Intel

Intel’s new LGA1700 socket for Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs has been pictured

Intel LGA1700, Intel’s new era of hybrid desktop CPUs begins with this socket

A photo of Intel’s rectangular socket for next-gen heterogeneous CPU architecture has been posted on the Chinese social media platform.

On Bilibili there is a photo of the LGA1700 socket codenamed “15R1”.  The CPU socket is visibly taller than LGA1200 (by 7.5 mm to be precise), but it has the same width of 37.

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Jingjia Micro’s new JM9 GPU series offering up to GTX 1080 performance officially tapes out

JM9271 GPU to counter GeForce GTX 1080 in China

More than 2 years after the first announcement, Jingjia MIcro announces its NVIDIA GTX 1080 equivalent of GPU tapes out and finishes its packing process.

The JM9 series tapeout has been completed, according to an official statement by the company. This is the same GPU series that we have learned about 2 years ago when a relatively unknown company outside of the Chinese domestic market made a sudden announcement of their own GPU development.

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Apple Silicon

(PR) Apple announces A15 Bionic chip with up to 6 core CPU and 5 core GPU

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iPhone 13 Pro: A15 Bionic with 5-core GPU for Best-in-Class Performance

A15 Bionic in the iPhone 13 Pro lineup is even more advanced, offering impressive power and efficiency, and driving the incredible new display, camera, and video features never before possible on iPhone.

With 5-nanometer technology, A15 Bionic — the fastest chip in a smartphone — features a new 5-core GPU in the Pro lineup that brings the fastest graphics performance

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Intel

Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake CPUs listed by US retailer, i9-12900K for 605 USD

Intel Alder Lake CPUs listed by Provantage

It is still a few weeks till the Intel Innovation event, where we might hear about Alder Lake CPUs.

Despite no official introduction, retailers are beginning to list the new CPU series ahead of Intel’s announcement of pricing. We have already seen leaks with pricing from the Netherlands , but we have first price leaks from the US, which may better reflect Intel MSRP, which hasn’t been confirmed yet.

The retailer Provantage is now listing two variants of Alder Lake CPUs,

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Leak suggest ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 motherboards will only support DDR5 memory

ASUS Z690 motherboards listed with DDR5 and DDR4 variants

The upcoming ASUS Z690 motherboards featuring LGA1700 socket for Intel Alder Lake CPUs have been listed by the Eurasian Economic Commission regulatory office.

According to the filing, ASUS Z690 ROG Maximus would be exclusively supporting DDR5 memory only. We managed to confirm this with our sources at ASUS. We have also learned that ASUS might be dropping roman numerals for its product ROG Maximus (and possibly Crosshair) motherboards starting

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(PR) Biostar launches TZ590-BTC Duo motherboard for cryptocurrency mining

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BIOSTAR ANNOUNCES THE NEW TZ590-BTC DUO MOTHERBOARD

September 14th, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan – BIOSTAR, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and storage devices today, announces the brand new TZ590-BTC DUO motherboard.

Designed based on the Z590 Chipset, the new TZ590-BTC DUO motherboard is a power-packed beast, tailor-made to handle gaming and casual content consumption like a champion.

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NVIDIA GeForce NOW leak suggests more Sony PlayStation games might be coming to PCs

God of War, Gran Turismo 7 and Ghost of Tsushima coming to PC?

A leak from GeForce NOW service suggests a list of popular Sony PlayStation exclusive titles may be coming to PCs.

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(Driver) AMD Radeon Adrenalin 2020 21.9.1

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Minisforum releases a statement on HX90 MiniPC’s lack of liquid metal: we sent the wrong samples

Minisforum on HX90 liquid metal issues: we sent the wrong samples

Minisforum launched an EliteMini HX90 small desktop PC equipped with AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor back in August. Initial reviewers were mixed, to say the least. Some of the reviewers, Gamers Nexus and der8auer, discovered that the review systems did not actually feature liquid metal cooling, contrary to the official product description .

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Apple Silicon

Samsung Exynos 2200 with AMD “Voyager” RDNA2 GPU allegedy tested in Geekbench

AMD RDNA2 GPU in Samsung Exynos 2200 SoC

The next-gen flagship processor for Samsung Galaxy devices has been discovered in the Geekbench benchmark database.

Alleged Samsung SM-S906B SoC has been spotted on Geekbench where the processor has been attached to AMD GPU driver. This suggests were are looking at Exynos 2200 SoC or its derivative featuring AMD RDNA2 GPU on board. The Geekbench data actually appears to confirm this by listing Samsung Voyager EVTA1 in the driver section. This

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