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  • Intel Arc A380 Entry-Level GPU is powerful enough to run the new Crysis Game at 1080p

    Intel Arc A380 Entry-Level GPU is powerful enough to run the new Crysis Game at 1080p

    An entry-level graphics card with the complete ACM-G11 GPU and Alchemist Xe-HPG architecture is the Intel Arc A380. It contains the entire GPU setup, which employs 8 Xe-Cores or 1024 ALUs. Additionally, the graphics card has 6 GB of GDDR6 RAM operating at a TBP of roughly 92W. The card’s maximum frequency rating of 2450 MHz demonstrates that Intel is making the most of TSMC’s 6nm manufacturing node. The card has a 15.5 Gbps VRAM clock for 186 GB/s of bandwidth across a 96-bit bus interface.

    The GUNNIR Intel Arc A380 Photon OC graphics card was used in the testing carried out by the tech publication. There are currently just two bespoke designs on the market, and this is one of them. The card runs at a faster clock speed of 2450 MHz and has a slightly higher TBP of 92W (compared to the reference’s 75W) (vs 2250 Mhz).

    The original Crysis version, not the remastered version, was used to evaluate the Intel Arc A380 graphics card.

    The earlier game’s resolution was set to 1080p and it makes use of the DX10 API (FHD). “Very High” quality settings with 4x MSAA were used. Even though it’s more than ten years old, the original Crysis still a challenging game. The original Crysis is outclassed by the remastered version’s even more GPU-taxing quality options, like Ray tracing capabilities and higher-res textures.

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    It was demonstrated how the Intel Arc A380 graphics card handled a brief portion of the game. This is from the “Paradise Lost” level, which is the first one you reach after leaving the Ceph mothership. Some of my favourite portions of the game include the “Core” segment and the latter stages, which include the recognisable “Ascension” VTOL passages. Returning to the game’s performance, it ran at a very smooth 60–70 FPS and even reached an 80+ FPS level.

    Given that Arc GPUs are only well-optimized for DX12 and Vulkan titles, with a few DX11 titles making the exception, there was no frame stuttering, which is a good demonstration. According to PCGH, they had no issues running the game in DX10 API, and they want to shortly compare the performance to an AMD Radeon RX 6400 graphics card.

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  • Call of Duty: Warzone to finally get its 5th and final season soon

    Call of Duty: Warzone to finally get its 5th and final season soon

    The start of Call of Duty: Warzone’s fifth and final season has been confirmed by Activision for August 24. This suggests that Warzone 2 may soon be available. The final season of the game, dubbed Last Stand and featuring a league of Call of Duty baddies headed by Raul Menendez from Black Ops 2, was announced on the game’s website.

    Khaled Al-Asad from the first Modern Warfare, Gabriel T. Rorke from Ghosts, and He “Seraph” Zhen-Zhen from Black Ops 3 also make an appearance.

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    This final season of Warzone will probably expire in November because Call of Duty seasons, which take place concurrently in Vanguard and Warzone, normally run for two to three months.

    The final season of Black Ops: Cold War continued for around a month after Vanguard’s release, and because Modern Warfare 2 debuts on October 28, this also lines up with Warzone’s November conclusion date, and thus, presumably, a Warzone 2 release date.

    Naturally, nothing has been verified, but earlier this week there were rumours that the film might be released in November. However, because the Call of Duty: Next showcase on September 15 is scheduled to release new Warzone 2 material among other titles in “the immediate future of Call of Duty,” an official confirmation shouldn’t be too far off.

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    Since the Battle Royale sequel was unveiled in February, Activision has said very little about it, only stating in April that Warzone 2 “includes new advances” and would be fully revealed this year.

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  • Dell Pro 2K Webcam comes with a more affordable price point and with a Noise-Reduction Mic

    Dell Pro 2K Webcam comes with a more affordable price point and with a Noise-Reduction Mic

    Last summer, Dell debuted their top-of-the-line 4K webcam to generally positive reviews. Its physical appearance, visual clarity, and 60 fps option were commended by critics. The less expensive model this year may forego 4K imaging, but it fills the main gap left by its forerunner.

    Dell just unveiled a new webcam that is essentially the $200 UltraSharp 4K model’s younger sibling. The Pro 2K WB5023, priced at $135, can be a suitable choice if you don’t want 4K and want to save money.

    Dell’s new camera has an inbuilt noise reduction mic to ensure that your conversation sounds clear despite the cheaper price. The absence of a mic on the 4K model is arguably its worst flaw.

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    When compared to Dell’s top-end model, the new one suffers from a few significant compromises. The obvious change from 4K to 2K in the maximum resolution comes first (2,560 x 1,440 pixels, AKA QHD). Both versions can only broadcast at 30 frames per second in their highest resolutions, but they can achieve 60 frames per second in 1080p or 720p.

