In a major upset, AMD’s Ryzen 3 3300X has managed to beat Intel’s fastest gaming CPU on the market, the Core i9-9900KS upon being overclocked to 4.6GHz. We know that the new Matisse budget offerings were supposed to be aimed at gamers, but this is quite unexpected. The test was conducted by a YouTube channel (link at the bottom) across four popular AAA titles using a bunch of midrange and high-end consumer CPUs.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The RX 5500 XT is the clear winner here. It maintains notably higher frame rates than the GTX 1650 Super across all ten games tested, all the while costing less. The gap swells to a significant 20-30% in the Navi favored titles in-line with AMD’s official figures.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Last December, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 765 and 765G chipsets as the first in the company’s lineup to feature an integrated 5G modem. The Snapdragon 765 series chipsets have become the standard for a new generation of 5G premium mid-range smartphones. Now, the semiconductor manufacturer has unveiled an overclocked version called Snapdragon 768G.

Publication: Moneycontrol

Researchers from Intel and Microsoft have joined forces to study the use of deep learning for malware threat detection in a project that first converts malware into images. The basis for this study is the observation that if malware samples are turned into grayscale images, the textural and structural patterns can be used to effectively classify them as either benign or malicious, as well as cluster malicious samples into respective threat families, Microsoft said.

Publication: TechQuila

Security researcher Björn Ruytenberg has found a flaw in the security protocols of Intel’s Thunderbolt ports for laptops, which can allow an attacker to bypass login screens of a Windows or Linux-based computer. The Thunderbolt port is found in millions of laptops and PCs worldwide and allows fast data transfer speeds from external devices. The researcher is calling the attack Thunderspy.

Publication: Livemint

Intel and a Taiwanese company are talking to the Trump administration about building new semiconductor plants in the United States amid concern about relying on suppliers in Asia for chips used in a wide variety of electronics. A spokesman for Intel, the biggest American chip maker, said Sunday that the company is in discussions with the Defense Department about improving domestic technology sources. Spokesman William Moss said Santa Clara, California-based Intel is well-positioned to work with the government “to operate a U.S.-owned commercial foundry.”

Publication: Deccan Chronicle 

The US officials are reportedly in talks with Intel and TSMC about setting up the production of chipsets in the country itself. The US-based tech brands have been working towards reducing the dependence on Asia for years and this has only become more intense ever since. With a pandemic disrupting the trade and manufacturing cycles and sour US-China trade scenarios, reducing dependence sounds like a good plan for the US. Also Read – Samsung Galaxy A21s new render leak shows punch-hole camera design

Publication: BGR India 

Intel has launched its new Comet Lake-S desktop CPUs last month and is hardly reached the market but it is enough to see new benchmark scores and records with these CPUs. Intel has stressed a lot with the high single-core frequency and amount these CPUs can be pushed with proper cooling. The top-of-line Core i9-10900K is the best Intel offering for desktop and it seems it’s already started to get overclocked to 5.4 GHz.

Publication: TechnoSports

With days, newer AMD Ryzen 4000 powered laptops are popping up on Geekbench but the availability is poor maybe because of the COVID-19 and AMD’s 7nm mobile APU shortage. Still we got hold of the upcoming Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 that is seen to house the new AMD Ryzen 7 4800U. The APU is the best mobile APU of AMD with 8 cores and 16 threads with 1.8 GHz base clock speed and up to to 4.2 GHz boost clock speed. The Zen 2 microarcitecture helps the APU to give incredible performance even having low TDP of 15 W.

Publication: TechnoSports