Intel launches “standalone media” processing, Thunderbolt support, and GPU patches to Linux 6.1 for the upcoming Meteor Lake family Intel’s new Meteor lake, released in the latter half of 2023, alters the company’s design of its processors, offering a tiled approach to the company’s chips. The first inclusion that the company added to Linux 6.1 ahead of the merge window is the introduction of the company’s VPU or Versatile Processing Unit, which is slated for Meteor Lake to help accelerate the inference engine....

Intel Arc Multi-GPU Support Through oneAPi On The Way For Arc Pro & Arc Gaming Graphics Cards Update: Intel has confirmed that the Multi-GPU rendering support is only for Blender 3.3 on Arc & Arc Pro graphics cards and not for gaming. They have issued the following statement. It has been several years since AMD & NVIDIA abandoned any sort of multi-GPU support for their consumer-grade graphics cards. While the technology still exists in the server and HPC segment, it has more or less disappeared from the gaming scene....

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has now announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2022, broadly beating consensus expectations regarding its top-line and bottom-line metrics. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Earnings Release for the Third Quarter of 2022 For the three months that ended on the 30th of September 2022, Intel reported $15.3 billion in non-GAAP revenue. The number matched consensus expectations. (All figures are in billions of dollars) Here is the performance of Intel’s business segments in Q3 2022: During Q3 2022, Mobileye recorded the highest growth, while DCAI remained the laggard with growth of -27 percent....

Chip manufacturer Intel Corporation shared key details about its progress towards introducing new products, setting up new plants and targeting a new market at its investor day held today. Intel is the world’s largest chipmaker and is currently revamping its production technologies and capacity to dethrone the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the contract chip manufacturing sector and regain process technology leadership through using the latest chipmaking machines. At the event, Intel executives shared details about the company’s plans to procure the advanced machines, its capital spending policies to reflect lessons learned from the past and how it plans to shift its business model from designing and manufacturing its own chips to also manufacturing chips for other companies....

Three hundred Intel ARC Alchemist GPUs are still available as the Intel Xe HPG Scavenger Hunt arrives at its finish Ten correct answers from the questions posted to social media and their website will win one of their new discrete graphics cards, the Intel ARC Alchemist. Other prizes, including a Performance-level graphics card by Intel, swag by the company, or a six-month subscription to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming service, are available for those that were not lucky enough to win the initial ARC Alchemist model....

iPhone 14 Pro Storage to Start at 128GB Despite an Increase in Price It was previously reported by TrendForce that Apple’s upcoming iPhone 14 Pro models could start at an increased 256GB storage capacity. In contrast, Haitong International analyst Jeff Pu suggests that the forthcoming models will feature the same amount of storage capacity as the iPhone 13 models. Initially, the analyst agreed that the ‘Pro’ models will start at 256GB storage but added a 128GB option in his latest research notes....

Fans of Tony Stark may rejoice, however. Today, GiantBomb journalist Jeff Grubb revealed that Electronic Arts is developing another Marvel game in addition to Black Panther. Fellow insider Tom Henderson added that he heard it’s Iron Man indeed, although he hasn’t been able to scrounge much more information than that. Put this heavily under the “rumor” category for now and if I hear/see more information that’s concrete I’ll report on it properly....

Surprisingly, despite getting rid of the likes of Lara Croft, Square Enix has revealed that they still own the Just Cause IP and another game is in the works… It’s unclear exactly what Square Enix is talking about when they say a new Just Cause is in development. They may be talking about an all-new core entry in the franchise, or perhaps they’re just talking about Just Cause Mobile, which was announced in 2020 for a 2021 release, but later delayed to sometime this year....

Apple Releases Two New Ads Highlighting the Battery Life and Durability of the New iPhone 13 As mentioned earlier, Apple has shared two new ads which it highlights the battery life and the durability of the iPhone 13 models. One of Apple’s ads is titled “Run Baby Run” in which a toddler can be seen holding the iPhone 13 running around the house. The toddler drops the iPhone 13, bangs it against various items in the house, drops it in the sink but the iPhone survives every impact like a champ....

iOS 16 Concept Imagines New App Icons, Always-On Display, Interactive Widgets, Redesigned Control Center and App Switcher, More The latest iOS 16 concept is shared by the YouTube channel Nicholas Ghigo. The concept creator shares several features which have been on our wishlist for years. While companies like Samsung and OnePlus have rocked an Always-On display for quite a while, Apple is far behind. The concept imagines Always-On functionality on the iPhone that shows notifications and additional information....

