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Three products Apple won’t announce during its ‘exciting week of announcements’

Apple is going to be holding an “exciting week of announcements” starting tomorrow, confirmed by Apple marketing exec Greg Joswiak. Although the announcements will focus on the first M4 Macs, rumors for several other Apple products are circulating. Today, we aim to clarify what you shouldn’t expect this week.

While the is one of Apple’s more popular Macs, it will not be jumping on the M4 bandwagon quite yet. Apple refreshed the with the M3 chip in March this year, and Apple

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Apple To Launch Its Next-Generation M5 Chipset By The End Of Next Year, Suggesting That The New iPad Pro Lineup Could Be Unveiled By Late 2025, Or H1 2026

A family of M4 MacBook Pro models is expected on October 28, followed by a MacBook Air lineup next year, meaning that Apple will have its hands full regarding launches. The company should finally have some breathing room in the fourth quarter of next year, with the latest report stating that Apple would have readied the M5 to be used in various products, such as the iPad Pro lineup. Based on the launch of the new SoC, Apple’s newly updated ‘Pro’ tablets could either arrive late

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When will Apple stop supporting Intel Macs?

Apple transitioned the Mac lineup to Apple Silicon starting in 2020, and they completed the transition in 2023. Since the transition started, Apple quickly started dropping support for Intel Macs on newer versions of macOS. That raises the question: how much longer will Intel Macs receive software support?

Apple delivers around 5 years of software updates for most of their devices, so that gives us a good idea of how much longer Intel Macs will be around. With Apple’s latest release, macOS Sequoia


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TSMC halts Ascend 910B shipments to firm suspected acting as a Huawei proxy

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TSMC has stopped supplying production to China-based Sophgo, which is believed to be a proxy that Huawei used to make its Ascend 910B, Reuters reports. The decision is directly connected with the recent discovery that TSMC supplied Huawei via a proxy despite the U.S. export restrictions.

Reuters says that Sophgo had ordered a chip (allegedly called the Ascend 910B) from TSMC that closely resembled the Ascend 910 processor originally made by TSMC. TechInsights uncovered

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Has Full Linux Support, Making It Easier To Run PC Games Through Emulation, GPU Side To Require Patches To Ensure Optimum Performance

Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite less than a week ago, and it did not take long for the Linux kernel team to post various patches for the chipset. While future patches are inbound that will cater to the GPU, it pretty much means that the SoC can run PC games with the use of emulation, since it might take a while for native titles to launch for the platform. It will also be possible to run professional PC applications on devices featuring the Snapdragon 8 Elite thanks to ‘day one’ Linux

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These 3 Apple products will likely be discontinued next week

Apple is going to be launching the M4 Mac lineup next week in a series of press releases, which Apple marketing exec Greg Joswiak refers to as an “exciting week of announcements.” These are some Apple products you probably won’t be able to buy from the Apple Store after that saga.

Apple is expected to unveil new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, with M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. Other than the chip upgrades, the new will

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Snapdragon 8 Elite’s Adreno 830 GPU Revealed To Be More Powerful Than ROG Ally’s Radeon 780M In 3DMark Steel Nomad Light, Making It Capable In Running AAA Games

Qualcomm not only significantly improved the Snapdragon 8 Elite’s compute performance by adding custom Oryon cores, but the Adreno 830 GPU and its clock speed increased to 1.10GHz, ensuring that the SoC is tailor-made for AAA gaming up to a certain extent. We see the first glimpse of its graphics performance when compared to the Radeon 780M in 3DMark Steel Nomad Light where the smartphone chipset actually performs better than a GPU that is found in a gaming handheld, the ASUS ROG

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Apple May Not Have A Dedicated M4 Mac Event Readied For Viewers, But A YouTuber Made Immense Efforts To Ensure That We Get One Regardless

The new M4 Mac lineup that includes the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, a completely redesigned Mac mini, and an iMac are expected to be unveiled on October 28, but given that there will be fewer hardware products as the iPad mini 7 has already been announced, it is unlikely that Apple will host a dedicated event. Fortunately, the company will not be required to, as a YouTuber made a 9-minute video showcasing which products will arrive while also impersonating Apple CEO

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Apple 宣布 29 日凌晨發布新產品 預料新款 M4 晶片 Mac 系列亮相

Apple 全球市場營銷高級副總裁 Greg Joswiak 在 X 平台(前稱 Twitter)上透露,Ap […]

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Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches - Reuters

Apple wins $250 US jury verdict in patent case over Masimo smartwatches Reuters
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