We're still waiting for an official annoucnement of Intel Comet Lake processors for desktop PCs, but a new leak may indicate more of what's in store. 

There could be a whole new slew of F-series CPUs to round the product stack based on details in a leaked presentation slide reported on by Informática Cero and shared by Videocardz. The slide shows off six new CPUs split in half between unlocked and locked models. Here's a breakdown of the products listed:

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• Intel Core i9 10900KF - 10-core/20-thread at 3.7GHz/4.8GHz all-core turbo
• Intel Core i7 10700KF - 6-core/16-thread at 3.8GHz/4.7GHz all-core turbo
• Intel Core i5 10600KF - 6-core/12-thread at 4.1GHz/4.5GHz all-core turbo
• Intel Core i9 10900F - 10-core/20-thread at 2.8GHz/4.5GHz all-core turbo
• Intel Core i7 10700F - 6-core/16-thread at 2.9GHz/4.6GHz all-core turbo
• Intel Core i5 10600F - 6-core/12-thread at 2.9GHz/4.0GHz all-core turbo

As you can see, all six chips listed include the "F" in their name that typically indicates the omission of Intel's integrated graphics. This has generally resulted in a small price cut compared to the non-F versions without otherwise making significant changes to what the CPU itself could offer.

The product stack lines up well enough with what we might expect from Intel, and even some recent leaks. An Intel Core i7-10700K benchmark leaked about a week ago and showed an 8-core/16-thread chip with a 3.8GHz base clock and 5.3GHz turbo boost. 

The base clock of the 10700K even lines up with the base clock of the 10700KF. The difference in the turbo boost clocks could be a result of an actual difference between the two chips aside from the disabled iGPU on the 10700KF.

Good news for gamers

Not everyone needs an integrated GPU like those found on many of Intel's processors. Gamers generally use dedicated GPUS anyways, as they're needed to run their favorite games, and that leaves the CPU's integrated graphics sitting mostly idle. It becomes wasted space while adding to the initial cost of the processor.

If Intel is preparing a stack of Comet Lake-S desktop processors that include these F-series chips, gamers will have an easier time choosing what they want to get.

The extra bit of price reduction Intel can offer on these chips will also help it compete against AMD, which has been an a winning streak with its Ryzen 3rd generation processors. Most of the Ryzen processors offer excellent value with incredible multi-core performance thanks to their high core counts – and most of these don't include integrated graphics, either.

Of course, the Ryzen processors are already on sale. We still don't know when Intel will come out with desktop Comet Lake-S chips. It's already starting to feel like Intel may be running behind schedule since AMD's Ryzen 3rd generation has gone mostly unanswered for the better part of a year. 

It may just be the case the Intel is running late, as a product listing was recently posted for a CPU cooler compatible with the unannounced LGA 1200 socket that is expected for Comet Lake-S, PCGamesN reports. That could suggest the manufacturer was anticipating a launch date that Intel couldn't make.

It certainly seems like Intel Comet Lake-S chips are on the way. The question is just whether Intel will launch them in time to compete with Ryzen 3000 or if it will have to face up against Ryzen 4000.

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The Galaxy S20 has only recently been announced, but with all of Samsung's S series secrets now revealed, it's time to think about the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 – which could get a display that wraps around the edge so far that it spills over physical buttons, according to a recently-granted patent. 

The 'waterfall' display appears as if it'll go beyond what we've seen on prior Samsung Note phones, which sport an Infinity Edge screen, by bending more than 90 degrees around the edge of the smartphone, PatentlyMobile reports. 

Normally, that would leave no room for the typical power button, volume rocker or that like-it-or-not Bixby button. However, as the new patent demonstrates, these buttons would protrude through the display – if the patent ever gets used.

This design doesn't seem totally implausible given Samsung's practice of poking selfie cameras through front displays in punch-hole notches. The difference is that the cameras aren't also breaching the glass covering. 

Buttons extending through the glass edge as well as display would be a little bit more elaborate, but this could be just what Samsung wants: a way for the Galaxy Note 20 to set itself apart from the ever-growing Galaxy S line.

This year's Galaxy S20 series is getting so big it continues to call into question the need for the existence of the Galaxy Note. Aside from the S-Pen stylus, the Note has less to differentiate itself. As it stands, the 6.9-inch Galaxy S20 Ultra display is bigger than the 6.8-inch Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus display.

