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OnePlus 10 will come with new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

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Less than 24 hours after the reveal of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 we’ve already had five confirmed manufacturers that will be including the new chipset in flagship phones over the next few months.

The latest name to join that list is OnePlus, and it’s set to feature in a handset that we expect to be called the OnePlus 10.

OnePlus CEO Pete Lau confirmed on Weibo, a Chinese social networking site, that the “next-generation” of OnePlus products would feature the new chipset. Lau didn’t confirm the name of the products, but we believe them to be called the OnePlus 10.

From Techradar

Nvidia confirms new RTX 2060 Super 12GB in new driver release

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Nvidia confirmed this week that its RTX 2060 Super 12GB is on the way, though the chip maker was pretty low key about it.

On page four of the release notes for its Windows driver version 497.09 that Nvidia just posted, listed under the “New Features and Other Changes” subhead says the update “added support for the GeForce RTX 2060 12GB”.

What the new release notes doesn’t do is say anything else about the new card, and as Videocardz notes, neither does the official blog post that goes along with the new driver release.

From Techradar

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is the first 5nm chipset for Windows-on-ARM laptops, 7c+ Gen 3 tags along

The Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 is the high-end offering. Qualcomm is keeping hardware details under wraps, so we don’t know what CPU cores are being used here. We do know that it is a 5 nm chipset (a world’s first for Windows devices), while both the original 8cx and the Gen 2 were 7 nm parts.

The Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 is aimed at affordable Windows laptops. It is fabbed on a 6 nm process (the 7c Gen 2 was an 8 nm chip) and offers major performance improvements over its predecessor – 60% faster CPU and 70% faster GPU. Of course, Qualcomm didn’t make a direct comparison between the 8cx and 7c+. The NPU offers 6.5 TOPS of AI compute power, a minor improvement (up from 5 TOPS).

From Gsmarena

Qualcomm teams up with Razer for the next evolution of mobile gaming

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To kick things off, Qualcomm is partnering with Razer on a reference device for developers, which makes sense given Razer makes some of the best gaming laptops and accessories like the Razer Kishi.

“Razer is extremely excited to partner with Qualcomm Technologies and support them on their way to introduce new cutting-edge technology to the global gaming industry,” Razer co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan says in a statement. “Together, Qualcomm Technologies and Razer will lead the way with new and innovative solutions that push the boundaries of fidelity and quality available in portable gaming, transforming the way these games are experienced.”

While the device doesn’t represent an actual product from Razer, it does give developers and OEMs an idea of what Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon platform is capable of.

The device features a 6.65-inch Full HD+ OLED display with a refresh rate that can reach 120Hz. On the front is a 5MP 1080p camera for livestreaming aided by 5G mmWave/sub-6 support and Wi-Fi 6E. There’s also built-in controller mapping from AKSys and a quad-speaker system powered by Snapdragon Sound. It’s said to feature a “large battery” so battery life shouldn’t be a problem.

From Android Central

nubia Red Magic 7 gets 3C certified with a whopping 165W charging support

nubia Red Magic 7 gets 3C certified with a whopping 165W wired charging support

ZTE’s nubia announced the Red Magic 6 in March with 66W charging, but its successor – nubia Red Magic 7 (NX679J) – could break all records of fast charging on a commercially available smartphone since it got 3C certified with 165W (20V/8.25A) charging support.

From Gsmarena

Samsung Galaxy A73’s specs, price, and renders surface

Samsung Galaxy A73's specs, price, and renders surface
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The Samsung Galaxy A73 will pack a 6.7″ FullHD+ AMOLED display with a centered punch hole for the selfie camera of an unknown resolution and a fingerprint reader underneath for biometric authentication. The source says that the panel is expected to have a 90Hz refresh rate, but a previous leak claimed it will go up to 120Hz.

The Samsung Galaxy A73 will be powered by the Snapdragon 750G SoC, run Android 12 out of the box, and have 8GB RAM and 128GB storage onboard. But you can expect to have more memory options.

The Galaxy A73 will pack a 5,000 mAh battery that will draw power through a USB-C port at up to 33W. The smartphone will be 7.6mm thick (9.3mm including the camera bump) and have a plastic build, but it will be IP67 rated. In fact, the Galaxy A33 and higher models in the A series are said to come with water resistance next year.

From Gsmarena

Xiaomi 12’s camera bump to have a unique coating

Supposed Xiaomi 12 camera design
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No, we are not talking about Zeiss-branded lens coating, this latest leak is referring to the whole camera bump’s finish. According to reputable Chinese tipser Digital Chat Station, the upcoming Xiaomi 12 will take a unique approach with its camera bump design.

In the Weibo post, he says that the camera bump with a bunch of large camera modules inside. However, Xiaomi is likely looking for a way to make it a bit more inconspicuous by applying the same AG glass coating it uses for the back panel.

The tipster says that the company uses new coating technology to achieve a certain feel to go in line with the back finish but didn’t go into detail. Luckily, we don’t have to wait much longer as the Xiaomi 12 should be announced this month.

From Gsmarena

Tesla is selling a $1,900 Cyberquad ATV for kids

Cyberquad
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Tesla has started selling the Cyberquad, but it’s not the ATV it previewed when it unveiled its electric truck in 2019. No, the Cyberquad you can now buy from the automaker’s store is a much smaller version of the vehicle meant kids — and yes, it actually works. 

The four-wheel ATV is powered by a lithium-ion battery and will run on electricity like its bigger version. It has 15 miles of range with a configurable top speed of 10mph, a full steel frame, a cushioned seat, adjustable suspension and LED light bars. In other words, it looks like a shrunken down version of a legit ATV. 

From Engadget

Intel Arc Alchemist could take on Nvidia GTX 1650 Super for the entry-level GPU crown

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Intel’s Arc Alchemist entry-level graphics card has seen another rumor spilled on the specs, including the rough performance level we can expect from this base offering.

As shared by ever-present Twitter leaker Tum_Apisak, the GPU will apparently be named the Intel Arc A380 – presumably the ‘A’ stands for Alchemist – and it’ll come loaded with 6GB of VRAM, boasting a clock speed of 2.45GHz.

This is the entry-level model with 128 EUs (Execution Units) and Tum_Apisak asserts that it will have performance levels equivalent to a GTX 1650 Super. On the AMD side, that roughly equates to an RX 590.

It’s not mentioned here, but the expectation is that Intel’s lowest-end Alchemist graphics card will run with a 96-bit memory interface and a TDP of 75W.

Elsewhere in rumor territory, we’ve heard that the price of this entry-level product will be $179 or thereabouts (around £135, AU$250), and previous speculation has pointed to 6GB of video memory, and also a clock speed of up to around the 2.5GHz mark. So, these latest nuggets are pretty much in line with what’s been aired so far…

From Techradar

Microsoft is edging closer to making DNA storage a reality

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Microsoft Research has found a way to read and write data faster in DNA format, bringing us closer to commercially available DNA storage.

Until now, the viability of DNA as a data storage medium has been hampered greatly by how much could be synthesized, and how fast. But in a detailed article, Bichlien Nguyen and Karin Strauss of Microsoft Research set out a new method for writing synthetic DNA with a chip that is 1000x faster than before, allowing much higher write throughput and therefore lowering the cost associated with writing the content in the first place.

The team worked in partnership with the University of Washington at the Molecular Information Laboratory (MISL) and the paper – Scaling DNA storage with Nanoscale Electrode Wells –  was published in Science Advances.

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