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Intel Flex GPUs take aim at the Nvidia A10: up to 5x faster in 8-bit decode and HEVC transcode applications The Intel Flex 170 is a 150 watt affair with 32 Ray Tracing units and 32 Xe Cores and a full height PCIe design. It features the Xe HPG architecture with 2 media engines and a single slot design. The Flex 170 GPU is shipping now to customers. The Intel Flex 140 GPU is a 75 watt variant with 16 Ray Tracing units and 16 Xe Cores and a half height PCIe....

Two Intel mobile Raptor Lake CPUs appear online, showing the same core counts as the Alder Lake mobile series The tweet from Momomo_US reveals the two 13th Gen Intel Raptor Lake laptop CPUs in what appears to be two Acer notebooks. The Intel Core i7-13700H is equipped with 14 cores so we are looking at a 6+8 configuration while the Core i5-13500H is equipped with 12 cores which points out a 4+8 configuration....

Intel’s Core i9-12900K & Core i9-10980XE Will No Longer Be Available In Custom Packaging, Back To The Standard Box Intel has chosen to release the i9-12900K and i9-10980XE with identical size boxes to ensure that shipments will be more optimized for volume cross-generations. The notification comes from the Intel PCN, or Product Change Notification documentation. Initially, there was speculation that the Core i9-10980XE would have been discontinued by now but it looks like the chip still serves the HEDT consumer space on the X299 platform though given how old the chip is, most users would have moved to newer processors from the company....

Recently, an Overclock.net (OCN) user was reported to have purchased and received the Intel Core i9-13900KF Raptor Lake CPU before it was available to consumers. The user sold the processor to another OCN user, who then put the chip from Intel to test to see if it could surpass the reported boost clock frequency, which is 5.8GHz. User Coodiee1337 from OCN connected a Corsair iCUE H150I RGB Elite AIO cooler to the Thermal Grizzly CPU contact frame that held the powerful Intel processor....

Intel’s Core i9-13900KS 6 GHz “Raptor Lake” CPUs Rips Apart The Core i9-12900KS 5.5 GHz “Alder Lake” In CPU-z Benchmark Leak The Intel Core i9-13900KS will be the flagship Raptor Lake CPU, featuring 24 cores and 32 threads in an 8 P-Core and 16 E-Core configuration. The CPU is configured at a single-core boost clock of 6.0 GHz (1-2) cores. The CPU will be featuring 68 MB of combined cache and a 125W PL1 rating that goes beyond 253W....

Intel open-source team sends new updates for the Linux 5.19 merge requests, adding significant graphical driver improvements to the Linux operating system The newest update improves Intel ARC DG2 and Alchemist graphics, including two new user API inclusions. The first supports the process of reading a binary table and describes the GPU configurations from the firmware blob. The second inclusion allows for additional API sysfs aid for platforms with multi-tile capability....

Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition Graphics Card Official Performance Benchmarks Show Up To 17% Faster Performance Than NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 The Intel Arc Limited Edition graphics card was teased by the blue team in early Q2 2022 when they announced their Alchemist GPU lineup along with the mobility variants. Since then, the Arc lineup is only launched in certain markets, first rolling out in entry-level laptop solutions and now rolling out to higher-end laptops....

Three Xeon CPUs power the Intel VCA2 purpose build accelerator for visual cloud computing The most significant purpose of the Intel VCA2 is that it allows users who establish Windows or Linux instances and link instantly to the remote device. The cost-effectiveness of the device is crucial as multiple users can access the accelerator and use the machine for several cloud applications, ranging from business to gaming. Intel’s VCA2 was released six years ago and found use for QuickSync video acceleration via integrating Iris Pro P580 graphics technology which is an integrated GPU featured on last-gen processors....

Assembling Giant Pegatron Was Reportedly Forced to Stop Its Hiring Spree After Just Three Days, Likely Due to the iPhone 14 Plus Production Cut With a production cut between 70-90 percent rate, Economic Daily News reports that the iPhone 14 Plus order reduction is perhaps the largest in Apple’s history during the short time span of the smartphone’s launch. Remember, when we last reported about the iPhone 14 Plus production cut, we stated that this model did not even cross the two-week sales cycle before Apple made this decision, and this setback puts even more pressure on the company’s assembly giant, Pegatron....

