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AMD Radeon RX 6000 ‘RDNA 2’ GPUs See Massive Discounts At Retailers Prior To Radeon RX 7000 ‘RDNA 3’ Launch While price cuts on the high-end Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards (namely the RX 6800 & 6900 series cards) come as no surprise considering they are getting replaced by the RX 7900 GPUs in a few weeks. The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX will cost $999 US and the Radeon RX 7900 XT costs $899 US (MSRP)....

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT, The Flagship RDNA 3 ‘Navi 31’ GPU Powered Graphics Card, Could Offer Over 3 GHz Clock Speeds & Almost 100 TFLOPs of Performance Over the last couple of days, there have been several sightings of the AMD RDNA 3 (GFX11) GPUs which have started appearing within the LLVM project within the Linux operating system’s drivers and development tools. It looks like AMD is working on at least four new GPUs for now which have been confirmed through their ID leak which is as follows (Credits: @Kepler_L2):...

Next-Gen AMD Radeon Flagship Might End Up Utilizing Monster RDNA 3 GPU With Dual Graphics Dies The rumor comes from Greymon55 who first stated a few days ago that AMD was working on an RDNA 3 GPU with a total of 8 Shader Engines for a total of 16,384 stream processors. The leaker said that he wasn’t sure if this RDNA 3 GPU was something that would eventually make its way to the market or not....

AMD Ryzen 7 7730U CPU Spotted In Lenovo Laptop: Features 8 Zen 3 Cores & Radeon Vega GPU The AMD Ryzen 7 7730U CPU is part of the Ryzen 7030 series segment that is codenamed Barcelo Refresh and will be targeting the mainstream Thin & Light laptop segment. The laptops will mostly be a refresh of the 2022 lineup that was already launched with Barcelo Ryzen 5000 chips but with slight optimizations....

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT Reference ‘Black Edition’ Graphics Card Featured In Falcon Northwest’s Tiki Mini PC AMD & Falcon Northwest’s relationship dates all the way back to the Fury days. The PC builder was the first to showcase AMD’s flagship graphics card at the time, the Radeon R9 Fury X2 within their Tiki Mini PC. Although the graphics card never got a consumer variant, it did end up in the Radeon Pro Duo year’s the then-latest Fiji XT GPU cores....

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) has dealt a heavy blow to investors betting against its share price. AMD has seen its market value rise meteorically over the past couple of years after rapidly gaining market share in the personal computing market due to a strong mix of product design and advanced manufacturing technologies. The exodus of short sellers from AMD’s stock comes as the company prepares to expand its presence in the rapidly growing enterprise computing market following the successful completion earlier this year of its bid to acquire Xilinx, Inc....

AMD FSR 3 Official, Comes With Fluid Motion Frame Technology With Double The Gaming Performance, Launching In 2023 AMD FSR 3 is said to combine the best temporal super-resolution technology and the brand new Fluid Motion Frame technology that delivers more FPS in games by increasing performance when games are run with heavily demanding settings. The technology is set to launch in 2023 in various games and applications. In terms of performance, AMD’s FSR 3 will deliver up to twice the performance increase over FSR 2 at 4K resolution....

With the API Level 33 and NDP APIs now in their final stage, Google has recommended that developers “start final compatibility testing for apps, SDKs, and libraries.” Additionally, Play Store alpha and beta tracks should also be published now that the Android 13 Beta 3 is out. Android 13 Moves Closer as Google Releases the Third Beta For those wondering, Android 13 Beta 3 brings key behaviors such as new notifications permission, and corner Clipboard preview....

Apple Collaborates With WACKO MARIA to Bring The Beats Flex Earbuds in Unique Leopard Finish Apart from the unique finish for WACKO MARIA, the Flex earbuds are exactly the same as the ones that originally made a debut in 2020. The entry-level earbuds from Apple under the Beats brand are available for only $69. You will not find any high-end features part of the mix as the company has reserved them for the AirPods or the modern Beats earbuds....

Ahead of Mass Production, Apple Has Completed Hardware Tests for iPhone 14 Satellite Connectivity According to the prominent analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple has completed all hardware tests related to the iPhone 14’s Satellite connectivity ahead of mass production. However, support for the Satellite functionality relies on “whether Apple and operators can settle the business model.” Take note that the iPhone 13 also features satellite hardware, but the service could not be introduced to the world because “the business model had not been negotiated....

