Posts

Two-Stack Tandem OLED Panels for Future iPad Models Are Expensive to Make, but Increases Overall Brightness and Lifespan Samsung’s two-stack tandem OLED panels will employ two emission layers instead of one. The Elec reports that the additional layer aids in increasing the brightness of the panel two-fold while adding four times to its lifespan. As you might have guessed, mass producing this new technology is costly, which is why earlier, Samsung and Apple apparently had a falling out regarding the deal....

Based on the current prediction we have, Samsung might not be able ot meet the target that it had set. The prediction states that Samsung has a chance of shipping only 8 million of the latest foldable smartphones. This number might seem impressive at first but if you look back, last year, the South Korean giant sold 7.1 million units. Samsung is Not Getting Closer to Its Target for Foldable Phones, But Sales are Still Impressive The prediction is coming from Noh Geun-chang, head of the Hyundai Motor Securities Research Center....

Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass Are About to Become One The new Samsung Pay update will be available on all devices that are compatible with the service and are running on Android 9 and above. While Samsung Pay already stored users’ cards and other such information, the new update will add more functionality in the form of Digital Keys for their cars and smart locks and can be shared with friends, families, or members....

Samsung Teases Its Ultra-Fast & Next-Gen 990 PRO PCIe Gen 5 NVMe M.2 SSDs, Coming Soon With Heatsink Solution This makes it the third teaser related to the next-gen PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe M.2 SSDs that have landed in the past couple of days. Corsair and AORUS have also teased their respective SSDs, offering Gen 5.0 protocol and using the NVMe 2.0 form factor. Samsung has now teased their solution which they are touting as the “Champion Maker”....

Samsung to Reportedly Increase Capacity to 20,000 Wafers per Month in the Fourth Quarter With Samsung already supplying 3nm GAA chips to customers in a limited capacity, this may have been the opportune time to increase 4nm production and get back its lost clientele. According to Economic News Daily, the investment amounts to 5 trillion won, and with this injection, Samsung will reportedly attempt to grab orders away from TSMC given to the latter by Qualcomm, Supermicro, Huida, and other big names....

Less Than 50 Percent of Those OLED Panels Will Be for the Non-Pro iPhone 14 Models Apple earlier tapped the trio of Samsung, LG, and BOE to mass produce iPhone 14 displays. Unfortunately, BOE will not be a part of this team, according to ET News, due to design change issues, though it could have been the fact that Apple excluded the Chinese display manufacturer since it was previously caught cheating....

Save $100 on Apple’s Super Popular M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM and 256GB SSD This deal saves you $100 instantly without having to do anything at all. Just add this to your cart without entering any discount codes and you’ll be paying $899 for an extremely capable ultra-portable laptop with an insane amount of power. Buy 2020 Apple MacBook Air Laptop - Was $999, now just $899 It’s hard to come across a laptop that is a complete everyday computer....

Seagate and Phison continue their NVMe SSD technology partnership to optimize and lower data center TCOs. Seagate and Phison have cooperated on Seagate’s mainstream SATA SSD developments since 2017. That tight association has persisted through the company’s performance line of FireCuda customer gaming NVMe PCIe Gen4x4 SSDs and the world’s first purpose-built NAS NVMe SSDs. The alliance will currently fulfill the evolving global industry market for increased density and speedier and more intelligent storage infrastructure requirements that complete HDD storage to allow specific business applications such as hyper-scale data centers and high-performance computing AI....

The Sega Genesis Mini is back and more powerful than ever! - The definitive mini console of 2019, the Sega Genesis Mini, has been completely revamped! Its improved hardware is tucked away in a new, compact design based on the Sega Genesis Model 2! In addition, the console now comes with the 6-Button Control Pad! Sega CD titles available as well! - Sega CD titles can be played on the SEGA Genesis Mini 2!...

The Shadow of War mod introduces some new decorations for some of the game’s main locations, overhauls enemy placement, and adds NPC wars that take place all over Ashina, which is a nice way to spice up the experience for those who have already completed the game multiple times. The Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Shadows of War mod can be downloaded from Nexus Mods. What this mod also does:...

