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AirPods Pro 2 Features a 15 Percent Bigger Battery With An Additional 1.5 Hours of Listening Time With Active Noise Cancellation Apple states that the new AirPods Pro 2 comes with an additional 1.5 hours of battery life when Active Noise Cancellation is enabled. MySmartPrice discovered the listings on the 3C database, revealing that the AirPods Pro 2 earbuds come with a 49.7mAh battery capacity. In comparison to the original AirPods Pro, the battery is 15 percent bigger, allowing the earbuds to last 1....

Some Doubts Continue to Linger for the M2 iPad Pro Models With Regards to Wireless Charging While Dylan has not mentioned on Twitter how the M2 would compare against the M1, we might have an idea, but we will get to that in a while. We reported a while back that the smaller 11-inch iPad Pro would get a mini-LED, which would be a major upgrade considering that the current model has a Liquid Retina IPS LCD panel....

AMD EPYC 7003X Milan-X CPUs Official: Up To 1.5 GB Cache Per 2P Platform Thanks To 3D V-Cache Stacking Technology AMD EPYC Milan-X server CPU lineup will consist of four processors based on the 7nm Zen 3 core architecture. These include the EPYC 7773X features 64 cores and 128 threads, the EPYC 7573X features 32 cores and 128 threads, the EPYC 7473X features 24 cores and 48 threads while the EPYC 7373X features 16 cores and 32 threads....

AMD EPYC 9004 ‘Genoa’ CPUs Deliver a 35% Performance Boost With AVX-512 Enabled & At The Same Power The AMD EPYC 9654 processor is one of a series of new server processors that have been hailed “the fastest server CPUs on the planet” upon launch, and Michael Larabel of Phoronix has put the new fourth-gen Genoa CPUs to the test in an impressive 130 benchmarks in the Ubuntu 22.10 OS environment....

AMD Aldebaran GPU Accelerators Are Expensive! MI210 PCIe With 64 GB HBM2e Memory Costs over $16,000 US In Japan Unlike the MI250 accelerators, the AMD Instinct MI210 features a single-chip design based on the same TSMC 6nm process node that its MCM siblings utilize. In terms of specifications, the Instinct MI210 features a single GCD. The single GCD is equipped with 104 CUs out of the 128 CUs featured on the Aldebaran chip....

AMD To Launch Two Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Cards In December, Overall Performance Falls Short In Ray Tracing & Rasterization Vs NVIDIA’s RTX 40 GPUs, Alleges Rumor According to Enthusiast Citizen, AMD will be officially introducing its RDNA 3 family of graphics cards under the Radeon RX 7000 banner on the 3rd of November. This has already been made official by the red team. The retail launch of these graphics cards will take place in December so we’re looking at almost a month late which shouldn’t be a surprise considering the same thing happened with AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs which were officially introduced in late August but didn’t hit retail launch until the end of September....

Intel & AMD see further enablement of upcoming GPU hardware in the newest pull request for Linux 6.1 Graphics driver The DRM, Direct Rendering Manager, KMS, or Kernel Mode-Setting driver updates have recently been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window. Intel is seeing more enablement work for Meteor Lake and the Intel i915 driver. Meteor Lake is the next in line after the upcoming Raptor Lake series processors. The 14th Gen Core processors will showcase integrated graphics that have a basis from the company’s DG2 and Alchemist microarchitecture....

AMD RDNA 3 Flagship GPUs Get Upgraded Memory Configuration: Navi 31 Now Rumored To Use 384-bit Bus With Up To 24 GB Memory, Navi 32 Gets 256-bit Bus With Up To 16 GB Memory The rumor is pretty straightforward and comes once again from Greymon55. There have been recent reports from RedGamingTech that AMD’s flagship Navi 31 GPU will be equipped with a bigger 384-bit bus interface compared to the previously speculated 256-bit which was valid but only when the previous specifications were being talked about....

More Radeon RDNA 3 enablement added to Linux 5.20, including SubVP features Recently, AMD was reported to continue their work on preparing the next-gen RDNA 3 architecture and AMD’s CDNA-based accelerators, also known as AMD Instinct, for when the company begins launching the newest computer components later this year. Michael Larabel of Phoronix reports that the AMD enablement for their new hardware is being accomplished “on a block-by-block basis.” The current state of development is not as evident as predecessor patches for the Linux driver when the company had a habit of using “colorful fishy codenames....

AMD Ryzen 5 6600H Offers Almost 50% Increase Over Its Predecessor in Leaked Benchmarks, Matches The Ryzen 5 5600X Too The AMD Ryzen 5 6600H is going to be aimed at the mainstream laptops powered by Rembrandt-H APUs. It is definitely not the fastest chip in the whole stack but it should make up for some really compelling options around the $800-$1500 US price range. AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX APU Specifications Specifications-wise, the AMD Ryzen 5 6600H/HS is a 6 core and 12 thread chip that is based on the Zen 3+ architecture....

