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AMD may use Samsung’s 4nm node for Chromebook processors

A new J.P. Morgan report suggests that AMD may be working with Samsung foundries on launching a new 4nm Chromebook processor.
Tags: Apple, News, Mac, Samsung, Trends, Computing, Amd, CPU, Processor, APU, 4nm

These are the 10 most popular stocks on Reddit's WallStreetBets forum

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Reddit's WallStreetBets forum entered the mainstream during the January GameStop craze. Driving stocks like GameStop and AMC Entertainment, retail investors congregating on the subreddit are a force in the stock market.These are the 10 most popular stocks WallStreetBets is talking about right now.Following which stocks Reddit's WallStreetBets crowd is talking about this year has paid off, as several have gone through epic r...
Tags: Apple, Trends, Markets, Getty Images, Reddit, Nvidia, Amd, Alibaba Group, Stock Market, Traders, Gamestop, Reuters, Intel Corporation, Chandler Arizona, Spencer Platt Getty Images, VCG

Walmart is practically giving away this Lenovo gaming laptop today

Upgrade your gear by taking advantage of Walmart's $211 discount for the Lenovo Legion 5, which lowers the price of the AMD-powered gaming laptop to just $699.
Tags: Deals, Gaming, Trends, Walmart, Computing, Amd, Lenovo, Lenovo Legion, Gaming Deals, Gaming Laptop Deals, Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming Laptop, Computing Deals, Walmart 2021

Intel Core i3-12100 Quad-Core Alder Lake CPU Is Faster Than Ryzen 3 3300X

Intel Core i3-12100 quad-core Alder Lake CPU has been tested and found to be faster than the Ryzen 3 3300X. The post Intel Core i3-12100 Quad-Core Alder Lake CPU Is Faster Than Ryzen 3 3300X appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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AMD Renoir-X APUs Will Not Come With Integrated Graphics

The Renoir-X series might be the previously leaked Ryzen 5 4500 and Ryzen 3 4100 components, which were discovered on the USB-IF website in July. The post AMD Renoir-X APUs Will Not Come With Integrated Graphics appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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The 8 best laptops in 2021 for work, entertainment, and gaming

Prices are accurate at the time of publication. Lenovo; Apple; Amazon; Alyssa Powell/Insider Dell's XPS 13 still balances performance, power, and portability better than any other laptop. But the MacBook Air is the best choice for Apple loyalists.  Check out our guide to the best cheap laptops of 2021 for more buying advice. A great laptop is essential for studying, working, and gaming. We've checked and double-checked our picks for the holiday shopping season to ensure they're up...
Tags: Reviews, Apple, Google, Amazon, Cyber Monday, Google Drive, Microsoft, Mac, Samsung, Trends, Walmart, Intel, Os, Best, Features, Netflix

SiFive's New RISC-V Chip Challenges Decades-old Computing Designs

The Performance P650 won't beat a top-end Arm chip in a Samsung or Apple smartphone, but the startup believes its designs eventually could. From a report: It's really hard to get a new chip family to catch on when companies like Intel and Qualcomm ship their products by the millions, but SiFive has a faster new design it hopes will carve a niche. The startup on Thursday announced its Performance P650 design, which comes with a 50% speed boost over the P550 that arrived in June. SiFive is one of ...
Tags: Apple, Samsung, Tech, Intel, Amd, Qualcomm, SiFive, Patrick Little, Qualcomm Samsung Apple MediaTek

2022 Razer Blade Gaming Laptops Will Cost More Says Razer CEO

Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan says the company's next-generation gaming laptops will face a price rise. More AMD-based Razer Blade laptops are expected to be released in 2022. The post 2022 Razer Blade Gaming Laptops Will Cost More Says Razer CEO appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Sapphire GPRO X080 Cryptomining Card With Navi 22 GPU and 10GB Memory Pictured

Desрite the fасt thаt the Sаррhire GРRО series is fаr mоre соmmоnly аssосiаted with wоrkstаtiоn sоlutiоns, these саrds аre unrelаted tо рrоfessiоnаl асtivities. The GРRО X080 аnd X060 аre actually сryрtоmining саrds. The post Sapphire GPRO X080 Cryptomining Card With Navi 22 GPU and 10GB Memory Pictured appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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The 4 best Apple MacBook laptops in 2021 for work, general use, and students

Prices are accurate at the time of publication. Hollis Johnson/Business Insider The MacBook Air is still the best MacBook overall, thanks to its power and portability. The 13-inch MacBook Pro now has 14- and- 16-inch versions in 2021, but we have yet to test them. Apple's MacBooks no longer use Intel processor, now with its M1 line including Pro and Max variants. The best MacBook should offer the right level of performance, long battery life, and a comfortable keyboard and trackpad at a r...
Tags: Reviews, Apple, Amazon, Cyber Monday, Black Friday, Trends, Bloomberg, Intel, Best, Features, Macbook, Buying Guide, Air, Amd, MacBook Air, Monterey

