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The OPPO A96 In-Depth Review – It Works, and That’s All It Needs to Do

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What do you do when you need to buy a smartphone and only a budget of MYR 1,599? It may not seem like an issue to a lot of us, but it is a valid question still. Smartphones are simply too expensive.

To drive that point home even more, a about 10 years ago, MYR 2,000 will get you a brand-new Samsung Galaxy Note2. The Samsung Galaxy Note2 is a very highly rated flagship in its day, one of the most powerful devices you can get. A brand-new iPhone 3GS as well at the time will set you back less than MYR 2,500. Heck, the first Samsung Galaxy S smartphone will only set you back MYR 1,000, and that was expensive.

Today, spending MYR 3,000 on a smartphone is normal. This is especially true with flagship level devices. A mid-range device today will set you back less than MYR 3,000 but more than MYR 2,000. Anything below that is usually entry-level.

Entry-level devices are not stellar, but you can find some good ones in the segment. While it is not as competitive as the mid-range market, it is still a highly competitive segment. After all, the entry-level device segment could be your first smartphone experience.

Meet the OPPO A96. It sets you back less than MYR 1,500, which should mean that you might not enjoy the smartphone very much. We find that a little untrue though as you read on. But is it worth MYR 1,299? Or should you look elsewhere when you want a budget smartphone?

Design

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The best way to describe the OPPO A96’s form is that it is rather ordinary. There is nothing too special or outstanding about the device. It is a regular candy bar smartphone. The most interesting thing about it is probably its unique back styling they call the OPPO Glow design.

The crystalised design on the back of the device looks rather good in camera. It may not strike everyone the same in its physical form though. Some might like it, some might not.

Out the back of the device, the camera array is like a hark to OPPO’s Reno series. Of course, it could just be OPPO’s design language. It is a bump though, which means you might want to use the case that comes in the box or buy a different case that would sit flush with the camera bump.

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Despite the matte and rather plastic feel of the back, OPPO says that it is, in fact, glass. That is not necessarily a bad thing though. While it does not feel too premium, it does help with preventing fingerprint stains. The bad side of that is that it is slippery to the touch. If you use a case, it will not matter anyway.

You have a USB Type-C port at the bottom with some ports for the speaker, a small microphone hole, and a bigger 3.5mm combo jack. There is also a small microphone hole on top of the device too.

We like the fact that the power button is also the fingerprint sensor, a design made popular by Sony. The front facing camera sits in a corner instead of the middle of the display like we are used to on most devices. That is about it for the design of the device. Everything that you expect from a modern smartphone is on the device. It does not feel like a budget product, which is a good thing. But it does not feel or look all that premium either.

Hardware

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Underneath the glass and aluminium mix of a shell lies a Qualcomm Snapdragon 680 System on a Chip (SoC). It is not even a 5G chip, just regular 4G LTE support, which is plenty enough still. There is also 8GB of RAM and 256GB in memory.

Specifications

ProcessorQualcomm Snapdragon 680
Octa-core
4x Kryo 265 Gold @ 2.4GHz
4x Kryo 265 Silver @ 1.9GHz
Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)Adreno 610
RAM (Native)8GB
Memory (as tested)256GB
Display(s)6.59-inch IPS LCD
1,080 x 2,412 pixels ~401ppi
90Hz (up to)
480 nits (typical)
Operating SystemColorOS 11.1 based on Android 11
BatteryNon-Removable Li-Po 5,000mAh
Fast Charging 33W
Revers Charging
ConnectivityDual SIM
Wi-Fi WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
GPS/A-GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BDS
A2DP
AptX HD
Bluetooth 5.0
OTG Support
USB Type-C 2.0
Camera (s)REAR:
50-Megapixel (f/1.8, 27mm wide angle)
2-Megapixel (f/2.4, depth sensor)
1080p video recording (30fps)
LED flash
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16-Megapixel (f/2.0, 26mm wide angle)
1080p video recording (30fps)
SensorsAccelerometer
Proximity
Side Mounted Fingerprint
Ambient Light
Gyroscope
Face Unlock
Compass

User Interface – Color OS 11

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OPPO’s ColorOS is now something unique on its own. In older OPPO devices you get an interface that can be likened to the iOS. The modern ColorOS has some Android flair in an optional app tray you can turn on in the settings page.

You do not get 120Hz out of the display. Instead, you make do with 90Hz, which is still a fast display considering its price. That also gives you a smooth and refined feel of ColorOS. Unless you have very sharp eyes and is observant enough, ColorOS 11 on the device feels as smooth as the flagship devices. zx

The app tray is not turned on by default. We kind of think that while OPPO does want to retain their original look that is free of an app tray, having the app tray is a great thing for ColorOS and it should be made a default option when you first set up the device. The fact that OPPO includes it as an option though, unlike plenty of manufacturers that came out of China, is a welcome though.

