Kang Gosol

On the back of AMD’s successful Ryzen Mobile 4000 series launch for consumer laptops, the company today launching its range of commercial processors from the same family. These processors are designed for the standard commercial verticals typically associated with company contracts, education deployments, medical use cases and any environment that requires a level of manageability across its workforce. The new AMD processors have up to eight of the latest Zen 2 cores, up to Vega 7 compute graphics, and are built on the latest TSMC 7nm process node technology.

This morning Microsoft is announcing a refresh on a couple more of their Surface products that did not get updated back in October. The Surface Book 3 and Surface Go 2 will be making their way onto the shelves of the Microsoft Store this month, with the updated Surface Go 2 available May 12 along with the new accessories, and the Surface Book 3 coming on May 21. Surface Go 2 The smallest member of the Surface family is getting some nice updates. Microsoft has shrunk the bezels slightly and were able to fit in a 10.5-inch display in the same size device as the original generation. The new 10.5-inch PixelSense display also gets a slight resolution bump to compensate, coming in at 1920x1280, keeping the 3:2 aspect ratio Surface is known for, and achieving 220 pixels per inch. Microsoft Surface Go 2   Surface Go Specifications CPU Intel Pentium Gold 4425Y (Amber Lake-Y) 2 core, 4 thread, 1.7 GHz base freque...

Today MediaTek announced a follow-up in its SoC line-up with the new Dimensity 1000+. This seems to be a binned or revisioned variant of the Dimensity 1000 announced last year, although we currently lack details on the exact changes. MediaTek SoCs SoC Dimensity 1000 Helio G90 (Helio G90T) CPU 4x Cortex A77 @ 2.6GHz 4x Cortex A55 @ 2.0GHz 2x Cortex A76 @ 2.0GHz (2.05GHz) 6x Cortex A55 @ 2.0GHz GPU Mali- G77MP9 @ ? MHz Mali G76 MP4 @ 720MHz (800MHz) APU / NPU / AI Proc. / Neural IP "3rd gen APU" 2 "big" + 3 "small" + 1 "tiny" 4.5TOPs total perf 2x APU +1TOPs total perf Memory 4x 16b LPDDR4x LPDDR4X @ 2133MHz ISP/Camera 80MP or 32MP + 16MP 1x 48MP (64MP) or 2x 24+16MP ...