Intel promotes Raja Koduri to executive vice president as the company gets ready to fight NVIDIA and AMD for a piece of the GPU market Intel poached Raja from AMD back in 2017 (an exclusive story I leaked) and since then he has quietly been working on Intel’s GPU ambitions. With weeks leading up to the ARC discrete GPU launch, giving Raja even more executive powers (although to be fair, Raja was calling the shots from the start) will allow Intel to be just that much more agile when navigating the GPU market....

The first is a physical gift package, limited to US residents due to shipping requirements set by ArenaNet. Its total value is estimated at around $450. Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons Gift Package Giveaway [US Only] The second giveaway is more traditional: ten digital codes for the Guild Wars 2 Ultimate Collection, which includes: It has an estimated value of $100 each and there are no regional limitations. Guild Wars 2 Ultimate Collection Giveaway Both giveaways will stay live for a week, after which we’ll close them and randomly select the winners....

Intel’s Arc A770 & Arc A750 Custom Designs From GUNNIR Come In Beautiful Black & Blue Designs For today’s launch, GUNNIR is introducing a total of five new graphics cards under its Photon and FLUX families. These include two Arc A770 and three Arc A750 models. Keeping the tradition alive of offering custom graphics cards at launch like they did with the Arc A380, GUNNIR’s Arc A770 & Arc A750 will feature a fully non-reference PCB and cooler design....

Need to know more? Here’s a bit more info on the new Season 2 modes… Halo Infinite is available now on PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Season 2 launches on May 3.

Case for the Case-less - Grab One of these Ultra-Thin iPhone 13 Cases and Stay Protected without Extra Bulk It makes sense to put your smartphone inside a case if you plan to keep it in pristine condition for a long time. However, there are many people out there that hate cases. If you’re one of them, then you might want to consider thin cases. They are so thin that you won’t even realize they are there....

HoloISO is a project that essentially turns the Steam Deck operating system into a generic, installable format that replicates the close-to-official SteamOS experience. In other words, you’ll be able to install the Steam Deck OS into any device that can support it. Of course, close-to-official doesn’t exactly mean “official” but still. This operating system works similarly to the Steam Deck OS. It’s not strange considering the code, and packages are straight from Valve with zero possible edits....

Apple Seeds 5B58 Firmware Version to AirPods 2, AirPods 3, AirPods Pro 1, and AirPods Max Apple’s latest firmware update for its AirPods lineup is version 5B58, an update from the previous 4E71 firmware. The latter update was released back in May. As for what is new, it is too early to ask as Apple has not made the release notes available at this point. However, the 5B58 update was released for the AirPods Pro 2 last week that included “bug fixes and performance improvements....

IBM Osprey quantum processor delivers unbelievable power compared to the previous Eagle quantum processor from 2021 Previously, IBM developed the Eagle quantum processor last year, which produced 127 qubits of processing power for data centers and HPCs. Now, IBM Osprey offers a three percent improvement in computing power from the previous generation. The quantum processor from IBM requires a cryogenic cooling system to keep the temperatures at absolute zero. The company explains that the undertaking from the processor is quite loud but also sensitive to external sounds....

Intel 13th Gen Non-K CPUs Deliver Up To 10% Single-Thread & Up To 64% Multi-Threaded Performance Boost In Leaked Cinebench Benchmarks The benchmarks were leaked by Chi11eddog who has a flawless track record when it comes to the latest leaks. The latest leak includes performance numbers for Intel’s 13th Gen Core i9-13900, Core i7-13700, Core i5-13600, Core i5-13500 & Core i5-13400 CPUs. The test platform and configurations weren’t mentioned but these are most likely retail chips that we will be getting in stores on the 3rd of January alongside the B760 motherboards....