Apple’s Latest Supply Chain Entrant Jahwa Electronics Is Said to Invest a Mammoth Amount Building Plants for the New Components South Korean manufacturer Jahwa Electronics will reportedly join Apple’s supply chain, according to The Elec, as it aims to invest around $155 million in setting up new plants. These plants will be used to mass produce optical image actuators. Apple was said to have visited Jahwa Electronics’ production lines in South Korea during the first half of 2021 and would likely have wanted actuators specific to its specifications, requiring the supplier to make dedicated plants to commence operation....

Apple to Develop Future Mac Chips in Israel The announcement was made on LinkedIn by Elad Wertheimer who is responsible for Apple silicon talent sourcing (via Times of Israel). The new facility in Israel will take part in various flagship projects with “future processors for the Mac” as the main objective. The company has already started recruiting employees for the new site. The company has spent years on the research and development of its custom chips and the it does not plan to stop....

There Were Several Ways to Use a Bridge to Allow Two M1 Max Chipsets to Communicate With One Another, but TSMC’s InFO_LI Enables Cost Reduction TSMC’s CoWoS-S packaging method is used by many of the chip maker’s partners, including Apple, so it was assumed that the M1 Ultra would also be mass produced using it. However, Tom’s Hardware reported that Tom Wassick, a semiconductor packaging engineering professional, republished a slide clarifying the packaging method, showing that Apple employed the use of InFO_LI on this occasion....

Check Out Apple’s WWDC Event Start Time in Your Region or Local Time Zone Apple’s WWDC 2022 opening keynote will begin on Monday, June 6 at 10:00 AM PDT. The event will be live-streamed from Apple Park and anyone can watch it online. Take note that the WWDC 2022 event start time will differ for each time zone. Check out how you can watch the WWDC 2022 live stream on any device....

Apple is No Longer Signing iOS 15.2 Which Means You Can No Longer Downgrade From iOS 15.2.1 - Should Users With a Jailbreak Be Worried? As mentioned earlier, Apple has decided to stop signing iOS 15.2 which will prevent users on iOS 15.2.1 to downgrade. For average users who do not consider the downgrade portion or do not need it, the news is pretty much invalid. However, for those of you who consider jailbreak, the ability to downgrade from a newer iOS build to an older one is very important....

$4 whistle achieves more than twice the loudness range compared to the Apple Watch Ultra in a unique test With the Apple Watch Ultra given to some professional outdoor adventurers, The Verge decided to see how useful the wearable would be in a tricky situation. In an earlier teardown, it was revealed that the smartwatch features a large 542mAh battery, meaning that compared to the other Apple Watch models, it will last significantly longer, making it an ideal companion in an emergency situation where you need to use the Siren to call for help....

As the entire financial world is watching the explosion in Credit Suisse’s CDS rates with angst, bringing back memories of Bear Stearns’ failure back in 2008, the SEC just charged Kim Kardashian for failing to disclose the incentives offered to promote a crypto asset, leading to Elon Musk’s detractors calling for similar charges to be leveled against him for allegedly precipitating Dogecoin’s (DOGE) pump-and-dump. This case is a reminder that, when celebrities / influencers endorse investment opps, including crypto asset securities, it doesn’t mean those investment products are right for all investors....

Mirage will be the last cross-generation installment in the series. Speaking to the Ubisoft Blog, Vice President Executive Producer of the Assassin’s Creed brand Marc-Alexis Côté teased some of the tech advancements that the developers are preparing for the Anvil engine going forward. I don’t want to spoil too much of what our creative teams are working on. However, from a technological point of view, these are games that will benefit from a tremendous increase in fidelity with all the improvements that we’re working on with this new iteration of the Anvil pipeline, so you can just imagine it being a very next-generation approach to RPGs, at least from a graphical-fidelity point of view....

Bugs. Crashes. Areas of what’s in the game unfinished. You’ll find it all here, but even with the sort of issues that would make you turn away from a game, there’s something just so addictive here. There’s something that makes you keep coming back for more and something that makes you want more. When you think about Baldur’s Gate 3, it’s going to be impossible to not make comparisons to Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin titles....

It isn’t just Season 1 that’s being pushed back, either. The Battlefield 2042 dev team originally promised an update for February with a number of quality-of-life improvements, including an updated scoreboard, but that update has now been pushed back to March. In it’s place, players are just getting a small hotfix to address some issues with January’s ver. 3.2 update (because of course it created new issues). Get the very limited patch notes for that update, below....