The Note 20 with a built-in projector makes sense

Fancy buttons alone don't seem compelling enough to sell the Galaxy Note 20. Good news: the patent does mention some other bright ideas.

Among the fresh idea are a grip sensor that would like be akin to that in the Pixel 4 and others. There's also mention of a hologram device and projector. As much a holograms would be a killer app, we're going to go ahead and doubt that's coming soon to phones anywhere. A projector may be more reasonable. 

Portable projectors have plenty of value in work settings, and the Galaxy Note family has a more professional vibe than its siblings.  And, it wouldn't be the first time we've seen a smartphone with a projector built-in. Giving a presentation on the projector built into the Note 20 could make sense especially since the S-Pen could easily work as a clicker to change slider.

The through-screen buttons feel like the tamer and more likely move from Samsung, so we're going to keep grains of salt on that projector and a pile of salt on the holograms.

Via: Tom's Hardware

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TCL had a lot to show off at CES 2020 with the likes of 5G and foldable phones under $500, but the company has another design that it was waiting to show off until MWC 2020, and it has a slide-out display, according to sources for CNET.

The images obtained by CNET show the TCL concept phone in a variety of positions and from varying angles. In all, it gives a fairly comprehensive view of the unique design.

It appears the phone has a basic smartphone form factor when it's all closed up, with a cutout at the front for selfie cameras and a vertical array of cameras on the rear. While closed, it would be hard to tell the difference between this and any other premium phone.

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But TCL appears to have hidden a lot more screen inside the phone as one edge can slide away to pull out the rest of the display.

Design mysteries

The design is certainly intriguing. It manages to do what the Samsung Galaxy Fold set out to do, but appears to stay smaller in its closed form. It also seems to remain thinner and avoid the need for another display on the back of the device.

But, because we're only seeing renders of the device, it's hard to tell just how TCL is achieving this design and how good the screen will actually look in person. After all, renders of the Galaxy Fold didn't show off the crease that has been present in reality.

TCL's slider phone appears to have one seamless display when in its open position. But, the extended portion of the display has to slip under the rest of the screen somehow. That's the big question here.

If the extra portion of the display curls up underneath, it would require extra space and be subject to some very extreme bends. If it's bent too sharply, it would seem very likely to develop the much maligned crease or even break.

Another possibility (and one we feel may be the most plausible) is that the device simply uses two displays, with one on the top, and another that slides under. Since OLED displays can be incredibly thin, it may be possible for TCL to keep the layers very close, so that when the phone is in the extended position, the height difference of the separate displays is hard to see. 

The only catch is that no matter which way TCL has managed the extra screen section, the very right edge is always present. Whether closed or open, the front-facing cameras are present, and so is the portion of screen around them. If TCL has gone with two screens or a single foldable one that tucks away, the closed position of the phone seems certain to have a small but distinct gap between the left and right sides of the display. 

Unfortunately, because of the MWC's cancellation as a result of the coronavirus, we don't know when we'll have a chance to see TCL's concept in real life and figure out just how this sliding display works.

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The Lenovo Legion is posed to be the first 5G gaming phone, and we now have every reason to believe that it'll have Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 chipset onboard.  

An alleged press image of a Lenovo Legion phone (below), first posted on Weibo, was shared by GizmoChina. While there isn't much to see, it's clearly Lenovo's Legion branding, which is specific to gaming products. 

We've already seen plenty of companies offer fancy gaming phones that dial up the clockspeeds or display 120Hz refresh rates, but we haven't seen one yet that can connect to  the next-gen 5G networks.

Presumably, the Lenovo Legion gaming phone will come with some other gaming-centric specs. Lenovo may add some special cooling to offer high clockspeeds on the Snapdragon 865, and it will likely tout the 5G connection as a way to stream more games. 

Given that even the Samsung Galaxy S20 display is going to offer a 120Hz refresh, it would make sense for a gaming-oriented Legion phone to offer a similar spec.

What else can Lenovo do to be different

The crowd of gaming phones it getting more packed. The Razer Phone 2, Asus ROG Phone 2 and Black Shark 3 have cornered the market, and Lenovo may not break in so easily. It's also unlikely Lenovo will break into the US market, as it has kept its own branded phones outside and left Motorola to cover the US.

Lenovo could try to undercut prices, but there's limited room to trim specs when including the high-end Snapdragon 865. One area Lenovo could explore is VR. It's competitors in the gaming phone space don't have as much going on in VR as Lenovo does.

