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Hardware detective HXL @9550pro on Xreports that AMD has officially announced several brand-newZen 3andZen 4CPUs in China. The new CPUs are comprised of a new “Ryzen 5000 XT” refresh and a pair of new purportedly iGPU-lessRyzen 8000-seriesparts, the Ryzen 7 8700F and Ryzen 5 8400F. A release date was not announced, but due to the Chinese locality of this announcement, it seems like most (if not all) of these CPUs could be exclusive to the Asian market....

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Grayscale, Gamma and Color The Q27G4XY has a large selection of picture modes for SDR, all of which can be calibrated. I stuck with the default PC Mode for the grayscale, gamma and color tests. This mode lets you pick any gamut from sRGB to DCI-P3, and offers gamma presets, fixed color temps, color management and a two-point white balance option....

Back in August, Aoostar introduced the AG01 OCuLink eGPU docking station with integrated 400W PSU— and today, the company has officially launched its successor, the 500WAoostar AG02 eGPUdocking station, keeping promotional / delayed “Black Friday” pricing of $219.99 until the pre-sale window closes on December 30th. The company says its new Aoostar AG02 eGPU docks will start being shipped “around January 15th” and, like the AG01, they are cross-compatible with the Lenovo TGX eGPU interface by swapping the OCuLink connector....

Another MacBook Pro M4 unboxing video has been released today. This time popular Russian TechTuber Romancev768 shows off the illicit goods. Simultaneously, there are also reports of hundreds of MacBook Pro M4 units being up for sale via private social media groups. After enjoying years of enviable leak-resistant product launches, the barn doors seem to have well and truly been blasted off at Apple. Some of the extra info revealed in the latest video includes a clear view of the rear of the packaging where many specs are confirmed....

Throughout its history, Arm has licensed its instruction set architecture or designs of actual processor components, such as general-purpose cores or graphics processing units, but not the whole chip design. However,Reutersreports that the company is reconsidering its business strategy to increase its earnings. Under the new strategy, Arm plans to offer more complete chip designs and even actual chiplets that compete against products developed by Arm’s customers. In addition, Arm reportedly intends to increase its license price threefold....

James Cameron, an Academy Award-winning director,has joined theStability AI board of directors. One of the world’s top directors, Cameron, is known for pushing the boundaries of visual effects that required new inventions in movies such as Avatar, Terminator, and Titanic. He is indeed quite familiar with the most advanced technologies. However, there is a catch between him and AI: he has criticized AI throughout his career. “I have spent my career seeking out emerging technologies that push the very boundaries of what’s possible, all in the service of telling incredible stories,” said Cameron....

Gaming PCs are great because of the flexibility they offer. you’re able to choose the parts you want to fit your needs and the type of games you play. While plenty of people like to put together their own PCs like thebest PC builds, others prefer the simplicity of buying a rig that’s ready to play out of the box. If you’re playing at 1080p, you may not need the highest-end CPU and graphics cards....

China has established the Beijing Yandong Microelectronics (YDME) semiconductor company, destined to operate a 300mm fab that will cost around $4.6 billion to get up and running. BOE Technology will support the chipmaker, which will produce microelectronics on mature process technologies such as 28nm and above, reports theSouth China Morning Post. This semiconductor industry project will be spearheaded by YDME, a state-owned company listed on Shanghai’s Star Market, which is set to control a 24....

Recently, itturned outthat China-based memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began to ship DDR5 memory chips. However, according to the findings of aChinese semiconductor researcher, the die size of CXMT’s 16 Gb DDR5 memory IC is 40% larger than that of a competing Samsung chip, which means that it is significantly more expensive to build due to the use of less advanced chipmaking technology. Of course, since the information comes from an unofficial source, take it with a grain of salt, but the technician does deconstruct the DRAM module on video, lending credence to the findings....

This June, the tech world’s main event is happening in Taiwan. While more headlines often come out ofCES, the consumer electronics expo that happens in Las Vegas in January,ComputexTaipei is a far more important show. Because it takes place in the land where many components and PCs are manufactured, companies can carry new prototypes right over from their corporate HQs and onto the show floor. Some of the hottest companies in the PC space are based in Taiwan, including MSI, Asus, Acer, Gigabyte,Cooler Master, and ASRock....

CPUIDhas released a new version of its famous CPU-Z hardware diagnostic tool. The new program recognizes the latest processors from AMD and Intel and clock unbuffered memory modules (CUDIMMs). In addition to detecting codenamed Granite Ridge and Arrow Lake products, the new program can now recognize re-badgedRaptor LakeCPUs. The latest CPU-Z version 2.12 can now detect AMD’sRyzen 7 9800X3Dprocessor for gaming desktops and display its final specifications, including the 3D V-Cache size, as well asCore Ultra 200-series’Arrow Lake-H' and ‘Arrow Lake-HX’ processors for high-end and gaming laptops....

Chinese online stores tend to carry graphics cards based on Nvidia’s laptop graphics processors, but some are coming to market with cracked GPUs. The sellers clearly state that these are mobile GPUs with lower performance and power consumption than their desktop counterparts. But where do they get these graphics chips? Since some of these GeForce RTX 4080M/GeForce RTX 4090M GPUs come with cracks, experts fromPRO Hi-Techbelieve that they may well come from scrapyards....

The issue with Raptor Lake crashes continues to plague Intel. Just a few days ago, reports emerged that instability issues exist not only inmainstream consumer desktop PCsbut also indata center servers powered by desktop Core i9 CPUsin LGA 1700 workstation motherboards. NowAlderon Games reportsthat Raptor Lake crashes impact Intel’s 13th and 14th-Gen processors in laptops as well. “Yes we have several laptops that have failed with the same crashes. It’s just slightly more rare then the desktop CPU faults,” the dev posted....