+5GB RAM

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When you need more RAM in your PC, you add a RAM stick or replace it with something bigger. On your smartphone though, that is hardly possible. Space is a premium in your smartphone, so manufacturers can only fit one large RAM module that is usually attached to the SoC in favour of space. To get more RAM space then, some creativity gets involved

While OPPO is not the only one who does this, it is good to note that you can opt to use it or not. You can expand your RAM by up to 5GB just using the native UFS storage on the device itself. It does help with some multitasking performance, but hardly too noticeable because 8GB is rather plenty these days.

To opt out of it or to switch how much of your storage is being used as RAM is not quite as easy as OPPO wants you to believe though. You must do a little bit of digging within the settings of the device.  We only found it by using the search bar on the page. By default, OPPO sets aside 3GB of your storage as a temporary RAM. You can put it down to 2GB and up to 5GB or turn it completely off if you think it is not necessary.

Performance

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The SoC is not a high-end one. In this case, you get Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 680, which is not technically entry-level. It is sitting lower than the 700 series though. It also does not have 5G, so we do not get to test out Yes 4G’s “5G” network.

Benchmarks

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Call Quality and Connectivity

Despite it not being a 5G device, you technically are not missing out on much. Malaysia’s 5G network is not out in full force yet too, which also means that you are not missing out on the OPPO A96’s regular 4G LTE network. The OPPO A96 also supports VoLTE, which means you are still getting crystal clear calls.

That is what you get with the OPPO A96, crystal clear phone conversations when you have enough signal strength. As with modern smartphones, making a call with the OPPO A96 is rather straightforward with a similar phone app layout as any other modern smartphones.

Still, VoLTE allows you to have clear conversations when there is enough signal strength. We find that anything between two bars to four bars is good enough and stable. Anything below two bars and you might find that calls get a little choppy. Data speeds tend to suffer too with lower signal strength, though this could just be the ISP’s fault.

Gaming

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While it is not a flagship, gaming on a smartphone is a perfectly normal thing to do. If you are looking for a relatively budget friendly smartphone to game with, this could be it. You cannot expect a gaming performance that is likened to an OPPO Find X and its likes.

We played Pokémon Unite with the A96 mostly. We are happy to report that the game runs very smoothly on the device. While graphics performance might not match the flagships just to keep the framerates high, we do not mind that at all. We never faced any lags in the game which also meant that you should not have any issues when you are playing a ranked match. You still want to make sure that you have a solid internet connection though.

Game Space

Game Space is nothing new for OPPO devices. Its implementation is not unique either. It acts as a sort of one-click-overclocking tool that only activates when you play games. It also filters all your notifications just so that you do not get distracted in your gaming sessions.

Multitasking and Productivity

Smartphones like this is an indication that you do not really need a flagship to get a smartphone experience. Sure, you get the bleeding edge of whatever that is on offer on a flagship. The mid-range and entry-level devices eventually get it way later, but the most useful technologies do trickle down eventually. Ample RAM for example, makes it into budget friendly smartphones.

We usually have up to 15 tabs open within Google Chrome on the A96. We also tend to leave plenty of our apps working in the background. Apps like Instagram, Facebook, or Telegram are usually running in the background for us most of the time. At no point we felt that the device was sluggish to work with or experience any stutters when we are changing between screens in our daily use.

Battery Life

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Most smartphones at this range excels in this area and for good reason. Smartphones at this range usually comes with rather large batteries, larger than ones you can find on flagship devices. Combine that with lower power consumption from the SoC and you get a smartphone that can last days.

On standby, the OPPO can last up to 5 days without a single charge in between. Of course, with some hotspot, gaming, photo taking, calling, and messaging, the battery life does go down by quite a bit.

Our typical use of the OPPO A96 in a day involves plenty of Telegram messaging, some photos, a little bit of gaming, a few minutes of call, and some social media scrolls. In this case we could get the OPPO to last us nearly three days on a single charge. Three days from your smartphone is a lot of battery life, even for modern smartphones. When the battery drains, you only need about two hours for a full charge. We hardly charge the device overnight because we never needed to in our test period.

Display and Audio

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You get a nice 1080p Full HD+ display on the A96. It refreshes at 90Hz, which is more than what you can expect for most devices at this price range. Then again, everything that comes out in 2021 and later comes with 90Hz display.

What you do not get with devices at this price is an NTSC accuracy rating like this one does. The OPPO A96’s 6.59-inch IPS panel comes with a 96% NTSC colour gamut coverage. The colours produced on the OPPO A96 is comparable even to modern flagship devices.

While some of the flagship displays do come with 120Hz and higher resolutions at 2K or even 4K sometimes, you never really need them. Most of the time 90Hz is more than enough for most gaming situations. To make your UI look silky smooth, anything beyond 75Hz is enough. In terms of resolution, you most likely will not notice any difference between a 2K display and a 1080P display no thanks to how small the display is.

In this case, the display of the OPPO A96, we believe, is on par with most of the flagships you get today. Sure, it does not support HDR10 like most flagships do, but it is still a brilliant enough display that you can enjoy movies on Netflix and YouTube videos equally.

Cameras

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Here is where things do come down to earth a little. Instead of the usual three or four camera array we are used to seeing in modern smartphones. This one noticeable only has 2 out the back of the device. One is the main 50-Megapixel shooter that you are going to be driving most of the time. The other is an oddly oversized 2-Megapixel depth sensor.