Lenovo has made headsets for Windows Mixed Reality, and the phone-slotted-into- a-headset could still work. Even the delightful Oculus Quest runs on just a Snapdragon 835 chipset. The Legion phone's chipset would offer considerably more power, and that paired with some Lenovo know-how in VR could turn out an interesting product.

Of course, Lenovo might just release a cookie-cutter gaming smartphone that has high-end specs, some gamery design elements, and a big, glowing "Y" on it. After all, this is the same company that has started making gaming laptops that can't game.

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Guess what all of Nvidia's Turing graphics cards have in common? That's right, they've moved away from the dated GDDR5 VRAM. Well, except for the runts of the litter: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1660 and GTX 1650. But, that may be about to change.

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Spotted by Videocardz, a recent EEC filing lists a number of new MSI graphics cards, all variants of the GTX 1650 graphics card. And no, they aren't GTX 1650 Super cards, which we already saw get the upgrade to GDDR6 alongside the GTX 1660 Super. Instead, they're just the same old GTX 1650 graphics processors on boards that have the faster GDDR6 memory, too.

This does line up somewhat with a previously leaked benchmark for a GDDR6-packed GTX 1650 model, though those leaks were believed at the time to be for laptop graphics processors.

The lines are getting Super blurry

In one way, this move makes a lot of sense. The rest of Nvidia's Turing-based graphics processors are powered by GDDR6, so why not give the GTX 1650 and the GTX 1660 the better VRAM? 

But it's not so simple. The upgrade to GDDR6 is already something that Nvidia did for the GTX 1650 and 1660 with the Super iterations. In the case of the GTX 1660, the only significant difference between it and the non-Super model was the new VRAM. The upgrade to GDDR6 gave the Super card a minor boost over its non-Super counterparts.

The GTX 1650 Super got a bigger boost with the GDDR6 upgrade, alongside a huge increase in CUDA cores and a bump in clockspeeds. This means an upgrade to GDDR6 for the non-Super model would start to blur the line between the two models, though not completely erase. For the GTX 1660, though, any potential upgrade to GDDR6 would completely erase the difference between Super and non-Super.

This could make Nvidia's graphics card lineup just a little bit more confusing, though will only improve the performance available to customers who want a new GTX 1650. It's also a better move than that time when the GeForce GT 1030 started shipping with DDR4 after launching with GDDR5.

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The new Samsung Galaxy S20 has launched today at the Samsung Unpacked event, and it will be available from all the major carriers in the US. 

You'll be able to get your hands on all three devices March 6, beating out the UK, where shoppers will have to wait a week until March 13 for the phone to launch. If you want to ensure you can get it at launch, you'll want to take advantage of the pre-order window, which begins February 21. 

The most affordable model will be the Galaxy S20, which retails for $999 with 128GB of storage and 12GB of RAM. Jumping up to the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus with the same storage and memory, you'll pay $1,199. For $1,349, you can increase the S20 Plus storage to 512GB. Of course, you also have the option of more affordably expanding the storage using a microSD card instead.

Prices go a lot higher for the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. It starts at $1,399 for a 128GB model with 12GB of RAM. But, it can go higher for the 512GB model with a stunning 16GB of RAM, which will go for $1,699.

Here's what else we know about Galaxy S20 prices from carriers:

Verizon Samsung Galaxy S20 prices and deals:

As is typical for Verizon, the carrier has installment plans that cut up the price of the phone over the course of 24 months. Not all the phones are available on the general launch date of March 6 - and it's because of 5G.

To be clear, all three phones connect to 5G. But only the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus and the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra connect to mmWave, which Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband currently uses. You'll be able to preorder either of those on February 21 and pick them up in Verizon stores or online on March 6.

Both those phones are also compatible with sub-6 5G; the standard Samsung Galaxy S20, however, is only compatible with those lower-frequency networks. So once Verizon's just-now-confirmed-at-Unpacked lower-frequency 5G network goes live later in the year, a version of the S20 keyed to the network will be released in Q2 2020.

BOGO discounts are also common for Verizon Wireless deals, but it may just offer a reduced price on a second phone rather than a fully free device.

• Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G (6.9-inch) starts at $58.33 a month for 24 months ($1,399 retail)
• Galaxy S20+ 5G (6.7-inch) starts at $49.99 a month for 24 months ($1,199 retail)
• Q2 2020: Galaxy S20 5G (6.2-inch) starts at $41.66 a month for 24 months ($999 retail) 

While it doesn't seem like Verizon is offering any special trade-in deals this time, it will give $200 in credit to consumers who preorder an S20 Plus or S20 Ultra.

