Qualcomm announced it has completed its acquisition of Nuvia, the CPU design company that broke cover last year with claims its architectures would outperform both Apple and x86. Here’s what those claims looked like when we covered them at the time: Nuvia’s projected performance per watt suggested it could seriously challenge x86 and even Apple. Qualcomm must have seen something they liked. We haven’t seen Nuvia’s actual designs yet, but Qualcomm has and the company clearly thinks it has a winner. Ever since Apple unleashed the M1 on the x86 world, I’ve predicted it would only be the first competitor out of several.
If you’ve been jonesing for a PlayStation 5 and unable to find one, there’s a good explanation for it: insane demand. We’ve known for a while that Sony’s PS5 was selling well, but a new report from the NPD suggests it’s actually the fastest-selling platform in US history. NPD’s results for the month show a huge surge in game sales and overall spending. February revenue hit $4.6 billion, up 35 percent from a year ago. YTD spending is already $9.3B, 39 percent higher than the same period last year. Video game hardware sales hit $406M. That’s the highest in a decade (February 2011 hit $468M).
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Google has of a $5 billion class-action lawsuit over Incognito Mode in its Chrome browser. Judge Lucy Koh denied Google’s request, saying the company did not sufficiently warn users that Incognito Mode isn’t really incognito. The lawsuit claims Google still tracks users across the internet, even if they’re using Incognito Mode. Google’s defense is not that the plaintiffs are mistaken, but rather that it told everyone very clearly they could still be tracked. Google added Incognito Mode to the Chrome browser just a few months after release in 2008 — it was one of the first browsers to add this feature, and others followed in its footsteps.
AMD has released its Zen 3 “Milan” refresh for servers, bringing its latest Zen 3 architecture to the last market segment to lack it. AMD has been working to gain market share in this segment since launching first-generation Epyc nearly four years ago. Milan brings a suite of changes that should help the company gain market share, but there are a few bumps over on the power consumption side of things. AMD isn’t boosting core counts with this generation of products. The Zen 3 CPUs AMD is launching today take over from their predecessors at equivalent core counts. They also are generally more expensive than the AMD chips they replace, which is par for AMD’s positioning with its Zen 3 Ryzen 5000 CPUs.
Today you can get a Dell Aurora gaming desktop equipped with AMD’s new Ryzen 7 5800 CPU and Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card for just $1,830.99. There’s also a high-end gaming monitor that you can get from Dell to go with it that’s on sale with $230 cut off the retail price. AMD Ryzen 7 5800 Gaming Desktop w/ AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM and 512GB NVMe SSD for $1,830.99 from Dell with promo code LCS10OFF (List price $2,039.99) Curved 2560×1440 165Hz Gaming Display for $379.99 from Dell (List price $609.99) 8-Inch Smart Display for $74.99 from Amazon (List price $129.99) 2.5-Inch SATA-III SSD for $189.99 from Amazon (List price $219.99) 128GB Unlocked Smartphone for $699.99 from Amazon (List price $799.99) for $199.00 from Amazon (List price $249.00)
The LG CX family of OLED screens offers the most astounding image quality I’ve ever seen from any display or monitor, OLED or LCD alike. I picked one up for myself last year both as part of covering the and because, after 15 years of wanting one, I felt like OLEDs had finally become affordable enough to justify the purchase. to The Verge, however, LG at least occasionally plays full-sound video ads when it feels like doing so, including while you’re attempting to download app updates. Just got served a legit commercial while updating the apps on my LG OLED TV.
Microsoft’s Game Pass has been around for a while, offering a range of reasonably popular games with a single monthly subscription. Game Pass is about to get a big boost in its game catalog courtesy of the Xbox maker’s recent acquisition of Bethesda Softworks. Starting now, you can get . Game Pass starts at $10 per month, but new subscribers can get a $1 trial month right now. Before today’s additions, there were already about 100 games available on Game Pass, including ARK, Gears 5, and No Man’s Sky. Here are all the new Bethesda games coming to Xbox Game Pass.
AMD has announced an updated AGESA (AMD Generic Encapsulated System Architecture) version to solve problems with the B550 and X570 motherboard families. After collecting data from various folks experiencing problems, AMD thinks it has nailed down a fix. The software update should ship out from them in about a week, after which motherboard OEMs need some time to test and integrate the fix into their own UEFI updates. AMD expects the patch to be available on beta UEFI updates by early April, with full UEFI releases arriving after that. According to AMD, the update with “USB port dropout, USB 2.0 audio crackling (e.g.