The OPPO A96 shoots at 12-Megapixel mode if you leave the settings alone. If you want the full 50-Megapixel goodness, you must tweak the settings a little bit. There is no way for you to set it permanently to 50-Megapixel, which also means that you must toggle it to 50-Megapixel every time to you turn on the camera.

Photos do look impressive in 50-Megapixel mode. Details are sharp enough for you to zoom in a little, crop your photos to get a better frame of your subjects, so you can technically take photos in slightly wider frame and can get away with it. You do not get the same level of detail at 12-Megapixel mode, but at least your photos still look good with vivid and somewhat accurate colours. There is a little bit of a natural warmth to your shots though.

The 2-Megapixel depth sensor never really comes into play until you are taking photos of a person or when you put it into portrait mode. You can technically use it with small objects and get a natural looking depth effect with it. You are still shooting with your main shooter though, so your portrait can look rather great with plenty of details too if you shoot with the 50-Megapixel mode.

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The OPPO A96 – It Just Works

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At MYR 1,299, the OPPO A96 is not very expensive. On Paper, it may seem like quite a bargain. It has everything you need in a smartphone, nothing more. It also packs a large battery, a battery that would last for days at a time.

Sure, it does not pack Qualcomm’s most powerful. It packs a good ol’ Snapdragon 680 that does not even come with 5G as standard. At the same time, you only get one good camera to work with.

The MYR 1,299 OPPO A96 is a real treat, a bargain. It works just as you need to, as it is intended to. It does nothing more, but nothing less either, which is a good thing. It is a smooth operator, just as good as any flagship devices can offer you. You do not get any extraordinary features on the device, it just works.

If you are looking for a flagship experience with all the latest features and technologies, this will not be the device for you. It is a device that just works, it has everything you need in a smartphone, the essentials. The whole point of this device is reliability and simplicity. If that is what you are looking for, for your main driver or even your secondary device, this device is really made for you.

PR Newswire

DSers and Oberlo Partner to Improve Dropshipping Experience with New Data Migration Solution

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NEW YORK, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — DSers, a leading e-commerce solutions provider, has teamed up with Oberlo to launch a new data migration solution that enables Shopify e-commerce merchants to enjoy an improved dropshipping experience with DSers in a matter of minutes. The migration tool will be available to merchants on May 12 at 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

DSers, as a trusted and recommended Oberlo partner, offers everything merchants need to grow their business, including tighter integration with AliExpress, bulk order fulfillment, and access to over 150,000 Shopify sellers. Oberlo and DSers have worked closely together for months on the research and development of the migration tool to ensure that no data is lost and that the transition is as convenient as possible.

With just a few clicks, Oberlo users can quickly, safely and securely port their data from Oberlo to DSers. Merchants simply need to log into the Oberlo app and click “Migrate to DSers Now” on their dashboard. A series of prompts will then guide users through the migration, after which merchants will be able to access their previous Oberlo account functions in DSers and process all products and orders that have been migrated. For added convenience, merchants can choose to migrate instantly or schedule a future migration time.

DSers is the official partner of AliExpress and offers sellers a faster and more accurate interface, powerful features, incredible value for money, and unparalleled customer support 24/7, 365 days a year. Thanks to precise image recognition technology and an extensive supply chain resource library, merchants can quickly upload product pictures to find and compare prices and ratings from suppliers selling similar products. DSers’ self-developed order optimization system also helps users improve the success rate of order placement.

DSers comes with a plethora of additional features for Oberlo users, including the ability to manage multiple stores. Merchants can also integrate their store with PayPal to automatically synchronize order tracking numbers. Finally, DSers’ built-in marketing suite empowers merchants to quickly create buy-one-get-one-free (BOGO) and bundle offers to increase revenue.

For more information, please visit https://www.dsers.com/features/

About DSers

DSers is a leading company that provides advanced e-commerce solutions. Since 2018, DSers has been installed nearly one million times, processed 150 million orders worldwide, and earned more than 6,300 five-star reviews on Shopify.

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Consumer Electronics, Lifestyle, News

PRISM+ Officially Launches Their New Q Series Pro TVs – 86-inch 4K UHD TV for Less Than MYR 10,000? Yes, Please! 

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They say that your Television (TV) is the modern-day centerpiece of your living room. It becomes one of the first few furnitures that you get for a living room. It is your entertainment hub, and in the age of IoT (Internet of Things), your TV becomes your smart home’s central hub and control panel. It is no wonder that large format 4K UHD TVs is one of the first and biggest consideration when designing a home. In some cases, a modern living room is designed around your TV choices. 

Choosing the right TV set for your home is not easy though. There are plenty of choices for a TV today, anywhere from the budget option to the premium option. In the world of TVs though, you get what you pay for. What if we tell you that you can get more than what you pay for? 

If you have not heard of PRISM+, we cannot really blame you for it. It is, technically, a new player in the display industry. They made their mark in Malaysia back in 2021 by first releasing their 34-inch ultra-wide gaming monitor. 

