While artificial intelligence becoming sentient and taking over the world is an increasingly valid concern, the technology is already incredibly dangerous in the wrong hands. Over the weekend, the South China Morning Post (via Ars Technica) reported on a thief who drained a multinational company’s Hong Kong branch of HK$200 million ($25.6 million USD) by…
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Disclaimer February 2nd: While the benchmark results in this review are accurate where applicable, due to a highlighted issue with the Skin Temperature-Aware Power Management (STAPM), our results reflect the matter that AMD hasn’t disabled STAPM for the desktop Ryzen 8000G APUs. Once a fix has been provided, we will re-test and provide further updates in…
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At CES 2024, Acer has announced an expansion of its graphics card portfolio, introducing new models including the Predator BiFrost AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT OC and a selection of Nitro graphics cards powered by the latest AMD Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs, including AMD’s newest card, the Radeon RX 7600 XT. Announced at the beginning…
Some good news from Intel, as revealed at CES 2024, is that its APO tech will be coming to older CPUs, not just the newest Raptor Lake Refresh chips on our best processors list.APO or Application Performance Optimization is a tech that optimizes supported games and boosts frame rates, and it was something Intel introduced…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still feeling the effects of many of its customers embarking on cloud cost optimisation strategies, but said the pace of new customers joining its ranks is accelerating. The public cloud giant has posted its fourth quarter and full-year results, which revealed the firm has seen its revenue increase on a…
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As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD re-emphasized that its Zen 5-architecture processors for both client and datacenter applications will be available this year. While the company is not making any new disclosured on products or providing a timeline beyond “later this year”, the latest statement from AMD serves as a reiteration…
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Next-gen Battlemage graphics cards are progressing well and should arrive before CES 2025, we’ve heard from Intel.Specifically this came from Tom Petersen, Intel Fellow, who was interviewed by PC World at CES 2024 (see the YouTube clip below) as highlighted by PC Gamer.Petersen said he’s excited about Battlemage which has moved onto development on the…
It’s hard to talk about AMD without bringing up arch nemesis Nvidia, and vice versa, when it comes to upscaling technology and GPU technology. Nvidia drops DLSS, and AMD follows quickly with FSR. Normally we expect Nvidia to lead with a new feature or product launch, with AMD soon following, but according to AMD’s Aaron…
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Analyst Gartner has reported that 2023 was the worst year in PC history, declining 14.8% in 2023. It said 2023 represented the second year in a row with a double-digit decline, where worldwide PC shipments totalled 241.8 million units, down from 284 million units in 2022. Lenovo, the market leader, shipped 59.7m units in 2023,…
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While it’s been touted for many months that AMD will release APUs for desktops based on Zen 4, rumors and wishes have finally come to fruition during AMD’s presentation at CES 2024 with the announcement of the Ryzen 8000G family. The latest line-up of APUs with Zen 4 cores and upgraded Radeon integrated graphics consists…
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