Taiwanese computer brand Asus has updated its VivoBook and ZenBook laptops with Intel’s latest 11th Generation Core processors. While the VivoBook range gets three new laptops, the ZenBook range only gets one new offering with the new ZenBook 14. The new offerings in the VivoBook range include the VivoBook Ultra 14, VivoBook Ultra 15, and the VivoBook Ultra K15. Among all the new Asus laptops, the ZenBook 14 is the most expensive offering and comes with a diamond-cut aluminium body.

Publication: Network 18 

Apple revealed its M1 processor that will be powering new Macs at a special event yesterday. The 13-inch MacBook Air, Pro and Mac Mini will run on the newly-released chips with ARM-based architecture. Currently, the 13-inch MacBook Pro starts at Rs 1,22,900. However, the Intel-powered MacBook Pro and Mac Mini will still be available from Apple for now. The 16-inch MacBook Pro comes with six-core i7 and eight-core i9 options which cost Rs 1,99,900 and Rs 2,39,900 respectively.

Publication: Indian Express 

Intel has debuted its first discrete graphics processing unit (GPU) for the data center, Intel Server GPU, based on the Xe-LP microarchitecture and designed specifically for high-density, low-latency Android cloud gaming and media streaming. “Today is a key moment in our ambitious oneAPI and XPU journey. With the gold release of our oneAPI toolkits, we have extended the developer experience from familiar CPU programming libraries and tools to include our vector-matrix-spatial architectures.”

Publication: The Times of India 

NVIDIA is reportedly prepping its GeForce RTX 3080 Ti for launch as soon as in January 2021. This info comes from the East-Asian outlet, HKEPC, according to which the 3080 Ti will go up against AMD’s Radeon RX 6900 XT, with the same price tag of $999. As far as the specifications are concerned, we’re looking at the same core count as the RTX 3090 and 20GB of GDDR6X VRAM, but a reduced bus size of 320-bit, same as the RTX 3080.

Publication: Hardware Times 

The supply situation for AMD’s Ryzen 5000 CPUs may have been relatively better than NVIDIA’s Ampere cards, but it’s far from sufficient. Many regions, most notably Asia-Pacific and global retailers such as Newegg got little to no supply on day 1. As already reported yesterday, the Ryzen 9 5900X is the most in-demand Zen 3 part. Whether that’s due to limited supply or excessive demand is hard to say for sure, but it’s likely a combination of both.

Publication: Hardware Times 

With the launch of Intel’s first discrete graphics, the Iris Xe Max, the company is looking to maximize the target market for the DG1. Today, the server GPU, called the H3X XG310 was launched. Technically speaking, it’s not a GPU. The XG310 features four DG1 (or Iris Max) GPUs on a single PCB, leveraging the PCIe PCIe 3.0 standard. That brings the total core count to 768 x4= 3,072 shaders or 96 x4= 384 EUs, with a total of 8GB of LPDDR4x per GPU or 32GB for the entire part.

Publication: Hardware Times 

In a new video update, Intel has asserted that it’s Xe-HPG (High-Performance Gaming) graphics cards have been successfully “powered on”, while the Xe-HP GPUs (for Data Centers and servers) are presently being sampled. This would fall in line with a recent leak where the Xe-HP GPU was described. It will supposedly feature HBM2 memory and be fabbed on TSMC’s 7nm class process node? Thirdly, Intel has also released the first revision of its chiplet-based HPC part (Ponte Vecchio) to manufacturing, and is waiting on their arrival to power it on too.

Publication: Hardware Times 

Amazon’s Great Indian Festival is still going strong and as always, you have a bunch of deals to look forward to. This time around, we will be looking at a few deals that should interest gamers. This list will include PC components, controllers, accessories, games and even a TV. So let’s get started.  The Ryzen 7 3800XT is aimed at high-end systems and packs eight cores with 16 threads. It has a base clock speed of 3.9GHz and a boost clock speed of 4.7GHz. It supports DDR4 memory with a nominal clock speed of 3200 MHz.