Qualcomm’s official announcement of the Snapdragon 8 Elite was quickly followed up by a series of benchmarks carried out on a reference design smartphone that features the latest chipset. In short, it obtains remarkable scores in the latest Geekbench 6 results, and competing Android flagship chipsets, including the newly unveiled Dimensity 9400, pose no threat to the Snapdragon 8 Elite. New Geekbench 6 multi-core results show that the Snapdragon 8 Elite is now the undisputed king, with scores exceeding the 10,000

The Last of Us Part II Remastered is among the first games to receive a PS5 Pro patch ahead of the console's release in around two weeks. The 1.2.0 patch, which went live a few hours ago, introduces a new rendering mode that takes advantage of the PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution upscaler, with a new Pro mode that renders at 1440p with a 4K resolution, 60 FPS gameplay delivered with the upscaler. The regular Performance and Fidelity modes will also be

Despite the game lacking a precise release date, the PC system requirements for Cronos: The New Dawn, the next survival horror game by Silent Hill 2 remake developer Bloober Team, have already been revealed. According to the game's Steam store page, users will need at least an Intel Core i5-8400F, Intel Core I5-8600K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 or AMD Radeon RX 570

At $3,499 for just the base model that ships with 256GB of non-expandable storage, the Apple Vision Pro was always going to be a tough sell for the majority of buyers, and the statistics prove that. The mixed-reality headset had failed to cross 100,000 shipments in the U.S. when the estimates were revealed in July, and even now, it does not look like customers are willing to take this massive financial undertaking. The

Intel Foundry has reportedly approached Samsung for a "foundry alliance" in an attempt to form a collaborative strategy to counter TSMC's growing influence in the industry. Intel & Samsung Are Determined To Combat TSMC's Semiconductor Dominance Through An Extensive Collaboration Well, Team Blue's foundry business isn't doing well at all, and the firm has now set its sights on the industry to look for a potential "comeback," whether it involves collaborating with competitors like Samsung. In a new report by the Korean media

The Snapdragon 8 Elite is Qualcomm’s first smartphone SoC to ship with fully custom Oryon cores, which only means a massive single-core and multi-core performance boost is guaranteed, combined with superior power efficiency and a huge uplift thanks to the Adreno 830. While all of these perks are excellent to have, one major significance of this chipset’s release is its ability to allow flagship smartphone owners to keep their devices for longer, thanks to increased software updates. That is correct, Qualcomm has said

Guerrilla Games has confirmed that they are recasting the character Sylens, starting with LEGO Horizon Adventures. Sylens was played by actor Lance Reddick, who unfortunately met an untimely death at 60 years old in March 2023. Reddick, who was also known to gamers for Destiny's Commander Zavala and for Quantum Break's Martin Hatch, was last featured in Horizon Forbidden West. Those who completed the storyline already know his character Sylens was positioned to be instrumental in future installments, making this recast less than surprising

The situation at Samsung has gone from bad to worse because employees are looking for more reasons to find opportunities outside of the Korean giant’s foundry business. Shortly after posting its Q3 2024 earnings guidance and issuing an apology regarding its poor performance for the quarter, there are all sorts of discouraging information surrounding Samsung, with the latest one being that around 200 engineers applied to SK hynix for a position that required experienced personnel. SK hynix only had vacancies for three people; Samsung engineers with little

We have our first look at the detailed die shots of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, the flagship CPU in the Arrow Lake desktop family. Intel's First Tiled CPU For Desktop PCs: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Die Shots Reveal The Heart of The Chip Previously, we saw an Intel Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" Desktop CPU get delidded and now, we have our first die shots of the CPU which focuses on its various tiles and

For years, Netflix has slowly started ramping up its gaming department. After launching with a mobile offering, they also opened a triple-A development studio in Los Angeles, California, around two years ago, with former Overwatch executive producer Chacko Sonny chosen as its founder. The goal was to create a third-person action RPG for PC (and, presumably, consoles). To achieve this objective, the studio continued hiring high-profile industry veterans such as Joe Staten (known as the writer and creative director for