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Realme Book Prime and Realme Buds Air 3 were launched at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 event on Monday (February 28). The new laptop and true wireless stereo (TWS) earphones were unveiled alongside Realme GT 2-series smartphones. Realme Book Prime succeeds last year's Realme Book Slim laptop and offer a few upgrades. It comes equipped with an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor and features up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. The new Realme Buds Air 3 earphones succeed Realme Buds Air 2. They feature active noise…

Chipmakers and cloud service providers have come together to create a new Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard for better chiplet interoperability. Designed to allow manufacturers to use different ‘chiplet' components when building SoCs, the initiative is supported by industry leaders such as TSMC, Intel, Qualcomm, Arm, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, and Google. The UCIe standard will allow companies to design and develop CPUs and SoCs faster, and will also allow for different combinations of components due to…

Intel Arc GPUs for desktops have been delayed to the second quarter, the chipmaker has announced at its 2022 Investor Meeting. The GPUs were originally planned to debut in the first quarter. However, Intel is on track to start shipping its discrete Arc GPUs for laptops in the first quarter itself. The Santa Clara, California-based company also announced its cloud service called Project Endgame that is touted to offer access to Intel Arc GPUs virtually. Intel's latest moves are likely to give a tough fight to AMD and…

Some 45 percent to 54 percent of the world's semiconductor-grade neon, critical for the lasers used to make chips, comes from two Ukrainian companies, Ingas and Cryoin, according to Reuters calculations based on figures from the companies and market research firm Techcet. Global neon consumption for chip production reached about 540 metric tons last year, Techcet estimates.Both firms have shuttered their operations, according to company representatives contacted by Reuters, as Russian troops have escalated their attacks…

American tech giant Apple might not be planning to release a larger-screened iMac. According to a new report obtained by Mac Rumours, Apple will not be introducing a bigger iMac "in the near future."With the launch of the Mac Studio, Apple discontinued the Intel-based 27-inch iMac, which has already created some confusion about the future of the iMac line.Apple earlier said that the 27-inch iMac "has reached end of life," indicating the company has no intention of releasing a refreshed 27-inch model to go along with the…

Intel has picked Germany as the site for a huge new chipmaking complex, giving the first details of a $88 billion (roughly Rs. 6,70,187 crore) investment drive across Europe, which is striving to cut its reliance on imports and ease a supply crunch for manufacturers.The plan is the latest big investment announcement by a major semiconductor maker as the industry tries to catch up with a boom in demand for chips used in everything from smartphones to cars, though there will be no quick fix as the new German plants won't…

RedmiBook Pro 15 (2022) has been launched. The laptop was launched alongside the Redmi K50 series of smartphones at a virtual event on March 17. The new RedmiBook features a 15.6-inch IPS display and runs Windows 11 out-of-the-box. The RedmiBook Pro 15 (2022) variants come powered by 12th Gen Intel Core i5/ i7 processor with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 GPU as well as a 12th Gen Intel Core i5 processor with Intel UHD Graphics. The laptop offers up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of onboard storage. The RedmiBook Pro 15 (2022)…

Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ and Lenovo ThinkBook 16+ laptops were launched on Friday, as the latest additions to the company's ThinkBook portfolio. The laptops run on Windows 11 out-of-the-box and are powered by 12th generation Intel Core i5 and Core i7 ‘Alder Lake' processors along with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of onboard storage. The Lenovo ThinkBook 14+ and Lenovo ThinkBook 16+ come with Intel Iris Xe graphics, and will also be available with additional configurations with an Nvidia RTX 2050 GPU, according to the company.Lenovo…

LG Gram 16 and LG Gram 17 have just been launched in South Korea. The new lightweight laptops are powered by up to 12th Gen Intel Core i7 processors coupled with up to 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM and an optional Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 GPU. As the name suggests, LG Gram 16 sports a 16-inch WQXGA LCD display and LG Gram 17 sports a 17-inch WQXGA LCD display. Both boot Windows 11 out-of-the-box. LG Gram 16 and LG Gram 17 both offer 65W charging support.LG Gram 16, LG Gram 17 price, availabilityThe price for LG Gram 16 (16Z90Q)…

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy Chromebook 2 360 at the British Educational Training and Technology (BETT) 2022 event on Thursday. The new 2-in-1 Chromebook model is powered by the Intel Celeron N4500 processor and offers up to 4GB of RAM. The new Galaxy Chromebook 2 360 comes with a 12.4-inch display and features up to 128GB of eMMC storage. Samsung is offering a Wi-Fi variant and an LTE variant for the new Galaxy Chromebook 2 360. The machine features two USB Type-C ports and packs a 45.5Whr battery.Samsung Galaxy…