Apple Apparently Intends to Replace iPhone 14 Plus Units With ‘Pro’ Models Production, Since Demand Remains Consistent for Them Unexpectedly sluggish sales have forced Apple’s supply chain partners and channel operators to reduce iPhone 14 Plus production by 40 percent. Earlier, we reported that Pegatron, one of Apple’s assembling partners, had to reduce orders by up to 90 percent and freeze a hiring spree just three days after announcing that it would start recruiting more employees....

iPhone 14 Pro Max Won a Total of 15 Display Performance Awards, While the iPhone 13 Pro Max From Last Year Secured 12 In its meticulous testing, DisplayMate gave the iPhone 14 Pro Max an A+ rating, and given the number of awards it has won, the flagship’s LTPO OLED panel sets the benchmark for near-visually perfect panels. Apple has made further improvements to the display, allowing the refresh rate to reduce its value from 120Hz to 1Hz (previously, it could only be reduced to 10Hz on the iPhone 13 Pro Max) to conserve battery life....

The Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series’ major selling points involve completely remastered graphics and visuals, adjustable difficulty settings, and even two-player co-op capabilities. This new remaster is aiming to please the hardcore platforming enthusiasts and newcomers to the genre. Mike Chang, Senior Director of Digital Marketing and Business at Bandai Namco, said the following: To celebrate the announcement, Bandai-Namco has also released a few screenshots that show off the remasters and the graphical updates that can be expected to be found in the compilation....

2021 iMac With 24-inch Display, M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and More Currently $150 off for Black Friday Such deals are very rare, and there’s a high chance that they will sell out fast. There are no discount codes or coupons needed here. Buy 2021 Apple iMac (24-inch, Apple M1 chip with 8‑core CPU and 7‑core GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB) - Was $1,299, now just $1,149 The new iMac is absolutely stunning for a lot of reasons....

Previous A16 Bionic saw massive power draw, resulting in abysmal battery life and eventual thermal throttling Despite the A16 Bionic GPU gaining around a 28 percent performance improvement over the unit in the A15 Bionic in AnTuTu, an earlier version could have been miles better, according to The Information. MacRumors reports Apple’s engineers wanted to incorporate several features into the graphics processor, including ray tracing support, which would have increased visuals immensely in mobile games that support the option....

Last month we heard reports that Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard could potentially face a major roadblock in the form of an antitrust lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission, and now, that’s exactly what’s happened. The FTC is looking to block the proposed $69 billion Microsoft-Activision deal, alleging that it would “enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business....

Alibaba Cloud is beginning to offer invitation-only cloud service to a select few, with more in the future using the company’s Yitian server SoCs Alibaba’s T-Head Yitian 710 server SoC is based on a 5nm process node and packs 128 Armv9 cores with clock speeds as high as 3.20 GHz. It has eight DDR5-4800 memory channels that can produce up to 307.2 Gbps of transfer speed and 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes to append premium performance solid-state storage features, network cards, and varying devices....

Alienware 34-inch QD-OLED gaming display with AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certification introduced Earlier this year, Alienware announced the newest 34-inch gaming display that utilized quantum dot technology and NVIDIA GSYNC compatibility. The company now reveals the latest 34-in quantum dot gaming display, with AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certification. The company is also announcing the newest Aurora R15 desktop computer with improved performance, better thermal dissipation, and a new motherboard design. Alienware’s newest version of its 34-inch QD-OLED display offers a thin panel design, delivering impressive color performance, high peak luminance, and a more extensive color gamut range....

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) August 26, 2022 Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson had recently discussed the potential sale opportunities, hinting that it could happen. I think we’re in an incredible position. We’re soon to be the largest standalone independent developer and publisher of interactive media in the world. I think we have the most incredible teams in our industry and we’re attracting more and more incredible talent. We have a community that’s 600 million strong and certainly we’re well on our way to our aspirations to be able to engage a billion people in play across the planet....

The weakness doesn’t influence all cryptographic code, yet some moderation strategies for affected frameworks accompany, at this point, vague execution punishments. Intel says it had found this weakness through interior security examinations, yet outside research groups later uncovered their discoveries to the organization. The presently composed revelation carries the issue into the public eye, be that as it may, reasonable, CPUs from different merchants are additionally influenced. A Hertzbleed-based assault takes information by taking advantage of an optional impact of a procedure on a system and, for this situation, watching the power signature of some random cryptographic workload....