    The more recent webcam from Dell still has the digital overlap HDR technology of its predecessor for better auto exposure and light correction, although it only does this at 1080p.

    Users who are concerned about FOV should also be aware that the Pro 2K only retains the 65- and 70-degree options, losing the UltraSharp’s 90-degree option. Its maximum zoom level is also lower, at 4x than the flagship model’s, which is 5x.

    The Pro 2K’s sole USB port is a regular USB-A, whereas its predecessor included a detachable USB-C to USB-A adaptor. This is a final, much smaller sacrifice. Pro users should not forget to purchase a separate converter when using USB-C connections.

    To eliminate grain and motion blur, the more recent model still uses 3DNR temporal and 2DNR spatial noise reduction. Along with the magnetic lens privacy cover, auto framing, which pans and zooms the field of view without physically moving the camera, is still functional.

    Software like Skype for Business, Google Hangouts, Cisco Webex, FaceTime, Slack, GoToMeeting, BlueJeans, Google Meet, and Lifesize are all compatible with both cameras. Although they work with both Windows and macOS, the built-in Dell Peripheral Manager software is only compatible with Windows.

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  • SpaceX makes yet another successful launch deploying 53 more Starlink Satellites

    SpaceX makes yet another successful launch deploying 53 more Starlink Satellites

    When it comes to modern breakthroughs in space travel, SpaceX is one of the most fascinating enterprises. The business, which is never one to let customers down, launched yet another successful deployment of its Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral on Friday. The launch, which offers improved connectivity to consumers around the world, is the 23rd Starlink mission of the year.

    This was SpaceX’s 37th launch of the year and the ninth launch of that particular Falcon 9 first-stage rocket overall. 53 flat-panel satellites from SpaceX were placed in orbit by the launch’s second stage. With its successful deployment, there are now 3,108 Starlink satellites in operation.

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    The launch took place at the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) of the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 3:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and lasted slightly over 15 minutes. About two and a half minutes after launch, the rocket’s first and second stages separated, and at that point, each stage finished its individual mission-completion procedures. A little more than 15 minutes after launch, the second stage travelled deeper into space to release the Starlink satellite payload.

    The first stage, on the other hand, started its post-separation return journey to land successfully on the SpaceX droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida.

    The frequency and track record of SpaceX’s launches are nothing short of remarkable. The corporation has comfortably surpassed 2021’s record of 31 orbital launches in a year with the 37 orbital launches that have been reported so far this year. Following two launches earlier this month, one was conducted yesterday. On August 10, Starlink Group 4-26 was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center. The successful deployment of Starlink Group 3-3 from the Vandenberg Space Force Base on August 12 came after that launch. Currently, SpaceX intends to send out two further launch groups on August 28 and August 30 from Kennedy and Vandenberg.

    A network of tiny, mass-produced satellites called Starlink is used to connect underserved areas to the internet by communicating with earth-based transceivers. Currently, 39 nations in Europe, North America, and South America have access to the network’s broadband services. Ukraine, which received terminals and access in reaction to the Russian invasion in February 2022, is covered under the list of nations.

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  • NVIDIA is planning to go into more detail about its Hopper GPUs and Grace CPUs at its Next Hot Chips 34 Event

    NVIDIA is planning to go into more detail about its Hopper GPUs and Grace CPUs at its Next Hot Chips 34 Event

    The following week, NVIDIA will present brand-new information about its Hopper GPU and Grace CPU at the next Hot Chips (34) event. Senior engineers from the business will discuss issues with a focus on Grace CPU, Hopper GPU, NVLink Switch, and the Jetson Orin module to describe breakthroughs in accelerated computing for contemporary data centres and systems for edge networking.

    An annual conference called Hot Chips brings together system and processor architects and gives businesses the chance to talk about specifics like technical specifications or the performance of their products right now. The new Hopper graphics card and NVIDIA’s first server-based processor will be discussed. The Jetson Orin system on a module, or SoM, from the business is connected to the chip by the NVSwitch.

    The four presentations that will be made over the course of the two-day conference will provide attendees an inside look at how the company’s platform will improve performance, efficiency, scale, and security.

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    NVIDIA aspires to “show a design philosophy where GPUs, CPUs, and DPUs act as peer processors throughout the full stack of devices, systems, and software.” The business has so far developed a platform that manages high-performance computing, AI, and data analytics tasks inside cloud service providers, supercomputing facilities, corporate data centres, and autonomous AI systems.

    To deliver the energy-efficient speed that today’s applications demand, data centres need flexible clusters of processors, graphics cards, and other accelerators transmitting huge pools of memory.

    The NVIDIA NVLink-C2C will be discussed by eminent engineer and 15-year NVIDIA veteran Jonathon Evans. Due to data transfers using 1.3 picojoules per bit, it connects processors and graphics cards at 900 Gb/s with five times the energy efficiency of the current PCIe Gen 5 standard.

