Ammalgam shares a report from Redmond Pie: Microsoft has officially announced the Surface Book 3. Not much has changed for the device in terms of external design, but internal circuitry is where it’s at. This newest addition to the Surface family was formally unveiled alongside the Surface Go 2 today. And the detachable PC finally got the long overdue refresh. Microsoft…
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Intel Launches NUC 9 Extreme Ghost Canyon Small Form Factor PC Platform
MojoKid writes: Intel unveiled its NUC 9 Ghost Canyon platform back at CES earlier this year, but the company has just announced general availability and lifted the embargo on full product reviews. An array of NUC 9 systems are launching today, with the top-end Intel NUC9i9QNX featuring a Core i9-9980HK Comet Lake-H 8-core CPU. The NUC 9 is built around Intel’s…
What’s New in Linux 5.6? WireGuard VPN and USB4
Linux 5.6 “has a bit more changes than I’d like,” Linus Torvalds posted on the kernel mailing list, “but they are mostly from davem’s networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with them. And I looked over the diff, and none of it looks scary…” TechRadar reports that the new changes include support for USB4 and GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics…
A Hacker Stole and Leaked the Xbox Series X Graphics Source Code
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: AMD has been having a particularly rough few months, apparently. The chip designer has revealed that a hacker stole test files for a “subset” of current and upcoming graphics hardware, some of which had been posted online before they were taken down. While AMD was shy on details, the claimed intruder told TorrentFreak…
The PlayStation 5 vs. the Xbox Series X: Which Is More Powerful?
Now that Microsoft and Sony have published the technical specifications of their respective next-gen gaming consoles, we can compare them head-to-head to see which one has the edge. While Sony appears to lag behind Microsoft when it comes to specs, the PS5’s speedy custom SSD may be its secret weapon. Engadget reports: Sony’s lead PlayStation architect, Mark Cerny, finally gave us…
The PS5 Will Include PS4 Backwards Compatibility at Launch, But That’s It
During today’s PlayStation 5 livestream, Sony announced that the PlayStation 5 will be backwards compatible with PS4 and PS4 Pro games, but the company made no mention of retro PS1, PS2, and PS3 titles. From a report: Mark Cerny, Sony’s lead system architect for PlayStation hardware, said the following about the PS5’s backwards compatibility: “The PlayStation 5 GPU is backwards compatible…
Apple Announces a New iPad Pro and Signals the End is Coming For Laptops
Despite COVID-19 forcing Apple to close down all retail stores outside of China indefinitely, the company just announced a new 11- and 12.9-inch iPad Pro (starting at $799 and $949, respectively). From a report: Last refreshed in 2018, the new iPad Pros come with a faster A12Z Bionic chip equipped with an 8-core CPU and GPU, a new ultra-wide camera and…
AMD Launches Ryzen 4000 Series Mobile CPUs With Major Performance Lift Claims
MojoKid writes: Though Ryzen 4000 Series laptop processors aren’t available just yet, some of AMD’s partners are going to begin taking pre-orders for notebooks soon. As such, AMD is lifting the veil on additional details and the architectural enhancements that make Ryzen 4000 Series AMD’s strongest mobile processor line-up to date. AMD Ryzen 4000 series CPUs are based on the Zen…
AMD Discloses RDNA 2 Graphics, CDNA Data Center GPUs, Next-Gen Zen
“At its Financial Analyst Day, AMD disclosed additional details regarding its next generation CPU and GPU architectures,” writes Slashdot reader MojoKid:
– While the company isn’t ready to disclose concrete details yet, AMD is promising that Navi 2X will arrive this year and deliver “enthusiast-class” performance, excellent power efficiency, and “top-of-stack” GPUs with “uncompromising 4K gaming”. – While AMD has RDNA for…
Microsoft Reveals More Xbox Series X Specs
Microsoft revealed new details on its next-generation console, text, on Monday morning, confirming specifications on what the company calls its “superior balance of power and speed” for its new hardware. From a report: The next-gen Xbox, Microsoft said, will be four times as powerful as the original Xbox One. The Xbox Series X “next-generation custom processor” will employ AMD’s Zen 2…