Thursday, November 19, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 19/11/2015

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NVIDIA sheds more light on upcoming “Pascal” GPU at GTC Japan
Pascal
NVIDIA shared more details about its upcoming “Pascal” GPU architecture at the Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) in Japan recently. With Pascal, NVIDIA hopes to build on the already fantastic power efficiency offered by Maxwell based cards. Thanks to the move to new 16nm FinFET process by TSMC, the Pascal GPU will be able to deliver...

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Leaked slides detail Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake and 200-series chipset platforms
Kaby Lake
Two leaked slides published by the website Benchlife.info detail some of the key improvements that Intel 7th Gen Kaby Lake Core processors and the 200-series chipset platform will bring to the table. Intel Kaby Lake will continue to be built on a 14nm process, just like Broadwell and Skylake. Intel’s first 10nm processor family, codenamed...

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Qualcomm rumored to release an octa-core Snapdragon 820 variant within 1H 2016
Snapdragon 820
A report published by Taiwanese publication DigiTimes claims Qualcomm will release an octa-core Snapdragon 820 chip within the first half of next year. The report claims the majority of Android OEMs such as Samsung, Huawei, Sony, LG, and ZTE products for 2016 will use octa-core processors, ‘forcing’ Qualcomm to follow the current mobile SoC trend...

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Apple iPhone 6c to release in mid-2016, claims IHS analyst
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Time for some fresh new iPhone 6c rumor. IHS analyst Kevin Wang claims Apple will release the iPhone 6c by the middle of next year. The new info comes barely a few weeks after KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kui claimed that Apple is working on a 4-inch iPhone 7c model for next year with a...

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Acer unveils a new 34-inch widescreen IPS monitor with QHD resolution
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Acer has introduced a new 34-inch widescreen monitor for pros, the B346CK. The 34-inch monitor utilizes an IPS panel and boasts of 3440 x 1440 resolution. Key specs include maximum brightness of 320 nits, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 6ms response time, 178/178 degree viewing angles, and 100 percent sRGB color gamut coverage with 6-axis color adjustment....

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Multiple AMD Radeon R9 380X cards get pictured before release
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AMD’s upcoming Radeon R9 380X graphics card has been pictured before release. Multiple leaked images show various Radeon R9 380X graphics cards from AIB partners ASUS, XFX, and GIGABYTE. The ASUS card is named STRIX-R9380X-OC4G-GAMING and includes 4GB of GDDR5 memory. No specs have been revealed yet, but we do know that card will come...

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Kingston releases USB 3.1 Gen.1 HyperX Savage flash drive
HyperX Savage
Kingston today announced the HyperX Savage, a USB 3.1 Gen.1 compliant flash drive. The HyperX Savage is capable of delivering transfer speeds of up to 350MB/s read and 250MB/s write, taking advantage of the new USB 3.1 standard. It is the company’s fastest USB drive and features an aggressive design that should appeal to a...

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New Galaxy Note 5 units feature a label showing the proper way of inserting the S Pen
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The Note 5 still breaks when the S Pen is inserted backwards. The Galaxy Note 5’s launch was followed by numerous reports of users breaking their phone’s stylus functionality by inserting the S Pen with the wrong side pointed towards the slot. It’s not hard to understand that the tip is what should go inside...

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Leak reveals target markets for the Galaxy S7’s Snapdragon and Exynos variants
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The Snapdragon variant will be limited to two markets. Samsung was able to get through 2015 by exclusively using its Exynos SoC in all the Galaxy flagships, but the company has been rumored to be turning to Qualcomm for the Galaxy S7 and getting back to its previous tradition of using Snapdragon and Exynos chips for its...

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Asus releases list of devices set to receive Android 6.0 Marshmallow
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Asus’ list is rather short, with only one device from last year making the cut. We have seen a couple of manufactures speak out on their plans to bring Android 6.0 Marshmallow to their devices, and Asus is now joining in by announcing what devices will be hopping on to the latest iteration of Google’s...

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Benchmark chart suggests the Exynos 8890 will be more powerful than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820
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A leaked benchmark chart posted on Chinese microblogging website Weibo suggests the Samsung Exynos 8890 chipset will be significantly more powerful than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 when it comes to multi-core performance. The chart allegedly shows multi-core performance under the popular benchmarking app GeekBench. In the multi-core test, the Snapdragon 820 manages a score of 5300...

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LG G5 to employ a full metal build, suggests Korean report
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A report published by a Korean publication claims LG’s next flagship smartphone the G5 will employ a full metal unibody design, a departure from the polycarbonate build we’ve seen on the company’s flagship Android smartphones so far. We did see LG move to more premium materials with the recently announced V10, so the new rumor...

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