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Huawei’s Mate 40 Pro tops AnTuTu’s October flagship charts, Xiaomi rules the mid-range

AnTuTu has published its monthly top 10 charts for best-performing flagships and mid-rangers and the Huawei Mate 40 Pro tops the first one. The average score of all devices that ran AnTuTu 8 is 685,339 but with the performance mode turned on, the Mate 40 Pro can go even beyond 720,000 points. The second place… Read more

Apple iPhone 12 Pro in for review

Our review of the iPhone 12 is already up, but we’ve also been spending some quality time with the more premium iPhone 12 Pro. But while the review team is still doing its thing here go a few early thoughts. The iPhone 12 Pro certainly makes a better first impression than the iPhone 12. For… Read more

Snapdragon 875 could be 25% faster than its predecessor, leaked AnTuTu result shows

The Snapdragon 875 chipset is code-named “Lahaina” and it may be significantly faster than expected – an early benchmark shows a score of over 847,000 points in AnTuTu. This is much higher than its predecessor, which currently tops the charts with 663,000 points or so. That’s a jump of over 25%, a huge leap for… Read more

Intel Teases Rocket Lake: Double-Digit IPC Gains, Cypress Cove Architecture

Home News (Image credit: Intel) AMD has stolen the headlines with its Zen 3-powered Ryzen 5000 series processors that will come to market on November 5, but not to be left out of the hype, Intel is now sharing more details about its competing Rocket Lake processors that will arrive in the first quarter of… Read more

Apple’s A14 SoC Under the Microscope: Die Size & Transistor Density Revealed

Home News (Image credit: Apple) ICmasters, a semiconductor reverse engineering and IP services company, has done a preliminary examination of Apple’s A14 Bionic system-on-chip (SoC) using a transmission electron microscopy (TEM). As written by semianalysis, the analysts at ICmasters revealed die size and transistor density of the SoC. Such details expose capabilities of process technologies… Read more

AMD Introduces Smart Access Memory Technology and Other Radeon RX 6000 Series Optimizations (RDNA2)

Smart Access Memory gives Ryze 5000 series processors access to the memory of the entire Radeon RX 6000 series graphics card, which improves gaming performance. AMD today unveiled its new Radeon RX 6000 series graphics based on RDNA2 architecture. The graphics cards also introduced a number of new technologies and features, some of which are… Read more

MSI’s GE66 Raider Dragonshield Edition is a beautifully extra gaming laptop

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. If you’re on the market for a portable gaming laptop that serves the dual purposes of running demanding games and making everyone around you jealous, look no further than the MSI GE66 Raider Dragonshield Edition. This rig… Read more

Dynabook Portégé X30L-J and Portégé X40-J – laptops with Intel Tiger Lake

In early September, Intel introduced processors 11 of the Tiger Lake generation – since then, other manufacturers have revealed their new products, which will be available for sale in the coming months. Another company to unveil the upcoming laptops is Dynabook, which took over the notebook segment from Toshiba. The manufacturer disclosed details about the… Read more

10 best business traveller gifts for Christmas 2020

(Pocket-lint) – We all know one, those people that always seem to be travelling the country, or the world for work – even at a time like this. But what do you get them as a gift? A monogrammed luggage label is unlikely to cut it for Christmas. Here we’ve rounded up some of the… Read more

Netflix and Amazon want to expand non-fictional offerings

Netflix and Amazon Prime Video want to strengthen their non-fictional offer in Germany. “There is definitely a need for non-fictional programming. In this respect, we will continue to expand our offering,” said Netflix’s Director of Content Acquisitions & Co-Productions for German-speaking countries, Kai Finke, in a panel discussion on Tuesday 34. Munich Media Days. Strong… Read more

The best cordless strimmers 2020: Keep your garden under control

(Pocket-lint) – The more you get into gardening, the clearer it becomes that you might need a veritable plethora of tools to really get to grips with taming the natural world, even with a small garden to manage. Best cordless mowers: Wireless mowing The strimmer is a key weapon in this arsenal, although you might… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5 5600X tops the PassMark single-thread benchmark chart

Home / Component / CPU / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X tops the PassMark single-thread benchmark chart João Silva 4 hours ago CPU, Featured Tech News AMD has risen to the top of the PassMark single-threaded benchmark chart. The new chart puts the Ryzen 5 5600X at the very top, beating out plenty of Intel Core… Read more

Huawei Mate 40 Pro tops DxOMark charts for both front and rear cameras

Huawei unveiled the Mate 40, Mate 40 Pro, Mate 40 Pro+, and Porsche Design Mate 40 RS today, but it seems like every media outlet was only sent the Mate 40 Pro, just like what initially happened with the P40 family. So we have our Mate 40 Pro review out already, but so does DxOMark,… Read more

Huawei Mate 40 brings 6.5-inch OLED, triple camera and Kirin 9000E

The Huawei Mate 40 is the entry level model in the new Mate 40 series and while it misses a couple of the bangs and whistles of the Pros, it’s still a very capable phone. The screen is smaller – 6.5-inch vs 6.76-inch – flatter and will smaller 68-degrees curve vs 88-degreees. It’s also slightly… Read more

Best tablets 2020

Home Best-buys (Image credit: Apple) Best tablets Buying Guide: Welcome to What Hi-Fi?’s round-up of the best tablets you can buy in 2020. Tablets are bigger than smartphones (just) but less capable than laptops (just). If you’re thinking of buying one, you need to ask yourself a few questions. What screen size do you want?… Read more