Intel’s most powerful desktop graphics card to date goes on sale in a few weeks. The company says you’ll be able to buy the Arc A770 on October 12, 2022 for $329. Expect performance that’s competitive with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060.
Intel ARC A770 desktop GPUs will be available Oct 12 for $329. Review units are heading out to testers now. pic.twitter.com/8HXqevNvTO
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
The chip maker also announced new software coming to Intel Evo certified laptops in 2023 that will provide a way to link your PC to Android and iOS devices, introduced its 13th-gen Core processors for desktops, and promised that 13th-gen chips for mobile are on the way. Meanwhile rival AMD announced that it’s Ryzen 7000 series desktop chips are available starting today, and there are already a bunch of real-world reviews in the wild.
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Of course PC makers, Microsoft, and others have been offering their own solutions for this for years. Apple has its own version for Mac + iOS devices.
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
This sounds great, but unfortunately, in order to create a phone companion experience on Android that’s comparable to what Samsung + Windows or Google + Chrome OS users get, Intel would *have* to work with Android OEMs because of limitations with some Android APIs. https://t.co/WueftGTdhn
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) September 27, 2022
Plasma Mobile picks up a “clear all notifications” button, a “close all” button in the multitasking view, a keyboard icon in the navbar that appears when running apps that don’t automatically open it, and better tablet support (can be installed alongside regular Plasma Desktop). https://t.co/az85yasFFT
— LinuxSmartphone (@LinuxSmartphone) September 27, 2022
Pixel 7 pricing (kind of) confirmed by a premature Amazon listing. Expect the entry-level Pixel 7 with 128GB of storage to sell for $599. https://t.co/JTwI5QsUL4 pic.twitter.com/9RhrnqlEQ7
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
Intel unveils its Flex GPUs as its first Data Center GPUs with support for hardware-accelerated AV1 decoding. pic.twitter.com/5s6NrWehX9
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
AMD Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors with Zen 4 CPU cores are now available with prices ranging from $299 for a Ryzen 5 7600X (6 cores, 12 threads up to 5.4 GHz to $699 for a Ryen 9 7950X (16 cores, 32- threads, up to 5.7 GHz). https://t.co/50n5SDGHoD
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
Want to read every single review of AMD’s new Ryzen 7000 desktop processors? This seems like a good place to start. (From what I’ve seen, they’re mostly pretty positive). https://t.co/kPxQvkyYcA
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
The Polywell X58 Box PC is a compact fanless computer with a Rockchip RK3588 processor, up to 8GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports. Designed for kiosk, security, or other commercial uses, it runs Android 12. https://t.co/wt3XiyW5lq
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
LapPi Version 2 Coming Soon!
LapPi modular, DIY laptop kit built around everyone’s favorite single-board computer @Raspberry_Pi pic.twitter.com/QuovZOPUso— SB Components Ltd (@sb_ltd) September 27, 2022
E Ink will show off an 8 inch, 1920 x 1440 pixel (300 ppi) display with a 350ms refresh rate for black and white content (or .5 to 1.5 seconds for color) at CEATAC net month. pic.twitter.com/8eaHBUB1Mi
— Liliputing (@liliputingnews) September 27, 2022
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