Author: ProHoster

The growth in the average selling price of AMD processors should stop

A lot of research has been devoted to the impact of Ryzen processors on AMD’s financial performance and its market share. In the German market, for example, AMD processors after the release of models with the first generation Zen architecture were able to occupy at least 50–60% of the market, if we are guided by statistics from the popular online store Mindfactory.de. This fact was once even mentioned in AMD’s official presentation, and […]

All Intel Inside: New Aorus 15 Gaming Laptop Gets Coffee Lake-H Refresh Chip

The new Aorus 15 laptop (brand owned by GIGABYTE) debuted with a 15,6-inch Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels) display. Depending on the modification, a screen with a refresh rate of 240 Hz or 144 Hz is used. For the graphics subsystem, you can choose from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 (8 GB), GeForce RTX 2060 (6 GB) and GeForce GTX discrete accelerators […]

XMage 1.4.35 Release - Alternatives to Magic The Gathering Online

The next release of XMage 1.4.35 has taken place - a free client and server for playing Magic: The Gathering both online and against a computer (AI). MTG is the world's first fantasy collectible card game, the ancestor of all modern CCGs like Hearthstone and Eternal. XMage is a multi-platform client-server application written in Java using […]

The NetBeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Foundation

After three releases in the Apache Incubator, the Netbeans project became a Top-Level project in the Apache Software Foundation. In 2016, Oracle transferred the NetBeans project under the wing of ASF. According to the accepted procedure, all projects transferred to Apache first go to the Apache Incubator. During the time spent in the incubator, projects are brought into compliance with ASF standards. A license check is also carried out [...]

GeForce and Ryzen: the debut of new laptops ASUS TUF Gaming

ASUS presented gaming laptops FX505 and FX705 under the TUF Gaming brand, in which an AMD processor is adjacent to an NVIDIA video card. The TUF Gaming FX505DD/DT/DU and TUF Gaming FX705DD/DT/DU laptops debuted with screen sizes of 15,6 and 17,3 inches diagonally, respectively. In the first case, the refresh rate is 120 Hz or 60 Hz, in the second – 60 […]

Made in Russia: ERA-GLONASS terminal in a new design

The Ruselectronics holding, part of the Rostec state corporation, for the first time presented the ERA-GLONASS terminal in a new version. Let us recall that the main task of the ERA-GLONASS system is to promptly inform emergency services about accidents and other incidents on highways in the Russian Federation. To do this, a special module is installed in cars for the Russian market, which in the event of an accident automatically detects and […]

Be patient: 10nm Intel processors for desktops will not be until 2022

As follows from documents leaked to the press about Intel's immediate plans in the processor market, the company's future is far from rosy. If the documents are correct, then the increase in the number of cores in mass-market processors to ten will occur no earlier than 2020, 14-nm processors will dominate the desktop segment until 2022, and […]

Huawei Y5 (2019) mid-range smartphone with Helio A22 chip officially unveiled

The Chinese company Huawei continues to expand the range of products offered. This time, the affordable smartphone Y5 (2019) was announced, which will soon go on sale. The device is enclosed in a case, the back surface of which is trimmed with artificial leather. There is a 5,71-inch display that occupies 84,6% of the front surface of the device. At the top of the display there is a small cutout that houses [...]

The Linux kernel for FS Ext4 includes support for case-insensitive operation

Ted Ts'o, the author of the ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems, has accepted into the Linux-next branch, on the basis of which the Linux 5.2 kernel release will be formed, a set of changes that implement support for case-insensitive operations in the Ext4 file system. The patches also add support for UTF-8 characters in file names. The case-insensitive operating mode is optionally enabled in relation to individual directories using [...]

Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers Announced For PS4 And Switch, But It's Not What Everyone Was Expecting

Atlus has made the long-awaited full announcement of Persona 5 S, which has been rumored for a long time. The game is called Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, and it will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, as many suspected. But the project is not at all what everyone expected. Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers is a spin-off of Persona […]

League of Legends will have a new champion - magic cat Yumi

Riot Games has announced a new League of Legends champion, Yumi. Yumi is the one hundred and forty-fourth champion of League of Legends. She is a magical cat from Bandle City. Yumi became the guardian of the sentient Book of Limits after the owner of Norra mysteriously disappeared. Since then, the cat has been trying to find her friend and travels through the portal pages of the Book. Without […]

Apex Legends will stick with seasonal updates instead of weekly updates

Free-to-play battle royale Apex Legends will continue to receive seasonal updates instead of weekly updates for the foreseeable future. Respawn Entertainment CEO Vince Zampella spoke about this. Speaking to Gamasutra, Zampella confirmed that the team has always intended to release updates on a seasonal basis, and will continue to stick to that plan - mainly for the sake of providing a quality experience. “We have always followed seasonal updates, [...]