Apple Silicon|Intel

Samsung Confirms RDNA2-based Exynos 2200 iGPU Will Support Ray Tracing

Samsung appears to be in a hurry to beat Apple and Qualcomm at bringing real-time ray tracing to the smartphone space, with its next-generation Exynos 2200 "Pamir" SoC. The chip integrates a graphics processor based on the AMD RDNA2 architecture, codenamed "Voyager." Samsung all but confirmed that the compute units of this will feature Ray Accelerators, the hardware component that performs ray-intersection calculations. The "Voyager" iGPU, as implemented on the Exynos 2200 SoC,


Apple Silicon|Intel

Samsung confirms its next-gen Exynos SoC with AMD RDNA2 GPU will support ray tracing

Samsung Exynos 2200 with ray tracing support

The upcoming chip for Samsung Galaxy S and A 2022 series will feature ray tracing acceleration.

AMD and Samsung announced a partnership to bring Radeon graphics to ultra-mobile form factor. The next-generation Samsung Exynos, the in-house design of System on a Chip, will be equipped with an RDNA2-based graphics subsystem.

On Weibo (a Chinese media platform) official account for Samsung Exynos confirmed that the next-gen Exynos will support ray

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Apple Silicon|Intel

BIOSTAR Teases Z690 Valkyrie and Racing Motherboards

BIOSTAR over the weekend teased two of its top Socket LGA1700 motherboards based on the Intel Z690 chipset, under the Valkyrie and Racing brands. The outline drawing does precious more than to highlight the combination of the VRM heatsink and rear I/O shroud for both models. Outlines in the background clearly highlight the lengthy LGA1700 socket, an elaborate CPU VRM setup that pulls power from two 8-pin EPS connectors, an unremarkable chipset heatsink that extends into a combi-heatsink

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Microsoft and AMD could bring Radeon graphics to the next Surface Pro X

Rumor mill: The Surface Pro X hasn't seen any substantial SoC upgrades since its initial release in 2019, bar a minor clock speed bump with the SQ2 chip in 2020. However, it's now looking like Microsoft and AMD are working on something with RDNA graphics to power a next-generation Surface Pro X -- and maybe other devices, too.

If a thread on Korean tech forum Clien is to be believed, Microsoft and AMD are working together to design an

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Intel Alder Lake-P featuring up to 14 cores, DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 support listed in leaked roadmap

Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” mobile with DDR5 memory

A roadmap featuring Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M series has been published by Wccftech .

Intel partners are set to being the production of Alder Lake-P laptops by the beginning of November, a leaked roadmap suggests. The roadmap actually lists two 12th Gen Core mobile series: Alder Lake-P and Alder Lake-M, the first being a higher-end version targeting 12W to 45W SKUs,

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Intel oneAPI 2021.4 Released With More Optimizations, Continues LLVM Adoption

Intel on Friday formally released their oneAPI Toolkits 2021.4 release as the latest collection of their various software components for a multi-vendor, multi-architecture software platform across CPUs and XPUs (GPUs / accelerators).

The oneAPI 2021.4 update improves its VTune Profiler to now support flame graphs, more documentation by way of the Intel Advisor Cookbook, enhancements to the OSPray ray-tracing rendering engine, a new diagnostics utility for oneAPI, and a wide assortment of performance optimizations across the

Apple Silicon|Intel

Biostar teases its Valkyrie and Racing Z690 motherboards

Biostar to launch Racing and Valkyrie Z690 motherboards

The company became the first to tease its upcoming products featuring LGA1700 socket.

There is still no sign of the upcoming release from ASUS, Gigabyte, or MSI, but Biostar is ready to show its new motherboards for the Intel Alder Lake CPU series. Biostar did not confirm the specifications or even the full design of their new motherboards, but we do learn that these are from Valkyrie and Racing series. What is also unclear is whether these are

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Some Alder Lake Mobile CPUs Will Pack Xe GT3 iGPUs

Intel Mobile Alder Lake CPU (Image credit: Intel)

Intel provided the hardware world with a thorough breakdown on Alder Lake at the chipmaker's Architecture Day 2021 . However, Intel didn't touch on the topic of the integrated graphics that will accompany Alder Lake. Hardware detective Komachi_Ensaka has sniffed out a new coreboot patch that gives us a small look at the iGPUs inside the mobile Alder Lake chips.

It's important to note that Alder Lake-M isn't the best performing


Apple Silicon

Raspberry Pi 4 8GB Gets Sneaky Update

(Image credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation)

The Broadcom SoC in the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has been quietly updated to match the one in the Raspberry Pi 400 , according to St Louis-based app developer (and more importantly, Pi Cast guest ) Jeff Geerling.

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) MSI Announces Free LGA1700 Upgrade Kit for MPG CoreLiquid K and MAG CoreLiquid R-series Users

MSI liquid coolers provide full support to Intel's next-gen CPUs. Intel's next-gen CPUs are coming to us real soon. They are more powerful than ever before and are totally revolutionary. Therefore, we believe that many users will be making system upgrades. With changes made to CPUs will come changes to the liquid coolers and sockets. Always putting ourselves in the shoes of our users, MSI liquid coolers will support the latest socket changes so that users can adapt to Intel's next-gen

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