10nm Intel CPUs and a useful dual-screen laptop

It's Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Ready to catch up on more news from Computex 2019? Intel’s new 10th-gen CPUs are here, and ASUS has a dual-screen laptop that just might make the whole concept worthwhile. In other news, a malware-laden laptop sold for $1.3 million, and we’re hours away from finding out more about Hideo Kojima’s next game Death Stranding. (View in browser.) Now the XPS 15 has a top-mounted webcam, 9th-gen CPUs and OLED. Dell's new XPS 13 2-in-1 is its most stylish laptop yet Devindra Hardawar called Dell’s last XPS 13 revision a “perfect ultraportable,” but now there might be something better. It just unveiled an updated 2-in-1 version that has a taller 16:10 aspect ratio screen, more metal than previous XPS cases and a keyboard that feels more responsive than Apple’s butterfly keys. Oh, and of course Intel’s latest 10th-generation Core CPUs will be inside. Meet the new generation. Intel finally unveils its long-awaited 10nm Ice Lake CPUs The heart of the 10th-gen CPUs is Intel's Sunny Cove architecture, which features a quad-core, eight-thread design and speeds up to 4.1GHz. In comparison, the eighth-gen i7-8565U scaled up to 4.6GHz, while the previous i5 and i3 CPUs topped out at 3.9 GHz. With larger cache, 18 percent more instructions per clock (IPC) and massively improved Iris Plus integrated graphics, the new chips will do more even at equivalent clock speeds. As for other upgrades, the 10th-gen chips will include WiFi 6/802.11ax and Thunderbolt 3 support. While ultraportable laptop designs are the first ones to see these upgrades, the focus on efficient design will be felt elsewhere soon. Splitting the difference between Touch Bar and a full dual-screen laptop. ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo hands-on Imagine a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar that expanded down towards the trackpad, pushing the keyboard below it. That's pretty much what the ZenBook Pro Duo's bottom deck looks like: A physical keyboard takes up the bottom half, with a 14-inch wide display sitting above it. This beast of a machine comes equipped with appropriately powerful guts, like an Intel Core i9 HK chip that's unlocked for overclocking, as well as an NVIDIA RTX 2060 graphics card that supports ray tracing for advanced lighting effects. According to Cherlynn Low, the primary 4K OLED screen was vivid, and its keyboard is still comfortable to use -- even if we don’t know how much one of these will cost or when they’ll actually be available. Sponsored Content by Stack Commerce uTalk can teach you a new language for just $20 The work of art is meant to give physical form to abstract digital threats. Auction for a laptop full of malware closes at $1.3 million Bidding on a laptop packed with some of the world's most dangerous malware has closed at $1.345 million. Dubbed "The Persistence of Chaos," the Samsung NC10 contains six viruses that have caused an estimated $95 billion in damages. Plug in your PC, Switch or even smartphone. ASUS made the world's first 240Hz portable monitor for gamers The ROG Strix XG17 features a 17.3-inch 1,920 x 1,080 IPS LCD, and it's a high-end affair that offers an adaptive refresh rate up to 240Hz, along with a 3ms response time. It can even run on battery for three hours at 240Hz. We’ll finally know something about Hideo Kojima’s first post-Konami game. More 'Death Stranding' details are coming Wednesday night Kojima Productions has teased a countdown to a Death Stranding announcement on May 29th (May 30th in Japan). Its teaser told fans to “create the rope” -- whatever that means. But wait, there's more... 1. ASUS releases a 30th-anniversary edition ZenFone 6 and ZenBook 2. Watch AMD's Computex press conference in nine minutes: Ryzen, Navi and Zen 2 3. The next iPhone may send Bluetooth audio to two devices at once 4. Engadget's Guide to Parenting in the Digital Age: Tracking your child's progress 5. ASUS' latest WiFi 6 router looks appallingly normal 6. HP adds walnut, birch wood options to its Envy laptops 7. YouTube Gaming will merge with main site after Thursday 8. Huawei accuses FedEx of diverting documents to the US 9. Why Sony still dominates the full-frame camera market over Canon and Nikon 10. Teen hacked Apple hoping the company would offer him a job

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AMD, NVIDIA and Intel do battle at Computex

