Intel’s Arc Pro Workstation Graphics Cards Spotted: Pro A50 & Pro A40 With Full ACM-G11 GPU The Intel Arc Pro A40 desktop graphics card was recently spotted within the RAA (South Korean National Radio Research Agency) and we have also managed to spot a few mobility variants. The lineup has been designated the ‘Pro’ label since they are aimed at workstation platforms such as desktops and laptops. Based on the details from SiSoftware, the Intel Arc Pro A50 and Arc Pro A40 are virtually based on the same chip as they share the same specs....

Intel’s Core i7-13700K 16-Core Raptor Lake CPU Crosses 1000 Points Barrier In CPU-Z With 6.18 GHz Overclock The latest benchmark was shared by Twitter user, @QXE87, who seems to have received it through a private Discord group where the earlier benchmarks were also shared. We have seen the Core i9-13900K being overclocked to 6.1 GHz and the Core i7-13700K overclocked to 6.0 GHz before but it’s time we take a look at even higher clock speeds....

Intel hiring UK engineers to develop a brand new & low-power GPU architecture that will compete with Arm & Imagination Technologies Intel recently posted on their career section (via Witeken) for the company that they are looking for a Senior Hardware Design Engineer. The new Intel GPU Research and Development center will be located in Swindon, about 125 miles from Cambridge, the country’s largest technology corner, and approximately 90 miles away from London....

Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake iGPU Clock Boost Helps It Close In On AMD’s Vega Integrated Graphics Benchleaks discovered an OpenCL test result on the Geekbench database which shows an Intel Core i9-13900’s OpenCL score. The score was posted on an Intel UHD integrated GPU rocking 32 Execution units or 256 cores and a clock speed of 1650 MHz which is a 100 MHz boost over the 12th Gen iGPUs that maxed out at 1550 MHz on the Core i9-12900K....

The acquisition of Tower Semiconductor increases the speed of Intel’s multinational, end-to-end foundry enterprise. Intel launched the Intel Foundry Services (IFS) in March 2021. The purpose of the IFS is to assist the growing global demand for semiconductor manufacturing capacity and evolve into an influential provider of U.S.- and Europe-based foundry capacity to aid customers worldwide. The IFS currently delivers a leading-edge process and packaging technology, dedicated ability in the U....

Restructuring at Intel: Arc Graphics will now be part of Client Computing Group as Raja Koduri becomes Chief Architect once again Raja recently announced on Twitter that he was going through extensive health problems so this move seems to be designed to reduce the amount of direct engineering burden on him while he goes through the recovery process after his surgery. Knowing full well what our audience will ask keeping mind recent rumors, Intel has confirmed that this is just a restructure and they will remain absolutely committed to Battlemage and Celestial with Raja still being responsible for the overall direction and roadmap of the architectures....

However, what’s important to know is that the phones are still not available for sale. Sure, you can preorder them right now, but the deliveries do not start until September 16, later this month and of course, these delivery dates can vary based on the region. Can’t Wait for Your iPhone 14 Pro? Someone in China Already Has Their Hands on It That brings us to the fact that someone in China not only got their hands on the iPhone 14 Pro Max but also made an entire hands-on video showing the phone from all angles....

The Khronos Group rolls out Vulkan Video after almost two years of the API in beta The new Vulkan Video 1.0 extensions — four primary extensions — are now available. The new new extensions are as follows: VK_KHR_video_queue: standard APIs for all video coding operations. VK_KHR_video_decode_queue: standard APIs for all video decode operations. VK_KHR_video_decode_h264: H.264 decode-specific capabilities and parameters. VK_KHR_video_decode_h265: H.265 decode-specific capabilities and parameters. The last two video decoder extensions, H....

Defined as a K-Zombie action RPG, the game is being developed for PC and mobile platforms. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement press release. Staying true to the beloved Netflix series, Kingdom: The Blood recreates characters, zombies and vicious action from the show in high-quality 3D graphics. Korean culture is treated with the utmost care in both gameplay and aesthetic. Motion capture was recorded using a professional Korean sword dancer to perfectly replicate deadly Korean-style combat....

Knack: https://t.co/7VbxIEo2OA Stacky Basket: https://t.co/ZMd3vOkvPy pic.twitter.com/Thg8i9naF3 — Gematsu (@gematsu) March 28, 2022 Now, as always, the filing of a new trademark could mean various things. Perhaps Sony is looking to revive the series, or maybe they’re simply planning to re-release the original games. If a Knack 3 is in the works, it will be interesting to see who’s making it, as original developer Sony Japan Studio has been disbanded. The new Knack trademark comes amid rumors of a big week for PlayStation fans....

