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PC market 2024

PC Market Rebounds: First Quarter Shows Growth

The market research firm IDC recently released its Quarterly Global PC Shipment Tracker for the first quarter of 2024. The report indicates that, after a two-year decline, the global PC market rebounded in the...

Samsung smartphones MediaTek

MediaTek’s Biggest Yet: Dimensity 9400 Boasts 30 Billion Transistors

Last year, MediaTek introduced the Dimensity 9300, featuring an “all-big-core” CPU architecture, which significantly enhanced peak performance compared to its predecessor. This year, MediaTek continues to embrace the “all-big-core” design, utilizing TSMC’s second-generation 3nm...

Memory Market price

Taiwan Quake Shakes Up Memory Market: Price Hikes Loom

The earthquake that struck Hualien in Taiwan on April 3rd undeniably impacted the island’s semiconductor foundries. Even in the absence of physical damage to the facilities, lithography machines were required to halt for inspections....

NVIDIA AI GPU supply

Get Ready: RTX 50 Series Launch This Year?

Recent reports have suggested that Nvidia aims to optimize its inventory management to gradually clear the way for its next-generation graphics cards while maintaining the pricing of the GeForce RTX 40 series lineup. The...

Byakugan malware

New Adobe Scam Unleashes Byakugan Malware

Cybersecurity experts are alerting to a new wave of attacks targeting Portuguese-speaking countries using fake Adobe Reader installers to disseminate a multifunctional malware known as Byakugan. The attack commences with a PDF file that,...

JsOutProx

Financial Institutions Targeted: New JsOutProx Surge

Visa has issued a warning about the increased activity of a new version of the malicious software JsOutProx, targeting financial institutions and their clients. The campaign has affected institutions in South and Southeast Asia,...

Latrodectus malware

Phishing Danger: Latrodectus Malware Deployed

Specialists from Proofpoint and Team Cymru have uncovered a novel malware dubbed Latrodectus, considered an evolution of the well-known IcedID loader, which has been actively deployed in phishing campaigns since November 2023. Initially identified...

Zen 5 mobile platforms

AMD Zen 5 Unveiled: Mobile Lineup Details Leaked

With less than two months remaining until AMD’s keynote at Computex 2024, information regarding the Zen 5 has been surfacing with increasing frequency. Recently, an online community member leaked detailed core configurations for AMD’s...

AMD AM5+

AMD’s AM5 Gets a Boost: AM5+ Details Uncovered

With the unveiling of the Granite Ridge engineering samples, AMD’s forthcoming Zen 5 series architecture is drawing ever closer to its release. According to AMD’s roadmap, this new lineup will replace the Ryzen 7000...

Zen 5 benchmark

Zen 5 Crushes Zen 4: 40% AVX-512 Performance Boost

Recent leaks have suggested that the Zen 5 core outpaces the Zen 4 by 40%, a figure attributed to Zen 5’s performance enhancement over Zen 4 in benchmark tests utilizing AVX-512 instructions. Although this...

Ryzen 9000 series

Zen 5 Exposed: Ryzen 9000 Prototype Leaks

AMD plans to launch the brand-new Zen 5 series architecture in 2024, gradually phasing out products based on the Zen 4 series architecture. The successor to the Ryzen 7000 series processors, codenamed “Raphael,” will...