Visible, an carrier that operates on Verizon's network, will also offer the Galaxy S20 for $984 and the Galaxy S20 Plus for $1,176. But, as far as we know, you won't be able to take advantage of the 5G connectivity through Visible.

AT&T Samsung Galaxy S20 prices and deals:

AT&T is offering the Galaxy S20 with support for its 5G network. The entry-level S20 will support its sub-6GHz 5G network, while the S20 Plus and Ultra will both support the sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G networks from AT&T. AT&T will offer the phones on 30-month installment plans, which brings the prices of each phone to the following:

• Galaxy S20 5G: $33.34 per month for 30 months ($1,000 full price)
• Galaxy S20+ 5G: $40 per month for 30 months ($1,200 full price)
• Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G: $46.67 per month for 30 months. ($1,400 full price)

If you order a new Galaxy S20 or S20 Plus from AT&T on an installment plan, port a line, trade-in an eligble phone, and get an Unlimited Extra or Unlimited Elite plan, AT&T will reduce the price. The Galaxy S20 would be free with that deal, and the S20 Ultra would cost $200.

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S20 prices and deals:

We haven't received pricing info from Sprint yet. They carrier will likely offer discounts for new customers and allow for 18-month leases that let you pay for only a portion of the device. Then, if you're ready to upgrade to a new phone in 18 months, you can trade it back in. Alternatively, you can pay off the remaining value of the phone and keep it at the end of the lease.

T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S20 prices and deals:

T-Mobile also has yet to provide us with any pricing details on the Galaxy S20. We expect 24-month installment plans to be available. We'd also expect some discounts for customers signing up for unlimited data plans as an incentive to get users onto T-Mobile's new 5G network.

We already have a good idea of what Intel Xe will look like with the DG1 graphics card. We even played Destiny 2 on the Intel Xe DG1 back at CES 2020. But we might have just seen what a more powerful Intel flagship graphics card will look like.

The folks over at Digital Trends spotted leaked documents from a presentation made in early 2019, so it's possible Intel's plans and certain details have changed. But what was shown includes a series of different graphics cards made with individual tiles that are combined using Intel's Foveros chip-stacking technology.

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A chart shows seven different graphics cards: four listed as SVD (software development vehicle) and three listed as RVP (reference validation platform). We know that the Intel Xe DG1 shown at CES 2020 was a SVD version, and would line up with one of the cards listed in the chart. But, there are also cards that feature two- and four-tile designs. 

The one-tile cards have TDPs (thermal design power) ranging from 75 to 150 watts, but things take a hot turn when these cards jump up to two and four tiles. The two-tile cards have 300W TDPs, which immediately put them at a higher power draw than even an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. The four-tile cards jump up to a TDP of either 400W or 500W, far beyond what Nvidia and AMD require for their desktop graphics cards.

How that translates to power

While it's clear these graphics cards are power hungry, it's not clear just how powerful they'll actually be.

Digital Trends speculates that each tile on the graphics card would contain 128 execution units (EUs), giving Intel's four-tile model a total of 512 EUs. 

If we consider that the Intel Xe DG1 seen at CES 2020 was likely a lower-power, single-tile graphics card, then a four-tile card could conceivably have four times the performance. The DG1 managed framerates in the 40-50 ballpark at 1080p with low settings in Destiny 2 according to some sly benchmarking by Steve from Gamers Nexus. Quadrupling the performance could then deliver an acceptable if not mind-blowing 4K experience, or perhaps much smoother 1080p or 1440p gaming.

If that's the case, though, the 500W TDP will feel out of place, since you can get excellent 1080p, 1440p, and even 4K gameplay out of much less power-hungry cards. This leaves a big question: what are these cards going to be good for?

Because it's so likely that these four-tile graphics cards are meant for development rather than retail products for everyday consumers, it's unlikely we'll ever get a clear picture of what they're capable of. At the end of the day we land in the same spot we've been in - we're going to have to wait until Intel has more to share with us. With GDC and GTC coming up in the next couple months, we could end up hearing more in the near future - and if not, there's always Computex.

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The Samsung Galaxy S20 family of smartphones is expected to launch tomorrow, February 11, and we're eagerly waiting. But, leaks wait for no one, and the latest bunch show off the staggeringly high-end specs that may be coming to the cameras in the new phones, courtesy of noted leaker Evan Blass.

