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Mass Production Could Be Delayed if Things Do Not Go According to Plan As Apple begins to explore a new form factor for the MacBook Air, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that the 15-inch model may be called something else entirely. It is unknown if this is what the supply chain has informed him or if it is something he concocted on the fly. In any case, it would be helpful for customers to differentiate between the regular 13....

Russia & Belarus Will Only Be Able To Get 90’s Chips From Taiwan, New Restrictions Deny Any Chip With Over 25 MHz Frequency and 5 GLOFPs Compute Power During the start of the Ukrainian conflict with Russia, major tech companies associated with the United States banned their technology from being imported by Russia. These include giants like Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD. Taiwan, being one of the major semiconductor hubs that have a really good relationship with the US, also imposed a ban on tech products, including microprocessors, from exportation to Russia and Belarus....

Now, we have another update coming in yesterday evening. The CWA provided another status update on the unionizing effort, and employees finally “will get a seat at the table,” metaphorically speaking. This comes in via a new letter sent to Federal Trade Commission leaders. The labor union’s president said: The more critical part of this comes in the form of when this labor neutrality agreement will go into effect, which is 60 days (about two months, give or take) after the Activision Blizzard/Microsoft deal closes if it does close in June of next year....

Ethereum is often billed as the only true competitor to Bitcoin, and if the price action for the month of July is anything to go by, the cryptocurrency has certainly left its larger counterpart in the proverbial dust. To wit, Bitcoin eked out gains of around 20 percent in July, recording its best month so far this year. Ethereum, however, was up an astonishing 57 percent during the same timeframe....

The new PLOC BVH builder recently requested to merge by Friedrich Vock yesterday, in collaboration with Bas Nieuwnhuizen, into the Radeon Vulkan driver for Quake II (RTX version) will enhance the graphical performance by as much as 33%. The PLOC BVH builder incorporates an in-shader global synchronization and a task partitioning algorithm similar in structure to the GPU ray-tracing project, or GPURT for short. AMD’s open-source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, received enablement from the GPURT project to serve as another option to the RADV in the Mesa Project....

AMD introduces HIP RT, allowing a ray tracing structure for developers that is straightforward and simpler to use with several options HIP RT is built in a scarcely diverse way by stopping the necessity to comprehend numerous next-gen kernel types. HIP RT presents new object types like hiprtGeometry and hiprtScene. When the geometric data is transmitted to HIP RT, the procedure creates the data structure and then is enacted to the HIP kernel....

AMD Makes FSR 2.0 ‘FidelityFX Super Resolution’ Technology Official: Offers Similar or Better Image Quality Than Native Resolution With Higher-Performance Across Several AAA Games But before we spill a bit more detail on FSR 2.0, to set the scene let’s take a look back at FSR 1.0 first. What exactly is AMD FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 1.0? FSR 1.0 is our best-in-class open source spatial upscaling solution for producing high-resolution frames from lower resolution inputs....

AMD Ryzen 7000 Non-X 65W CPUs Headed To AM5 On The 10th of January, Ryzen 9 7900 Up To 35% Faster Than 5900X In Gaming As we had posted in our exclusive earlier this month, AMD will present three new models in its new Ryzen 7000 Non-X Desktop CPU family on January 10, 2023, the Ryzen 9 7900 with 12 cores, the Ryzen 7 7700 with 8 cores, and the Ryzen 5 7600 with 6 cores....

AMD RDNA 3 ‘Navi 31’ GPU Rumored To Feature Up To 7 Chiplets on Flagship Radeon RX 7000 Graphics Cards AMD has been the pioneer of the chiplet technology, they brought it to the mainstream consumer segment with their Ryzen CPUs and now they are going to do the same in the Radeon GPU market. There have been several rumors and speculation regarding the use of MCM (Multi-Chip-Module) as a design methodology for the top RDNA 3 GPUs for a while now....

Sections of the financial media continue to write Bitcoin obituaries in sepulchral tones as the world’s premier cryptocurrency undergoes a painful yet typical correction process. In fact, as per the tabulation by 99bitcoins, the cryptocurrency has now been declared dead 459 times since its inception. In stark contrast to these somber pronouncements, the Bitcoin ecosystem is, in fact, gaining prominence in the wider crypto sphere as the altcoins continue to suffer from a mass exodus of capital....

