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Daily Authority: šŸ’» Computex gets going

AMD showed off its next-gen chips, Xiaomi and Leica are now working together, and more!
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Published onMay 23, 2022

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šŸ Good morning! Some grand local gardens here in Berlin were open on the weekend for visitors ā€” so cute to see inside inner courtyards and unexpected flowers and bees!

Computex 2022

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Computex in Taipei is happening this week ā€” the show officially starts tomorrow but Microsoftā€™s keynote happened as I was compiling this newsletter; AMDā€™s finished just before.

AMD:

  • AMDā€™s most important news was announcing desktop Ryzen 7000 processors based on the Zen 4 architecture.
  • It will get AMD CPUs beyond the 5GHz barrier, and require a new motherboard as well: the current AM4 motherboards are no longer suitable, shifting to AM5, making it the first need for a new motherboard in about five years.
  • Other specs: Fabbed on a 5nm process, more L2 cache, supports DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 and more lanes, and that 5GHz barrier was broken in a demonstration of a chip clocked at 5.5GHz. Also, the chiplet approach remains (here itā€™s two 5nm Zen 4 CPU modules, and a new 6nm I/O die, which will incorporate basic graphics in an iGPU, not really for gaming but diagnostics, like Intel).
  • The top-line number is good but not a game-changer in the race against Intel.
  • AMD says Zen 4 has a 15% single-threaded uplift over the 5950X which only sounds okay, not amazing.
  • AMD simply isnā€™t really giving out all the details, no final specs, so maybe itā€™s sandbagging or waiting for Intel to talk about its 13th-gen chips, Raptor Lake, before it says everything.
  • Anyway, weā€™ll wait for it to come out in fall for overall analysis; and no pricing yet, no official names of CPUs yet.

Also from AMD:

  • A ā€œMendocinoā€ chipset was unveiled too and Iā€™m just going to quote The Verge here on what AMD is promising:
  • ā€œā€¦a new series of Ryzen laptop chips that combine four last-gen Zen 2 CPU cores with the latest RDNA 2 graphics on TSMCā€™s 6nm process to deliver over 10 hours of battery life on a charge ā€” all for a price between $399 and $699. That includes both Windows machines and Chromebooks.ā€
  • Now, AMD has promised this kind of thing before over the years.
  • But in 2022 AMD CPUs are not considered weird and strange for laptops, meaning thereā€™s now some 200 options set for 2022. Nice!
  • One of these will be from Corsair. The memory manufacturer unveiled a full AMD-exclusive gaming laptop, which comes after it acquired Origin back in 2019. We donā€™t know much, but thereā€™s a touch bar (as well as normal F-function keys) powered by ā€œStream Deckā€ technology. Stream Deck, not Steam Deck. Got it?

Microsoft:

  • Microsoft talked about Windows 11 with our old friend Panos Panay, chief product officer at Microsoft but it wasnā€™t about new things, more Windows 11 and partner devices.
  • Not a lot new here ā€¦but, thereā€™s probably a good reason.
  • Microsoft Build also happens this week (May 24ā€“26): this is where weā€™ll get the big announcements.

Roundup

šŸ”Ø ICYMI: The new Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 offers some speed bumps and efficiency improvements. Our guys benchmarked the 8 Plus Gen 1 chip but the first real device to get one will be something from Xiaomi, perhaps the Xiaomi 12 Ultra. OnePlus, Motorola, ASUS, and others suggest theyā€™ll release devices with the chip over the coming monthsā€¦ (Android Authority).

šŸ“ø Xiaomi and Leica are partnering up for an ā€˜imaging flagshipā€™ coming this July: Interesting! A co-branded device! This also ends the HUAWEI-Leica deal, and may be more than just a branding situation weā€™ve seen in the pastā€¦ (Android Authority).

šŸ‘‰ Motorola confirms 200MP phone is coming in July: Motorola Frontier? (Android Authority).

šŸŽ A hands-on with Appleā€™s 79-pound DIY repair kit to swap 1.1 ounce iPhone batteries says: ā€œThe more I think about it, the more I realize Appleā€™s Self-Service Repair program is the perfect way to make it look like the company supports right-to-repair policies without actually encouraging them at all.ā€ Which is true! Itā€™s also true you get all the pro tools ā€¦just in a complicated, risky, discouraging way (The Verge).

šŸ’µ Google will temporarily let Match use alternate payment systems ahead of 2023 trial (The Verge).

šŸ  You can get a powered curtain rod robot with rollers: open and close curtains with a novel little gadget now on its second-gen. First problem: you need two, second problem: do you need this? (Wired).

šŸŽ® EA is reportedly seeking a sale or a merger (Engadget).

šŸ’Š I donā€™t know if this is spicy or accurate: Matrix 4 is out on HBO Max, and this says: ā€œNobody cares. Because moviegoers hate themselves.ā€ Hm! (Wired).

šŸ“ŗ Stranger Thingsā€™ Season 4 format is bad television: a split-up release and long episodes may or may not bother you as the old rules of TV formats go out the window (Gizmodo).

šŸƒ Odd: Blizzard offers refund for nerfed $25 Hearthstone card (Ars Technica).

šŸ¤” ā€œWhat are some disturbing facts about space?ā€ (r/askreddit).

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Have a great start to your week!

Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor

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