AMD B650 Series Motherboards Drop In October With Ryzen 7000 CPU & Memory Overclocking Support on Both B650E/B650 Chipsets As a part of the AMD 600-series AM5 family, the AMD B650 motherboards will come in two flavors, the standard B650 and the B650E (Extreme). As is the case with the X670E and X670, the ‘E’ variant will feature all-around support for PCIe Gen 5 for discrete graphics & NVMe storage. The standard options will allow PCIe Gen 5....

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU Doesn’t Support Overclocking Due To Voltage Scaling In an interview with Hothardware, AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock, once again revealed some interesting details regarding the upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU. The rep, answering a question to AMD hardware enthusiast, Michal Simonek, on whether the chip would support overclocking or not, replied that it wouldn’t and for good reasons too. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU is going to be the company’s first 3D V-Cache offering and as such, it needs to be optimized in terms of voltages before it ships out in the consumer segment....

God of War is only the third game to officially support AMD FSR 2.0, following Arkane’s Deathloop and Giants Software’s Farming Simulator 22, which added AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 with a patch released last week. Interestingly, God of War was not on the list of the upcoming AMD FSR 2.0 games, which includes the following titles: Asterigos Delysium EVE Online Forspoken Grounded Microsoft Flight Simulator NiShuiHan Perfect World Remake Swordsman Remake Unknown 9: Awakening...

AMD will support AV1 on the next-gen RDNA3 ‘Radeon RX 7000’ Navi 3X GPUs coming at the end of this year Kepler took to Twitter yesterday to rebuttal a claim against AMD not supporting the newest video codec technology, AV1, which increases efficiency and power by 35% from the previous AVC encoding. The lack of information was concerning due to users wondering if AMD was to become a more proprietary force with their products....

Last month, AMD revealed its new branding plan for its mobile CPUs under the Ryzen 7000 family. To summarize the article, mobile processors from AMD will be labeled with the series numbers 7020, 7030, 7035, 7040, and 7045. These various model numbers are important. They represent not only the 7000 series of CPUs to release this year but also the market segment, architecture, and whether it is considered a lower-end or higher-end model within the market segment (which AMD is labeling as “feature isolation”) and form factor with the corresponding TDP....

AIDA64 Adds Improved Support For AMD Ryzen 7000 “Zen 4” CPUs, Zen 4 AVX-512 Benchmarks & AM5 Motherboards Press Release: FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 6.75 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 6.75 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for corporate IT technicians and engineers; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Business 6.75 software, an essential network management solution for small and medium scale enterprises; and the immediate availability of AIDA64 Network Audit 6....

Newegg Brings Significant Price Cuts On AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs Ahead of Black Friday Next Week While the European price cuts are mainly due to the market price adjustments, the Newegg deals in the US market come as an early preparation for Black Friday which is next week. We will be seeing a lot of deals in the coming week but this is by far the lowest price we have seen of the AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU family within the United States....

iPad Docking Accessory Could Transform the Tablet to Use as an ‘All in One’ Home Control Device During Google’s event, the company showed that its Pixel Tablet could be used on a dock for additional functionality. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is going through the same route and is expected to complete its journey with a dock that can transform the iPad into a smart home accessory. It is unclear which specific iPad models Apple will launch the dock for, but if the accessory allows for multiple models to be used, it should be an excellent fit for customers who already own one of the company’s tablets....

Samsung Galaxy S22 Users Won’t Have to Wait a Long Time for Android 13 The Galaxy S22 Android 13 beta firmware reportedly has the firmware version S906NKSU2ZVF6. It is currently running on the Korean version of the device, but as soon as the beta program goes live, the update should be available in a lot more regions. It is worth noting that Samsung has not joined Google’s Android 13 beta program just yet as the company is going to develop the Android 13 around One UI 5....

Android 13’s Flashlight Intensity Adjustment Feature is Small But Much Needed The news is coming from Mishaal Rahman who talked about how Android 13 brings two new APIs to the CameraManager class, these APIs are getTorchStrengthLevel and turnOnTouchWithStrengthLevel. The first brings back the current brightness level of the flashlight while the second sets the brightness level from a minimum of 1 to a maximum number that is determined by the hardware....