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The FICIHP Multifunctional Keyboard is unusual and more unique than many keyboards, in our opinion. Not only does the keyboard come with different key types and RGB lighting, but it also has the 12.6-inch display from an ASUS ZenBook Duo.

Nexperia, a maker of numerous component types (FETS and diodes) included, has reportedly bought Newport Wafer Fab, which pitches its silicon products at a range of industrial clients, for an estimated US$87 million. The rumored talks might result in an increased foothold in the semiconductor industry for Nexperia's China-based owner.

PowerColor has done AMD's work for it. While AMD is yet to reveal the Radeon RX 6600 series, PowerColor's website reflects that both the RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT are on the horizon. AMD teased that it would announce the RX 6600 series by June 2021 at the latest.

The prices of AMD Radeon RX 6000 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series cards have been falling rapidly in the last few months. While both series remain above MSRP, GeForce RTX 30 cards are now two times cheaper in Germany than they were in May.

In a conversation with WCCFTech, Midgar Studio’s Jeremy Zeler-Maury discussed the differences between FSR and DLSS in Edge of Eternity, one of only two games that currently implements both upscaling techniques.

Intel has finally managed to reverse the trend in regard to Steam’s monthly report on processor usage. AMD has taken lumps out of Team Blue’s share for month after month, but the latest hardware survey from the gaming platform indicates that it’s Team Red’s turn to suffer from a slump. Price cuts on Comet Lake processors are likely to have helped turn the tide.

Apple and Intel will be among the first to utilize TSMC’s new 3 nm fabrication node, according to Nikkei Asia. The new technology will bring inherent performance improvements over the 5 nn process of 10 to 15 percent and improved efficiency of between 25 to 30 percent.

Microsoft has provided more background on the rationale behind its decisions regarding chip support for Windows 11. In an interview with TechRepublic, Microsoft’s Director of OS Security, David Weston, has pointed to compromises between security, performance and battery life as the drivers of the choices it has made.

AMD claimed that it would announce the Radeon RX 6600 XT in the first half of 2021. While the card remains unreleased, a render of it has leaked, matching a slide that AMD showcased earlier this year.

The AORUS XTREME Gen4 NVMe SSD add-in card is probably longer than most high-end GPUs on the market and certainly rivals them in price. It comes with up to eight 4 TB second gen PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs powered by the Phison PS5018-E18 controller and the RAID configuration yields ultra-fast transfer speeds of up to 28 GB/s.

Dell might indeed be justified in calling its latest webcam an "UltraSharp" as it has a 4K resolution. Furthermore, it supports Digital Overlap HDR, automatic refinements for visual properties such as white balance and noise reduction, as well as iPad Pro-like auto-framing abilities. However, this potential for streaming and collaboration comes at a price.

Bethesda’s Todd Howard opened up to The Telegraph about the Elder Scrolls VI. According to him, however, the game is still in the initial design phase, despite having been announced years ago.

Microsoft has pulled its PC Health Check app, but there is already a third-party tool that does a better job at detailing why Windows 11 may not run on your PC. WhyNotWin11 separates Windows 11's system requirements into 11 areas and explains why you can change to run Microsoft's latest OS.

You do not need a dedicated TPM 2.0 chip to run Windows 11, contrary to Microsoft's system requirements. Instead, almost all modern AMD and Intel processors already meet Microsoft's TPM 2.0 requirement, and only a BIOS setting may be preventing you from upgrading your PC to Windows 11.

Microsoft has taken to its blog to reveal the latest version of Office for Windows. There is also a new version with native Arm support for the first time.

Windows 11 is here, albeit only for those willing to try an Insider Preview build for the time being. The build is available to anyone and contains many of the shown changes from Windows 10. Android app emulation is missing, but Windows 11 will support APK sideloading.

Realme has announced that its upcoming Realme Book laptop will be ready for Windows 11, when Microsoft starts rolling out its newest operating system later this year. Laptop OEMs such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus have also been providing support for customers and users in regard to Windows 11 compatibility.

