Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 05/01/24
MSI teases its first handheld gaming PC — and it may be powered by Intel (Update) Intel’s latest Media Driver on Linux has brought in improvements in the Video Acceleration API as well as multiple changes for next-gen Arrow Lake CPUs. Intel Meteor Lake & Arrow Lake CPUs See A Boost In MSI teases its […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 15/12/23
Intel Meteor Lake “Core Ultra” CPUs Launched: The First Chiplet Design With Next-Gen CPU Cores, Arc GPU & NPU For The AI PC Revolution Today is a big day as Intel launches its next-generation Core Ultra CPU family codenamed Meteor Lake, bringing some major design changes. Intel’s First Chiplet CPUs Are Finally Here! Meet Core […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 08/12/23
Linux gets its own Blue Screen of Death, and it seems more helpful than the one on Windows Linux users can now enjoy BSODs just like Windows users, with the added benefit of being able to check crash log messages and QR codes. TSMC and Arizona labor unions come to agreement, fab construction back on […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 01/12/23
Microsoft focusing on handheld gaming support with new Xbox compact mode Microsoft has added a new UI update to its Xbox app that shrinks the left sidebar to save screen space. It was made specifically for small screens on handheld gaming devices, so the left sidebar doesn’t get in Valve brings Steam Link to Quest […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 24/11/23
AMD’s Next-Gen RDNA 4 “Radeon RX 8000” GPUs GFX1200 & GFX1201 GPUs Spotted, Possibly Navi 44 & Navi 48 AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 GPUs which would power the Radeon RX 8000 series have started to see support in the Linux LLVM patches with the addition of the GFX1200 & GFX1201 IPs. AMD Radeon RX Steam’s […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 17/11/23
US Govt Says Banned Chipmaking Equipment Still Ends Up in China Chinese companies go above and beyond to get wafer fab tools from American companies. Linux GPU Driver for Intel Lunar Lake Chip Adds CMRR Variable Refresh Rate Feature CMRR is a variation of variable refresh rate (VRR) technology that’s coming with Lunar Lake’s integrated […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 10/11/23
Latest Windows 2022 Server Update Causes BSODs on AMD EPYC With VBS Enabled Microsoft’s latest Windows Server 2022 update is causing BSODs on certain hardware and certain OS configurations. Part of the problem is VBS, which is known to cause Windows instability. Valve Announces Steam Deck OLED, Still Not Coming To Australia Aussies still waiting […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 03/11/23
Anti-Tracking DoNotSpy11 Utility Lets You Disable Window’s Copilot DoNotSpy has been updated to support Microsoft’s latest build of Windows 11, version 23H2. The app has also been updated to work with several new features in Windows, so that they can be disabled, including Copilot. AMD roadmap leak points to first Zen 5 processors in mid-2024 […]
Tech News Weekly Round Up – Week Ending 13/10/23
Nvidia’s plans for AI GPUs could upend PC gaming forever Nvidia is planning to seriously up the pace at which it releases graphics cards for AI and heavyweight usage, and that could have ramifications for the firm’s GeForce gaming GPUs.We hear from Counter-Strike 2 becomes lowest rated Valve game ever The initial announcement for Counter-Strike […]