Save 11% on Anker’s Three Pack of 20W USB-C Chargers and Fast Charge All the Things This pack will usually cost $29.45 on any ordinary day so this deal saves you 11% without having to do anything at all - no discount codes or coupons needed. As we mentioned before, this is a pack of three USB-C chargers and each charger is capable of pushing out 20W of power whenever needed....

Pre-registration is currently only available for Android devices, but EA promises iOS sign-ups are coming soon. Haven’t been keeping up with Apex Legends Mobile? Here’s a quick rundown of its key features: Apex Legends Mobile is expected to launch for Android and iOS devices sometime this summer.

The New Apple Charger is Powerful and Can Charge Your iPhone and Apple Watch at the Same Time Here is how Apple is describing this new charger. Now, the good thing about this new charger is that if your device can charge at speeds as high as 27W, this means that the new charger can charge the device and also charge another accessory. For comparison’s sake, the iPhone 13 Pro Max charges at a max speed of 27W, which should allow you to charge your iPhone and Apple Watch together....

Beta 3 of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 Now Available for Developer and Public Beta Testers Though all the hype surrounds iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 and its subsequent betas, but Apple just reminded us that regular people like us live in the realm of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Right now, the third beta of iOS 15.6 and iPadOS 15.6 is available for download, if you’re a developer. Those testing the software in public beta tester capacity will soon get the update as well....

However, an all-metal iPad lineup may not have existed as the company reportedly thought of using plastic as a way of bringing down that price further and competing with other products. It looks like Apple refrained from going down this path in an attempt to offer customers the best hardware it can manufacture, with the best materials available. The Plastic iPad Would Have Competed With Low-Cost Chromebooks in Order to Make a Dent in Schooling Market Apple’s team apparently discussed bundling a plastic iPad with a low-cost keyboard accessory and selling it as a single package for under $500, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman....

Apple is Planning to Launch New AirPods Pro 2 at Its “Far Out” Event Alongside iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8 Mark Gurman shares his insights in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, suggesting that Apple will announce the AirPods Pro 2 at its iPhone 14 event. However, the analyst did not share details on the pricing or when the wearable would be available to users. He states that: “I reported last year that new AirPods Pro would arrive in 2022, and now I’m told that Wednesday will be their big unveiling....

The 1.5.0.1 update will introduce, according to the official patch notes, improved stability and game performance, without providing additional details. The patch will be around 7 GB big. The new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PC patch launches a few days after the release of the 1.5.0 patch, which added a new difficulty mode, new combat settings, stealth fixes, and more. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is now available on PC, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Google Stadia, and Luna....

ASUS’s ROG STIX Scar Ultra Laptop To Be Powered By 5.2 GHz Overclocked Intel Alder Lake-HX CPUs Update: Due to translation issues, it looks like the real name of these laptops is going to be ‘STRIX Scar’ which is an in-production laptop lineup from ASUS’s ROG division. Little is known about the new ASUS ROG Strix Scar laptop but based on marketing slides discovered by ITHome, The ROG Strix Scar lineup is a brand new series within the ASUS laptop portfolio and is expected to be introduced at the ‘Boundless’ event on the 17th of May, 2022....

AMD showed off a brief Snowdrop Engine tech demo (you can check it out for yourself at this timestamp) featuring ray-traced global illumination, shadows, and more. Thankfully, a “highly optimized” implementation of AMD ray tracing allows for impressive performance despite the visual bells and whistles. At 4K with high-performance ray tracing enabled, the demo runs at over 80fps with the help of FSR. It’s not entirely clear how the performance of this Snowdrop Engine demo will translate to an actual game like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but AMD GPU owners excited about Ubisoft’s future slate probably have nothing to worry about....

Speaking with IGN Japan, PlatinumGames CEO Atsushi Inaba and series creator Hideki Kamiya talked about the third entry in the series, saying that the game will feature a lot of new elements that have never been seen in the series. Additionally, Hideki Kamiya said that Bayonetta 3 will feel fun more quickly if the player experienced the previous two entries in the series, although the game will still be enjoyable without prior experience with the series....