AMD has admitted that when its new Ryzen 9000 processors debut, they won’t be the fastest gaming chips – even if they do beat out Intel rivals, they’ll still be behind current-gen 7000X3D silicon for gaming.Tom’s Hardware prised this nugget of info from Donny Woligroski, who is AMD’s Senior Technical Marketing Manager of Consumer Processors,…
The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) introduced USB4 version 2.0 in fall 2022, and it expects systems and devices with the tech to emerge later this year and into next year. These upcoming products will largely rely on Intel’s Barlow Ridge controller, a full-featured Thunderbolt 5 controller that goes above and beond the baseline USB4 v2…
ASMedia Preps USB4 v2 Controller and PHY Read More »
As Qualcomm’s exclusivity for Arm-powered processors for Windows PCs is reportedly coming to its end, other chipmakers are getting ready to offer their Arm-based system-on-chips for Windows computers. And, according to a new report from Reuters, MediaTek will be among the companies jumping into the Windows-on-Arm field, with plans to launch their first PC processor…
Report: MediaTek Working on Arm-Based Processor for Windows PCs Read More »
iOS 18 preview was full of great surprises, but I assure you no one expected Apple to go this hard when redesigning the iconic flashlight tool. In the first developer’s beta of iOS 18, people noticed that Cupertino tweaked the flashlight widget so it would become more vivid on the iPhone’s Dynamic Island.While the iPhone’s…
Apple just created a super-powered iPhone flashlight widget that no one asked for Read More »
Being a major JEDEC memory standard, GDDR7 is slated to be produced by all three of the Big Three memory manufacturers. But it seems that not all three vendors will be kicking off mass production at the same time. SK hynix was at this year’s Computex trade show, showing off their full lineup of memory…
SK hynix: GDDR7 Mass Production To Start in Q1’2025 Read More »
Kubernetes is 10! Mid-2024 sees the 10th birthday of the market-leading container orchestration platform. It’s a decade that started with containers emerging as a novel way of virtualising applications but storage and data protection that was practically non-existent. Now, Kubernetes offers a mature container platform for cloud-native applications with all the functionality required for the…
Kubernetes at 10: Persistent storage matures, helped by Operators Read More »
Although consumer SSDs based on Phison’s PS5026-E26 controller have been on the market for almost a year and a half now, the class-leading drives still carry a distinct price premium, and to some degree that’s because it’s still one of the only options for a PCIe 5.0 SSD. But it looks like the situation is…
Cheaper PCIe 5.0 x4 SSDs Incoming: Silicon Power Demos Phison E31T-Based SSD Read More »
I’m a longtime iPhone user, a fan of gen AI products, and a ChatGPT Plus subscriber. All of that tells you that I loved seeing that Apple went with OpenAI’s ChatGPT for iOS 18 integration at WWDC. Of all the chatbots out there, I wanted ChatGPT to come to iOS 18 because it’s currently the…
ChatGPT is coming to iOS 18, but OpenAI missed a big opportunity at WWDC Read More »
Some people find the current state of smart home tech way too overwhelming to bother with. Then, at the other end of the spectrum, we have smart home enthusiasts who want anything and everything in their homes to be connected. Of course, there’s one thing that unites these two groups that are otherwise polar opposites:…
An Echo Show smart display is a must-have upgrade for Alexa fans Read More »
I’ve been running iOS betas on my iPhone ever since Apple started the program, with one exception. iOS 17 wasn’t exciting enough to warrant installing it on my iPhone 14 Pro last year. With the iOS 18 beta coming this week, I can’t wait to get it going on my iPhone. That’s because I can’t…
iOS 18 beta will bring Apple AI to the iPhone, but I might not install it Read More »
