Microsoft releases new AI powered Surfaces
With Intel Inside
Software King of the World Microsoft has just released a couple of new Surfaces for the business crowd—the Surface Pro 10 for Business and the Surface Laptop 6 for Business. They're equipped with the latest Intel Core Ultra processors, a fancy Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and this nifty new Copilot key that's all about AI tricks in Windows 11.
SK Hynix shows off new Platinum P51 Gen 5 SSD
Coming in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities and reaching 14GB/s
SK Hynix revealed a bit of a surprise at the Nvidia GTC 2024 show, announcing the new PCB01 PCIe 5.0 SSD based on its in-house controller, its own 238-layer 3D TLC NAND flash, and promising rather impressive transfer speeds of up to 14GB/s.
Xiaomi announces Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China
First one to get Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC
Xiaomi announced the new Civi 4 Pro smartphone in China. The new Civi series phone comes with some rather unique features and it is actually the first smartphone based on Qualcomm's recently announced Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC.
Qualcomm officially announces Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3 SoC
With Cortex-X4 Prime core and on-device AI
Qualcomm has announced its latest mid-range chipset, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3, giving it a single Cortex-X4 Prime core and adding on-device AI capabilities, pushing it much closer to the flagship Snapdragon 8 series SoCs.
One for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege
AMD has released its latest AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 24.3.1 driver which adds support for Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and Outpost: Infinity Siege, new HYPR-Tune support for a couple of games, and fixes several issues seen with earlier driver releases.
More games announced and more get RTX enhancements
Nvidia has announced that Dragon's Dogma 2 and Alone in the Dark are coming to Geforce NOW this week. Previously, Nvidia announced several new big titles that will be coming to Geforce NOW and launching with Nvidia RTX enhancements.
Intel releases ARC 101.5379 Beta driver
Optimizations for a couple of new games and performance improvements
Intel has released the latest version of its Arc GPU driver, the 101.5379 Beta, which brings Game On support for a couple of new games including Diablo IV Ray Tracing Update, Dragon's Dogma 2, Horizon Forbidden West, and The Legend of the Condor Heroes, as well as performance improvements across Intel Arc A-series graphics products and Intel Core Ultra with Intel Arc GPUs.
Warning about AI's "irrational exuberance"
Are we heading for a tech bubble burst?
Cloud Native Computing Foundation boss Priyanka Sharma told the gathered throngs at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe that AI is in a phase of "irrational exuberance" and people are getting too excited too soon.
Ubisoft teams up with Nvidia
Aims for more interesting NPCs
Ubisoft's Paris R&D centre is working with Nvida to explore the possibilities of generative AI within gaming.
Employment crisis in tech industry
So much for the skills gap
Since the current year's commencement, over 50,000 employees have been dismissed from upwards of 200 technology firms, as reported by the tracking website Layoffs. fyi.