ASUS ROG X670E & X670 Motherboard Prices Leaked: Starting at $385 US & Go As High As $1300 US In China The motherboard list seems to come directly from ASUS’s China HQ which has set three pricing segments for their upcoming X670E & X670 series. The first is the distributor prices which are not shown, the second is the retailer pricing or MSRP and the third is the media pricing which is what will be provided to the public for reference....

AMD Ex-Chip Architect, Jim Keller Says He Worked on Zen 1, Zen 2, Zen 3 But K12 ARM CPU Was Cancelled By His Former Employer The ‘Future of Compute’ conference was held by the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science where Jim Keller gave a brief overview of the various projects he has worked on and the fundamentals of chip design. Jim states that while he was at AMD, he worked on Zen 1 and laid down the plans to do Zen 2 and Zen 3 which means that Zen 3 could probably be the last Jim Keller design we got from him as the latest Zen 4 and Zen 5 projects could be designed internally by a new team at AMD....

Mac Pro Continues To Be Slower Than Apple’s M2, but 12-Core Intel Xeon CPU Upgrade Brings Massive Multi-Core Performance Gains, Beating the M1 The Mac Pro arrived at a YouTuber’s home with the channel name called This Does Not Compete. The configuration he paid for featured a quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor, and it was obvious that it would never hold its own against even the least powerful Apple Silicon. Thankfully, the workstation is user-upgradable if you do not mind investing a ton of time and effort getting inside, but the YouTuber managed to swap out the existing CPU with a 12-core Intel Xeon E5-2679 v2....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Ti Founders Edition Graphics Card Cooler Allegedly Leaks Out: Massive Heatsink, Bigger Baseplate For Both GPU/Memory Coverage Recently, there have been reports that NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card could launch as early as mid of July. This would suggest that we are just 2-3 months away from the first unveil of the next-gen lineup based on the Ada Lovelace graphics architecture. Poised to be both powerful & power-hungry, the GeForce RTX 40 series lineup is going to require some beefy cooling and it looks like NVIDIA is giving a major uplift to its existing Founders Edition design to meet the 450-600 Watt spec....

AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, To Host ‘High-Performance Computing’ Keynote on 23rd May, Featuring Next-Gen Desktop & Mobile PC Innovations The announcement comes as no surprise since AMD already confirmed their Computex 2022 event for the 23rd of May. Once again, AMD is expected to push the boundaries with brand new and next generation products that were previously unheard of. We wanted to take some time and talk about what we can expect from AMD’s premiere Computex 2022 keynote....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Confirmed To Have DDR5-6000 Memory Sweet Spot, Best Results Come From Leaving Fabric Clock on Auto In our coverage of the AMD EXPO technology, we stated how AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs will support native DDR5 memory speeds of 5200 Mbps and up to 6400 Mbps overclocking speeds. We also had previously reported that DDR5-6000 will be the sweet spot for AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs based on the Zen 4 core architecture using the EXPO technology....

AMD EPYC 9000 “Genoa” CPUs With 96 & 32 Zen 4 Cores Spotted In Geekbench Benchmark, Show Impressive Single-Threaded Performance The AMD EPYC 9000 “Genoa” CPUs that were spotted include the 96 Core “100-000000997-01” and the 32 Core “100-000000897-03”. Both CPUs are engineering samples that were tested on a socket SP5 platform in a 2-Way configuration. This gives us a total of 192 cores for the 96-Core part and 64 cores for the 32-core part, respectively....

AMD Instinct MI300 GPUs Rumored To Go All-Onboard With 3D-Stacking Design: Up To Four GPU Chiplets With 8 Compute Dies, HBM3 & PCIe Gen 5.0 at 600W Last year, @Kepler_L2 revealed that the AMD Instinct MI300 was going to feature four Graphics Compute Dies. Later this was confirmed in a patch where the chip appeared as the ‘GFX940’ part. This was essentially going to double the MI250X which features two GCDs but the difference is that each GCD will feature two Compute dies....

AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPUs Offer Better Value & Efficiency Over NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 Series, Red Team Claims The slide in question was tweeted by AMD’s Chief Architect of Gaming, Frank Azor which showcases both the performance per watt and performance per dollar of AMD’s entire Radeon RX 6000 lineup against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series. The list of GPUs include all the way from the fastest AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT to the entry-level Radeon RX 6400....

AMD Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Cards With RDNA 3 GPU Delivers Enhanced Raytracing Capabilities Thanks To Rearchitected Compute Units There are a lot of things that were overlooked during AMD Financial Analyst Day 2022. Things like the fact that AMD confirmed its Zen 4 3D V-Cache Ryzen CPUs coming later this year. Another key comment that was missed out came from AMD’s Senior Vice President of Engineering at Radeon Technologies Group, David Wang, who confirmed that AMD will be delivering enhanced raytracing capabilities with their next-gen RDNA 3 GPUs....