We're expecting a Samsung Galaxy S20, S20 Plus, and S20 Ultra in the final lineup of phones. What we're seeing from these leaks are big differences in the camera setups of each device.

Per the leaks, the Galaxy S20 will pack a triple-lens setup in the rear. There are two 12MP shooters, one with wide-angle lens and another with an ultra-wide lens. The third camera is a 64MP telephoto. 

The Galaxy S20 Plus appears to have a very similar setup except that it has one extra sensor, which may be a dedicated depth sensor. Meanwhile, the front will have a small, punch-hole style camera with a 10MP sensor.

The Galaxy S20 Ultra steps almost everything up to an extreme. Blass's leaks show a 40MP front-facing camera. On the rear, there's the same 12MP ultra-wide lens seen on the other devices, but then things get wild. The telephoto camera has a 48MP, likely using quad-pixel technology to produce a crisp 12MP photo. While that's technically lower in megapixel than the smaller phones, we've heard rumors that the S20 Ultra's telephoto lens will have more optical zoom.

Then there's the insane, 108MP wide-angle camera. That's all topped off by a pair of depth sensors

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Samsung keeps being Samsung

Samsung has a reputation for its cameras, and these phones show a heavy investment in versatile sensors. We've already seen some supposed leaked Galaxy S20 camera samples, and they showed big improvements over the Galaxy S10. But, none of those were from the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Given what we're seeing in the leaks, the Ultra will go even further with photography.

There's a bit more to glean from the leak as well. For one, new cases will naturally show up for the new range of devices, including new wireless earbuds and a watch.

The leaks also suggest both the Galaxy S20 Plus and Ultra will be 5G, as previously exepcted, but that the standard Galaxy S20 will be a non-5G device. That's a move that could keep down the price of the entry-level model.

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The best Chromebooks tend to be low-cost machines that can handle simple computing tasks, though there are some premium machines. But, one thing they've all had in common is basic, integrated graphics. That might change with dedicate graphics in a leaked Chromebook.

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A Chromebook spotted by Chrome Unboxed and codenamed "Mushu" may fall into Intel's Project Athena program. And, that device appears to include its own dedicated graphics processor. It's not clear at present which chipmaker is behind the dedicated GPU, though, but AMD and Nvidia are likely candidates.

This will be a first for Chromebooks, and can deliver a new level of performance in some workloads. One possible workload is gaming.

Sensible or non-sense?

The idea of a Chromebook getting a discrete graphics processor may seem a bit out there, or at least it would have seemed that way a year ago. 

Editing spreadsheets, streaming Netflix, writing up documents, and browsing the web are typical tasks for a Chromebook. What they all have in common is a lack of any need for a powerful, dedicated graphics processor. They don't even need a very beefy CPU.

There's still a market for powerful Chromebooks with the likes of the original Pixelbook and the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, though. And that's the side of the market where we could see the dedicated graphics processor show up.

Photo and video editing could benefit from an upgrade away from integrated graphics. So could gaming. Considering Valve and Google are working to bring Steam to Chromebooks, a dedicated graphics processor starts to make a lot more sense.

Existing Chromebooks, even on the premium end of the spectrum, will only be able to handle running a small number of games from the already reduced library of Steam games readily supported on Linux. That equation will change with a dedicated graphics processor. And, depending on how well Valve and Google get Steam and its library working on ChromeOS, we could be looking at our first gaming Chromebook this year. We hardly expect it will be anything close to the best gaming laptops, though.

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We've all been kept waiting for a Surface Book 3, as Microsoft hasn't updated the product in over two years and neglected it when it launched new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models. 

A new leak seems to suggest that new Surface Book 3 could be in the works, if we are to believe benchmarks posted by leaker @_rogame and shared by Notebookcheck.

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The leaked benchmarks show multiple configurations for the Surface Book 3. In one benchmark, it is configured with an Intel Core i7-1065G7 with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q, while another benchmark shows it running the same processor with a GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q. 

In those two cases, the processor is an Intel Ice Lake chip. But, @_rogame suggests that Ice Lake may not be the only chip powering the Surface Book 3.  Another benchmark shows an unspecified processor that could be a higher-performance Ice Lake chip or even a Tiger Lake chip.

