AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D reviews are out
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Roundup: Leading gaming CPU with impressive power draw

Reviews of AMD's third Ryzen 7000X3D SKU, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, are now out, and this 8-core/16-thread CPU with 3D V-Cache, packs some serious gaming power, and doing it at impressively low power draw.

Microsoft reveals new Surface Dock
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Nothing proprietary in sight

Microsoft has just officially unveiled the Surface Thunderbolt 4 Dock which will dump the proprietary Surface Connect port and connect over USB-C.

M2 series of SoCs frozen
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No one wants Macbooks

Fruity cargo cult Apple has been forced to suspend the production of its super-hyped M2 systems on a chip because no one wants to buy the Macbook for which it was designed.

Low profits for South Korean chip manufacturing firms
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Sluggish global chip demand

Beancounters at Yonhap Infomax have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that major South Korean chip manufacturing firms won’t be earning much in the first quarter 2023.

PINE64 updates Star64 single-board computer
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Gets a quad-core RISC-V processor

PINE64 has an update about their Star64 single-board computer with a quad-core RISC-V processor: it will be available on April 4th in two configurations: 4GB and 8GB LPDDR4 memory for $69.99 and $89.99.