Earlier this week, Apple introduced the iPad mini 7. With 8GB of RAM, the A17 Pro chip, and Apple Intelligence support, this is indeed the iPad mini Pro users have been clamoring for. However, even after boosting the specs of the iPad mini, Apple’s smallest tablet lacks a major iPadOS feature: Stage Manager.Stage Manager was…
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There are central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and even data processing units (DPUs) – all of which are well-known and commonplace now. GPUs in particular have seen a recent rise to prominence with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). You may have also heard of tensor processing units (TPUs), which are a…
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Don’t buy a new PC until after October 25, 2024! Yes, I know that’s extremely specific, but I promise, it’ll all make sense shortly – as it seems like that date is when we’re going to finally know the truth of what’s in AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D box.It was leaker HXL on X who recently…
When Apple unveiled the iPhone 16 series in early September, the company introduced the A18 Pro chip as “the fastest CPU in any smartphone.” The A18 chip that powers the non-Pro iPhone 16 models has to be almost as fast. But I knew going into the Glowtime event that I would not buy an iPhone 16…
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Samsung has announced that it’s cooked up some new faster GDDR7 video RAM that might just power up Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell GPUs at some point next year.The innovation comes in what Samsung boasts is the industry’s first 24Gb GDDR7 RAM, which builds on its previous 16Gb GDDR7 memory modules (the latter are strongly rumored to…
A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen CPU in terms of clock speeds for 3D V-Cache chips, where a large cache has been a considerable drag factor on the clock frequency achieved.Maybe that isn’t the case anymore, at least not…
I won’t blame you if you’ll keep thinking about the ultra-thin M4 iPad Pro once you’re done using one in a store. The tablet is incredibly thin and light, the OLED screen is amazing, and the M4 chip guarantees great performance and battery life. The 2024 iPad Pro will also support Apple Intelligence once it’s…
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Intel is already working on support for its Xe3 GPU architecture in Linux – even though Xe3, codenamed Celestial, won’t be used in any chips until late in 2025 (at the earliest)Indeed, Battlemage, Intel’s 2nd-gen Arc graphics, is only just here (in Lunar Lake laptops as the integrated GPU), so it’s very early days for…
Intel has added some new games to the list of supported titles for its APO tech – including some big names like Fortnite and CyberPunk 2077 – as well as bringing its latest Arrow Lake desktop CPUs (Core Ultra 200S) into the fold.APO (Application Performance Optimization) is a feature that boosts frame rates with supported…
AMD’s Ryzen 9800X3D processor may not offer the sizeable leap in gaming performance that some leaks have previously suggested, it seems according to some new material shared by German tech site HardwareLuxx (via Tom’s Hardware): namely leaked slides from an MSI presentation.According to the headline at the top of a gaming comparison slide, the Ryzen…
