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Shipments of HDDs drop 33% yearly on weakening demand, raising the question of how much longer HDDs can survive Last quarter, shipments of hard disk drives through the consumer and business marketplace only amassed 45 million units. For comparison, in 2010, HDDs peaked at 651 million units, which was 162 million on average in each quarter of that year. Tom’s Hardware notes that the enterprise market has been consistently growing with the need for HPC, and cloud-based environments are inexpensive, minimal in power consumption, and offer the most significant storage sizes compared to SSDs....

There’s an interesting note about this, though, and it comes from Peter Moore, a former Xbox executive. In a report from Gamespot, Moore spoke to the Front Office Sports Podcast, saying that Microsoft essentially encouraged the console wars of the mid-2000s to 2010s. Moore said, “We encouraged the console wars, not to create division, but to challenge each other, and when I say each other, I mean Microsoft and Sony....

This month’s system update included stability improvements as well as some under-the-hood changes and updates to the bad words list. As now spotted by Switch miner ‘OatmealDome’, a new rebootless update for the platform adds even more bad words, including swears, racial slurs, words of a sexual nature, and references to terrorist organizations, to the platform. As mentioned by the miner, this new “rebootless” is installed silently and does not change the version number of the Switch firmware....

[Original Story] A new short Steam Deck video has been shared online today, providing a new look at the console’s operating system and more. The new video, which has been shared on Bilibili, showcases some of the console’s setting like GPU, TDP, and others. While the console’s language is set to Chinese, making it difficult for those who don’t speak to language to understand the settings, the video is a very good watch, as it shows how some of the most basic functions of the console will work....

[Original story] Sony has rolled out PlayStation 5 System Update 22.02-06-02.00, once again further improving the console’s system performance. The new firmware version appears to be a minor one and rolls in at roughly 1GB without an additional update for the PS5 DualSense controller. As with most of Sony’s firmware updates, the release notes are quite ‘minimal’, and only mention improvements to the console’s system performance. We’re pretty sure that this update also included some undocumented changes....

“It’s here. Explore the world of Cyberpunk 2077 in the next-gen update with a free 5-hour long trial on Xbox Series X|S. Available now.” [Original story] Cyberpunk 2077 is already showing as optimized for Xbox Series X|S, and from the looks of it, CDPR is looking to release a free demo version for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. As covered yesterday, developer CD Projekt Red is today airing a new livesteam for the title, and due to the timing of this steam, this has fans believing that the developer will finally reveal more about the next-gen version of Cyberpunk 2077....

The live stream will air on April 5 at 11 AM ET on both Twitch and YouTube, and during the broadcast, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, CTO Kim Libreri, Communications Director Dana Cowley, VP of Engineering Nick Penwarden, Technical Art Direction Lead Zak Parrish, Senior Director at Quixel, Teddy Bergsman Lind, and Developer and Creator Community Director, Sjoerd de Jong, will explore what Epic has in store for the future of games....

ACPI Platform Profile support on Lenovo AMD-based laptop systems utilizing Linux are currently malfunctioning until Lenovo and AMD can locate a fix ACPI Platform Profile support permits users to select the power, balance, and power-savings preferences, along with other potential profiles, on Linux with current kernel activity that witnesses direct support obtainable for leading laptop brands such as Lenovo, Dell, and ASUS, to name a few. The consumer’s profile preference is controlled from inside a sysfs interface....

Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) have released their earnings for the quarter ending December 31, a report many were anticipating given the company’s ongoing reckoning with workplace misconduct and the pending acquisition of the company by Microsoft. Unfortunately, those hoping for a particularly lively earnings call are in for a disappointment, as embattled Acti-Blizz CEO Bobby Kotick and the rest of the company’s management team have retreated from the spotlight, announcing they’ll no longer be holding any conference calls pending their “transaction” with Microsoft....

AMD EPYC 9000 Genoa CPU Family Leaked: 18 SKUs In The Works With Up To 96 Zen 4 Cores, 384 MB Cache, 400W TDP Starting with the details, AMD has already announced that EPYC Genoa would be compatible with the new SP5 platform which brings a new socket so SP3 compatibility would exist up till EPYC Milan. The EPYC Genoa processors would also feature support for new memory and new capabilities....

