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Underwhelming Design of iPhone SE 5G Also Means Users May Complain About Abysmal Battery Life Through Weibo user Zealer, Dohyun Kim shared what he claims is the iPhone SE 5G mockup. If the caption of the tweet confuses you, please note that chronologically, it is referred to as the iPhone SE 3, signifying the third iteration from Apple in its efforts to provide customers with low-cost options. The alleged mockup looks dated, with massive bezels at the top and bottom of the display, along with that prominent home button....

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Card Allegedly Shows Up in 3DMark Time Spy Benchmark, Up To 3 GHz GPU Clock The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 is expected to utilize 128 SMs of the 144 SMs for a total of 16,384 CUDA cores. The GPU will come packed with 96 MB of L2 cache and a total of 384 ROPs which is simply insane. The clock speeds are not confirmed yet but considering that the TSMC 4N process is being used, we are expecting clocks between the 2....

AMD may reveal another desktop Navi 24-based graphics card variant soon, possibly the AMD Radeon RX 6300 GPU The below screenshot is from @KOMACHI_ENSAKA: The translated tweet reads, The tweet is about a listing of three AMD models — 65XT, 64, and 63, which the latter is mentioned as “New!” by their source. AMD disclosed that the GPU Performance API, version 3.10 (located here), will support the new RX 6300 graphics card....

AMD Ryzen & EPYC CPUs Drive Red Team’s Desktop, Laptop & Server Market Share To New Heights From the numbers provided by Mercury Research, it can be seen that AMD gained +0.4 points over the previous quarter leading to a 28.1% market share this quarter. This brings AMD’s current share to a record high against Intel which currently stands at 71.9 % share but has been in a decline ever since AMD launched its Zen CPU architecture....

AMD Raphael ‘Ryzen 7000’ & Raphael-X ‘Ryzen 7000X3D’ Desktop CPUs Rumored To Support DDR5-5600 Memory Natively The latest rumor comes from KittyYuko who has tweeted out after a long hiatus of six months. As per his latest tweet, the leaker has managed to land some information regarding the upcoming Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs such as Raphael, Raphael-X, and also the recently announced & also Zen 4 powered, Dragon Range APUs for laptops....

AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU IHS / Die Hotspots, Direct-Die Cooling, Air/Water Cooling & Temperatures Analyzed In our review, we saw temperatures for the AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs hovering and sometimes even surpassing past 90 degrees Celcius. While this is under the 95C TjMax and as AMD states, these are well within the performance and temperature targets of their CPUs, users can still see get higher temps if they are applying Manual OC or leaving PBO to Auto....

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X & Ryzen 5 7600X “Zen 4” CPU Benchmarks Leak Out, Huge Single & Multi-Core Performance Improvement AMD did show its official performance figures for the Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs within Geekbench 5 but those were only based on single-threaded tests. Now we get to see both single and multi-core performance figures. Both CPUs were tested on the ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme (Ryzen 9 7950X) and MSI X670E ACE (Ryzen 5 7600X) motherboards with 32 GB of DDR5 memory....

AMD shows improvement in revenue compared to Intel, thanks to the company’s priority on accessing premium components In the latter half of 2015, Intel purchased company Altera for $16.7 billion. After the acquisition, Intel began to work on designs based on Altera’s chip technology, which partnered with CPUs and FPGAs. However, even after announcing the technology and offering designs on display, the silicon required for the chips was unavailable until 2018....

Is AMD finally going to present an AI/ML-based FSR 2.0 implementation? FSR and machine-learning based AI upscaling solutions like XeSS and DLSS 2.0 are not alike. While XeSS and DLSS 2.0 are upscaling systems based on Deep Learning/Inference and use actual hardware to enable performance enhancement without any serious quality degradation - FSR is a simple spatial upscaler. The two classes of upscale are not even remotely comparable and is like resizing something in photoshop versus resizing something in Gigapixel AI....

Android 14 to be Called Upside Down Cake According to our friends over at XDA-Developers, the dessert name of Android 14 has been discovered in the Android Gerrit and the new version is code-named Upside Down Cake, and while it might not sound as good as some other names Google has used in the past, we doubt there were a lot of names to choose from, in the first place. This should not really come as a surprise as there have been several leaks in the past that revealed the Android version and the dessert codename associated with it....

