First dedicated Ray Tracing benchmark

As announced earlier, UL Benchmarks has now officially launched its first dedicated ray tracing benchmark, the 3DMark Port Royal.

Starting with Q1 2019

While the new 2nd gen Ryzen Mobile CPUs were the star of AMD's CES 2019 announcement, the company also said that in Q1 2019, Radeon Software will be available for both desktop, as well as Ryzen Mobile series APUs, including the Ryzen 2000, 3000 series APUs, and new Athlon APUs.

Sensors for a larger display

AMS has developed a light and infrared proximity sensor that can sit behind a smartphone’s screen, reducing the area required for such sensors and so allowing for a larger display.

All roads leading to Chromebook

AMD has been telling the world+dog about its laptop processor updates, which include a targeted attempt to capture some of the growing cheap Chromebook market, slightly faster mobile Ryzens and a promise to keep everyone's AMD laptop drivers up to date with the latest zero-day game-release optimisations.

Will work better with channel partners to sort it out

While many Intel fanboys have denied that there ever was an Intel chip shortage, Chipzilla has fessed up and admitted it cocked up.

Big major driver update with plenty of new and updated features

AMD has now officially released its latest annual major Radeon Software driver update, which sums up all the performance improvements released earlier this year as well as bringing a plethora of new features, including game and VR streaming.

SplitSpectre discovered by IBM

Three academics from Northeastern University and three researchers from IBM Research have discovered a new variation of the Spectre CPU vulnerability.

Larabee may half not bee, but Intel still wants something to be

Intel has been talking about its cunning plan to enter the discrete GPU market, after deciding its much hyped and quickly forgotten Larabee project should not include bee after it was stung by a hive of bee puns.

With upcoming Picasso APUs

According to the rumor mill, Microsoft's future Surface laptop could use AMD hardware, most likely the upcoming Picasso APUs.

3DMark Port Royal

UL Benchmarks has announced that its newest benchmark for ray tracing will be coming in January 2019, dubbed 3DMark Port Royal.