AMD FSR 2.0 To Bring Impressive Performance, Impressive Image Quality & Support Across GPUs From All Vendors Soon! This new information comes from CapFrameX’s developer who has reported that AMD might have already shown test footage internally and it looks very impressive. Just to recap, the AMD FSR tech runs solely on the compute cores featured on RDNA GPUs and doesn’t require any AI assistance & that’s what separates it from NVIDIA’s DLSS and Intel’s XeSS technologies....

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Rumored To Utilize RDNA 3 “Navi 33” GPU, Aiming The $400 US Segment With Faster Than 6900 XT Performance The AMD RDNA 3 “Navi 33” GPU was previously rumored to be utilized in the Radeon RX 7700 series lineup but a new rumor by @Kepler_L2 seems to suggest that it will instead be used in the Radeon RX 7600 series which is more of a mid-range lineup....

AMD’s Next-Gen RDNA 3 GPUs For Navi 3X Lineup To Double The Cache Size For Compute Units & Shader Array Published over at the FreeDesktop Linux repository by AMD’s Aaron Liu and discovered by Coelacanth-Dream and Kepler_L2, we get to see the first details regarding the cache sizes in upcoming RDNA 3 GPUs such as the Navi 31, Navi 32, and Navi 33 chips which were recently leaked. Coming to the details, the AMD RDNA 3 (GFX11) GPU lineup will feature double the L0 vector cache for each Compute Unit or CU and also double the GL1 data cache (RDNA L1 cache for each Shader Array or SA....

With games and other programs benefiting from additional cores, the Ryzen 7 7700X is the model that we recommend, as it delivers that sweet spot between price and performance. Featuring a total of eight cores and 16 threads, the 7700X can operate up to 5.40GHz for impeccable performance and is priced at $348.99. Succeeding the 5900X and 5950X are the Ryzen 9 7900X and Ryzen 9 7950X, respectively. The last two Ryzen 7000 CPUs are meant for users that want the absolute best, tackling a plethora of tasks that require multiple cores....

AMD Dragon Range Allegedly Leaks: Ryzen 9 7845HX With 12 Zen 4 Cores For High-End Laptops Ashes of Singularity has quite a fanbase and is a widely-known collaboration with AMD for graphics and processing power and Valve (the company optimized the game for the Steam Deck). In a recent benchmark posted on the AotS: Escalation website, an entry of AMD’s high-end Ryzen 9 7845HX 12-core CPU has been unearthed. The screenshot from the AOTS benchmark shows that the AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX CPU comes with 12 cores and 24 threads....

AMD creates six-thousand distinctive system configurations to test its latest graphics drivers, beating its rival testing ecosystem The blog post from the company details how AMD puts a total of 6000 different system configurations to test internally. This is to ensure that the majority (99.5%) are tested for stability before the drivers can be shipped out to the public. This also ensures that the majority of the systems do not face any stability issues or crashes with AMD’s Adrenalin software....

AMD seeks higher performance of EPYC CPUs in Linux using user-space hinting for workloads The new patches are labeled “experimental” and “request for comments” and count low-level knobs to control the scheduler’s arrangement of user-space tasks relying upon the hints provided by the user-space. The new patch sequence from AMD includes the capability to select task placement near the parent if there is an inactive core in the local group. From there, the process determines to proceed with the group containing the least utilization to extend the workload, and additional probable hints are also being examined....

Google has a history of publishing this information for free on the web in the form of a frequently updated pie chart. The pie chart would have values assigned to each version of Android. However, the data did not really help Google all that much as people started contrasting Apple’s faster adoption rate for the new version of IOS. With time, Google stopped updating the chart to a point that it was taken down....

Apple Announces iPadOS 16 With a Wide Range of Apps, new Multitasking Interface, Reference Mode, and Much More iOS 16 is a major update considering the number of changes it brings to the table. Similarly, iPadOS 16 brings enhanced multitasking tools to the platform which will bring the iPad a lot closer to the Mac. Let us start by discussing the apps. The Weather app is finally coming to the iPad and developers will soon get a weather API to build their support in the app....

TSMC Will Manufacture 4nm Chips For Apple in the United States in 2024 According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, TSMC’s $12 billion chip plant will manufacture 4nm chips in 2024. At this point in time, the facility is under construction and expected to open in 2024. Initially, TSMC’s Arizona facility was slated to begin production of 5nm chips. However, with pressure from Apple and other companies, TSMC is open to manufacturing 4nm chips as soon as it begins production....