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According to a new report from Bloomberg, following reports that Bobby Kotick had personally mistreated female employees and covered the misdeeds of others, Xbox boss Phil Spencer called him to express how “deeply troubled” he was by the accusations, but also to let him know Microsoft would be willing to make an offer if the troubled company was interested in selling. As Spencer himself has admitted, things developed quickly from there, with acquisition plans forming over the course of only a couple of weeks....

addlink Virtual Showcase 2022: AddGame SPIDER X5 DDR5 RGB Memory Line-up Press Release: addlink Technology Co., Ltd, a global storage and memory solution provider, is proud to host its virtual expo from May 25th to June 30th and addlink is also launching the brand new DDR5 RGB gaming memory, AddGame SPIDER X5, DDR5-4800, 5600, and DDR5-6000. addlink Online Virtual Showcase 2022 has three major themes: AddGame SPIDER X5/S5 DDR5 Gaming Memory, AddGame A-Series M....

Qualcomm Executive Highlights Samsung’s New Agreement by Saying That Snapdragon Chipsets Will Also Power Tablets, Extended Reality Products, and More The new partnership between Qualcomm and Samsung was talked about by Cristiano Amon, President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego firm. With Samsung’s Exynos range of chipsets present in fewer numbers, Qualcomm likely took advantage of this opportunity to expand its market share, eventually bringing the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to the Galaxy S23 series....

AMD rushes to sell the company’s Radeon RX 6000 cards priced under MSRP and releases an unknown game bundle promotion that has no evidence on prices, a complete list of games, and more Graphics cards are in such heavy necessity, even to this day, that bundling with games and accessories may seem like a bonus. Right now, the market is quite suitable for everyone. Prices have lowered on graphics cards. The current crypto market is showing a slight decline, allowing the components to be more available to all....

AMD To Host Opening Keynote of CES 2023 on 4th January: Lots of Products Including Zen 4 X3D, RDNA 3 & More To Be Unveiled AMD has discussed on several occasions that the company focuses heavily on sustainability and higher levels of efficiency in both cloud and high-performance exascale (HPE) computing. As with many top tech companies today, AMD looks to the future in gaming, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC)....

AMD ‘panning’ for results with their newest Process Adaptive autoNUMA feature, boosting performance in specific server processes in Linux OS PAN, or Process Adaptive autoNUMA, is a constantly adjusting algorithm that computes the AutoNUMA scan duration. Utilizing the PAN Linux kernel build, AMD open-source engineers found that the Graph500 interconnect HPC benchmark profits from a higher performance by up to 14.93% compared to a standard Linux kernel. The network-attached storage benchmark test displays an improvement of eight percent....

AMD adds significant open-source Radeon graphics driver code into Mesa 22.2 for Q3 2022, Enables Initial RDNA 3 ‘GFX11’ GPU Support The preparations for RDNA 3 GFX11 in Mesa were not alone. Several other IP blocks are added for future Radeon graphics cards slated to be ready for sale towards the end of the year. Previously, AMD already added GFX11 coding into the LLVM 15.0 release, which should launch four months from now....

AMD RDNA 3 “Navi 31” GPU Around 350mm2 In GCD Die Size With TSMC’s 5nm Process Node The rumors come from Greymon55 who has revealed the alleged die size of the next-gen GPU powerhouse from camp red. Some of the key features of the RDNA 3 GPUs highlighted by AMD will include: 5nm Process Node Advanced Chiplet Packaging Rearchitected Compute Unit Optimized Graphics Pipeline Next-Gen AMD Infinity Cache >50% Perf/Watt vs RDNA 2...

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 8 Core Zen 4 Desktop CPU Spotted In The Wild, Pre-Retail Chip Ready For September Launch This is the first time that we are looking at a pre-retail AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPU with the OPN code “100-000000591”. The Ryzen 7 7700X is expected to launch at a lower price than the Ryzen 7 5800X which retailed at $449 US at launch almost two years back. While the prime source of the image remains unknown, this is probably a reviewer sample since those were sent out just recently....