Intel Boosts Arc DX9 Game Performance By Up To 2.3 Times With Latest GPU Drivers, More Ahead! In its latest blog, Intel has shown us the performance comparison between its latest Arc driver suite (v3959) and how it compares with the previous driver suite from October (v3490). Intel used the Arc A770, its flagship graphics card based on the Alchemist GPU architecture, for testing and the results are simply spectacular. According to Intel, the latest drivers are designed specifically to boost performance in DX9 (DirectX 9) games....

Released worldwide on April 5th for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Xbox One, Warner Bros. Games, and TT Games latest entry in the LEGO series has smashed previous sales records of the franchise. “The latest LEGO Star Wars title featuring all nine Skywalker saga films in one brand new game has surpassed all previous LEGO console game launches”, the official press release from WB Games reads....

The gameplay trailer embedded below impressed Gamescom judges enough to award Lies of P with the Most Wanted PlayStation Game award. The game was also nominated in the Best Action Adventure Game and the Best Roleplaying Game categories; the winners will be unveiled on Saturday, August 27th. Gamescom attendees can check out a demo either at the NEOWIZ booth (Hall 9, C-049) or at the Microsoft one. Lies of P will be released on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S|X....

While the mod itself is not yet available, the modder released two videos over the past few days to demonstrate it. Needless to say, it won’t be for everyone, as swinging across New York in first-person view could easily induce nausea in some folks. Of course, this could open up to a Virtual Reality mod that could be even more immersive (and prone to motion sickness bouts). Jedijosh920 already released several Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered mods, including:...

Alongside introducing support for the new version of NVIDIA’s upscaling tech, which can only be used with RTX 4000 series GPUs, the new 1.1011.1.0 patch also addresses a couple of issues, such as crashing issues occurring on some hardware configurations with very high ray tracing settings. Thanks to DLSS 3, users can achieve amazing performance with RTX on, compared to DLSS 2 with RTX off, as showcased by NVIDIA a few weeks ago....

Twitter leaker HXL (@9550pro) tweeted yesterday of a new motherboard design from company Meterstone and provided a picture. The Meterstone H45 system showcases an Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake processor with two available desktop DIMM memory sections and a complete PCIe Gen4 x16 slot available for graphics processors. “HXL” took this information from the forums on the website Chiphell. — HXL (@9550pro) April 1, 2022 While the company and the leading Maxsun brand have not mentioned the exact processor used on the new motherboards, we can tell that it is probably the Alder Lake-P series 14-core chips (which also has an iGPU with 96 EUs)....

The collection, which will be released sometime in 2023 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, will not only include all entries in the series from the original game to Mega Man Battle Network 6, but also additional features like high resolution filters, an art gallery, and a music player. A new trailer has also been released online and you can check it out right below. Art Gallery In this robust gallery, players can view official art and illustrations from the original releases, as well as rough designs, character sketches, and other rare items....

Only Other Notebook Where the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Runs in Is the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Earlier, we reported that Microsoft would end up merging its Surface Pro family, suggesting that the Surface Pro 9 would arrive in both ARM and Intel-based flavors. At the time, we had no information as to which specific SoC would fuel its innards, but given that Qualcomm was the only firm focusing on ARM chips for Windows-based machines, our impulse thought was that Microsoft’s 2-in-1 would sport a modified version of the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3....

Microsoft Surface Laptop 5 Specs Leak Out: Up To AMD Ryzen 7 6980U & Intel Core i7-1280P CPUs, 120 Hz Display, LPDDR4x Memory The specifications leak comes from WindowsPrime (via MyLaptopGuide) who have got their hands on the full specs sheet of the upcoming laptop. Starting with the meat of the details, Microsoft will be using the top-end chips from AMD and Intel this time around. Which variants you can get solely depends on the laptop size....

Minisforum’s HX90G Mini PC Rocks The World’s First Discrete AMD Radeon GPU Design, RX 6650M Under The Hood! Minisforum HX90G ‘G stands for discrete graphics’ is a brand new Mini PC that will be launching in various configurations. These configurations include: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX + Radeon RX 6650M AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX + Radeon RX 6650M Intel Core i9-12900H + AMD Discrete GPU At launch, the Minisforum HX90G Mini PC will come with the AMD Cezanne APU option along side the Radeon RX 6650M....