Reasonable expectations

The Microsoft Surface Book 2 packs 8th-Gen Intel Core processors, so it would be fair to expect an upgrade to the latest, high-end chips from Intel with the next update. Given battery life and heat concerns that would arise from from a high-performance chip in the tablet form factor, that would likely rule out Comet Lake, leaving only Ice Lake or Tiger Lake as options. The inclusion of Nvidia 16-series graphics also seems like a likely upgrade to the current hardware options.

While these leaks provide helpful insights into the potential specs of a Surface Book 3, there are still more questions to answer.

We still have no timeline for a release, though we'd hope sometime this year. There are also few clues about other upgrades beyond a potential redesign for the keyboard to include a writing surface on the bottom.

A pairing between Ryzen 4000 and the Surface Book 3 may not be a stretch, even if these leaked benchmarks don't suggest it. Microsoft showed AMD some love with the recent Surface Laptop 3, and the new Ryzen 4000-series mobile processors are expected to show up this year with desktop-class performance. Given the Surface Laptop 3 launched with both Intel and AMD options, Microsoft could pull a repeat of that maneuver with the Surface Book 3 to give it a big performance boost.

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When analyst Ming-Chi Kuo talks about Apple, it's worth listening. This time, Kuo has suggested that Apple has a mass of new products from a possible iPhone SE 2 to a possible AirPower device to unveil in the first half of this year.

This fresh crop of predictions was spotted by MacRumors, and suggests an entire product lineup. The biggest of these predictions is a 4.7-inch LCD iPhone, which could be a potential followup to the beloved iPhone SE.

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You see, as Apple's devices have moved into an even more premium segment of the market, the idea of the iPhone SE and iPhone 5C has felt left behind. But, there has been no shortage of speculation that a successor to the iPhone SE would come. A model with an LCD would make sense, as Apple has reserved OLED displays for it's higher-tier phones.

MacBooks and iPads may also be getting refreshes. Apple has already upgraded the 15-inch MacBook Pro to a 16-inch model, while also removing the contentious butterfly key switch mechanism. It's possible other MacBook Pro models will get the same treatment as Apple moves back to traditional scissor switches. Kuo had previously suggested Apple would abandon butterfly switches on this timeline. An iPad Pro 2020 refresh is reasonable to expect.

Less anticipated but no less exciting

Kuo has also suggested Apple would release a wireless charging mat, ultra wideband tag, and "high-end Bluetooth headphone." These are all a little further off the regular war path for Apple, but are still expected in the same timeline as the other products Kuo suggested.

The ultra wideband tags could be the long-rumored AirTag from Apple to compete with Tile trackers. So, as Apple delves into even more product categories, it may be coming up with a way to help you avoid losing your expensive items.

Aside from its Beats headphones, Apple's own headphone efforts have been limited to bud-style devices like the AirPods. There's a possibility that Apple has something like that in store to go against Surface Headphones or our perennial favorites, the Sony WH-1000XM3. 

Finally, a wireless charging mat from Apple could go a number of ways. It may be a simple wireless charger given the polish Apple is known for. It could be a multi-device wireless charging station. Or, it could be the AirPower that Apple previously canceled. 

Whatever these products ultimately turn out to be (if they turn out at all), we may find out in the first half of the year.

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The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H is going to be the top-of-the-line laptop chip from AMD when it launches with the rest of the Ryzen 4000 series of mobile processors this year. And, now we're starting to see some leaks that suggest just how fast it will be.

AMD had suggested at its CES 2020 keynote that its next-gen processors would offer desktop-level performance, but that's become a lot more apparent after a leaked benchmark shared by leaker @TUM_APISAK showed the Ryzen 7 4800H holding its own against Ryzen and Intel desktop CPUs alike.

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The benchmark in question shows the Ryzen 7 4700H earning 8,350 points in the 3DMark Time Spy physics score, which measures exclusively CPU performance. That score doesn't quite keep up with AMD's other higher-tier desktop processors like the Ryzen 7 3700X, which scored a dazzling 10,180. 

However, this leaked benchmark suggests that it will topple high-end Intel desktop chips like the Intel Core i7-9700K. Team Blue's chip only manages to grab 8,200 points in the benchmark. It's not far behind the 4800H, but it is still behind. 

The fact that the Ryzen 7 4800H is beating the Intel chip isn't as big (especially given the narrow margin) as the fact that it's competing at all. Remember that this is a mobile processor with greater thermal power constraints than a desktop chip like the Core i7-9700K.