They have since grown strength to strength, launching new models catering to a larger variety of needs. Their growth can also be associated with the fact that their displays are some of the best valued displays you can find in the market. This is also translated when they started launching their Q series TV sets. 

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To be fair, they have launched their 86-inch Q Series Pro (Q86 PRO QE) TV before today. The 4K UHD TV packs Quantum IPS technology with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos technology for a rather surprising price. At retail, the Prism+ TV will set you back MYR 8,999. An equivalent Quantum Dot TV from Samsung will set you back at least twice the price.  

What if you need something smaller though? What about a 65-inch? Smaller? 55-inch perhaps? 

PRISM+ now have a solution for you in the Q65 PRO QE, and Q55 PRO QE. They are practically the same products as the larger Q86 PRO QE that came before, but in smaller form factor’s to fit tighter spaces. They are perfect for smaller households and if you are just looking to add some flavour in your own rooms. 

The QE in their naming refers to Quantum Edition, which also refers to the Quantum technology that you will get in the TVs. No, unfortunately it is not an OLED display that you are getting. Instead, you get the next best thing to OLED, IPS LCD display. You are still getting highly vivid colours while eliminating the risk of OLED burn-ins.  

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All of them are good for 4K UHD resolution at 60Hz, not 120Hz. 4K UHD 120Hz contents are reserved for the latest generation gaming consoles though, so you might not be missing out on much. At least you still get to experience 4K gaming in this case.  

Still, what it lacks for in refresh rate, it makes up in image quality. The panel is rated for HDR10 with 1.07 billion colours, which also means you get excellent colour contrast. With the addition of Dolby Vision tuning, movies on the screen comes to life with even darker blacks, and brighter whites. You can even see those details in the dark in this case.  

To ensure that your immersion stays true, you get Dolby Atmos tuned speakers to ensure you hear every little thing in all the right directions. Of course, if you can pair it to Dolby Atmos speakers, you get even better surround effects. You can plug your external speakers, soundbars, or sound system via Bluetooth 5.0, optical cable, or HDMI ARC connection. 

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It runs Android TV OS 10,0 too, the latest and greatest from Google currently. With Android TV 10.0, Google Chromecast is also built-in, allowing you to stream your smartphone contents to your TV whenever you want or need. Of course, with Android TV 10.0, you get Google Assistant built in as well. Instead of speaking into your remote though, the Prism+ Q Series PRO TVs come with far-field microphones so that you can command the TV to do whatever you need to it do from the comforts of your couch just via a “Hey Google”, or “Okay Google” command.  

The PRISM+ Q55 PRO QE and Q65 PRO QE is now available on PRISM+ online store and all their online retail partners. Every purchase of the Q Series PRO TV will entitle you to exclusive free gifts, while stocks last. The 55-inch Q55 PRO QE will set you back MYR 2,399, while the 65-inch Q65 PRO QE retails at MYR 3,299. For more information on the Prism+ Q Series PRO TVs you can head over to their website.  

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Bridging Technology and Education: UNESCO and Huawei Deliver Campus UNESCO for Young People in 20 countries

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SHENZHEN, China, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UNESCO and Huawei have to date run ten Campus UNESCO sessions, focusing on technology and education and reaching students from 39 schools in 21 countries.

Campus UNESCO is an ongoing program that gives young people aged 14 to 18 the chance to share views with experts from UNESCO and civil society. The topics discussed in each 90-minute session in either English or French are linked to major UNESCO themes such as education, artificial intelligence, sustainable development, gender equality, and citizenship.

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Huawei has been partnering with UNESCO on the program since June 2021. The sessions have covered a wide variety of topics, including the relationship between technology and education, new technologies for today and tomorrow, and how technology can be used for good. Topics relevant to current issues that rose on the global agenda when the pandemic closed school doors in 2020 were especially welcomed by the students, including the changes brought to schools that either have or lack technology, and the necessity of physical schools when everything can be found on the Internet.

“We believe the SDG and COVID challenges are incredible ingredients for innovation,” said Dr. Valtencir Mendes, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO at one of the campuses.

Other issues of focus during campus sessions have been the value of digital skills and new behaviors to prevent cyberbullying, a threat that is on the rise for many teenagers in an increasingly digital world where social media is prevalent and when young people are outside the classroom.

Sharing their experiences and views with expert speakers can raise awareness among young people, not just about how new technologies will impact today and tomorrow, but the role that today’s teenagers can have in shaping the future.

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As well as UNESCO experts, other speakers include inspirational people from the organization’s networks, such as NGOs, IGOs, startups, spanning a wide range of roles, including scientists, researchers, and local development project managers.

Aligned with the aims of Campus UNESCO, Huawei and UNESCO are also partnering on the “Technology-enabled Open Schools for All” project, the implementation phase of which was launched in 2021 in Ghana, Egypt, and Ethiopia. The three-year project is supporting the construction of resilient education systems that can withstand global disruptions such as COVID-19. In addition to connecting schools, the project is providing training for teachers and students in the use of digital tools, establishing online platforms to link school and home learning, and developing digital curricula that can be accessed remotely.