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    The NVIDIA Grace CPU, which has 144 Arm Neoverse cores, is created by combining two processors using NVLink-C2C. It is a CPU designed to address the most pressing computing issues facing the world today.

    LPDDR5X memory is used by the Grace CPU to maximise performance. The chip keeps the total power consumption of the complex at 500 watts while enabling a terabyte per second of bandwidth in its memory.

    The NVIDIA NVSwitch uses NVLink, an interconnect that runs at 900 gigabytes per second and has more than seven times the capacity of PCIe 5.0, to combine several servers into a single AI supercomputer.

    Users can connect 32 NVIDIA DGX H100 computers using NVSwitch to create an AI supercomputer that offers an exaflop of maximum AI performance.

    Two of NVIDIA’s seasoned engineers, Alexander Ishii and Ryan Wells, describe how the switch enables customers to create systems with up to 256 GPUs to handle taxing workloads like training AI models with more than 1 trillion parameters.

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  • Twitter is reportedly cutting off its employees bonuses by 50%

    Twitter is reportedly cutting off its employees bonuses by 50%

    As the economic crisis worsens, Twitter, which is run by Parag Agrawal, has informed its staff that they will only receive half of their yearly bonuses. Ned Segal, Twitter’s chief financial officer, informed staff that market circumstances throughout the world would have an impact on their annual incentives, with the “bonus pool currently at 50 per cent of what it could be if the company met its financial targets,” according to The New York Times.

    According to Segal, who sent an email to Twitter employees on Friday, the annual bonus amount could change even more throughout the course of the year depending on the company’s expected revenues. Around the world, the company has more than 7,500 employees. 30% of Twitter’s talent acquisition team employees were let go last month.

    Except for positions deemed to be business-critical by “Staff” members, Twitter had previously stopped the majority of new hires and backfills.

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    Since Musk cancelled the $44 billion acquisition bid due to the actual amount of bots on the network, the microblogging platform is currently locked in a legal battle with him.

    The legal dispute will start on October 17 and last for five days at the Delaware Court of Chancery in the US. In the ongoing legal battle, the software mogul also launched a countersuit against Twitter, pushing CEO Agrawal to hold a public discussion on spam and bogus accounts.

    Twitter stated in July that its second quarter (Q2) net loss was $270 million and was mostly caused by uncertainties surrounding Elon Musk’s potential takeover, which hurt its advertising revenue.

    According to the business, Q2 revenue was $1.18 billion, a 1% year-over-year decline, “reflecting advertising industry headwinds associated with the macro-environment as well as uncertainty related to the pending acquisition of Twitter by an affiliate of Musk,” the company claimed.

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  • Gamescom Opening Night Live: Here are all the details

    Gamescom Opening Night Live: Here are all the details

    On August 23, Gamescom Opening Night Live will once again begin the yearly European gaming convention. Geoff Keighley, who will emcee the event, has hinted at over 30 world premiere announcements so far.

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    After two years of online-only live streams, Opening Night Live 2022 will be the first live ONL performance to take place in person since 2019. The official website of the event has tickets available for individuals attending Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

    Starting at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET on August 23, Opening Night Live will be streamed. According to Geoff Keighley’s tweet from above, the live stream will feature “30+ games” throughout a two-hour event. Prior ONLs included announcements during a half-hour pre-show, but a pre-show for 2022 has not yet been confirmed. Opening Night Live will be streamed live in English throughout several nations, but there will also be subtitles available.

    • 11:00 AM PT
    • 1:00 PM CDT
    • 2:00 PM ET
    • 7:00 PM BST

    The official YouTube and Twitch feed of The Game Awards will stream Gamescom Opening Night Live 2022. Keighley has thus far hinted at some announcements for the occasion, including both upcoming AAA and independent projects.

    The list of what’s been confirmed for the show so far is below:

    • A “brand-new sci-fi IP” from Subnautica developer Unknown Worlds Entertainment
    • The Callisto Protocol
    • The Expanse: A Telltale Games Series
    • Genshin Impact
    • Goat Simulator 3
    • Gotham Knights
    • High On Life
    • Hogwarts Legacy
    • Honkai: Star Rail
    • Lies of P
    • The Outlast Trials
    • Return to Monkey Island
    • Sonic Frontiers
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    The new Saints Row and Marvel’s Midnight Suns were released at the Opening Night Live event from the previous year, and the campaigns for Call of Duty Vanguard and Death Stranding: Director’s Cut were also demonstrated.

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  • Facebook faces a Drop of about 25% users in South Korea

    Facebook faces a Drop of about 25% users in South Korea

    According to a Friday industry study report, Facebook’s monthly active users (MAU) have decreased by more than 25% in South Korea over the past two years.

