Valve now sells refurbished Steam Deck devices
Low price, same one-year warranty, and minor cosmetic blemishes
Valve has started to sell refurbished Steam Deck handheld consoles, "promising a reliable, high-quality gaming experience at a lower cost." These come with a few dings, but go through thorough testing and are backed by the same one-year warranty.
Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 to be unveiled on August 14
Xiaomi Mix Fold 3 to be unveiled on August 14
Xiaomi will be holding a big event on August 14th, and the star of the show will be the new Mix Fold 3 smartphone, promising an entirely new hinge mechanism, four Leica-branded cameras on the back, and more. Xiaomi also plans to unveil the new Pad 6 Max 14 tablet, as well as the new Band 8 Pro.
ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT leak at EEC
Confirms 16GB and 12GB memory configurations
ASRock's submissions over at EEC for upcoming Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards, namely the RX 7800 XT and the RX 7700 XT, have confirmed some of the previous rumors and leaks regarding specifications, as well as give an idea what models to expect from ASRock.
Microsoft Xbox coming to Gamescom 2023 in full force
Starfield, Forza Motorsport, Stalker 2, and more
Xbox has announced its Gamescom 2023 event and it will be showing off 30 different titles, with Starfield, Forza Motorsport, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Mortal Kombat 1, Stalker 2, and plenty of other titles in three booths. Gamescom 2023 opens its doors on August 23rd.
Powercolor RX 7800 XT Red Devil leaks online
Navi 32 GPU with 3840 Stream Processors and 16GB of VRAM
Powercolor has jumped the gun and revealed full details of the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT Red Devil graphics cards, confirming previous rumors about the Navi 32 GPU with 3840 Stream Processors and 16GB of GDDR6 memory with 256-bit memory interface.
AMD reports its Q2 2023 financial results
Reports $5.4b of revenue, down by 18 percent YoY
AMD has reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2023, reporting a revenue of $5.4 billion, a gross margin of 46 percent, and a net income of $27 million. This is a significant but expected drop in revenue of 18 percent compared to the same quarter last year, but it managed to get its gross margin up by two points.
Intel quietly adds Arc A570M and A530M GPUs
Based on ACM-G12 GPU
Intel has quietly added two more mobile graphics cards to the Arc A-series family, the Arc A570M, and the Arc A530M. Packing 16 and 12 Xe-Cores, these two GPUs have been spotted in the latest GPU driver and confirmed to use the ACM-G12 GPU.
AMD unveils Ryzen 9 7945HX3D flagship mobile processor
Laptops get 3D V-cache memory
AMD has announced its new Ryzen 9 7945HX3D mobile processor, claiming the world+s faster mobile gaming processor, and bringing 3D vertical cache memory to the mobile CPU range. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is a 16-core/32-thread SKU with 64MB of 3D V-cache.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold5 is officially out
New hinge design, lighter, and with plenty of improvements
Samsung has officially launched its new lineup of foldable phones at its Unpacked event in Seoul, with the Galaxy Z Fold5 leading the pack. The new Fold brought plenty of improvements with Samsung trying to fix all the drawbacks from the predecessor, including the new hinge design, which folds it flat, a better screen, new materials, and Qualcomm's flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC.
Micron unveils 24GB HMB3 Gen2 memory
With bandwidth over 1.2TB/s
Micron has announced it has started sampling the industry's first 24GB HBM3 Gen2 memory, with bandwidth reaching over 1.2TB/s, which is a 50 percent improvement compared to the currently available HMB3 memory.