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CES: Acer gaming monitors: 4K and 144 Hertz with HDMI 2.1, WQHD with 275 Hertz

At the consumer electronics fair CES 2021, Acer has announced a range of new gaming monitors, including two models with specifications that are rare if not unique. The 28 – Zöller Nitro XV 282 K KV combines an Ultra HD resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels) with up to 120 Hertz and an HDMI 2.1 connection…. Read more

Entry-level smartphones: SoC Snapdragon 480 with 5G and much more performance

One year after the introduction of the Snapdragon 345 chip manufacturer Qualcomm brings the successor Snapdragon 480 for entry-level smartphones. The system-on-chip (SoC) is making big leaps in many ways. There is the computing power, as far as processor and graphics unit is concerned, but also the cellular network: The Snapdragon 480 transmits in 5G… Read more

LG Gram (2021): Notebook flyweights with 16:10 displays and Thunderbolt 4

In the run-up to the consumer electronics fair CES 2021, LG launched the 2021 generation of the Announced Gram Notebook Series. The series appears in three sizes with display diagonals of 17, 16 (instead of before 15, 6) and 14 Inch. In future, all three will use screens in the higher 16: 10 format –… Read more

After AMD and Intel: Chip developer veteran Jim Keller joins AI start-up

Jim Keller started as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Canadian AI start-up Tenstorrent, where he wants to design “new and interesting stuff”. Tenstorrent develops processors for training and executing neural networks – keyword machine learning. Keller was most recently at Intel as Senior Vice President of Silicon for two years Engineering Group. Translated: Chip… Read more

CES: Dell UltraSharp U4021QW: High-resolution monitor as a Thunderbolt docking station

In the run-up to the virtual CES 2021 Dell has a range of new business monitors announced, including the upper-class model UltraSharp U 4021 QW. As the third display, it shows the highest 10: 9 resolution of 5120 × 2160 pixels – as the first of the three monitors on a diagonal of rounded 40… Read more

Graphics card GeForce RTX 3080 for notebooks: souped-up desktop RTX-3070

After entries on Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 for notebooks, a result for the mobile one can now be found in Geekbench’s online database Find GeForce RTX 3080. The benchmark has 48 read out shader multiprocessors from the graphics chip, i.e. 6144 Shader cores. Added to this are 16 GByte graphics memory. The Geekbench run… Read more

AMD processor “Cezanne”: Ryzen 9 5980HX and Ryzen 7 5700G in USB database

In the database of the USB Implementer Forum (USB-IF) you can find two more combined processors from AMD’s Cezanne family: the Ryzen 9 5980 HX and Ryzen 7 5700 G. According to the H suffix, the former CPU is intended for notebooks and, judging by the numbering, the new top model for notebooks above the… Read more

Trade war: PC components get more expensive in the US

In the past year, many US companies were granted tariff concessions, which the 2018 and 2019 postponed punitive tariffs against Chinese imports. Hardware manufacturers, such as graphics cards and mainboards, benefited from this. These tariff concessions expired on New Year’s Eve, as a result, many US imports from China since January 1st are up to… Read more

Mobile GeForce RTX 3070 for notebooks: Fewer shader cores than the desktop version

Geekbench’s online database has several results from an HP Omen notebook that comes with Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 (Mobile), paired with Intel’s eight-core processor Core i7 – 10870 H. Geekbench has 40 shader multiprocessors (5120 Shader cores) at a clock frequency of about 1300 MHz and 8 GByte graphics memory read out. This would… Read more

Intel Core i9-11900K: Processor benchmarks with high single-threading performance

Pre-production models of Intel’s upcoming desktop processors codenamed Rocket Lake-S have appeared in China. A user in the Chinese forum Chiphell shows authentic images and several benchmarks of low-clocked eight-core cores. Results from the integrated benchmark of the readout tool CPU-Z, which were created with higher clock frequencies, come from elsewhere. The pictures at Chiphell… Read more

Player graphics card: Lenovo confirms GeForce RTX 3060 with 12 GB of memory

Lenovo has prematurely released the data sheet for the upcoming Legion R5 complete system 28 IMB 05 put online. The PC manufacturer confirms the existence of other mid-range graphics cards from Nvidia’s current Ampere family: GeForce RTX 3050, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060. The latter model is said to be in response… Read more

WTF: KFConsole: Compact game PC with warming compartment for chicken wings

Parallel to Sony’s presentation of the Playstation 5 game console, Cooler Master and KFC apparently jokingly announced the KFConsole, a “console” for “real 4K gaming and 120 Frames per second”. Now Cooler Master is getting serious and introducing the device on a specially set up landing page. The internet is full of hot IT news… Read more

Microsoft allegedly develops ARM CPUs for cloud servers and surface computers

Microsoft has evidently formed a group of companies that creates its own processor designs with ARM computing cores. This is reported by the news service Bloomberg , citing internal sources. The CPU group is subordinate to Jason Zander, the head of Microsoft’s cloud division Azure. According to their own According to Bloomberg ARM processors are… Read more

Gigabyte Aorus FI27Q-X gaming monitor: 1440p, 240 Hertz and IPS from Sharp

Gigabyte plans to launch an improved Aorus FI 27 QP: The Aorus FI monitor 27 QX increases the refresh rate from 165 to 165 Hertz and is therefore primarily for players thought. The remaining specifications remain with WQHD resolution (2560 × 1440 pixels) , 27 inch diagonal and Adaptive-Sync (AMD FreeSync, Nvidia G-Sync Compatible) largely… Read more

Chinese chip order maker SMIC: Turmoil in the leadership

China’s efforts to build up a modern, local chip production facility continue to falter. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) hired Chiang Shang-yi as CEO and appointed member of the strategic committee in mid-December 2020. Co-CEO Liang Mong-song has submitted a conditional resignation. Chiang Shang-yi previously headed the Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (HSMC ) –… Read more