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Intel to Outsource Some Key CPU Production for 2023 Chips to TSMC

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel made several big announcements about its 7nm tech at today’s Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Future event and divulged that it expects that the majority of its products in 2023 to still be produced in-house using its own manufacturing technology. But there’s a caveat: The company will also release CPUs… Read more

Intel Fixes 7nm, Meteor Lake and Granite Rapids Coming in 2023

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger made several big announcements about its 7nm tech at today’s Intel Unleashed: Engineering the Future event, revealing that the company has solved the primary issues that have resulted in an untenable delay to its 7nm products. As a result, Intel will tape in its first… Read more

Qualcomm’s Next-Gen Snapdragon 8cx Rivals Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake in Early Benchmarks

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The first benchmark results for Qualcomm’s 3rd Generation Snapdragon 8cx system-on-chip (SoC) for always-connected PCs has been posted to the Geekbench 5 database. The numbers show the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 beating its predecessors and even competing with Intel’s latest 11th Gen Core i7 “Tiger Lake” mobile chip in multi-threaded workloads. Qualcomm… Read more

MSI MPG Z590 Carbon EK X Review

Introduction After almost a decade of total market dominance, Intel has spent the past few years on the defensive. AMD’s Ryzen processors continue to show improvement year over year, with the most recent Ryzen 5000 series taking the crown of best gaming processor: Intel’s last bastion of superiority. Now, with a booming hardware market, Intel… Read more

Intel invests $20 billion into new factories, will produce chips for other companies

Intel has a new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, and he’s not wasting any time to make some big changes. At the company’s “Engineering the Future” announcement today, Gelsinger announced plans to outsource more of Intel’s chip production to third-party foundries; a $20 billion investment into two new fabs in Arizona; and a new branch of the… Read more

Asus: Nvidia GPU Supplies Dropped Further In Q1

Home News (Image credit: Asus) Executives from Asus said at the company’s recent investor conference that supply of Nvidia’s graphics processors dropped in the first quarter. As a consequence, one of the world’s largest suppliers of PC hardware expects shortages of graphics cards to persist. Asus believes that under supply might have been caused, among… Read more

Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming OC Review

Introduction The Gigabyte Radeon RX 6700 XT Gaming OC is the company’s factory-overclocked graphics card for those seeking a close-to-reference custom rendition of the RX 6700 XT from Gigabyte without the bells and whistles of the AORUS Gaming brand. The Radeon RX 6700 XT is AMD’s fourth RX 6000 series RDNA2 graphics card, and arguably… Read more

Gigabyte Flagship Aorus RX 6700XT Elite Takes Flight

Home News (Image credit: Gigabyte) The Aorus RX 6700XT Elite is Gigabyte’s new flagship model for the newly released RX 6700XT GPU from AMD. The Elite is equipped with a triple-fan cooling system, ring RGB lighting behind the fans, and is the largest 6700XT you can buy from Gigabyte at this time. Perrhaps this card… Read more

HP’s New Intel and AMD Convertibles are Very Different

Home News (Image credit: HP) HP announced new AMD and Intel convertibles today, the first of which upgrades the company’s AMD convertibles to Ryzen 5000U chips and the latter of which comes with a new discrete graphics option and plenty of utility software. Granted, that discrete GPU isn’t gaming-tier. Also, if you want something a… Read more

Intel Announces Ice Lake Server Launch Event for April 6

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel today announced that it plans to reveal more information about its upcoming Ice Lake server chips at the “How Wonderful Gets Done 2021” event on April 6. The company said it plans to launch the 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors as well as “the latest additions to Intel’s hardware… Read more

PowerColor Preps Cheap Radeon RX 6700 Graphics Card with 6GB of Memory

Home News (Image credit: TechPowerUp) In a world where more or less up-to-date graphics cards cost hundreds of U.S. dollars, it is hard to call any of them an entry-level product, but this is exactly the kind of graphics board that PowerColor is preparing to launch. The company is about to release its Radeon RX… Read more

HP’s new Envy x360 15 with AMD Ryzen chips starts at $749.99

HP has announced two new budget workstations for content creators: an Envy x360 15 and an Envy 17. The 15-inch convertible, starting at $749.99, is available with both AMD Ryzen 7 and Intel 11th Gen processors. The 17-inch clamshell starts at $999.99, and is Intel-only. The Envy x360 comes in either “natural silver” or “nightfall… Read more

Mushkin Jumps On The RGB RAM Bandwagon With Redline Lumina Line

Home News Redline Lumina RGB DDR4 (Image credit: Mushkin) Mushkin has been away from the memory game for a while, but the company is back with a new series of DDR4 memory. It recently revealed its Redline Lumina RGB product line that’s designed and optimized for the most up-to-date Intel and AMD platforms. The Redline… Read more

AMD Radeon Software update adds Performance Tuning tool and improves Radeon Boost and Anti-Lag

Home / Component / Graphics / AMD Radeon Software update adds Performance Tuning tool and improves Radeon Boost and Anti-Lag João Silva 12 hours ago Graphics Besides a multitude of fixes, AMD’s latest Radeon Software 21.3.1 driver also comes with some new improvements for Radeon Boost and Radeon Anti-Lag, as well as a new stress… Read more

AMD’s next RDNA 2 GPU will deliver ‘premium 1080p gaming’, launching in April according to leaker

Home / Component / APU / AMD’s next RDNA 2 GPU will deliver ‘premium 1080p gaming’, launching in April according to leaker João Silva 1 day ago APU, Graphics The Radeon RX 6700 XT officially launched this week, targeting PC gamers looking to play at 1440p resolution. As we know though, this isn’t the end… Read more