After launching a very limited trial in California last month, Amazon is expanding its delivery-by-drone service to residents of a city in Texas where more than 100 thousand people live. Intel has provided a performance preview of its upcoming Intel Arc A750 desktop GPU, claiming it can outperform NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060. Meanwhile the chip maker is also said to be preparing to raise prices for most of its chips later this year, which could lead to higher PC prices.
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Intel allegedly plans to raise prices for most of its chips later this year by up to 20%, which could lead to higher prices for Intel-powered laptops, desktops, and other products. https://t.co/5dwIWDlbN8
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Intel says its upcoming Arc A750 GPU offers better performance than NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 in at least the five games tested (including Fortnite, Control, Borderlands 3, Cyberpunk 2077, and F1 2021). https://t.co/nfWbAipUd2
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After launching a limited trial in a small California town last month, Amazon Prime Air’s delivery-by-drone service is expanding to College Station, Texas, home of Texas A&M University. https://t.co/VOeCYN2kEk
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Google has rebranded Chrome OS as ChromeOS, but hasn’t updated all references on its own website yet, so I’m not going to bother updating the name on the hundreds of Liliputing articles that mention the operating system either. https://t.co/AVLi70VFsb
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iFixit’s Steam Deck repair/replacement parts catalog now includes a replacement fan ($30) and battery ($95). The company already offered other components like screens, thumb sticks, buttons, back plates, and chargers. https://t.co/CC5rG5sMUM pic.twitter.com/Zx8UcpQiq5
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An in-depth comparison of gaming performance on the Steam Deck (AMD chip with Zen 2 CPU + RDNA 2 graphics) and GPD Win Mx 2 with Ryzen 7 6800U (Zen 3+ CPU and even more RDNA 2 graphics cores). GPD wins in performance & battery life. Valve wins on price. https://t.co/9vWR43n5ue
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) July 15, 2022
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Well, the GPD gets better battery life IF you want to be always manually configuring the TDP on a per-game basis. That’s a no-go for most users. The huge draw of SteamOS is so users specifically do NOT have to set the TDP. There is the option for that, but let’s be honest. Most users do not want to go in and configure all of that nor do they have the technical know-how to want to do that. SteamOS is smart enough to lower the TDP unlike Windows. And the bigger win is Windows has no UI meant for handheld gaming while SteamOS purpose made for gaming. So the Steam Deck automatically wins here until SteamOS goes public for other devices.