Plenty left unknown

This isn't the first time we've seen benchmark leaks showing new Ryzen mobile processors bringing impressive levels of performance. Previously we'd also seen the "U" variant of AMD's upcoming chip, which is a lower-power model. 

Of course, we have to take this leak with some grains of salt, given the chip hasn't quite made its way to market. We'll just have to wait and see what the Ryzen 7 4800H is capable of when it makes its way into laptops in the next few months.

While it would be great news for the laptop market to see true desktop-grade performance coming in what will presumably be an affordable package, Intel has some of its own tricks up its sleeve. 

We're already anticipating Intel Tiger Lake to push performance forward for Team Blue when  it comes to thin and light laptops, and its also got 10th-Generation Comet Lake H-Series chips for gaming laptops on the way. With this type of competition, 2020 will be a heck of year for laptops.

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Intel has done a great job of keeping us waiting on big advancements to its processor architecture, but Tiger Lake could start to change that. The first generation of 10nm Core processors was effectively a no-show, and the second generation of 10nm with Intel Ice Lake processors only recently hit Ultrabooks, but stands out as more of an efficient alternative to the high performance Comet Lake processors that still come on Intel’s undying 14nm architecture.

But at CES 2020, Intel gave plenty of attention to its upcoming Tiger Lake processors, so it's time to start getting ready for the next generation of mobile processors. Especially because Intel will have its competition cut out for it with AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile processors, which verge on desktop performance. 

 Cut to the chase 

• What is it? Intel’s 10nm+ Core processor architecture 
• When is it out? Late 2020 at the soonest 
• How much is it? There may be no consumer-facing price 

Intel Tiger Lake release date 

Intel hasn’t confirmed a release date for Tiger Lake but if you listened closely at the Intel press conference from CES 2020, you may have heard mention of Tiger Lake units shipping to OEMs “this summer,” which means late Q2 or Q3. 

If it’s shipping to OEMs then, that means it will come later on. So, it won’t be until the latter half of 2020, and could easily take until Q4 before laptops start shipping with Tiger Lake processors inside.

Intel Tiger Lake price 

We can’t expect to get individual pricing for Intel’s Tiger Lake processors because, for now anyway, they appear to be going straight to OEMs for laptop builds. That means the actual price of the chips will never really be paid by consumers.

We can guess they may end up in a similar ballpark to Intel Ice Lake chips, though. And, even if consumers aren’t buying those directly, Intel does supply some suggested pricing. Here are the prices Intel suggested for a range of Ice Lake processors when purchased in bulk:

• Intel Core i7-1065G7: $426 (about £325, AU$620) 
• Intel Core i5-1035G7: $320 (about £245, AU$465) 
• Intel Core i3-1005G1: $281 (about £215, AU$410) 

Intel Tiger Lake specs 

Intel’s Tiger Lake chips are described as 10nm+, though they’re Intel’s third iteration of a 10nm chip. It appears Intel doesn’t make much of its first 10nm Cannon Lake, which was as good as a phantom. 

In any case, we expect Intel Tiger Lake to come with further refinements to the 10nm process used, which will likely allow for decent performance from a low base clock (somewhere in the ballpark of 1.0-1.2GHz), and extra headroom for boost clocks (over 4.0GHz for Core i7 models).

We’ll likely see dual-core and quad-core variants of the Intel Tiger Lake chips, but it’s not clear whether we’ll see any higher core counts. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though. Some early leaked benchmarks shared by leaker @TUM_APISAK suggest a quad-core Tiger Lake chip can outperform a six-core Comet Lake chip, Wccftech reports. Intel claimed double-digit performance gains over previous generation chips. But, Tiger Lake will be going against AMD’s eight-core Ryzen mobile processors, and that match-up may be a different story. 

There’s been some speculation that Tiger Lake processors would support a new generation of RAM, specifically LPDDR5. If that were the case, it would double transfers, reduce power consumption, and enable a “deep sleep” power-saving mode. But, given that DDR5 is just getting into the sampling phase, according to our friends at PCGamer, it’s likely Tiger Lake will be sticking to DDR4 unless it gets a Cannon Lake-style series of delays.

There are a few confirmed specs for Tiger Lake, though. For one, the chips will come with integrated Wi-Fi 6, giving them more advanced wireless connectivity. They also get integrated Thunderbolt 4, which offers the same 40Gbps bandwidth as Thunderbolt 3 and the new USB 4.0 standard, according to clarification from Intel to our mates at Tom’s Hardware.

