AMD has officially announced its Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, one of the worst-kept ‘secrets’ in the tech world this year (alongside Apple’s just-revealed M4 Macs).The Ryzen 9800X3D is pretty much just as the avalanche of rumors suggested, with AMD confirming that as seen with previous spilled specs, it has 8 cores (16 threads) and a…
G.Skill on Tuesday introduced its ultra-low-latency DDR5-6400 memory modules that feature a CAS latency of 30 clocks, which appears to be the industry’s most aggressive timings yet for DDR5-6400 sticks. The modules will be available for both AMD and Intel CPU-based systems. With every new generation of DDR memory comes an increase in data transfer…
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Apple unveiled the iPad mini 7 earlier this week, which I consider an amazing upgrade over its predecessor even though it’s practically identical to the iPad mini 6 in terms of design. At $499, you get a tablet that can run Apple Intelligence thanks to the iPhone 15 Pro’s chipset. That’s the A17 Pro that…
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Intel has plans for future GPUs that aren’t monolithic, but are built from separate chiplets, or at least there’s some thinking along those lines at Team Blue.We’ve gathered that because TechSpot noticed a denizen of X, Underfox, who flagged up a patent filed by Intel for a “disaggregated GPU architecture” which will likely be the…
A new leak has seemingly outlined the entire first wave of Intel’s hotly-anticipated Core Ultra 200 CPUs, also known as Arrow Lake-S. The leaked information around the forthcoming line of CPUs comes complete with core counts and boost frequencies.The leak originates from Chinese tech website Benchlife, which also claimed that its sources have suggested an…
Earlier this week, Apple introduced the iPad mini 7. With 8GB of RAM, the A17 Pro chip, and Apple Intelligence support, this is indeed the iPad mini Pro users have been clamoring for. However, even after boosting the specs of the iPad mini, Apple’s smallest tablet lacks a major iPadOS feature: Stage Manager.Stage Manager was…
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Asus has prematurely listed AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors on its microsite for incoming 800 series motherboards, in what’s another hint that next-gen 3D V-Cache CPUs might be here sooner than expected.As VideoCardz noticed, the site lists X870 (and X870E), B850 and B840 motherboards for Ryzen 9000 (second-gen AM5 boards still based on the same socket…
Earlier this month, AMD launched the first two desktop CPUs using their latest Zen 5 microarchitecture: the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Ryzen 5 9600X. As part of the new Ryzen 9000 family, it gave us their latest Zen 5 cores to the desktop market, as AMD actually launched Zen 5 through their mobile platform last month,…
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Intel’s next-gen Arrow Lake desktop processors will go on sale come October 17, or that’s the latest word from the grapevine.VideoCardz got the scoop on this one, with the source being the Board Channels over in China (which we’d classify as a reasonable outlet for rumors, albeit one that has to be approached with a…
Motherboard makers are seemingly upping the pace with the transition to new designs for PCIe graphics card slots, whereby the traditional latch is being phased out in favor of either a button, or an entirely seamless mechanism in the case of Asus.VideoCardz reports on the proliferation of new motherboards for both AMD’s and Intel’s new…