It’s Happening! AMD Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs Get Major Retailer-Specific Price Cuts: Ryzen 9 5950X Now at $599, 5900X at $449, 5800X at $299, 5600X at $229 The new deals aren’t specific to one retailer but almost all major US and Canadian retailers have issued price cuts across AMD’s entire Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPU portfolio including the Vermeer & Cezanne parts. The price cuts could be a response to Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU lineup that has started crunching away major DIY market share from AMD worldwide as reported last week....

AMD Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” Desktop CPUs & X670 Motherboards Officially Launching On 15th September Based on the information we have, it looks like AMD will be hosting a product announcement event later this month which will focus on the specifications and prices of its Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” lineup and will also allow motherboard manufacturers to reveal the preliminary prices of their boards. As far as this event is concerned, it will take place on 29th August but you won’t get to purchase Ryzen 7000 CPUs until two weeks later....

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X Is Still Available For $130 US Below Its MSRP At Various US Retailers AMD Ryzen 7000 series CPUs see more price drops as we creep closer to 2023. Just recently, the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X fell to $238.99 US, a $62 US drop versus its MSRP. European retailers were seeing even more considerable savings than the US releases. Today, we are witnessing more US retailers lowering prices on AMD Ryzen 7000 series chips, such as the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X....

AMD Readies Ryzen Threadripper 7000 HEDT & Workstation CPUs For September 2023 Launch To Tackle Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Xeon Chips The leak comes from the ever-reliable, chi11eddog, who has been super accurate with his previous leaks. The latest one is about AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs which is said to launch during 2023 in September and will come in both HEDT and Workstation flavors. This is huge because AMD kept its last two Threaedripper chips exclusive to the Workstation segment but it looks like the red team is going back to the HEDT segment which makes sense since Intel is doing something similar in the first half of 2023....

Repurposed Sony PS5 AMD APUs to handle the hash rates and processing on ASRock’s unadvertised crypto mining rig Twitter leaker KOMACHI_ENSAKA discovered the newest discovery of a crypto mining rig manufactured by ASRock. ASRock manufactured the recent crypto mining rig selling on the Slovanian website Bohla, an online product-selling website similar to most eCommerce sites covering several niche markets. The website lists a crypto mining rig manufactured by ASRock that houses twelve AMD BC-250 mining cards for $15,059....

AMD Details Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs & AM5 Motherboard Platform Features So there were a range of questions asked and both Robert and Frank did an absolutely splendid job in answering them to the folks over at PCWorld. We have slowly been getting more details on the AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU and AM5 platform showcased since the Computex 2022 unveil and well, let’s start off with the latest information. Some of the things that were confirmed in the interview include:...

Chip designer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (AMD) is set to become the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) second largest customer for the latter’s 5nm technology products according to a fresh report from the Taiwanese publication DigiTimes. AMD and TSMC’s partnership has let the former consistently gain market share from its larger rival Intel Corporation as it finds a reliable supply chain partner capable of timely shipping advanced products. Now, DigiTimes believes that AMD’s upcoming products, some of which are slated for a launch later this month, will further increase its TSMC orders and allow it to become the Taiwanese company’s largest customer after the Cupertino, California consumer electronics giant Apple, Inc....

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, Inc’s (AMD) best days are behind it wars financial firm Northland in an investor note that comes just last the company is due to release its earnings report for the third quarter alter today. AMD’s earnings will follow a pre-release that saw the company slash down its revenue guidance for the quarter due to a slowdown in the personal computing market. This slowdown has also affected other chip firms, namely Intel and NVIDIA, and Northland states that the way forward for AMD will see growth slowdown as Chinese demand falters and Intel catches up in the technology race....

AMD Linux CPU Temperature Driver receives updates for Zen 4 & also possibly Mendocino APUs Several open-source updates for graphics card technology have appeared, but very little work has appeared for the company’s current and upcoming processor structure. One recently updated issue was temperature monitoring for the CPU regarding the company’s “k10temp” driver. So few updates have appeared in the past for CPUs due to initializing enough mandatory updates and code to access the full features of the processor and then fixing or patching issues as they arise promptly....

Android 14 Should Make the Overall User Experience Even Better as Google Starts Working on the Upcoming OS The new Android 14 feature was announced during the Developer Summit’s Platform Track. The company talked about a term they call “falling,” or how the back gesture ends up in “people leaving the app by mistake,” which might seem like a harmless thing but in reality, it does affect the app usage statistics, which are very important for apps that earn revenue based on the amount of time user spends on the app....