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AMD is seeking more open-source developers with next-gen GPU and multimedia experience AMD has a hand in open-source GPU sections in products such as Elon Musk’s Tesla Model S and Valve’s Steam Deck models. Outside of those two prominent sectors, AMD is heavily used among the Linux gaming community due to its continued efforts to keep its open-source drivers up-to-date. The job listing asks for the position to be filled by an engineer capable of contributing to both Mesa and Linux kernels for AMD’s line of GPUs....

AMD Next-Gen Zen 4, Zen 4C, Zen 5, Zen 6 Core Architectures Detailed: Cores, Clocks & IPC Going Up Each Gen! The information revealed by MLID isn’t confirmed but keeping his recent track record in mind, most of his reported data can end up being close to the real thing. In the latest video, MLID has shared details regarding future AMD Zen cores which include Zen 4, Zen 4C, Zen 5, & Zen 6....

Fine Wine! AMD Radeon HD 7970, The Decade-Old GPU, Receives Brand New WHQL Drivers Update: The driver adds support for the entire Legacy GCN GPU lineup as mentioned here. The AMD Radeon HD 7970 launched all the way back in December of 2011. It was based on the then brand new GCN architecture which would continue to be featured in various products from the red team until finally being replaced by the new Polaris & Vega cores....

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3D V-Cache CPU Shows Strength In Gaming Benchmarks In CPU-Bound Scenarios The benchmarks were posted by XanxoGaming and CapFrameX who are currently testing the chip across various workloads and finding out where it ticks when it comes to gaming. As always, while the new 3D V-Cache CPU doesn’t impress a lot in standard workloads, its gaming performance has been said to offer an average 15% increase over the non-3D chips....

AMD Ryzen 7000 ‘Zen 4’ Desktop CPUs & AM5 Platform Launching Earlier Than Expected, Rumored To Hit Retail By Early Q3 AMD has so far only confirmed that the AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs based on its brand new 5nm Zen 4 core architecture and the respective AM5 platform will be launching in the second half of 2022 but it looks like Greymon55’s has learned that the launch is going to occur much earlier in Q3 2022....

AMD Ryzen 9 7000 “Raphael” Desktop CPUs With High-Core Count Zen 4 Configurations May Operate at 170W TDPs As Standard According to a tweet by Kopite7kimi, the leaker states that AMD’s entire Ryzen 9 SKU family within the Zen 4 “Raphael family will operate at a 170W TDP when running at normal voltages. We know from previous information that the top Ryzen 7000 SKUs will feature a TDP of 170W whereas the AM5 socket can sustain a maximum PPT (Package Power) of up to 230W....

In yet another strong set of earnings results, semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Device, Inc (NASDAQ:AMD) reported $5.9 billion in revenue for its first quarter of the fiscal year 2022. AMD’s strong growth over the recent years has come primarily on the back of the personal computing segment, and over the course of time, the company has leveraged this to gain a strong footing in the enterprise segment as well. The release marks the first quarterly results after AMD’s mult-billion-dollar acquisition of Xilinx, Inc, which aims at solidifying the company’s portfolio for high performance computing....

When we asked whether he expects Microsoft to make Activision Blizzard Games exclusives to its own platforms (PC, Xbox, and cloud), Severin replied by stating that wouldn’t make a lot of financial sense, while a softer approach might be in order. This does seem to resonate with what we’ve heard so far from rumors and official sources, which is that at least some of the games won’t become exclusives. Even so, this is certainly going to be a hit for Microsoft’s primary competitors in the current gaming space, Sony and Nintendo....

Google has decided to share more information about Android 13 and release the second beta across many Android phones, tablets, as well as foldable devices. Android 13 Beta 2 Finally Reveals More About Security, Personalization, Performance, and More In Android 13, Google is deciding to bring better control over what personal information you can share and more detailed control over what files your apps will be able to access. Instead of permitting access to all the files, you can now decide which categories or file types you want the phone to access....

Apple Sees Fit to Seed Second macOS 13 Ventura RC Build to Developers For Testing Purposes To install the latest macOS Ventura RC build, all you have to do is install the proper configuration profile from the Apple Developer Center. Once you do that, the update will be available over the air through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences. So be sure to check out the latest version of the release candidate build for yourself....

Now, most of you must be wondering why Apple did not launch its iPhone 13 family at $799 but at $699, starting with the iPhone 13 mini. Then again, if you watched the ‘Far Out’ keynote and if you were keeping track of the rumor mill, you would know that Apple has not introduced an iPhone 14 mini this year, with its smallest handset sporting a 6.1-inch display, just like the iPhone 13....