Intel Arc A380’s First Custom Design Graphics Card On Sale In China For Over $500 US, PCB & ACM-G11 GPU Get Close Up Shots GUNNIR has become a very popular graphics card manufacturer in the Asian Pacific OEM & Pre-built PC segment. They have been amongst the first to offer custom flavors of the DG1 graphics card in custom flavor and they are now back with the first custom DG2 graphics card, the GUNNIR Arc A380 Photon which features 6 GB of GDDR6 memory and the full ACM-G11 GPU from Intel....

Unreleased Intel Arc Pro A40M GPU listed for the new Dell Precision 5470 Before this discovery, the company documented the ARC Pro A30M and A370M Pro GPUs in the Dell Precision XX70 series. The new workstation GPU is detailed along with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX A1000 workstation GPU, implying that the particular model is a lesser-powered inclusion that could be based on the ACM-G11 graphics card. Twitter leaker 188号 (momomo_us on Twitter) was the first to find the listing on Dell’s support website in the way of an instruction manual inclusion:...

Intel Arrow Lake CPU Roadmap Leaks Out: Targetting Late 2023 Production Window With TSMC 3nm Based Arc Battlemage GPUs, Next-Gen Lion Cove Compute Cores With Arrow Lake, it looks like Intel is prioritizing mobile over desktop first and while there will be both Arrow Lake-S and Arrow Lake-P CPUs, the company is aiming to specifically produce its 15th Gen mobility CPUs first to tackle Apple’s next-generation MacBook 14" laptops. Based on the leaked roadmap, it looks like we will see the first engineering samples ready by late 2022 and early 2023 with QS chips shipping out in Q3 2023 and final production beginning the same quarter....

Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake 5.5 GHz Desktop CPU 10% Faster In Single & 35% Faster In Multi-Threaded Benchmarks Versus The Core i9-12900K On Average The Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU tested in the leaked benchmarks is a QS sample that features 24 cores and 32 threads in an 8 P-Core and 16 E-Core configuration. The CPU carries a total of 36 MB of L3 cache and 32 MB of L2 cache for a combined 68 MB of ‘Smart Cache....

Intel 13th Gen Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPUs Come In Premium Box Package With The Chip Enclosed Within A Wafer The recent leak was posted by Twitter leaker HXL, who located the picture in a private WeChat group. The new Intel Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K CPU box offers a thinner design and alters the plastic wafer’s color from gold to a new silver colorway. In the last couple of years, Intel has utilized premium-style designs for their K-series processor boxes....

Intel Pentium Gold G7400T Alder Lake CPU shown to overclock using the BCLK functionality achieves 5.8 GHz OC, and only costs $64 Hicookie currently holds the record for overclocking Intel’s cheapest Alder Lake processor with the recent benchmarks. We have reported that non-K Alder Lake processors could overclock using an unlocked BCLK, a method not intended for the Non-K-Series chips, by accessing the BCLK function found in the motherboard BIOS settings for several weeks....

Intel CPUs show a 35% decrease in performance from the effects of the BHI-variant of Spectre V2 Intel plans to release a security update for the company’s affected processors but will take longer to produce due to the number of attacked processors. Readers will remember earlier this week that the Intel processors from the Haskell series are the most vulnerable of the company’s chips. The Linux community has already initiated the mitigation to fix the affected CPUs on their operating system....

Intel Working Hand To Get Millions of Arc GPUs Into The Hands of PC Gamers Every Year There have been several external and internal factors that have affected the GPU industry. The external factors are the pandemic and mining crisis while internal factors are shortages of components and reduced manufacturing capabilities due to factories shuttering down. While most of these factors are mitigated, there’s still the whole scalping situation that’s ongoing from 3rd party sellers and sometimes even retailers and manufacturers themselves who are trying to make a profit out of the whole situation....

iOS 15.4 Improves Battery Life on Older iPhone Models, Suggests Battery Drain Test With every major update, there are chances that the battery life is affected on some iPhone models. For our ease, YouTube channel iAppleBytes have conducted an iOS 15.4 battery drain test on iPhone 13, iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone XR, and older models. The exhaustive battery test will let us know if updating to iOS 15.4 affects battery life on all compatible iPhone models....