Intel Panther Lake to feature up 16 CPU cores and 12 “Celestial” Xe3-Cores

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Intel Panther Lake with a powerful next-gen GPU

Rumors suggest it will feature up to 12 Xe3-Cores.

Over on Twitter, Prakhar Verma made a series of tweets regarding Intel’s next-generation client CPU series, codenamed “Panther Lake.” This person is not known for any previous leaks, but from what we’ve gathered, the recently posted CPU configurations of these Panther Lake CPUs are indeed correct.

Prakhar made several claims regarding

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Lossless Scaling FG 2.0 released: enables smoother frame generation even at 30/40 FPS

Lossless Scaling 2.0

Popular frame generation tool updated to support lower base framerate.

A new version of 3rd party frame generation tech is now available. The Lossless Scaling 2.0 is a tool available on Steam which not only enables various upscaling technologies but also frame generation. This program takes an effort to provide a universal solution for games and GPU hardware that does not officially support such technologies.

The latest release focuses on improving generated framerate even with the base framerate starting at 30/40 FPS and works

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ASUS to launch new ROG Ally gaming handheld in black color later today

ASUS ROG Ally in black

ASUS confirms our leak, there is a new ROG Ally coming.

The company announced that today the new ROG Ally will see the light, or maybe it already has. The company has seemingly increased its marketing efforts shortly after we revealed that a new version of the gaming handheld is coming. The device appears on a leaked Computex 2024 product launch schedule, but apparently, that list also covers products that will be announced earlier. The Next ROG Ally is one of such products.

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Lenovo Legion 7000K desktop PC to feature mobile Intel Gen Core HX series, up to 253W PL2

Core HX laptop CPU in a desktop, meet Legion 7000K

Lenovo introduces a whole desktop PC built on mobile platform.

We’ve discussed Mobile on Desktop (MoDT) motherboards emerging in China, providing an interesting alternative to traditional desktops. In many cases, these motherboards offer similar, if not identical, performance without sacrificing much in terms of platform feature support. This is especially true for those based on the AMD and Intel HX mobile series, essentially desktop CPUs in BGA packages.

Certain Chinese companies have

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External GPU dock with OCuLink and built-in 550W power supply released in China

New GPU dock with 550W power supply and OCuLink now available in China

Chinese companies Metaphyuni and Gzosmeta are introducing their jointly developed product: an external GPU dock with support for OCuLink.

There are plenty of solutions already on the market, some of higher quality and others catering to the premium market. The new product, called EG01C, is not meant to be overwhelmingly expensive, and it comes with two important features.

External GPUs are typically connected either through USB4/Thunderbolt connections or by utilizing

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Intel Core Ultra “Arrow Lake-S” desktop lineup leak: 24-core 285K, 20-core 265K and 14-core 255K

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel to launch three K-Series SKUs in Arrow Lake-S lineup

The information comes from Benchlife .

The site has already leaked plenty of Intel products in the past, including the 14th Gen Core series with full clock speed disclosure when they were still under a domain of rumors. The media has now provided some basic details on the successor, called Core Ultra 200. Allegedly, the full lineup is to feature 13 SKUs, much fewer

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Intel addresses instability issues with 13th/14th Gen Core K-series CPUs in latest statement

First statement for consumers, not motherboard makers

Intel Core i9-13900K & 14900K CPUs, Source: Geekawhat

According to HardwareLuxx , Intel has issued a new statement regarding stability issues reported by users of 13th Gen and 14th Gen Core K-Series CPUs. These processors were prone to various problems with game crashes, generally associated with non-standard settings applied by motherboard manufacturers.

In the past few weeks, Intel has not published a direct statement for

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AYANEO teases AG01 “Graphics Starship”, the company’s first external GPU solution

AYANEO to launch its first external GPU solution

Gamers will be able to boost graphics performance.

AYANEO already has many products, most of which target gaming communities with powerful handheld systems and Mini-PCs. Some of these devices already feature modern connectivity standards such as USB4 or even OCuLink. The latter allows gamers to fully utilize the PCIe interface at 64GB/s, enabling higher graphics performance for external desktop GPU connections, visibly faster than Thunderbolt 3 or 4.

It turns out AYANEO is working on their GPU dock

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Windows Task Manager will now show MT/s as memory speed

Windows will now show MT/s instead of MHz

The Windows Task Manager, easily the most evolving part of the operating system, will go through an interesting change.

Memory companies aim for gigahertz to increase performance, but in reality, the effective memory speed has nothing to do with actual frequency. Due to how DDR technology works, memory can execute more operations per second than the clock rate suggests. Consequently, the actual speed exceeds what is displayed as real-world frequency in tools such as CPU-Z.

Yet

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(PR) VESA announces DisplayHDR 1.2 specifications with tighter performance requirements

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VESA ELEVATES PC AND LAPTOP HDR DISPLAY PERFORMANCE WITH UPDATED DISPLAYHDR SPECIFICATION

VESA releases DisplayHDR version 1.2; more than 3000 display models certified to DisplayHDR standard to date

BEAVERTON, Ore. – May 7, 2024 – The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®) today announced that it has published a major update to its widely adopted High-Performance Monitor and Display Compliance Test Specification (DisplayHDR), which launched the display industry’s first fully open standard specifying high dynamic

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