Intel doesn’t use the Atom name very much anymore, but the company still ships a lot of Atom-based, low-power processors for use in low-cost Chromebooks and Windows laptops. Basically if you find a sub-$300 laptop with an Intel Celeron or Pentium processor based on Gemini Lake or Apollo Lake architecture, you’re probably getting the successor […]
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Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 review (Ice Lake convertible laptop)
Dell’s XPS 13 line of laptops have set the standard in recent years for just how thin and light a notebook can be while still offering decent performance and long battery life. But the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 line of convertibles, which should be more versatile than their clamshell siblings, have been hampered by low […]
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Intel discontinues Kaby Lake-G processors with AMD graphics
A few years ago Intel embarked on a strange journey in the effort to offer laptop-class processors with high-performance graphics: the Intel Kaby Lake-G line of chips paired an Intel processor with AMD Radeon Vega graphics. Now that journey has come to an end. Intel has announced that it’s discontinuing its entire Kaby Lake G […]
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NVIDIA announces 10 new RTX Studio laptops + new features for creative professionals
Comments Off on NVIDIA announces 10 new RTX Studio laptops + new features for creative professionalsNVIDIA’s RTX graphics cards may be the first commercially available to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing for video games. But the company is also pushing its RTX products as solutions for laptops aimed at creative types who need a high-performance GPU. A few months ago the company announced that the first 17 “RTX Studio” laptops/mobile workstations […]
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Samsung licenses AMD tech for mobile graphics
AMD’s Radeon graphics technology could be coming to smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices. Or something. Samsung has announced it’s partnering with AMD to license AMD graphics intellectual property for use in future products “including smartphones.” While that could mean that we’ll see Radeon technology in upcoming Samsung Exynos mobile processors, this could also just be […]
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AMD’s next-gen GPU architecture launches in July
The upcoming AMD Radeon RX 5700 graphics card will be the first GPU based on AMD’s new Navi graphics technology. AMD didn’t spend a lot of time talking about what that means in terms of real-world performance during the company’s Computex keynote. But the company did say explain that the 7nm, Radeon RX 5700 would […]
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Intel says 10nm Ice Lake laptop chips offer up to 2x better graphics
When Intel’s Ice Lake processors ship later this year, these laptop processors will feature a number of first. They’ll be the first Intel 10nm chips to be produced in large volume. They’ll be the first members of Intel’s 10th-gen Core family. And they’ll also be the first chips to feature Intel Gen11 graphics. How big […]
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NVIDIA launches GeForce GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti graphics for budget gaming laptops
The biggest thing to happen in the gaming laptop space this year was probably NVIDIA’s release of mobile RTX 20-series graphics solutions with support for ray-tracing. But laptops with RTX 20-series graphics are expensive… and not everybody wants to pay for bleeding edge features like ray tracing. Enter the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 and GTX […]
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NVIDIA quietly launched two different MX250 GPUs (10 watts and 25 watts)
PC makers are starting to ship laptops with NVIDIA’s new GeForce MX250 GPU. It’s an entry-level GPU from the company which means it’s probably not going to satisfy gamers who want advanced features like ray tracing, but should be a step up from the integrated graphics available from most notebooks with 15 watt Intel or […]
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Intel’s first 9th-gen laptop chips are coming this year
We should start to see laptops with 9th-gen Intel Core processors later this year, but rather than start with an upgrade to the 15 watt Whiskey Lake-U chips that power today’s thin-and-light laptops, it looks like Intel is focusing on the follow-up to its 45-watt, high-performance Coffee Lake-H family first. If you’re curious about the […]
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Lilbits 351: More multi-camera phones
Phones with three rear cameras are becoming common. Even that weird Energy Power Max 18K that was unveiled today has three rear cameras. But right now there’s only one smartphone with five rear cameras: The Nokia 9 PureView. It probably won’t be the last though. Nokia developed the phone using multi-camera technology from Light, and […]
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AMD’s new graphics drivers boost Ryzen Mobile GPU performance by up to 17 percent
AMD has been shipping Ryzen Mobile processor for laptops since late 2017, and one of the key selling points of these chips is that they’re supposed to have better built-in graphics than their Intel counterparts. But it turns out that those Ryzen chips with Radeon Vega graphics weren’t living up to their full potential, because […]