Microsoft announced the launch of Windows 11 this week with the good news that it will be a free upgrade and that it will be released later this year. What it neglected to mention at the launch, however, is that while it will launch on new PCs in Q4, updates for existing Windows 10 users won’t arrive till 2022.

Among the surprising news stories to come out of Microsoft’s Windows 11 announcements is its plan to open up its own Windows 11 Store to third-party app stores. Currently, stores like the Epic Games store and Valve Steam store sell their games via web stores but Microsoft is inviting them to sell their catalogs from directly within its own store.

According to the latest insider info relayed through RedGamingTech, Intel will not be able to ready the DG2 gaming GPUs in desktop form this year. Instead, Intel will be focusing on releasing laptop-grade DG2 GPUs, as these are much more stable at lower voltages / frequencies and it is also easier to supply this sort of chips together with mobile CPUs to laptop integrator partners. Top performance in this case would only match a desktop RTX 3060 Ti.

One year ago, Zhaoxin was announcing its intentions to enter the discrete gaming GPU market with a 70 W TGP 28 nm model releasing some time in 2021. From what we can see in the pictures released by Glenfly, Zhaoxin already has some working engineering samples, but Chinese sources are now claiming that these particular models have been cancelled. Could be because of the unsatisfactory performance.

Windows 11 is here, and Microsoft has announced the AMD and Intel processors with which it is compatible. There are a few surprising omissions though, and ones that cut over a dozen Surface devices adrift on Windows 10.

After its unveiling was spoiled by a monumental leak, Microsoft has officially unveiled Windows 11. Despite this, Microsoft’s unveiling still had plenty of features that weren’t seen in the leaked build and users are undoubtedly keen to get their hands on it. Here’s how.

Microsoft has announced Windows 11, complete with a new UI and layout. The Redmond giant also asserts that some of these changes are pitched at gamers. This, naturally, involves Xbox Game Pass, as well as Auto HDR and the new Direct Storage API.

Previous leaks were already suggesting that the RDNA3 GPUs should be more than twice as fast as the current RX 6800 XT models thanks to the multi-chip module approach, but fresh rumors now claim that the impressive raster and ray tracing performance of the RDNA3 is also enabled through a massive increase in Infinity Cache memory capacity.

Microsoft has made the next major upgrade to the Windows OS official today (June 24, 2021). The Redmond giant has also announced a new version of the Store app to go with it. It offers new revenue-sharing options for developers, as well as a new design and the ability to integrate Android apps.

Finding AMD or NVIDIA's latest desktop graphics cards at reasonable prices has been almost impossible since their launch. Not only has their scarcity pushed prices to insane levels, but it has also inflated the re-sale value of older cards. Thankfully, the prices of AMD Radeon RX 6000 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 series cards are now starting to come down.

Today, (June 24, 2021) Microsoft has debuted the next major upgrade to its main OS, Windows. This new 11 version does indeed come with a centered Start button and menu by default. The Redmond giant asserts that the new interface it headlines has been developed and designed to perfection, down to the last detail and icon graphic.

Luminous Studios’ Takeshi Aramaki spoke about the benefits of leverage AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution technology. Alongside praise for FSR’s image quality, Aramaki stated that it took the Luminous team just a single day to implement FSR tech in their game.

Compared to the previous AMD-based mini PC barebones, the new DesktopMini Max from ASRock is considerably larger and allows users to install liquid coolers and larger dGPUs. The included AM4 motherboard supports AMD Ryzen 5000 all the way down to Ryzen 2000 processors that can be coupled with up to 128 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM.

Three hundred lucky gamers will be able to play Doom Eternal in all of its ray-traced glory thanks to the Doom Eternal GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Demon Slayer Bundle. It costs US$1,450 and gets you a copy of the game, a graphics card and a host of other goodies. Unfortunately, only people based in North America, Europe and Australia can participate in the raffle.

Lenovo is at the (virtual) 2021 Mobile World Congress with the latest additions to its enterprise-grade lines of devices. They include new ThinkVision monitors, which come in new, 15.6 portable and 23.8-inch fixed versions. The former is pitched as a portable extension for a new ThinkPad, whereas the latter might also go with Lenovo's new dedicated web-cam.

