The Snapdragon X Elite CPU delivers just as Qualcomm promised, at least according to an early review of the new Surface Laptop which has the chip as its engine.Tom’s Hardware noticed the review of Microsoft’s new notebook in which Ryan Shrout (an ex-Intel exec on the graphics side) put the new Snapdragon X Elite through…
Taxpayers are facing a £1bn bill for the Post Office to replace its controversial Horizon IT system, Computer Weekly has learned – but government experts sent in to assess the funding request have reported that the critical project is currently unachievable. The plan to develop a replacement for Horizon and remove its supplier, Fujitsu, is…
Sabrent tends to get into news when it launches ultra-high-performance SSDs for enthusiast-grade desktops, but this week the company introduced a completely different type of product: a small form-factor M.2-2242 SSD aimed at Lenovo’s Legion Go handheld and ultra-thin laptops that don’t accomodate M.2-2280 drives. And even though it’s not an enthusiast-grade drive, the Rocket…
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Every once in a while, Apple provides us with a sneak peek at some of the equipment it uses to ensure that the iPhone delivers a top-notch user experience. A few years ago, for example, Apple invited a select number of journalists to an audio lab where it tests the audio and speaker performance on…
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Intel has finally come forward with a statement regarding the problems with its high-end 13th-gen and 14th-gen processors that are experiencing stability issues and crashing while gaming for some CPU owners.Didn’t Intel already release an official statement? Not for consumers – we’ve just heard the chatter relayed to hardware partners – but now, we have…
More information has been revealed about Intel’s Twin Lake processors which are all about efficiency and low power usage for budget machines. In fact, these are CPUs that only have efficiency cores – with no performance cores (the ones you’ll find on Intel’s workhorse desktop chips) – and the successor to the Intel N100 has been…
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A new leak has alleged that AMD’s Zen 6 line of desktop processors will be built upon a TSMC 2nm process with a reported 2026 release date in mind. The news comes from prominent hardware leaker Moore’s Law is Dead which its sources claim Team Red will be finalizing its architecture by Q3 2024. While this…
SK hynix is one of the few vertically integrated manufacturers in the flash-based storage market (along with Samsung, Micron / Crucial, Western Digital, and Kioxia). The company is well-established in the OEM market. A few years back, they also started exploring direct end-user products. Internal SSDs (starting with the Gold S31 and Gold P31) were…
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MSI is focusing pretty much on Nvidia’s graphics cards, it would seem, and has more or less stopped making AMD GPUs.Or at least the amount of MSI’s Radeon graphics cards on shelves has dwindled considerably, to the point where it’s been noticed by several sources – one of which contacted MSI and got an official…
Intel’s Arrow Lake processors are already on sale, it seems – well, kind of, or at least pre-release samples of the silicon are being sold illegally.As you’re doubtless aware, Arrow Lake is Intel’s next-gen range of desktop chips that won’t be out until much later in 2024 (or indeed 2025), but so-called engineering samples –…