Intel could also get some faster connections if Tiger Lake supports PCIe 4.0, as suggested by TechPowerUp. PCIe 4.0-support was expected to come alongside Comet Lake desktop processors, according to Tom’s Hardware, but Intel had issues getting it to work. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean the Tiger Lake architecture will run into similar difficulties. If Intel Introduces PCIe 4.0, it match what AMD is offering with its Zen 2 architecture, but ultimately wouldn’t change a whole lot for consumers if Tiger Lake never escapes the mobile processor space (though could be more beneficial in something like the Ghost Canyon NUC). 

The Tiger Lake processors will also get support from AI and Intel Xe Graphics. That AI will optimize performance, and may have a special trick that can shift the balance of power to the CPU and GPU to give either a boost when needed.

We’ll keep this page updated as we learn more about Tiger Lake.

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The new Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are expected at the end of 2020 and, with the suspected upgrades to the internals of each system, they could consume a sizable chunk of market for SSDs and graphics DRAM, TrendForce suggests.

The Xbox One family and the PlayStation 4 come with a bit of GDDR5 VRAM and traditional hard drives. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are expected to make some upgrades in that regard, with a shift to SSDs and GGDR6. The VRAM is also believed to reach 16GB in capacity, double the 8GB of GDDR5 found on the original models of the current-generation consoles. The SSDs, meanwhile, are expected to reach at least  512GB or 1TB in capacity.

All of the VRAM and flash storage going into these next-gen consoles will mean a lot of demand surging all at once. TrendForce believes that by the end of 2020, Sony's and Microsoft's consoles will account for 3 to 5% of all SSDs shipped globally in 2020. Those numbers are expected to go even higher for 2021. 

Nvidia also at play

The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are going to be powered by AMD hardware, with Zen 2 architecture leading the way. They'll make up a chunk of the demand for graphics DRAM later this year, but Nvidia is also expected to playing a part in the demand.

Trendforce suggests Nvidia's next-generation Ampere graphics processors could start taking up some of the DRAM market in the second half of the year. That prediction would line up well with recent rumors that suggest Nvidia Ampere will be revealed in March.

That will certainly mean even more demand for graphical DRAM, but we'll all be lucky if one more player raises the deamnd even higher. Competition is a good thing, and there hasn't been enough of it at the high end of the graphics card market. But, a high-end Navi card may be coming, and it could compete with Nvidia's best offerings (unless Ampere proves a serious uplift) while also consuming just that much more of the DRAM market.

Via: Wccftech

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Here in the US, we can get OLED TVs from two companies: LG and Sony. They deliver excellent quality, but leave us with limited options and are invariably expensive. That's about to change, though, as Funai has just shown off Phillips-branded OLED TVs at CES 2020. 

In particular, Funai showed off OLED TVs from the Philips OLED 804 series. So, what's exciting about that? For one, these are five-star TVs in our book. That's not unusual from Philips OLED TVs either, as a quick look back shows the Philips OLED 803 and Philips OLED+984 scoring perfect marks in our reviews.

What's on offer

The Philips OLED 804 series include the latest OLED panels from Funai. On top of the already excellent contrast ratios offered by OLED display technology and the sharp 4K resolution, these TVs offer plenty of HDR options with support for Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HDR10+ formats. They also include Dolby Atmos audio decoding, and run on Android TV for immediate access to your favorite streaming services.

The TVs include the 3rd-generation P5 processor, which does an excellent job up upscaling standard HD content to appear higher-resolution. It also offers a compelling HDR tweak to SDR content.

They also have a unique feature on offer that sets them apart from the pack. Philips Ambilight shines colorful lights from the back of your TV that match some of the colors present on the display. That feature might not be for everyone, but the colorful ambient lighting it provides behind your TV can affect the viewing experience positively in our experience, and can even help your eyes out when watching bright content in a dark environment. If you have Philips Hue lighting in your house, you can sync it with the TV as well. You can find out more about Ambilight here.

This is all good news for shoppers in the market for OLED TVs, as Philips and Funai are behind some truly great options that will give you more to choose from than just LG and Sony. However, Philips' OLED TVs still fall into the $1,000+ ballpark.

Fortunately, cheaper OLED options may also be coming this year, too. OLED TVs from Vizio are coming and OLED might get competition from TCL 6-Series Mini-LED TVs.

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