I know a bit about the next Silent Hill game. I work with the Silent Team, the original creators. I work in collaboration with Konami. I’m working with the Silent Team, the original creators at Konami; there are several games in development as we speak, there are several teams on it with a big line of games. They will revive the franchise, I think they were really impressed with the success of the remakes of Resident Evil which are evidently exceptional games....

Speaking with JEUXACTU, as translated by Gamingsym, Cristophe Gans, director of the original Silent Hill movie, revealed that he is working on a new movie based on the horror franchise that will be part of an effort by Konami to relaunch the series. This new movie, however, wasn’t pitched to Konami as part of the revival project, so it was just a matter of timing that allowed it to become part of it....

Thankfully, according to tried and tested EA insider Tom Henderson, that’s not the case. In fact, per Henderson, the new Skate is “much further along in development” than you might think and has even entered internal playtesting. This info has been corroborated by those who have been able to dig into the code for EA’s Origin subscription service, which states that testing has begun on “Project Dingo” (the codename for the new Skate game)....

Ah, but that’s not all! Ubisoft is also promising a full-on Ubisoft Forward presentation is coming in September, with information on multiple titles. No word on what exactly will be shown during the September Ubisoft Forward presentation, but Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora will almost surely be there, and we’ll likely learn more about the future of Assassin’s Creed as well. Skull and Bones has been announced for PC, Xbox One, and PS4, although it’s almost certainly coming to Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and possibly Stadia, as well....

No Power Efficiency Numbers Were Shared, but TSMC’s 4nm Technology Is Already Said to Be Vastly Superior Compared to Samsung’s The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 saw its fair share of performance and efficiency analysis, with results not being kind to Qualcomm’s last flagship SoC, claiming that several smartphones witnessed some level of thermal throttling. This could be attributed to the fact that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was made on Samsung’s 4nm node....

Twitter user Naruki dug into the usually-overlooked Intellectual Property Notices tab for a pre-ordered version of Sonic Frontiers and found reference to FidelityFX Super Resolution, aka FSR. — naruki (@naetoru60) November 2, 2022 Sonic Frontiers wouldn’t be the first Switch game to make some use of FSR, with Nintendo Switch Sports, Splatoon 3, and Life is Strange: True Colors also mentioning AMD’s upscaling tech in their intellectual property info. Neither of Nintendo’s first-party games seem to use the tech that extensively, but Life is Strange does, managing to squeeze a 1080p image and fairly consistent 30fps performance out of the Switch (by no means a guarantee when it comes to third-party ports)....

According to Grubb, the “Essential” tier will cost $10 a month and offer what PS Plus does now (online play and monthly “free” games). Next up will be the “Extra” tier, which will cost $13 and essentially combine PS Plus and the current PS Now catalog. Most interesting is the “Premium” tier, which will cost $16 and offer everything in the Extra tier along with new game trials, classic games, and cloud streaming....

High PC inventories are expected to provoke “aggressive discounts and promotions” in the coming weeks The China Times reports that ASUS and Quanta are two of the most affected companies by high inventory quantities. ASUS is currently sitting on over $6.8 billion of inventory that the company cannot send out of its factories. ASUS is looking at a sixty percent increase in inventory compared to last year’s inventory levels. At the same time, Quanta has $8....

TEAMGROUP Announces the First High-Performance Industrial DDR5 in 5,600 MT/s - The First Industrial Application of RGB Alert Brings a Great Leap Forward in Industrial Press Release: In response to the evolution of industrial DDR5 memory platform specifications, global memory brand TEAMGROUP has utilized its outstanding R&D capabilities to develop the first industrial U-DIMM, SO-DIMM, ECC-DIMM, and R-DIMM DDR5 memory modules at 5,600MHz clock speeds and run at 1.1V. They are expected to meet the diverse needs of next-generation platforms, Intel Raptor Lake and AMD Raphael-X, with high-performance specifications in line with JEDEC standards, accelerating the development of high-end industrial applications....

The collection, which includes 13 classic Turtles titles, will be released both physically and digitally later this year across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam. The following retro Turtles games are included in the collection: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)...