The “Technology-enabled Open Schools for All” project is aligned with the Tech4Education domain of Huawei’s digital inclusion initiative TECH4ALL, which aims to drive education equity and quality with technology under the major aim of TECH4ALL: to leave no one behind in the digital world.

View the series on the Huawei TECH4ALL official website:

https://www.huawei.com/en/tech4all/stories/bridging-technology-education-campus-unesco

Lifestyle, News

The SONOS Ray Redefines Compact Home Cinema

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SONOS is no stranger to cinematic sound. The company has already released two soundbars – the SONOS Beam and the SONOS Arc. It’s now adding a new, more affordable option to its lineup with the SONOS Ray.

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The new SONOS Ray is the company’s most compact soundbar to date. It’s also the most feature rich 3.0.0 soundbar in the lineup. The sound bar is only 55.9cm long and 95mm wide which allows it to blend in seamlessly into any room. In fact, it’s only 7.1 cm tall so you can even slot it into the small shelves in your living room or room centre console. Aesthetically, the SONOS Ray comes with SONOS’s signature, minimalist design with a perforated grill in two colours: Black and White.

The SONOS Ray inherits a lot of design cues from previous SONOS soundbars. It has LEDs embedded in its minimalist design for power and connectivity indication. Also along for the ride is the capacitive touch buttons we have grown used to in SONOS soundbars.

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Aesthetics aside, the crux of the Ray lies in the audio innovations that allow it to immerse users into the content they’re consuming. It comes with SONOS’s proprietary bass reflex system which complements the professionally tuned sound that SONOS is known for. The Ray comes with two tweeters and two mid-woofers which complement the bass reflex system. It also has four Class-D digital amplifiers that have been tuned for the soundbar’s unique acoustic design. The hardware itself has been expertly tuned by SONOS’s soundboard – a collective of some of the audio industry’s top experts.

SONOS isn’t just letting the hardware do all the work. It’s also complementing the hardware with software features in the SONOS S2 application. Using the app, users can customise the sound profile of the SONOS Ray to fit their unique tastes. In fact, for the best audio experience with the Ray, users can use TruePlay in the app to calibrate the sound stage. This feature is only available on iOS for now. That said, both Android and iOS users are able to take advantage of features like Night Sound which dampens the sound stage so you don’t wake your sleeping child and Speech enhancement which lifts vocal audio and dialogue in your movies and series so you don’t miss out on anything said.

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You get a lot of the same connectivity when it comes to the SONOS Ray. IT is able to connect to WiFi networks on the 2.4GHz band with support for 802.11a/b/g/n standards. It also is able to connect via Ethernet. However, unlike the Arc and the Beam, the Ray only connects through optical connectivity. There is no HDMI, USB or Aux support. According to SONOS, this allows the sound bar to be compatible with televisions released over the past 15 years. That said, it is more than likely that we’ll be seeing accessories to allow you to connect to the soundbar via HDMI etc in the near future.

Pricing & Availability

The SONOS Ray will be retailing for MYR1,799 in Malaysia. Internationally it will be priced at USD$279 in the US, CAD$329 in Canada, GBP£279 in the UK and EUR€299 in Europe.

It goes on pre-order in Malaysia starting at 4.05 am on May 12, 2022, in Malaysia and will be gl;obally available starting 24th June 2022.

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At GWF 2022, Jane Goodall and Jack Dangermond Call for Collaboration for a Sustainable Future

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AMSTERDAM, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Our world is facing many challenges today. Together with the pandemic and its aftereffects, we now have a global climate emergency and developing fallouts. In such a background, the theme of Geospatial World Forum 2022 is apt – Geography and Humanity. Going by the definition by National Geographic, Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. In that way, Geography is a fundamental part of Humanity, and Humanity is always in the context Geography; they are inextricably interconnected.

Today, as we stand at the crossroads between transitioning to a new industrial epoch and precluding a climate emergency, the ‘Where’ is getting more crucial than ever before.

The messages to the GWF attendees from two renowned conservation crusaders – Dr Jane Goodall and Jack Dangermond – were most poignant. In two separate video addresses, both the leaders appealed to the audience to act collectively and responsibly for a sustainable future. They also underlined how technologies can play a greater role in this.

Dr  Lilian Pintea, Vice President of Conservation Science, Jane Goodall Institute, USA, was also part of the address.

The Jane Goodall Institute’s community-centred conservation and development program TACARE partners with local inhabitants to create sustainable livelihoods while promoting environmental protection. The program uses advanced technologies such as GIS and remote sensing to collaboratively design the future rather than imposing outside solutions.

Dr. Pintea was instrumental in introducing GIS, GPS, and satellite imagery as tools for conservation as part of the TACARE program. He is a passionate advocate for working not for but with local communities and putting the tools to monitor their environment into their hands. He works with local communities on the ground and technology partners such as Esri, Maxar, Planet and others to unlock the power of technology for conservation.

