MINISFORUM is best known for making small desktop computers, but the company plans to launch a high-performance 2-in-1 tablet early next year. It’s called the MINISFORUM V3 tablet, and it will have a 28-watt AMD Ryzen processor, a 14 inch, 2.5K 165 Hz display, support for up to 32GB of RAM, two USB4 ports, and […]
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AMD’s newest Ryzen 7040U mobile chips feature smaller Zen 4c CPU cores
The new AMD Ryzen 5 7545U and Ryzen 3 7440U chips are the first laptop processors to feature AMD’s new Zen 4c CPU cores, which first debuted earlier this year in some of the company’s EPYC server chips and the entry-level AMD Ryzen Z1 chip for handheld gaming PCs. So what makes a Zen 4c processor core different from […]
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Lilbits: NVIDIA and AMD to make ARM chips for Windows PCs?
It was big news when Microsoft announced in 2016 that it was bringing its desktop Windows operating system to computers with ARM chips made by Qualcomm. But seven years later most Windows on ARM computers to date have offered underwhelming performance and/or high price tags (or both), making them niche devices at best. That could change […]
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7 Comments on Lilbits: SD Express cards with 2GB/s speeds, AMD Threadripper chips with up to 96 cores and 192 threads
Lilbits: SD Express cards with 2GB/s speeds, AMD Threadripper chips with up to 96 cores and 192 threads
7 Comments on Lilbits: SD Express cards with 2GB/s speeds, AMD Threadripper chips with up to 96 cores and 192 threadsSD Express cards are removable storage cards that can fit in the same slot as other SD or microSD cards. But thanks to support for PCIe and NVMe interfaces, they can offer much higher data transfer speeds. And now the SD Association has unveiled a new version of the SD specification which doubles the top […]
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Samsung says Exynos 2400 chip with AMD RDNA 3 graphics will deliver big performance gains
11 Comments on Samsung says Exynos 2400 chip with AMD RDNA 3 graphics will deliver big performance gainsSamsung says its upcoming Exynos 2400 mobile processor will bring a 1.7X boost in CPU performance compared to last year’s Exynos 2200 processor, while delivering up to 14.7 times the AI performance. The chip will also feature an Xclipse 940 integrated GPU based on AMD RDNA 3 architecture. That’s… about all that Samsung is officially […]
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MINISFORUM BD770i is a mini ITX motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX Dragon Range processor
10 Comments on MINISFORUM BD770i is a mini ITX motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX Dragon Range processorAMD’s Ryzen 7 7745HX “Dragon Range” processor is a mobile chip that offers performance that rivals many desktop processors, with a 55 watt default TDP, 8 Zen 4 CPU cores, and 40MB of total cache. So while the chip was designed for gaming laptops and mobile workstations, MINISFORUM figured it’d be a pretty good solution […]
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AMD’s first hybrid chips feature Zen 4 and smaller Zen 4c cores
Most of the AMD Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” chips that have shipped to date feature a combination of Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 3 graphics. But the company has quietly begun shipping processors that feature “Phoenix 2” architecture with a mix of Zen 4 and smaller Zen 4c CPU cores. While AMD hasn’t officially said […]
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Lilbits: Microsoft kills of WordPad, Lenovo unveils a liquid-cooled gaming laptop, and AMD Ryzen 8050 mobile chip details leaked
8 Comments on Lilbits: Microsoft kills of WordPad, Lenovo unveils a liquid-cooled gaming laptop, and AMD Ryzen 8050 mobile chip details leakedMicrosoft is pulling the plug on WordPad, the basic word processor that’s been included in Windows for more than two decades. The company has added the app to its list of deprecated features, saying it is “no longer being updated and will be removed in a future release of Windows.” In other recent tech news […]
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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is the first mobile chip with 3D V-Cach
The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is a 55+ watt laptop processor with 16 Zen 4 CPU cores, 32 threads and support for speeds up to 5.4 GHz. It’s also the first mobile chip to feature AMD’s 3D V-cache technology, which stacks cache in a way that lets AMD fit more L3 cache on a single […]
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Lilbits: Samsung’s new foldables and AMD’s new security vulnerability
Samsung’s newest Galaxy Z foldable phones are up for pre-order. Prices start at about $1000 for the Galaxy Z Flip5 and $1800 for the Galaxy Z Fold5, although various retailers are offering free storage upgrades, gift cards, or other perks to sweeten the deal before the phones are generally available on August 11. Meanwhile, I […]