It's Monday, May 27, 2019. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. While those in the US mark Memorial Day, Computex 2019 is in full swing with hardware from Intel, AMD, ARM and NVIDIA setting new performance and efficiency benchmarks for laptops and phones headed our way later this year. For people who love FLOPS, there’s no better place to be. (View in browser.) Phones that do more and last longer are on the way. ARM's latest Cortex-A77 and Mali-G77 chip designs promise 60 percent faster AI on phones Wondering how the next generation of mobile phones will improve?  The technology that companies like Samsung and Qualcomm rely on as a basis for new chips just got a significant boost, as the latest Cortex A-77 CPU claims 20 percent faster instructions-per-clock performance without hurting efficiency. Meanwhile, the Mali-G77 GPU design touts 40 percent faster overall graphics than the G76, a whopping 60 percent increase in machine learning speed and 30 percent better efficiency. Taking aim at NVIDIA’s mid-range chips with Radeon DNA (RDNA). AMD's first Navi GPUs are the Radeon RX 5000-series As expected, AMD took the wraps off of its first 7nm Navi consumer GPUs at Computex, though the company is still playing coy with details. The Radeon RX 5000 series is the name of the new lineup, and the first featured card is the RX 5700, a mid-range offering that will go toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's RTX 2070 GPU. The company says we can expect 25 percent better performance-per-clock and 50 percent faster performance per watt with the new architecture, compared to its older Graphics Core Next technology, plus support for PCIe 4.0 and fast GDDR6 memory. For more details -- or information on AMD’s plans to support ray-tracing technology -- we’ll have to wait until E3. More power. Intel’s latest Core i9 CPU can run all eight cores at 5GHz The “special edition” Core i9-9900KS can reach 5GHz boost speeds across all eight of its cores, instead of just on a single one. Intel isn't giving us many details about the chip until its Tuesday Computex keynote, but the company confirmed its 4GHz base speed, a slight leap beyond the 9900K's 3.6 GHz. However, if you’re interested in performance with more real-world relevance, the company showed evidence that its 10nm CPUs and their 11th generation integrated graphics will actually be able to handle plenty of titles in 1080p without leaning on a dedicated GPU. Overwatch, for example, showed a 42 percent boost over AMD’s Ryzen 7 3700U while running on “low” graphics settings. We’re also expecting more details on these “Ice Lake” chips during Tuesday’s event -- stay tuned. Sponsored Content by Stack Commerce uTalk can teach you a new language for just $20 It’s still early. Lenovo's Project Limitless 5G laptop makes a lot of promises For something named Project Limitless, Lenovo's prototype 5G laptop has a lot of caveats. On the one hand, its Snapdragon 8cx is built to provide battery life that measures in days instead of hours with an improved GPU that can handle Chrome better. However, lingering concerns over app compatibility, an unexciting design and a shallow keyboard left Cherlynn Low with more questions than answers. Now with ray-tracing. NVIDIA is bringing pro-level Quadro RTX GPUs to laptops The mobile Quadro RTX 5000 (or 4000 or 3000, depending on your budget) edition is designed for professionals who do a lot of heavy graphics or video work. At launch, there are 17 laptops, made by seven partner companies, that will carry the new Quadro GPUs, which will be branded under the "RTX Studio" name. The company also claimed that the machines can run up to seven times faster than the equivalent MacBook Pro with 32GB RAM and AMD's Pro Vega 20 GPU. Laptops that are already lined up to add the new hardware include Acer's ConceptD line and Razer's Blade. The only thing we don’t know, however, is exactly how much the upgraded laptops will cost. But wait, there's more... 1. A parent's guide to raising a good digital citizen 2. AMD's third-gen Ryzen 9 CPU is a 12-core powerhouse for $499 3. NVIDIA is giving away the 'Quake II' ray tracing demo on June 6th 4. Leak shows Microsoft's very purple 'Fortnite' Xbox One S 5. NYT: Ransomware attacks in US cities are using NSA's stolen 'EternalBlue' tool 6. Microsoft, Alphabet team up to teach quantum computer programming 7. Netflix acquires Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix winner 8. Tesla starts locking down features on entry-level Model 3s

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