With more than two weeks left, the AZIO IZO Collection has already raised more than six times the US$10,000 goal of the Kickstarter campaign that kicked off on June 8. Early backers can get the keyboard for US$70 and the entire set (keyboard, palm rest, numeric pad/standalone calculator, mouse) for US$145.

Samsung has launched three new Odyssey gaming monitors. Unlike its previous entries which predominantly featured 1000R curved displays, the new Odyssey monitors are all traditional flat screens.

AMD quietly released its liquid-cooled RX 6900XT LC to Indian system integrators. Some resellers appear to have 6900 XT LC stock which they’re selling without a system for an incredible US$3007.

The inexpensive mini PCs can be great Intel NUC alternatives for undemanding HTPC loads and other inexpensive setups.

Microsoft has all but officially confirmed that the leaked build of Windows 11 circulating the internet over the past few days is legitimate. The company has issued a copyright take-down notice via Google to Beebom, the site that has been dubiously hosting the leaked build.

The cut-down version of the high-end DG2-512 is clocked at 1.8 GHz max and is only 5% slower than the RTX 3070 or 8% slower than the RX 6700 XT. This means that the 512 EU variant could indeed compete with the RTX 3080 and RX 6800, as posited in previous leaks. Additionally, the leak reveals that the 128 EU variant is 12% faster than the Nvidia GTX 1650, although it is unclear what testing suite was used.

TeamGroup has launched the latest generation of its Elite series of desktop U-DIMM RAM sticks. The new 2x16GB modules are the OEM's inaugural DDR5 versions of these components. As such, they are rated for potential advantages such as a 4,800MHz top speed and increased stability.

Epic Games have made two more games free for the next week. The company will be giving away two more games next week too, of which Sonic Mania is one.

No official release notes for now, but some reddit folks already managed to port the updated files to games that already support DLSS and noticed no fps performance increase. However, the new version does fix some visual artifacts and further improves image quality. Rainbow Six Siege is supposed to get an fps boost of up to 50% in 4K, but the implementation is not that good as HUD elements are displayed at rendering resolution instead of native resolution.

The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti desktop graphics card has been put through its paces in Unreal Engine 4.26. Puget Systems tested the RTX 3080 Ti in numerous benchmarks and found it to be almost on par with the more-expensive RTX 3090 in instances where VRAM didn’t count. However, emission levels suffered from such performance.

Select PC builders are mentioning the availability of the RX 6900 XT Liquid Cooled, but none of them specify the actual costs, so they might charge some ridiculous prices for around 10% performance uplift coming from overcharged specs such as boost clocks of up to 2435 MHz, 18 Gbps GDDR6 RAM and TPB bumped to 330 W.

Lenovo has launched a new monitor called the ThinkVision P34w-20. Key specs include a 34-inch 1440p panel, HDR10 compatibility, 300 nits brightness, a DP out port, and a USB hub. It will cost US$899 and hit shelves sometime in Q4 2021.

The Atari VCS hybrid console-PC is finally available to purchase some 3 years after originally being launched. The device features classic retro Atari looks and can play classic Atari games and also function as a desktop PC.

Apple’s new iMac recently launched to the usual fanfare that accompanies its product launches. However, now that it is shipping to customers, many are noticing that something is askew.

NVIDIA announced a host of new titles set to feature RTX techniques like DLSS and ray-tracing. Doom Eternal, teased alongside the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti launch, will get a ray-tracing patch on June 29th, while Rainbow Six: Siege's DLSS update is already out.

A report out of China has stated that Nvidia will drastically cut the supply of GeForce RTX 2060 cards to bolster production efforts in regard to the Ampere-based GeForce RTX 30 series of boards. Gamers around the world have struggled to get their hands on Nvidia’s latest and greatest, so this purported plan will be welcomed by many.

NVIDIA released a low-key update on its plans for end-of-lifing cards based on the Kepler architecture. According to a new post on NVIDIA's support site, Kepler cards like the GeForce GTX 780 Ti will no longer receive driver updates from August 2021 onwards.