Apple’s plan to replace Qualcomm 5G modems with its own on upcoming iPhone models may have hit a roadblock. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — who has an impressive record with respect to Apple rumors — Apple’s efforts to develop its own 5G modem chip haven’t yielded an adequate replacement. Not mincing words, Kuo writes…
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Law Street Media (opens in new tab) reported that Japanese professor Masahiro Iida had sued (opens in new tab) Intel for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,812,737. The complaint accuses Intel of manufacturing, using, and selling Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and System-on-Chip (SoC) chips that employ Adaptive Logic Modules (ALM), a patent that Iida has…
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According to a report by HardwareLuxx, Valve has made a spec change to the Steam Deck’s SSD specs on May 28 that has largely flown under the radar. The change allows the use of two drive configurations instead of just one, cutting the potential SSD bandwidth in half for some models. As a result, the…
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The global Relays industry research report provides an in-depth and methodical assessment of regional and global markets, as well as the most current service and product innovations and the global market’s predicted size. The Relays research does a complete market analysis to find the major suppliers by integrating all relevant products and services in…
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Arm has announced a new GPU family, targeting ultimate gaming experiences on next-gen flagship smartphones. The first of its new ‘beyond-Mali’ breed is the Immortalis-G715, and it comes with a sizable and realistically lit feather in its cap. It’s “the first Arm GPU to offer hardware-based ray tracing support on mobile.” Immortalis won’t replace Mali…
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AMD just released a new chipset driver, version 4.06.10.651, centered around supporting AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt mobile platform. The driver includes six new drivers, with one of these drivers adding USB 4 support to Windows 10 and 11. For now, this driver applies strictly to Ryzen 6000, but we expect support to expand to…
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Despite softening demand for chips designed for client devices due to inflation, geopolitical uncertainties, and other factors, demand for chips in general remains strong. That’s why TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.) is looking forward to increasing chip production prices once more, starting in 2023. The increases aren’t massive but they will still be quite noticeable…
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Sony is rumored to be readying a couple of gaming monitors aimed at the PS5, and a new leak has detailed some purported specs and pricing for the 27-inch screens, as well as a claim that these ‘InZone’ products will be launched today. We know for sure that something’s coming in a press event later…
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Apple rolled out iOS 15.6 beta 4 and iPadOS 15.6 beta 4 on Tuesday, June 28th. With the first iOS 16 developer beta arriving during WWDC 2022, we expect iOS 15.6 to be the last significant update for iOS 15. There shouldn’t be any notable new features or changes in iOS 15.6. Rather, we expect to…
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According to a report by VideoCardz, a Chinese retailer has managed to grab an engineering sample of Intel’s Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU and sold it online. The listing says this Core i9-13900K packs eight performance cores and 16 efficiency cores, with a total thread count of 32, and claims to be working on a…
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