    According to Mobile Index, the data analysis division of regional data tracker IGAworks, the South Korean MAU total for Facebook (owned by Meta) was 11.09 million as of last month, down from 14.87 million in May 2020 when the business began accumulating relevant data.

    The results were calculated using information from Google’s and Apple’s mobile app stores. According to Yonhap news agency, the July number also reflects a 17% year-over-year fall from 13.34 million. The persistent reduction in young Facebook users in South Korea is to blame for the decreasing trend.

    The Korea Information Society Development Institute reports that in 2021, the percentage of people aged 25 to 38 who used Facebook was recorded at 27%, a dramatic decrease from 48.6% in 2017.

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    “Many teens and 20-something users have moved to Instagram, and complaints over online ads on Facebook also appear to have grown,” an industry source said.

    A disturbing trend for Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook was revealed last week by a new Pew Research Center survey of American teenagers (aged 13 to 17). The percentage of teenagers who use the social media site has fallen from 71% in 2014–15 to 32% as of right now.

    In addition to Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, the Chinese short-form video network TikTok has rapidly gained popularity and is now one of the top social media sites for teenagers. Approximately 67% of teenagers claim to have used TikTok at some point, with 16% of all teenagers claiming to use it fairly daily.

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  • Mexico planning on using incentives to attract semiconductor investment

    Mexico planning on using incentives to attract semiconductor investment

    According to the economy minister of the Latin American country, Mexico is mulling incentives to entice private investment in semiconductors, capitalising on a US attempt to move chip production closer to home.

    Tatiana Clouthier stated on Friday that the Finance Ministry is reviewing suggestions in order to determine how best to assist businesses who are considering growing their presence in Mexico. The auto, electronics, and aerospace industries will profit from more investment in Mexico, she continued.

    “We could have mechanisms to make investment more attractive for companies that relocate,” Clouthier told the source in an interview, saying she’s in touch with the Finance Ministry to discuss what can be done to support innovative industries that could boost employment. “We think that for these sectors there should be certain kinds of assistance.”

    The CHIPS Act will help in semiconductor production and research development

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    After the US Congress passed the CHIPS Act, which includes around $52 billion to advance domestic semiconductor production and research, the ministry organised a meeting with US investors earlier in August to explore the benefits of investing in Mexico. In a statement following the incident, the Economy Ministry suggested that Mexico might be a “key ally.”

    Although the government has pushed businesses to shift to southern states, where there is more water available, Clouthier mentioned Jalisco and Aguascalientes as prospective investment regions. Monterrey and other northern towns have been affected by the drought, and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged water-intensive industries to scale back their operations.

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  • Asus just launched 3 vairants of the AMD X670E based AM5 motherboards

    Asus just launched 3 vairants of the AMD X670E based AM5 motherboards

    The launch of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processor is set for August 29, therefore it’s time for motherboard manufacturers to introduce their components. All five manufacturers of enthusiast mainboards provided a sneak peek at their AMD X670/X670E-based AM5 platforms a few weeks ago. However, Asus was the first business to formally introduce its initial AM5 family, which consists of a number of motherboards that would be offered at various price ranges.

    Along with the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero Extreme motherboard for wealthy gamers, Asus also debuted the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero, ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming Wi-Fi, and TUF Gaming X670E-Plus Wi-Fi for those who want premium features but don’t want to shell out a lot of money for a motherboard.

    In addition to the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero Extreme motherboard for wealthy gamers, Asus also unveiled the ROG Crosshair X670E Hero, ROG Strix X670E-E Gaming Wi-Fi, and TUF Gaming X670E-Plus Wi-Fi for those who want premium features but don’t want to spend a small fortune on a motherboard.

    All of Asus’ AMD X670E-based motherboards will, of course, accept AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series CPUs, which are designed for enthusiasts and overlockers and have up to 16 Zen 4 cores in AM5 packaging.

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    All four mainboards will also come equipped with powerful CPU VRMs that can provide CPUs with hundreds of watts of clean power to optimise their overclocking capability. Four DDR5 memory slots, many PCIe 5.0 slots, USB connections (including two USB 4 ports on some models), and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity on higher-end ROG motherboards are all included on the motherboards. A few AM5 mainboards will also feature M.2-22110 slots for connecting high-capacity SSDs with a 2.5GbE or 10GbE connection using an adaptor.

    The company’s Q-Design features, like as quick release buttons for PCIe, RAM, and M.2 slots, will also be supported by Asus ROG motherboards, making it quicker and easier for enthusiasts to remove old components and replace them with new ones.

    ProArt X670E Creator Wi-Fi for content creators and Prime X670-P/X670-P Wi-Fi for more provident purchasers will eventually be added by Asus. As the headline of Asus’ AM5 page indicates, inexpensive B650-based motherboards will also be available.

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