Esri is a partner in the TACARE program, but even beyond the program, environment and conservation is in the DNA of Esri, and Dangermond in particular. Jack Dangermond is widely recognized for pioneering geographic information systems (GIS) for conservation and development activities, and calls GIS “a sort of intelligent nervous system for our planet at a time when humanity desperately needs one to address the environmental and humanitarian crises at hand.” 

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Dr Jane Goodall

“Technology is helping people understand the connection between biodiversity loss, the climate crisis, and the emergence of new zoonotic diseases, such as COVID-19.”

“When I began my chimpanzee behaviour research in Gombe National Park in Tanzania in 1960, my only tools were one pair of secondhand binoculars, pencils and a supply of paper… But at the same time, I was learning about the plight of so many African people living in and around chimp habitat. The crippling poverty, lack of good health and education programs and degradation of the land owing to human and livestock population growth,” Goodall reminiscenced.

“In 1960, it was part of the great equatorial forest belt that stretched across Africa, by the late 1980s, Gombe was a little island of forest surrounded by bare hills. There were more people living there than the land could support. Overused infertile farmland, people struggling to survive. That’s when it hit me, unless we can help these people find ways of making a living without destroying their environment, we can’t save chimps, forests or anything else. The villages were cutting down trees simply to get more land to grow more food, or make money from charcoal and timber.”

“TACARE is a perfect example of how technology can help conservation, but it will only make a lasting difference when our brains work in harmony with our hearts, where poetically, we see love and compassion. It’s our disrespect of nature and animals that provides situations such as trafficking of animals around the world, wildlife markets, factory farms, and so on that provide opportunities for pathogens to spill over from one species to another, which may give rise to a new human zoonotic disease. I do hope that all of the participants of this conference will think about these connections and the importance of protecting and respecting wildlife, and help young people realize the important role they can play in creating a better world.”

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Jack Dangermond

“We are collectively responsible for this future. It’s creating a very unsustainable situation. If we’re going to have a positive outcome in this world, we’re going to have to get together.”

“One theme for me that cuts across all of our interests is taking a geographic approach. This is a way of thinking and problem solving that integrates our respective technologies and sciences and information and helps us understand, helps the people who we serve understand how to manage at all scales from local governments to our entire planet. This approach is integrative in nature. It’s science based and holistic, and emphasizes collaboration. Thus the whole World Geospatial Forum’s initiative of getting us together to think and include each other in our thinking and come up with solutions that really work.”

“GIS and all of these technologies together are helping us enable this geographic approach more effectively. But we need to scale this up. Technology is advancing. Some of you are involved in the advancements itself, but we’re surrounded by a technological world in a new increasingly technological society. This is going to help us scale up and address some of these big challenges in major ways.”

There are literally tens of millions of people now being fed with your kinds of information and talent so that people can make billions of maps every day. The coronavirus map was an example of this and exemplifies the effectiveness of being able to create a spatially literate society, a nervous system for us to collaboratively bring together as opposed to polarizing our societies. We need to be responsible. This forum is a way to talk about these approaches and how we can act effectively. But just the technology aspects or even the data aspects won’t be enough. It’s about you and how we can together create effective solutions, learn how to collaborate across some of the dividing lines that separate us, and above all act with urgency to create a more sustainable future.”

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Dr. Lilian Pintea

“High resolution imagery helps us see that many of these forests and woodlands are in the process of being restored through natural regeneration as part of the interconnected village forest reserve set up by local communities as part of the village land use plans. Village forest monitors selected by their governments are equipped with smart ones and Survey 123 mobile apps and continuously monitoring their forests, sharing the observations with local decision makers through dashboards and decision support and alert systems powered by Esri ArcGIS technologies.”

“What local communities around Gombe managed to achieve here changed my view on conservation and how to leverage and use innovative technologies to build resilience in our social ecological systems and gave me hope. Few years ago, I had the chance to join you and our Tanzania colleagues and listen to local communities interpreting the satellite images. One woman pointed to an area within the image very close to her house where she used to have a farm. She had to move her farm because the village land use plan delineated that area as a village forest reserve. Now she needs to walk an extra hour a day on steep hills to reach her new farm.

I asked if it was worth it. She pointed to deforested hills and eroded streams on a 2005 satellite image and said, “You see back then we did not have trees on the hills. We had landslide, erosion. That building near the stream is a school. One day a flash flood almost destroyed the school. I had two children at the time in that school. Now look at the recent images. The trees are back. The streams are looking better. I better walk an extra hour a day, but know that our children are safe.” That’s why when representatives from the village government reach out to farmers one by one, like her, many other farmers moved their farms to benefit the community.

I was struck by her story because the power of geography and geospatial technologies was unlocked not only because communities had access to this technologies, data and training facilitated by JGI, but also because thanks to our TACARE approach, this technologies and now the science approaches became part of a decision making process owned and driven by the local people themselves. At JGI, we see geography and geospatial technology as essential conditions to help connect the needs of people, animals and our shared environment and scale our conservation impact around the world. From using Esri’s ArcGIS Conservation solutions to daily manage the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in Africa, to protected area management, to planting trees and restoring forests in Uganda, in all these applications, our TACARE community led approach is key, creating spaces as part of locally owned decision making processes where technology providers, scientists, local communities, government decision makers, and others could have a dialogue, develop a common understanding and trust, and convert this amazing data into shared knowledge, wisdom, and better decisions for people, animals, and our shared environment.”