Mac Studio Might Have a Spare Storage Slot, but Only in Certain Scenarios Will Users Will Be Able to Upgrade It Since the unified RAM is a part of the M1 Max, upgrading it will not be possible, as shown by iFixit’s teardown. Thankfully, Apple was kind enough not to solder the storage to the logic board, as it is easily swappable once you gain access to the machine’s innards. Sadly, though there is an extra storage slot available, increasing your storage is more than complicated, as iFixit reveals that swapping one Mac Studio storage module with another one kept giving DFU configurator errors....

ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX Series Offers Mini-ITX GPU Design To OEMs & SIs The ASRock Radeon RX 6400 Challenger ITX 4 GB graphics card was spotted within EEC database by KOMACHI (via Videocardz). The graphics card has the ‘RX6400 CLI 4G’ product name and comes with the same design as the Radeon RX 6500 XT but has a cut-down Navi 24 GPU core along with all the cut-down features that the chip comes with....

The new title update will go live on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC tomorrow at 12 pm UTC/GMT, 2 pm CET, 8 am EDT, 5 am PDT, and 10 pm AEST. Those on PlayStation platforms can expect a download between 1.2 and 1.4GB, whereas Xbox players will need to download 8.4/8.8GB of new data. On PC, the new 1.5.3 update weighs in at 7....

Here’s a rundown on the new content included in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla ver. 1.6.1… Tombs of the Fallen Pack 2 “The journey of Tombs of the Fallen comes to an epic conclusion in this all-new addition. Find your way through three mysterious tombs rigged with ancient traps and complex puzzles. Only the most dedicated adventurers will discover buried secrets from a fallen civilization. Observe and explore deep waters, molten lava, and Isu teachings to solve ancient puzzles and acquire lost treasures....

ASUS Launches ASUS Infinity Campaign - Offering Major Discounts & Price-Cuts on PC Components Including Graphics Cards, Monitors, Motherboards, & More Press Release: ASUS today announced the ASUS Infinity campaign. The campaign will run from now until the end of June, featuring multiple deals across all ASUS product lines. The campaign covers special promotions through Memorial Day and Father’s Day for eligible products while supplies last, including: TUF Gaming RTX 3080TI OC 12GB graphics card, now $300 off ROG Strix RTX 3080TI OC 12GB graphics card, now $250 off ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC 12 GB Graphics Card, now $200 off TUF Gaming RTX 3080 OC 12 GB Graphics Card, now $200 off ROG Strix 850G WHITE power supply unit, now $90 off ROG Strix 1000G power supply unit, now $80 off ROG Strix Z690-E GAMING WIFI, now $70 off The ROG Rapture GT-AX6000 router is now $50 off ROG Strix Scope Keyboard in NX Red, now $50 off TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A Gaming Monitor, now $50 off VG27AQ Gaming Monitor, now $40 off ROG Keris Wireless mouse, now $35 off Whether you’re looking to upgrade your PC or purchase new accessories, don’t stop the game with ASUS Infinity!...

ASUS Reports Huge Growth In GPU Business Thanks To Crypto Miners, Awards Its Employees With A Year-End Bonus of $1.5 Billion NTD While PC gamers largely remained stuck at their homes due to COVID-19 and without a brand new graphics card to keep them occupied during these dire times, ASUS and most definitely other AIBs too, generated huge amounts of profits by taking the advantage of the situation. Consumers were not only affected by GPU shortages but the majority of the new graphics cards from NVIDIA & AMD were being sold directly to large GPU mining corporations and customers by AIBs themselves and that too before they got in the hands of retailers....

ASUS’s Next-Gen ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme Motherboard Pictured With Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU Roberto states that he is currently under NDA with an unknown party, most probably Intel. He has posted pictures of his test equipment which includes an Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake CPU and ASUS’s next-generation ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme motherboard. First of all, let’s take about the latest flagship board from ASUS. The first thing that we can notice is that the ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Extreme motherboard has a lot of resemblance to the existing Z690 Extreme motherboard....

ASUS Bundles Its Top ROG X670E Crosshair Extreme Motherboard With GEN-Z.2 Module & PCIe 5.0 M.2 AIC The ASUS ROG X670E Crosshair Extreme’s ROG Gen-Z.2 module features two M.2 slots on both sides, with one side offering support for the PCIe Gen 4 speed and the other seeing the boost for PCIe Gen 5 speed. The two slots provide a total length of 110mm solid state drives, but the PCIe Gen 5 slot gets a dedicated passive heatsink cooler to assist in cooling more robust PCIe Gen 5 SSDs....

Backblaze analyzes HDDs over ten years to see the trend in their life expectancy Consumers should understand that the length of life across HDD brands can vary, even with the top-rated brands. With Backblaze’s recent data, they looked at HDDs that range from 4 TB up to 14 TB. The hope the company has is to answer the question of the lifeline of a hard drive that a consumer is currently looking into investing in for the future....