These are the 10 talked about stocks on Reddit's WallStreetBets

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Reddit's WallStreetBets forum entered the mainstream during the January GameStop craze. Driving stocks like GameStop and AMC Entertainment, retail investors congregating on the subreddit are a force in the stock market.These are the 10 most popular stocks WallStreetBets is talking about right now.Following which stocks Reddit's WallStreetBets crowd is talking about this year has paid off, as several have gone through epic r...
Tags: Apple, Facebook, Trends, Markets, Getty Images, Reddit, Nvidia, Trading, Associated Press, Amd, Alibaba Group, Stock Market, Traders, Gamestop, Spencer Platt Getty Images, VCG

AMD Allegedly Jacking Up RX 6000 GPU Prices by 10 Percent

As wafer costs increase, so are the costs of GPUs. According to a post on the Board Forums, AMD says it's increasing the price of its RX 6000 series GPUs by 10 percent across the board. ExtremeTech reports: This pricing change will apparently occur in the next shipment of GPUs to its partners, which will apparently drive up the price of these GPUs by $20 to $40 USD. This news arrives just in time for the holiday shopping season, when demand for GPUs is expected to increase even more, as if that ...
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Nvidia's DLSS Has Come To Linux Gaming

Years after its failed Steam Machines, Valve is slowly but surely improving the state of Linux gaming. From a report: The company's upcoming Steam Deck handheld runs atop Linux, and its Proton compatibility layer lets it -- and other computers -- play Windows games as well. Now, Valve has officially added support for Nvidia's DLSS machine learning temporal upscaling technique to Proton, potentially bringing big FPS boosts and less flicker in games that support the technology. Proton 6.3-8 is t...
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AMD Launches Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition For The DIY Market In Europe

AMD has launched Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition for the DIY market in Europe. In comparison to the air-cooled RX 6900 XT, the RX 6900 Liquid Edition has a pre-binned Navi 21 XTXH GPU with faster clock speeds. The post AMD Launches Radeon RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled Edition For The DIY Market In Europe appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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The best budget laptops for 2021

Looking for a budget notebook for work or play? The best budget laptops will get the job done without gouging your wallet.
Tags: Trends, Computing, Dell, Amd, Lenovo, Buying Guides, Emerging Tech, Budget Laptops, Acer Swift 3, Laptop Buying, Microsoft Surface Laptop Go

AMD To Increase RX 6000 Series Board Partner Pricing By 10%

It appears that AMD will be increasing board partner pricing of RX 6000 series products by 10% according to posts on Board Channels forums. This 10% change will translate to around a $20 to $40 effective price increase. The post AMD To Increase RX 6000 Series Board Partner Pricing By 10% appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktops CPUs Are Available On Huge Discount

AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktops CPUs see huge price cuts owing to Amazon's early Black Friday sale of the year. The prices stoop down to as low as $342 for a 16-Core CPU. The post AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desktops CPUs Are Available On Huge Discount appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
Tags: Amazon, Hardware, All News, Hardware News, Amd, CPU, Ryzen 9, Ryzen 7 5800X

Radeon RX 6000 And GeForce RTX 30 Cards Are Twice As Expensive Now

According to the latest price trends in Europe GeForce RTX 30 graphics cards now have a higher average price compared to October. However, Radeon RX 6000 card’s value has decreased, because retailers have received a new shipment of Radeon RX 6800 non-XT cards resulting in a lower average price for the whole series, 3DCenter notes. The post Radeon RX 6000 And GeForce RTX 30 Cards Are Twice As Expensive Now appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
Tags: Europe, All News, Gaming News, Hardware News, Nvidia, Graphics Card, Amd, Graphics Cards, Gpu, RTX 30, RX6000

Qualcomm Has an Exclusivity Deal With Microsoft For Windows On ARM

An anonymous reader quotes a report from XDA Developers: Last week, we reported that MediaTek is planning to build a chipset for Windows on ARM. As it turns out, the Windows on ARM chipset space could be even hotter than that, because there's a reason that we've only seen Qualcomm SoCs in ARM PCs so far. Qualcomm actually has an exclusivity deal with Microsoft for Windows on ARM, and speaking with people familiar with it, we've learned that the deal is set to expire soon. Other than the fact tha...
Tags: Microsoft, Samsung, Tech, Amd, Qualcomm, Apple Silicon Macs

AMD Radeon RX 6500XT And RX 6400 Budget RDNA 2 Cards Are Allegedly In The Works

A leaker has claimed the AMD Radeon RX 6500XT And RX 6400 Budget RDNA 2 Cards are inbound. AMD Radeon RX 6600 is, as of now, the most mainstream RDNA 2 card. The post AMD Radeon RX 6500XT And RX 6400 Budget RDNA 2 Cards Are Allegedly In The Works appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Intel Alder Lake-P may be almost 50% faster than the Apple M1 Max