About Geospatial World Forum

Geospatial World Forum is one of the most prestigious global geospatial conferences and annual gatherings of geospatial professionals across the world. This year’s edition GWF 2022 runs from May 10 to May 12 at the Taets Art and Event Park, Zaanstad, Amsterdam. The three-day conference is produced by Geospatial World and co-hosted by Dutch Kadaster.

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Meet The Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 – A Mid Range All-Rounder

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Samsung has been creating waves and making its mark with its tablets – notably, the Galaxy Tab S series which pushes the boundaries of multitasking and productivity. However, what happens if we want the portability and versatility of a tablet but don’t have the moolah for a Tab S7 or Tab S8? Well, you have the Galaxy Tab A series, which brings all the essentials that make up the core Galaxy Tab experience.

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The Galaxy Tab A8 was released worldwide earlier this year in January. It comes with a UNISOC Tiger T618 Quadcore processor. While this may seem a bit out of sorts for Samsung, the SoC isn’t a slouch. According to reviews, it is comparable with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665. It has the Mali G52 MP2 graphics processor and is paired with up to 4GB RAM on the Tab A8. With up to 128GB of internal storage and support for microSD cards, the A8 is looking to be a contender for a top performing mid-range tablet.

The Tab A8 is equipped with a sizeable, 10.5-inch TFT LCD display which brings pretty good colour reproduction and accuracy. However, we’ll wait to make a judgement in our upcoming review. The WUXGA resolution of 1200×1920 pixels with a 16:10 aspect ratio promises a level of immersion that we once thought was reserved for flagships. Samsung completes the Tab A8’s media prowess with a quad speaker setup and Dolby Atmos sound.

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It also comes with a conventional single camera setup with an 8-megapixel camera sensor on the back with autofocus capabilities. It can also shoot videos at 1080p Full HD resolution at 30 frames per second. On the front, there is a 5-megapixel selfie camera which can also shoot 1080p at 30 fps.

Connectivity on the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 shouldn’t be an issue. It’s equipped with Bluetooth 5.0, WiFi 6 and GPS connectivity. Don’t need to worry about battery life too as Samsung claims that the tablet can last for hours on end with its 7,040 mAh battery. This is also thanks to the tablet supporting 15W fast charging via USB-C. The tablet is also one of Samsung’s lightest coming in at only 508g.

These specifications are just the surface of what the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 can do. We’ll be giving it the techENT review treatment soon. So stay tuned!

Official Specifications

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Developing quality workforces in the world – Kingdee launches Constellation HR Cloud

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SHENZHEN, China, May 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — From May 7-11, 2022, Kingdee Cloud Cosmic Summit, a highly concerned event in the industry, was held in Shenzhen. This Summit aims to explore how enterprises can digitally drive HR management change and develop quality workforces in the world by creating a flexible and agile organization.  Meanwhile, Kingdee also officially launched its blockbuster HR SaaS product, Kingdee Cloud-Constellation HR Cloud, to the public. The Constellation HR Cloud is built on Kingdee Cloud Cosmic’s assembleable enterprise-level PaaS platform with Huawei as a prototype customer. In the process of product building, Kingdee has acquired the rich scenarios and leading practices in Huawei’s cooperation and co-construction projects, and combined with its own HR digitalization experience of over 20 years to create a new generation of HR Cloud products for large enterprises.

Hello, new world of HRM!

On the day of the Summit, Xu Shao Chun, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Kingdee Group, pointed out in his speech titled “Nine Trends of HRM” that the development of HRM in the digital era will present nine trends, including the change in HRM supporting strategy model; the transformation of organization form to platform-based organization; the transformation of individuals from “task simps” to “value co-creators”; the transformation of digital enablement from experience-driven to data-driven; and the transformation of HRM to “mental resources” management, and etc.

Xu Shao Chun said that in the digital era, HRM requires new thinking, including the strategic thinking of “thinking with a CEO’s mind”; the altruistic thinking of “developing quality workforces in the world “; the knowledge-based thinking of “discovering, cultivating and developing core talents; the data-governance thinking of “from experience-driven to data-driven”; and the cultural thinking of “heart-centered”. Xu Shao Chun also pointed out that the new mission of HRM in the future is to “develop quality workforces in the world”.

Chen Chunhua, Dean of BiMBA Business School of National School of Development at Peking University, presented the latest results of cooperative research with Kingdee in the keynote speech and expressed that, through the investigation and survey of 61 CHOs from domestic and international leading enterprises, it was found that in the future, the HRM will take actions in five respects, including: efficiently aligning with the corporate strategy, deeply personalising the experience of employees, proactively collaborating with business operations, treating skills as core assets, and creating a digital technology architecture for HR.

