports that the low-cost model is the cheapest gateway to get into Apple’s ecosystem, but also feels that the second-generation iPhone SE should not have been discontinued. The Verge’s Allison Johnson reports that she was taken aback by the design, and the screen but states that the hardware upgrades are welcomed. I wish that Apple had kept the 2020 iPhone SE in its roster as an even cheaper way to get an iPhone, but this new iPhone SE still packs lots of modern features and will likely get more from iOS updates in years to come....

ACER’s Intel Arc A770 Predator BiFrost Custom Graphics Card Comes With A Unique Dual-Fan Cooler ACER won’t be the first OEM to offer a custom graphics card design for a major GPU vendor. We’ve seen Lenovo offering its own GeForce RTX 4090 Legion designs that are designed for its pre-builds and now, we get to see ACER’s awesome new design. It is not clear if ACER will be keeping this OEM PC-only or releasing the cards in the DIY segment too but based on their marketing, it looks like we might just get these cards as a DIY launch....

According to a new report from Bloomberg, following reports that Bobby Kotick had personally mistreated female employees and covered the misdeeds of others, Xbox boss Phil Spencer called him to express how “deeply troubled” he was by the accusations, but also to let him know Microsoft would be willing to make an offer if the troubled company was interested in selling. As Spencer himself has admitted, things developed quickly from there, with acquisition plans forming over the course of only a couple of weeks....

addlink Virtual Showcase 2022: AddGame SPIDER X5 DDR5 RGB Memory Line-up Press Release: addlink Technology Co., Ltd, a global storage and memory solution provider, is proud to host its virtual expo from May 25th to June 30th and addlink is also launching the brand new DDR5 RGB gaming memory, AddGame SPIDER X5, DDR5-4800, 5600, and DDR5-6000. addlink Online Virtual Showcase 2022 has three major themes: AddGame SPIDER X5/S5 DDR5 Gaming Memory, AddGame A-Series M....

Qualcomm Executive Highlights Samsung’s New Agreement by Saying That Snapdragon Chipsets Will Also Power Tablets, Extended Reality Products, and More The new partnership between Qualcomm and Samsung was talked about by Cristiano Amon, President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego firm. With Samsung’s Exynos range of chipsets present in fewer numbers, Qualcomm likely took advantage of this opportunity to expand its market share, eventually bringing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to the Galaxy S23 series....

AMD rushes to sell the company’s Radeon RX 6000 cards priced under MSRP and releases an unknown game bundle promotion that has no evidence on prices, a complete list of games, and more Graphics cards are in such heavy necessity, even to this day, that bundling with games and accessories may seem like a bonus. Right now, the market is quite suitable for everyone. Prices have lowered on graphics cards. The current crypto market is showing a slight decline, allowing the components to be more available to all....

AMD To Host Opening Keynote of CES 2023 on 4th January: Lots of Products Including Zen 4 X3D, RDNA 3 & More To Be Unveiled AMD has discussed on several occasions that the company focuses heavily on sustainability and higher levels of efficiency in both cloud and high-performance exascale (HPE) computing. As with many top tech companies today, AMD looks to the future in gaming, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC)....

AMD ‘panning’ for results with their newest Process Adaptive autoNUMA feature, boosting performance in specific server processes in Linux OS PAN, or Process Adaptive autoNUMA, is a constantly adjusting algorithm that computes the AutoNUMA scan duration. Utilizing the PAN Linux kernel build, AMD open-source engineers found that the Graph500 interconnect HPC benchmark profits from a higher performance by up to 14.93% compared to a standard Linux kernel. The network-attached storage benchmark test displays an improvement of eight percent....

AMD adds significant open-source Radeon graphics driver code into Mesa 22.2 for Q3 2022, Enables Initial RDNA 3 ‘GFX11’ GPU Support The preparations for RDNA 3 GFX11 in Mesa were not alone. Several other IP blocks are added for future Radeon graphics cards slated to be ready for sale towards the end of the year. Previously, AMD already added GFX11 coding into the LLVM 15.0 release, which should launch four months from now....

AMD RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU Around 350mm2 In GCD Die Size With TSMC’s 5nm Process Node The rumors come from Greymon55 who has revealed the alleged die size of the next-gen GPU powerhouse from camp red. Some of the key features of the RDNA 3 GPUs highlighted by AMD will include: 5nm Process Node Advanced Chiplet Packaging Rearchitected Compute Unit Optimized Graphics Pipeline Next-Gen AMD Infinity Cache >50% Perf/Watt vs RDNA 2...