Intel is under fire once again as a Japanese professor sues the company for products involving FPGAs and SoCs that the defendant created In 2001, Iida was a doctoral student and had found a way to manipulate significant LUTs, or look up tables, so that individual M-input and N-output LUTs work together to create a single LUT or a group of “fractured” LUTs. With the concept that Iida created, the design has impacted the reduction of power consumption for chips and diminished the implementation area, making it a crucial part of today’s designs by Intel....

Thankfully, Respawn/Respawn Vancouver have pushed out a new patch that tweaks Catalyst’s abilities and makes some fairly significant changes to Broken Mood, removing unintended hiding spots, improving collision, and more. You can get the full notes for the hotfix, below. Resolved lifetime K/DR stat appearing incorrectly for some players. Catalyst’s KO shield will now work when downed while casting her Ultimate. While in Phase, Wraith will now see doors sealed by Catalyst’s passive....

Apple Has Finished Development of iOS 16 Ahead of September Release, iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 Ventura to Launch Later in October As mentioned earlier, Apple is done with the initial version of iOS 16 development. This means that no new features will be added in the upcoming beta builds. In addition, the company will work on under-the-hood improvements like bug fixes and performance enhancements in the coming days. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shares the news in his latest Power On newsletter that the company will see fit to release iOS 16 in September, but iPadOS 16 might be delayed....

AirTag Owners Will Still Be Notified When the Battery Runs Low, but That Might Put Those Users in Panic Mode The removal of the battery indicator was noticed by Dutch blog iCulture.nl and later reported by MacRumors. In previous versions of iOS, a small battery icon would be present below the AirTag’s name and location when you opened up the Find My app. The icon was similar to the iPhone battery status and made it simple for owners to know when to pop up the back side of the AirTag and place in a new battery when the existing one’s charge level ran low....

iOS 16.0.3 is No Longer Being Signed by Apple, Downgrade From iOS 16.1 Not Possible - Here’s What it Means With Respect to Fugu15 Jailbreak If you are running the latest iOS 16.1 version on your iPhone, you can no longer downgrade to the previous version since Apple has stopped signing iOS 16.0.3. As mentioned earlier, Henze has released the Fugu15 jailbreak for iOS 15 which is available to developers on GitHub....

Apple to Launch a New Green Color Option for iPhone 13 and Purple Color for iPad Air Tomorrow The news was shared by the YouTube Luke Miani, claiming that Apple will offer a purple color for the iPad Air and a new green color option for the iPhone 13. Apple is already expected to launch the new iPad Air 5 with upgraded internals and an improved camera. Moreover, 5G connectivity with Quad-LED flash will also be part of the mix....

Apple Watch Series 8’s Body Temperature Sensor May Not Accurately Display Info but Could Prompt a Wearer to Seek Medical Attention On his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman talks about past information related to the Apple Watch Series 8, including one where he painfully reminds readers that the smartwatch will arrive with the same SoC present on the Apple Watch Series 7 and Apple Watch Series 6. Fortunately, one change, according to him, is the addition of a body temperature sensor, but if you were hoping for accurate readings, you will be disappointed....

What we weren’t expecting is to find out that Arma Reforger is available today in early access via PC (Steam) and Xbox Series S|X (Game Preview), priced at $29.99. Additionally, the game also includes mod support for both platforms. Here’s an overview of the game provided by Bohemia Interactive. Bohemia Interactive is expecting the game to stay in early access for a year at a maximum. Game Modes Take to the battlefield in one of Arma Reforger’s two multiplayer game modes....

It was not too long ago that the chairman of GameStop, Ryan Cohen, made waves by taking an outlandish bet on the bullish prospects of Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY). Now, as the spectacular short squeeze in BBBY shares appears all set to continue with no end in sight, Cohen’s bullish bet on the meme stock does not sound so unfathomable in hindsight. Bed Bath & Beyond shares are now up an astonishing 181 percent relative to the stock’s year-to-date low (closing price) of $4....

ASRock DeskMeet & DeskMini PCs With B760 & X600 Motherboards To Support Intel Raptor Lake & AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs The ASRock DeskMeet and DeskMini PCs are designed as small form factor and barebone PCs that come in both AMD and Intel flavors. ASRock gives you the option to get them in both barebone and pre-built configurations through their partners. Currently, these PCs are available with AMD X300 & Intel B660 chipset-powered motherboards that support the latest Ryzen 5000 & Intel 12th Gen CPU families....