Intel Alder Lake-P is an upcoming line of laptop processors. Early benchmarks have started to emerge, showing the CPU outperforming not just AMD but also Apple.
Tags: Apple, News, Trends, Computing, Amd, AMD Ryzen, 16-inch MacBook Pro, Intel Alder Lake, Apple M1 Max, Msi Raider

ASUS ROG Strix 15 G533Z Gaming Laptop Will Feature AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU

A report by MyLaptopGuide reveals that ASUS’s next-gen gaming laptop, G533Z, has just hit the FCC certification. The upcoming laptop will reportedly feature AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU. The post ASUS ROG Strix 15 G533Z Gaming Laptop Will Feature AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Crypto Miners Are Now Focusing On CPU Mining

Raptoreum crypto CPU mining may prove to be a threat to AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 6000 series due to it favoring large L3 caches in the processors. The post Crypto Miners Are Now Focusing On CPU Mining appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Here are the top 10 most-traded stocks among retail investors this year, according to Nasdaq

In this photo illustration the WallStreetBets page seen in the background of a silhouette hand holding a mobile phone with Reddit logo. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Nasdaq's Retail Trading Activity Tracker shows the top 10 stocks retail traders bought up this year. Tesla and Apple led the list, while exchange-traded funds made it as well. AMC was the third most-traded stock but much of the investing was not meme stocks. It's bee...
Tags: Apple, Google, Elon Musk, Amc, Trends, Markets, Tesla, Intel, Shanghai, Reddit, Ncaa, Meta, Amd, Nasdaq, Gamestop, Spy

Upcoming Minisforum MiniPC Will Be Powered By Ryzen 9 5900X CPU

MinisForum is reportedly preparing a powerful MiniPC possessing an AMD B550 motherboard and either Ryzen 5000G or Ryzen 5000X CPU. The post Upcoming Minisforum MiniPC Will Be Powered By Ryzen 9 5900X CPU appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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AMD EPYC “Genoa” To Feature 96 Zen4 Cores While “Bergamo” Will Have 128 Zen4c cores

A new roadmap was announced by AMD, which revealed that Zen4 products will be based on 5nm process technology. The post AMD EPYC “Genoa” To Feature 96 Zen4 Cores While “Bergamo” Will Have 128 Zen4c cores appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs

Microsoft has announced a new edition of Windows 11 designed specifically for the K-8 education sector, dubbed "Windows 11 SE." This new edition of Windows 11 is designed to address fundamental challenges that schools are facing day to day with improved performance, optimized resources, and simple to deploy and manage. From a report: Microsoft says Windows 11 SE has been optimized for education focused low-cost PCs, most of which start at the affordable price of $249 and are powered by low-end I...
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AMD Signs Up Meta in Another Big Win on Server Customers

Advanced Micro Devices said Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, is becoming a user of its server processors, further eroding Intel's hold on that lucrative market. From a report: Meta will use AMD Epyc processors in its data center computers, the two companies said Monday at an event. AMD also unveiled a new version of that chip with extra memory, which Microsoft Corp. will use in an offering from its Azure cloud computing service. The chipmaker also showed off a new graphics chip for ar...
Tags: Facebook, Tech, Intel, Amd, Microsoft Corp, Lisa Su, Advanced Micro Devices, Intel Read, AMD Epyc, Meta Platforms, Meta the world

Intel's Alder Lake Reviewed: 12th Gen Core Processors Bring Fight Back To AMD

MojoKid writes: After months of speculation and early look teases, Intel's 12th Gen Core processors are finally ready for prime time. Today marks the embargo lift for independent reviews of Alder Lake and it's clear Chipzilla is back and bringing the fight again versus chief rival AMD. Intel 12th Gen Core processors incorporate two new CPU core designs, dubbed Efficiency (E-core) and Performance (P-core). In addition to this new hybrid core architecture, 12th Gen Core processors and the Z690 mot...
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OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL Coming To WSL2 For Intel GPUs

"Intel is gearing up to go to a war with Nvidia," writes Slashdot reader labloke11. "They have their OneAPI and their GPU. It will be interesting... For me, I like competition." Phoronix reports: While Intel Alder Lake is dominating today's news cycle, Intel and Microsoft also announced today that they have brought oneAPI Level Zero and Intel OpenCL support to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2) while employing Intel graphics hardware acceleration. Similar to NVIDIA bringing CUDA and their accele...
Tags: Microsoft, Tech, Intel, Nvidia, Amd, Gpu, Slashdot, Phoronix, Cuda, Intel Alder Lake