PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite coming in mid-2024

At its annual Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm has announced and somewhat previewed its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite, a next-gen SoC for PCs. The new platform promises significant performance improvements, AI inferencing, and impressive power efficiency.

Octa-core CPU with single Cortex-X4 Prime Core and Adreno GPU with Ray Tracing

Qualcomm has officially announced its latest flagship SoC, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, promising better performance and higher power efficiency all across the board, and plenty of other improvements.

Requires support for Mesh Shaders

Remedy has released official PC system requirements for the upcoming Alan Wake 2 game, and it does not look good, especially since it will require Mesh Shaders, meaning that anything below Nvidia 20-series and AMD RX 6000 series GPUs.

Workstations with up to 96 cores and 192 threads

AMD has officially announced the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series processors and reintroduced the Threadripper processor lineup to the high-end desktop (HEDT) market with the new Ryzen Threadripper 700 series processors. AMD will offer three Threadripper 7000 series and six Threadripper Pro 7000 WX-series SKUs, reaching up to 64-cores/128-threads and up to 96-cores/192-threads, respectively.

Promises desktop-class performance for laptops

AMD has announced its latest flagship laptop GPU, the AMD Radeon RX 7900M. The new laptop GPU will debut on the new AMD Advantage Alienware m18 laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and the Radeon RX 7900M GPU, which is available as of today, starting at $2,799.99.

232-layer NAND and higher performance

Micron Technology has announced its latest Micron 7500 NVMe SSD for data center workloads. The Micron 7500 SSD series will be available in Pro and Max versions, based on U.3/U.2 form-factor, and feature Micron's own 232-layer NAND, promising up to 242% better random write performance compared to competitive drives.

Core Raptor Lake Refresh comes as i9-14900K, i7-14700K, i5-14600K

Intel has now officially launched its Core Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors which will be known as the Intel Core 14th Gen series. Launching at the same price points as the 13th gen counterparts, the Core 14th gen promises up to 23 percent better gaming performance compared to the competition, and up to 54 percent better performance in creator workflows.

And it might be worse than that

It appears that enabling AMD's Anti-Lag+ feature will get you banned in Counter Strike 2. The issue might not be limited to Valve's latest game but also some other competitive games.

Record deal at $68.7 billion gets it all under one roof

Microsoft has finally managed to close the deal and has completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard King company. This puts all franchises and plenty of developers under the same roof called Xbox Game Studios, as announced by Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Gaming.

Optimizations for Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Lords of the Fallen and Forza Motorsport

AMD has released its latest version of the AMD Software Adrenalin driver, the v23.10.1 WHQL, which adds optimizations for Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, Lords of the Fallen and Forza Motorsport, as well as adds Anti-Lag+ support for Counter Strike 2.