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Qualcomm reclaims the clock speed title with the Snapdragon 870 5G chipset and its 3.2 GHz CPU

Old is gold – Qualcomm and TSMC figured out how to squeeze a bit extra performance out of the 7 nm node and created the Snapdragon 865++. Or as the company prefers to call it, the Snapdragon 870 (SM8250-AC). Its CPU reaches the highest clock speed in the mobile world – the prime core now… Read more

Review: Goldmund Telos 590 NextGen II Integrated Amplifier / DAC

Thanks to the recent introduction of the high performing and a lot less expensive Goldmund Telos 7 integrated amplifier and the further developments of the Swiss, it is now even possible to use the Telos 590 NextGen even further. In this review we will go into that in more detail, because the ‘590 MkII ‘is… Read more

US consumers spent record amounts on video games in 2020, NPD reports

Spending on video games set a new record of $56.9 billion in 2020 in the US, according to a new NPD Group report, a 27 percent increase compared to 2019. Spending on hardware hit its highest level since 2011 at $5.3 billion, a 35 percent increase compared to 2019. NPD classifies video game spending as… Read more

Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO

Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, doesn’t start his new role until February, but he’s already prepping the company to take on Apple’s M1 chips. The Oregonian, a local newspaper in Oregon where Intel maintains a large presence, reports that the chip maker held an all-hands company meeting yesterday, and Gelsinger attended. “We have to deliver… Read more

Solar winds: Burglars sell Windows source code and FireEye attack tools

Criminals broke into companies such as FireEye, Microsoft and many US authorities via a back door in the SolarWinds Orion network management software. Now they are supposedly selling their loot on a website called SolarLeaks: 600. 000 US dollars for Windows source code, 500. 000 for source code of Cisco products; and the handcrafted attack… Read more

CES 2021: MSI Clutch GM41 Lightweight Unveiled with PixArt PMW-3389 16000DPI Sensor

MSI has presented, in addition to laptops, some components and peripherals for the desktop computers that populate the world, and among them we find the MSI Clutch GM 41 Lightweight , a mouse with a compact design that comes designed mainly for FPS games. Among its characteristics we find a relatively thin and flat shape… Read more

Intel announces 11th Gen mobile H-series processors, Alder Lake and more

Intel’s CES 2021 conference was rather busy as the company unveiled and teased a slew of new platforms and products. Sadly we didn’t get all the details, but the rough preview we were given looks exciting. Let’s start with arguably the more interesting one – Alder Lake. The platform is set to go against Apple’s… Read more

Intel shows Rocket Lake-S and talks about Alder Lake

In addition to the presentation of Tiger Lake-H with four cores, 5 GHz and up to 35 W has Intel talked about other future processors. The launch of Rocket Lake-S in the first quarter was promised for all desktop users. So far, Intel has spoken of an IPC plus in the double-digit percentage range. This… Read more

Tiger Lake-H35: Intel's quad-core CPU for compact gaming notebooks

So far there was the 10 – Nanometer processors of the eleventh Core-i generation (Tiger Lake) only in the U series for flat notebooks. At the CES, Intel is now presenting the first H models for more powerful notebooks. It is true that the three CPUs that Intel internally under “Tiger Lake-H 35 “continue to… Read more

Intel Teases Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, Intends to Retake Gaming Crown With 19% IPC Increase

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel fired back at AMD’s Ryzen 5000 today at CES 2021 with its Rocket Lake-S flagship, claiming the new chip takes back the gaming performance crown. Intel says that its 14nm Rocket Lake processors will come to market this quarter with a 19% IPC increase born of the new Cypress… Read more

Watch The Intel CES 2021 Keynote Here at 1PM PT

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Intel’s CES 2021 presentation is today at 1 pm PT (4 pm ET), and you can watch the presentation here in the embedded video that will go live when the event starts. We’ll follow up with further analysis of the company’s announcements from the event, so stay tuned for… Read more

The 2021 Moto G Stylus, Power, and Play focus on big batteries, bigger screens, and low prices

Motorola is kicking off 2021 with refreshes for its midrange Moto G lineup of phones with new versions of the Moto G Power, Moto G Stylus, and Moto G Play that promise low prices and days of battery life across the board. There’s also a new member of the Motorola One family called the Motorola… Read more

io-tech wishes everyone a safe New Year and a Happy New Year!

io-Tech’s delivery bids farewell to a pandemic-stained year 2020 and wishes everyone a better year 2021! In many ways, the special year 2020 is finally coming to an end. SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID – 19 swelled rapidly into a worldwide pandemic that affected everyone’s lives in one way or another. In computers and consumer… Read more

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Review: Heir to the Titan Throne

Our Verdict Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition takes the crown as the fastest GPU around, but at twice the price of an RTX 3080. It’s blazingly fast, comes with gobs of memory, and the Founders Edition is absolutely massive … and most gamers don’t need it. We discuss price, performance, availability, power, and more… Read more

Apple Watch leak offers rare glimpse inside ‘Ultra security program’

Purported Apple Watch prototype running an early build of watchOS. New images and video purporting to show an Apple Watch prototype, concealed by a security case that resembles a tiny iPod, offer a rare look behind the product-development curtain of the notoriously secretive company built by Steve Jobs. First teased a few months ago by… Read more