Samsung is adding a new top-tier notebook — the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra — to its lineup. The Galaxy Book 3 Ultra is part of a refresh to the company’s profile, which also includes the Galaxy Book 3 Pro (in both 14- and 16-inch models) and the Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360. This news is…
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AMD announced three new Zen 4 Ryzen 7000X3D processors for its AM5 platform at CES 2023, and today it shared the pricing and availability for the Ryzen 7000X3D processors in a surprise video it posted to its YouTube channel. The first two chips will arrive on February 28: The 16-core 32-thread 7950X3D at $699 and…
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Solid-state drives with different PCIe interfaces tend to deliver very different performance times in typical applications under high workloads, due to bandwidth constraints. But it looks like the difference between PCIe Gen3 and PCIe Gen5 drives may not be that significant with DirectStorage, according to load times from a built-in Forspoken benchmark by Compusemble. There are…
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SK Hynix is the second-largest memory chip producer in the world, so its quarterly earnings reports are constantly analyzed for industry trends. Unfortunately for SK Hynix, its Q4 2022 results reflected the overall downward spiral of the PC industry during the second half of 2022. The South Korean company posted its first operating loss in…
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Another week, another Dealmaster. In this week’s roundup of the best tech deals on the web, we have deals on the latest iPad Air, the Meta Quest Pro, and the latest MacBook Pros. The 2022 iPad Air is in the Goldilocks zone for anyone in the market for a new tablet. We called it the…
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Nvidia GPUs are being messed with by the popular group chat app Discord, with gamers seeing the clock speeds of their graphics card memory running at reduced frequencies. Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) reports that the latest update for Discord is throttling the clock speed of the card’s video RAM, meaning slower overall performance…
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Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor. DigiTimes: Intel planning price cuts for Alder Lake CPUs Intel had quietly increased the retail price of their 12th Gen Core series at the beginning of this month. This increase was often unnoticeable because the pricing has not really changed at retailers. The price change…
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Supermicro unveiled an Arm-based server – the ARS-210M-NR – in December 2022 and Servethehome took it for a spin, loading it with four Nvidia A16 cards. The test server came with a 128-core Ampere Altra Max Arm processor, running at 3GHz, with 16 DDR4 memory modules (512GB memory in all), two 25GbE-capable SPF28 ports, 16…
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AMD published its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022. Due to strong demand for AMD’s data center EPYC processors, the company posted an all-time record revenue for the full year. Meanwhile, sales of consumer CPUs and GPUs declined significantly in the fourth quarter, which clearly limited the company’s growth in…
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The co-founders of Instagram are back and their first app has everything to do with artificial intelligence. As reported by The Verge, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram, are back with a new social app that looks to merge news and machine learning. Called Artifact, the app will learn the news that…
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