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…
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but another Netflix price hike might be in the works. Or so Netflix just warned. Netflix has recently increased the prices of two ad-free tiers, and one of them is about to be retired. The Basic plan is going away in the second quarter of 2024, starting in the…
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NVIDIA today is quietly launching a new entry-level graphics card for the retail market, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB. Based on a cut-down version of their budget Ampere-architecture GA107 GPU, the new card brings what was previously an OEM-only product to the retail market. Besides adding another part to NVIDIA’s deep product stack, the launch…
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The year 2023 will go down as one in which some big storage suppliers focused on upgrades to array products, notably using high-density and low-cost quad-level cell (QLC) flash storage, while others built around software-based optimisation in place of hardware innovation. “When we look back at storage products launched in 2023 we can see a…
QLC made gains but storage innovation focus was on software in 2023 Read More »
Sabrent on Friday announced the latest addition to its Rocket family of high-performance SSDs, the Rocket 5. Rated for sequential read speeds of over 14,000 MB/s and up to 1.4 million of random read/write IOPS, the drive is slated to be the fastest Phison-powered PCIe 5.0 drive released thus far. The Rocket 5 will work…
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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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Apple will have to open the iPhone to sideloading, third-party app stores, and third-party payment systems come March 7th. It’ll happen only in Europe, where tech companies must comply with the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) law that aims to improve competition in the tech space, defend users’ rights, and improve their experiences.Some developers can’t…
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More than 300 Fujitsu Services UK employees working for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) are set to strike from 17 January 2024 in a protest over pay, potentially causing mass disruption to the IT systems underpinning the government agency’s self-assessment tax return process. All of the participating employees are members of the Public and Commercial…
