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Nvidia looks to be revamping RTX 3050 mobile GPU with current-gen tech – and that might mean better battery life for budget gaming laptops

Nvidia might be revamping a past-gen laptop GPU with a current-gen chip, or at least this is what some clues that have just been aired suggest.The theory is that there’s a new ‘RTX 3050 A’ mobile graphics card, with the ‘A’ suffix indicating this is a fresh flavor of the GPU which uses an AD106…

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Intel admits damage to unstable 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs is permanent – incoming patch is a preventative, not a cure

Intel provided a statement earlier this week on the instability problems with 14th-gen and 13th-gen CPUs, but some further details have come to light since then – including a clarification that any damage done to high-end CPUs is permanent.In case you missed it, Intel’s previous announcement pinned down ‘elevated operating voltage’ as a key cause…

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AMD delays Ryzen 9000 due to last-minute discovery of problems with some CPUs – launch won’t happen until August now

AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs are going to be delayed and won’t arrive at the end of July as originally planned, with Team Red pushing back the launch of its next-gen processors to August due to issues with the chips.Tom’s Hardware reports that while AMD had already started shipping out Ryzen 9000 CPUs to retailers and…

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Intel’s fix for high-end CPU crashes is coming, but a new leak suggests Team Blue could still be in hot water

Intel’s problems with high-end 13th and 14th-gen CPUs crashing and suffering from instability in general may not be over with the patch Team Blue has inbound for mid-August, at least if some fresh leaked info is anything to go by.You probably won’t have missed the latest development from Intel whereby earlier this week, the company…

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Why did CrowdStrike cause the Windows Blue Screen?

David William Plummer, a former Microsoft software engineer who developed Windows Task Manager, has posted a video describing how the CrowdStrike update could have caused Windows to halt.  He described CrowdStrike Falcon as anti-malware for Windows servers, which “proactively detects new attacks” and analyses application behaviour. To do this, CrowdStrike needs to run as a…

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Tenstorrent Launches Wormhole AI Processors: 466 FP8 TFLOPS at 300W

Tenstorrent has unveiled its next-generation Wormhole processor for AI workloads that promises to offer decent performance at a low price. The company currently offers two add-on PCIe cards carrying one or two Wormhole processors as well as TT-LoudBox, and TT-QuietBox workstations aimed at software developers. The whole of today’s release is aimed at developers rather…

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Intel raising power safeguard for next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs has rung alarm bells for some – but we’re hopeful it’s a positive sign

It looks like Intel is going to raise the limits for temperatures with its next-gen desktop processors, which could be a sign of confidence in the stability of Arrow Lake – a hopeful hint of things to come, with any luck, in terms of the current worries around Core i9 stability.Before we go leaping off…

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Intel Arrow Lake may not arrive until December – and that could seal AMD’s Ryzen 9000 victory in next-gen CPU war

Intel’s Arrow Lake processors may not arrive until the very end of 2024, if a new rumor is right.This one comes from regular hardware leaker HXL as shared on X in a very brief statement that informs us that Arrow Lake sales won’t kick off until December.In case you were wondering, ARL-S refers to Arrow…

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All signs point to Intel being ready to deploy Lunar Lake CPU’s secret weapon for laptop gamers

Intel Lunar Lake CPUs for laptops look set to get a nifty capability which has been previously leaked, one that PC gamers will be keen to see realized – and others besides.This is the adaptive sharpening filter that was spotted earlier this year, a feature for Lunar Lake’s Xe2 integrated graphics (Battlemage). As we explained…

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AMD’s top-end RDNA 4 GPU might not turn up until CES 2025 – and the second-tier model could be much later than that

We may be waiting longer than expected for the AMD Radeon RX 8000 series, according to the latest leak about the next-gen graphics cards.As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, prominent hardware leaker Kepler has claimed in a post on X that Team Red won’t be revealing its RDNA 4 GPUs until CES 2025 at the earliest.We’re…

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