Camera Issues Show up When Apps Like TikTok, Snapchat, and Others Are Used Update: Apple has responded and said that it will issue a software fix for this issue next week. It will likely be an iOS 16.0.2 update whenever available. Be sure to download it when it’s out. The problem appears to be widespread as iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max owners are complaining about it on various platforms....

The iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max Have a 1/1.65-inch Sensor, so a Bigger Part Warrants a Larger Area to Be Housed In A boatload of specifications have been mentioned by Weibo user Fishing 8, claiming that the 48MP sensor on both the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will have a 1/1.3-inch sensor size. With the calculation done by MacRumors, that equals to a 21 percent bigger sensor area compared to the 1/1....

Apple Has Not Issued a Statement if It Still Intends to Maintain Its Original Shipment Goal of 90 Million Units for 2022 On its newsroom page, Apple says COVID-19, and not lower demand, is the reason why it expects to see lower iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max shipments. The firm has not said if this setback will affect the overall shipments goal for 2022, which was previously said to be 90 million....

New iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max Schematics Gives us an Insight on the Dimensions and Thickness of the Forthcoming Flagships With a Larger Camera Bump Shared online by Max Weinbach, the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max schematics reveal an overall thicker design and a larger camera bump compared to the current models. The schematics give us a pretty good look at the dimensions and what we can expect from the ‘Pro’ models when it comes to design....

iPhone 14 Pro Models to Feature Significantly Rounder Design to Seamlessly House the Rear Camera Array Ian Zelbo creates renders for Apple products based on leaked information. He believes that the iPhone 14 Pro models could feature significantly rounder corners due to larger radii (via MacRumors). The information comes into light by cross-referencing leaked schematics, accessory molds, CAD renders, and more. However, the iPhone 14 Pro Max features virtually the same radii as the current iPhone 13 Pro Max....

Just shortly after the complete specifications sheet of the Pixel 7 showed up online, we now have our hands on what looks like official marketing material for the upcoming smartwatch from Google. Moments After the Pixel 7 Leak, Pixel Watch Marketing Material Leaks, Giving an Insight on What We Should Expect Now the promotional material that we have on our hands is coming from multiple sources, and we are going to look at what the Pixel Watch is all about....

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) has apparently found it impossible to surmount an ever-increasing pile of obstacles that now litter the path toward its acquisition of Arm Holdings. As per the news that is just trickling in, NVIDIA is reportedly abandoning its much-hyped Arm takeover plans: — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) January 25, 2022 **Reminder: In case of no deal, Nvidia would not be refunded $1.25B.(More at https://t.co/AW8Jfxxfgf) — TradeTheNews.com (@Trade_The_News) January 25, 2022 As a refresher, Arm Holdings is currently owned by Japan’s SoftBank Group....

A new American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report shows that the best smartphone in the U.S., as chosen by the consumers, is the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. This is similar to the report from the last year which showed a top-spot tie between Galaxy Note 10 Plus, S20 Plus, and Galaxy S10 Plus. Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra is Apparently the Most Favourite Phone in the United States You can look at the top 15 phones that were chosen by the responders....

Add a Ring Video Doorbell Wired to Your Front Door for a Low Price of Just $39.99 This doorbell will sell for anywhere around $64.99, but right now, without toying around with discount codes or coupons, you can get it for $39.99. But remember, this is an extremely limited time deal and it will come to an end without any prior notice. Buy Ring Video Doorbell Wired – Convenient, essential features in a compact design - Was $64....

AMD continues to add additional support for their RDNA 3 architecture with the merge window closing soon Larabel reports that AMD added some extra new features in a pull request posted to DRM-Next last Tuesday. With only a few days, not weeks, left until we reach the next merge period, there is minimal risk of any reversal. This low risk is because the alterations to AMDGPU coding are currently inserted into the new IP blocks present within Linux 5....

AMD Confirms Zen 4 in 5nm/4nm For 2022-2023, Zen 5 in 4nm/3nm in 2024 & Beyond With Latest CPU Roadmap The latest AMD 2022-2024 CPU roadmap not just confirms the Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips but also their subsequent variants which include the ‘C’ and ‘V-Cache’ CPU offerings. In total, Zen 4 and Zen 5 will come in three flavors, the standard Zen 4/5, the Compute-focused Zen 4C/5C, and then the V-Cache variants which include Zen 4 V-Cache and Zen 5 V-Cache....