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Sales of Apple’s premium watches banned again by court over blood-oxygen sensor patent dispute

Apple says it will disable a blood-oxygen monitoring feature on its two most popular watches in the U.S. beginning Thursday to comply with a court-ordered revival of a sales ban stemming from a patent dispute.

The decision to turn off the blood-oxygen sensor for consumers who buy either the Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2 in the U.S. came after a federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to extend an order that had allowed the watches to remain in stores during a battle over the rights


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ARM Confirms Existence of Next-gen Cortex-X "Blackhawk" Unit

Last week Patrick Moorhead, CEO and founder of Moor Insights & Strategy, shared his insider sourced thoughts about ARM's next generation Cortex-X processor: "Blackhawk is planned to enable in smartphones shipping at the end of 2024. I think phones could be on the shelf a year from now at CES or maybe MWC." Moorhead believes that Cortex-X4's successor will be the most powerful option available at launch, which forms part of (ARM CEO) Rene Haas's strategy
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Micron demos PCIe 5.0 RAID array cooled by AirJet Mini technology

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Why it matters: Micron at CES 2024 showcased what's possible when you combine several of its Crucial T700 2 TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs together with cutting-edge cooling technology. Micron loaded a modified Gigabyte Aorus Gen5 AIC adapter with four of its Crucial T700 2 TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSDs for some speedy RAID

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谷歌或選擇放棄三星,傾向於台企製造下一代Tensor和AI芯片

谷歌去年帶來了Tensor G3,是首款支持AV1編碼的智能手機SoC,用在旗艦產品Pixel 8和Pixel 8 Pro上。不過Tensor G3與高通第三代驍龍8及聯發科天璣9300相比實在差得太多,性能差距更一步拉大,表現讓人失望,也迫使谷歌去尋找新


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Apple overtakes Samsung as world's biggest phonemaker

iPhones made up a fifth of phones shipped last year, according to shipment data from the International Data Corporation.

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(PR) OWC Demonstrates New 120Gbps Bandwidth Boost-Capable Thunderbolt 5 Solutions

Other World Computing (OWC)—the leading end-to-end ecosystem solution provider of computer hardware, accessories, and software for both consumers and professionals - demonstrated three new cutting-edge Thunderbolt 5 devices at CES and Pepcom - two state-of-the-art multiport docks and a bus-powered portable storage solution - all powered by the latest Thunderbolt technology from Intel. For over a decade, OWC has led the way in creating innovative Thunderbolt solutions and that tradition continues with solutions designed to harness the lightning

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Intel quietly releases China exclusive Core i7-14790F 'Black Edition' CPU

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Intel has quietly released two new CPU variants in its 14th generation Raptor Lake Fresh desktop CPU family, though these are destined to be available only in a single market- China. Via MEGAsizeGPU we even get a look at the alleged packaging. The Chipmaker releases the Core i7-14790F , a second variant of its series, with the first one being the Core i7-14700F released a few days ago. This

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Apple offers iPhone 15 at rare discount in China as competition intensifies - Reuters

Apple offers iPhone 15 at rare discount in China as competition intensifies Reuters

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AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8

All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel.

Perhaps of most interest from this pull to Phoronix readers is having the Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART support in place for the mainline kernel. As open-source developer Sven Peter explained in the patch series :
"The M1 SoCs have a second slightly different variant of the regular DART used for the USB4 PCIe ports. It supports 64 instead
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AMD beats Intel in mobile gaming despite new and refreshed CPUs — Ryzen 9 7945HX3D prevails over the Core i9-14900HX in new review

Ryzen 9 7945HX3D (Image credit: AMD)

Notebookcheck reviewed Intel's new Core i9-14900HX (Raptor Lake Refresh) mobile CPU and found its performance underwhelming in synthetic and gaming benchmarks . The chip performs decently in single-core applications, but the 14900HX showed lackluster gains in gaming workloads. The laptop review outlet found that Intel's previous generation parts are just as good for gaming. AMD's Ryzen 9 79

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