AMD soon to add LbrExtV2 functionality to the Linux 6.1 kernel queue for the company’s Zen 4 CPU architecture The Last Branch Record functionality, or LBR, is “used for determining and analyzing the control flow of software by logging branch information to registers in real-time.” The branch information will allow the system to decide what paths “hot code” should be directed to, such as optimizations to profile-specific compilers or other optimizations seen active in applications AMD’s patchwork will allow for the LbrExtV2 functionality to incorporate into the newest “perf” subsystem in Linux and allow for observing performance events....

Samsung Stays on Schedule as It Pushes Android 13 for Galaxy S20 FE and Galaxy S21 FE This is exciting news for all the Fan Edition users because Samsung did not explicitly mention when they will be launching the update on these devices, but looking at the South Korean firm’s commitment, we are happy to report that the Galaxy S21 FE and the S20 FE users can finally enjoy the new Android 13....

That’s what Xbox Era insider Nick “Shpeshal Ed” Baker said during his most recent XboxEra podcast over the weekend. According to the insider, he has heard that Microsoft is planning to remaster a bundle of all the games of a certain Xbox franchise, in a similar fashion as 2014’s Halo: MCC. Of course, upon release, the Halo collection for Xbox wasn’t in the best shape, but it’s a pretty great collection nowadays....

Need to know more about what Respawn Vancouver has been cooking up? Here’s the full rundown on Defiance’s Mad Maggie, the Olympus refresh, and Control mode… Of course, the Defiance update also contains the usual array of fixes, balance tweaks, and other small changes. You can get the full, unabridged patch notes, right here. Mad Maggie, cutthroat warlord and the Outlands’ meanest mad-lass, is back and she’s coming into the Apex Games like a wrecking ball with an offensive playstyle....

Apple Pushing More Ads on iPhone Stock Apps is Not Going to Please Anyone Apple being the good samaritan, has avoided pushing ads to the users in the past. However, a new report suggests that it might be changing soon. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple could start showing its users more ads across its apps. the company currently shows prominent advertisements in the News, Stocks, and App Store apps....

2022 WWDC Event Invites Could be Sent Out This Week - We Are Expecting iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9, More As mentioned earlier, Apple sent out invites for its WWDC event on March 30th last year. The WWDC event took place from June 7 to June 11 where Apple announced iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, tvOS 15, watchOS 8, and much more. Apple held a digital event last year due to the ongoing global health crises....

Watch iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, watchOS 9 and tvOS 16 Unveiled Live at WWDC 2022 You have multiple choices when it comes to watching the event. Either you can watch the live stream embedded below or you can read me rambling about the announcements as they arrive. Just make sure you hit the refresh button for text updates. Who thinks Apple will announce hardware today as well? The last time Apple announced new hardware was back in June of 2017 at WWDC....

Apple Is Also Said to Bring Under-Screen Face ID to Future iPhones, but No Word on When That Will Happen Though Touch ID is implemented in other Apple devices, it might take a while before it is re-introduced in an advanced form in future iPhones. According to TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the latest survey states that Apple is not bringing the technology to the 2023 and 2024 lineup of iPhones....

The M1 Max Can Currently Be Spec’d out With a 10-Core CPU, 32-Core GPU, so the M2 Max Will Provide a Nice Bump in Cores Just like the M2, which is said to be mass produced on TSMC’s 4nm architecture, the M2 Pro and M2 Max expected to be found in updated MacBook Pro models, will likely be fabricated on the same manufacturing process. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman provided some insight on the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, stating that the new models will feature the codename J414, and J416, respectively....

The official names of the upcoming devices are reported to be the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Apple is also said to introduce a redesign this year, with the ‘Pro’ models getting rid of the notch entirely and replaced with a pill-shaped cutout. Aside from this, we should also see three Apple Watch models. For the first time, a premium smartwatch that is presumably named the Apple Watch Pro could launch and will be larger than the upcoming Apple Watch Series 8 and low-cost SE variant....

Apple to Announce iPhone SE 3 and iPad Air 5 in the Coming Months With Early Launch Date Speculations Point to March 8 In a new Bloomberg report, Mark Gurman has stated that Apple will host its Spring event on March 8 in which the company will announce its highly rumored iPhone SE 3 and the new iPad Air 5 with upgraded internals. The iPhone SE 3 will feature a similar design to the current model and we are not expecting the company to move forward with the iPhone XR or iPhone 11 design....