Remedy Entertainment’s Control was one of the first games to really showcase the potential of real-time ray-tracing with its gorgeous reflections and excellent ray-traced shadows. The company’s next game, a sequel to 2010’s Alan Wake simply titled Alan Wake II, promises to up the ante in terms of graphics technology by supporting what NVIDIA

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s Day 1 GPU Driver For Alan Wake 2 Claims A Huge 4.7X Uplift With RT And DLSS

One of the more exciting aspects of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon family processors for Windows on Arm64 is that these laptop PCs are always connected (4G or 5G), and they can deliver stellar battery life. Just peruse any of our recent reviews and you can see that, for instance, the Lenovo Flex 5G has more than 24 hours of battery life with video

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite To Deliver Performance-Per-Watt Leadership For PCs

It’s that time of year again—the leaves and temperatures are falling, and Qualcomm is announcing a new flagship mobile processor platform at its Snapdragon Summit event in Maui today. As expected, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is now official, packing a faster CPU core configuration, an updated Adreno GPU, and AI engines galore. Qualcomm

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 With Big Performance Gains And AI Mastery

Qualcomm has just announced its new S7 and S7 Pro Gen 1 Snapdragon Sound platforms at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii today. The company’s most advanced audio platforms are designed for earbuds, headphones, and speakers, as well as various smart audio devices.
On-Device AI Processing And New Connectivity Tech
According to Qualcomm, the new

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Sound S7 Series With XPAN For Ubiquitous HiFi Jams

Apple has confirmed rumors that the company plans on making another big announcement by the end of the month with its upcoming “Scary Fast” event. Many have speculated that the Cupertino-based company will likely announce a new iMac and possibly a new MacBook Pro with the latest M3 chipset.

Fans of Apple were a bit disappointed with the

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Announces Its Scary Fast Event With New M3 Silicon Powered Devices Expected

In case you’re unfamiliar, “delidding” is the process of removing the thick metal plate attached to the top of modern CPUs. This plate is known as the “integrated heat spreader” or “IHS,” and it protects the fragile silicon die of the processor from cracking when fumble-fingered users are installing their cooling apparatus. Having an IHS is

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel 14th Gen Core i9-14900K CPU Delidding Reveals A Cool Surprise

Tomorrow, October 25th, the Xbox Partner Preview will showcase both updates and new games coming to Xbox and Windows from the plethora of Microsoft third-party partners. We’ll also get to see info on upcoming Game Pass titles and quite a bit of gameplay footage all around. Overall, it should be an exciting show, so here’s how you can tune

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Partner Preview Games Event: When, How To Watch And What To Expect

A new survey by an Apple analyst suggests the Cupertino-based company could spend several billion dollars in 2024 in order to catch up in the AI race. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple to spend “at least” $620 million on servers in 2023 and an estimated $4.75 billion on servers in 2024.

The AI race is hot and heavy between giant tech companies,

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple May Spend Over Billion By 2024 On Servers In Major Generative AI Push

Artists are using a new tool to add invisible changes to their art before uploading online. Why? In order to combat having their work scraped into an AI training set. The new method causes the resulting model to “break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.”

Artists are battling to protect their work against being stolen by generative AI, with

Source: Hot Hardware – Artists Are Using Nightshade Data Poisoning Tool In Escalating War With Generative AI

NVIDIA and AMD are being spurred on by Microsoft to develop their own ARM-based CPUs to be used in Windows PCs, according to a report from Reuters. Apple, which is a competitor of all three companies, has seen great success ever since it launched its own custom ARM-based chip, M1, in 2020. Although this move is ostensibly focused on containing

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And AMD Tap Arm To Fab Chips For Windows PCs, Should Intel Worry?

Intel announced it is advancing its semiconductor technology facilities at its Gordon Moore Park campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. The chip maker views the expansion as an important step towards regaining process technology leadership by 2025, which has been one of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s main goals when he returned to the company a little over

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Plans Huge Oregon Chip Fab Expansion As Part Of 0B Investment In US Over 5 years

The furthest human spacecraft from earth—Voyager 1 and 2—are still getting software updates more than 12 billion miles away, which should help keep the probes operational for many years to come. Smartphone companies can learn a thing or two here.

It all started in 2022 when Voyager 1 began sending garbled data back to Earth. Craft functions

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Sent An Important Software Patch 12 Billion Miles To Its 1977 Voyager Probes

Horror fans will get to see if Alan Wake II lives up to the hype when the game releases later this week. In the meantime, gamers who own an Intel Arc graphics card can download the latest Arc driver, version 31.0.101.4900, for a purportedly substantial performance gain at both 1080p and 1440p resolutions, according to the driver’s release

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arc GPU Driver Readies A Big FPS Boost For Alan Wake 2 Ahead Of Launch

Cowabunga! Skullcandy is bringing some commemorative audio gear celebrating the upcoming 40th anniversary of everybody’s favorite sewer reptiles. One is a limited-edition version of the Push TWS (true wireless stereo) earbuds, while the other is the PLYR wireless gaming headset. Both are very green and ready for those long gaming sessions.  

With

Source: Hot Hardware – Skullcandy Celebrates TMNT’s 40th Anniversary With A Pair Earbuds and Headphones

Counter-Strike 2 is the sort of fast-twitch game you’d like to play at a least a couple hundred frames per second, and the more the better. Intel’s Core i9-14900K can already help drive this and much more in Counter-Strike 2, but extreme overclockers Team AU at SXSW Australia were able to push the 14900K to 8GHz and hit 1,300 FPS in Valve’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Core i9-14900K Gaming PC Overclocked To 8GHz Hits Blistering 1,300 FPS In Counter-Strike 2

Remember the days when graphics cards, like any other expansion card, simply took up a single slot? Sure, there’d be some cooling apparatus on them, and occasionally you’d see some ultra-high-end board with an extremely overbuilt cooler that took up two slots, but for years and years, graphics cards were single-slot.

Nowadays, you’re hard-pressed

Source: Hot Hardware – Check Out The First-Ever GeForce RTX 4060 Ti With A Single-Slot Blower Cooler

Though Amazon Prime Day has come and gone, and Black Friday fast approaches, Amazon still has some pretty great deals going on. From accessories to enhance your style and connectedness, to laptops to help you get work done, here are a few great ways to save on tech if you are in the market.

Leading us off, if you are looking for something

Source: Hot Hardware – Gorgeous Fossil Smart Watch Headlines These Great Amazon Tech Deals

Twitch has reversed a previous rule to now allow streamers on its platform to simulcast to any other platform, but it does come with a few caveats. The decision was announced just as the company’s biggest event of the year kicked off in Las Vegas, TwitchCon.

Twitch has been under the gun as of late with some of its decisions and new competition

Source: Hot Hardware – Twitch Streamers Are Now Allowed To Simulcast On Any Service But There Are Caveats

SpaceX shared phenomenal footage of its latest round of test fires on its massive upper-stage rocket, Starship. The Elon Musk-owned space agency is still waiting to receive clearance from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) for a second test flight of its Super Heavy rocket.

The footage of the test fire was posted to X, also owned by Musk,

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Flames Shoot Out Of SpaceX’s Starship Rocket From An Amazing Vantage Point

The rumor mills continue to spool up with more information coming out about a potential NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super. Whilst it is fun to speculate on potential specs and even the existence of future releases, contradicting information abounds. This time, we’re seeing differing possibilities emerge on the VRAM front. 

Initially, the word

Source: Hot Hardware – Will The GeForce RTX 4080 Super Sport 20GB Of VRAM? Not So Fast