Chen Chunhua also stated that the future enterprises would enter the scenario-based stage, and how to understand customer value and use digital technology to reshape new business scenarios would become the core of enterprise strategy, therefore, HR would also focus on value scenario creation, by building new business scenarios, deeply combining digital technology with HR business, and co-creating value with management team and product team.

Constellation HR Cloud Launch – Kingdee joined hands with Huawei to enter HR SaaS Market

When it comes to Kingdee, “smashing” has become the most distinctive label, from Xu Shao Chun smashing laptops in 2014 to advocate mobile office, to smashing the “necked hand” in 2021 to redefine the enterprise-level PaaS platform. Behind each “smashing” is a metamorphosis of Kingdee, and more importantly, the leading of the industry and technology. At this Summit, with Xu Shao Chun and his partners swinging the hammer again, breaking the “cage” that binds the traditional management thinking of HR and opening a new world of HRM, Kingdee also joined hands with Huawei to officially launch the blockbuster HR SaaS product for the large and ultra-large enterprises, Kingdee Cloud-Constellation HR Cloud!

Huawei and Kingdee started to cooperate in the field of human resources digitalization in 2020, and have explored and practiced digitalization in various fields such as organization and talent management, and basic employee services. Both parties are committed to building a world-class HRM platform with “Huawei’s scenarios and practices + Kingdee’s platforms and products”. At present, the HRIT cooperation project built by Kingdee Cloud Constellation for Huawei has completed some modules and achieved business online. The two parties will continue to deepen cooperation to fully facilitate the digital operation of HR in Huawei.

It is known that the project is based on the Kingdee Cloud Cosmic PaaS platform, which has powerful scalability and assembly characteristics, helping enterprises to create flexible and agile organizations that are truly business-oriented. Zhu Tao, assistant president, deputy general manager of R&D platform and general manager of HR cloud product department of Kingdee China, said in the product introduction that this release of Constellation HR Cloud will bring about eight major innovations, including globalization, intelligence, assemblability, “heart-to-heart” experience, flexible organization, flexible employment, comprehensive incentives, and talent activation.

Specifically, in terms of globalization, Constellation HR Cloud will help large enterprises realize global employment and global payroll framework, and provide characteristics such as global deployment capabilities and global personal privacy compliance; In terms of intelligence, Constellation HR Cloud will provide customers with a variety of intelligent application scenarios based on the powerful AI capabilities of Kingdee Cloud Cosmic, such as intelligent person-post matching, intelligent labor risk management and control, and intelligent salary adjustment, and etc., to help large enterprises improve the efficiency of HRM, and change “human governance” to “digital governance”. In terms of assemblability, based on Kingdee Cloud Cosmic, an enterprise-level PaaS platform that can be assembled, Constellation HR Cloud can provide a variety of applications of PBC, so that business scenarios and business processes of enterprises can be easily assembled to help large enterprises respond to changes in an agile manner. Upon the release of Constellation HR Cloud, it will form a dual-mode IT human resource cloud product line together with s-HR cloud, so that more companies shall adopt this solution that integrate advanced concepts and EBC system to benchmark against world-class standards.

What behind Kingdee’s release of Constellation HR Cloud on the basis of Huawei’s global HRM practice is the broad growth space hidden in the domestic HR SaaS field. According to research data from the international consulting firm Gartner, the global HCM software market is expected to reach US$30.687 billion in 2025, with broad prospects. According to Kingdee’s strategy of “Platform + Finance & HR & Tax + Ecosystem”, HRM cloud service has become another strategic deployment of Kingdee outside the field of finance and tax management and PaaS platform. From this point of view, in the future, domestic HR SaaS will undoubtedly become a golden track.

Kingdee Cloud Cosmic 5.0 — The Super Base behind the Powerful Product Power of Constellation HR Cloud

Without a solid foundation, even a beautiful building is just a pavilion in the air; similarly, without a powerful PaaS platform, even a good SaaS product is hard to be put into production. The ability of Constellation HR Cloud to meet the complex and high-standard demands of large-scale enterprises’ HR digital transformation is inseparable from the support of Kingdee Cloud Cosmic, a powerful assembleable enterprise-level PaaS platform.

Zhao Yanxi, executive vice president and general manager of R&D platform of Kingdee China, said in the keynote speech that every large enterprise in the future will need an assembleable PaaS platform, and Kingdee Cloud Cosmic is exactly the assembleable enterprise-level PaaS platform. It is not only a unified platform for all of Kingdee’s SaaS products, but also a platform for a series of capabilities, including technical capabilities with cloud-native and distributed as the core technologies; application capabilities with dynamic domain models as the core technologies; data capabilities with data weaving and AI as the core technologies; and open capabilities based on API and ISV application markets. All these capabilities endow Constellation HR Cloud with powerful product performance.

It is worth noting that Constellation HR Cloud fully considers the data migration problem in the process of digital transformation of human resources of large enterprises, and builds a historical data migration platform between multiple systems through a low-code integration platform, supporting large-scale data migration of 600,000+ personnel and 80 million + data in total, and realizing an automated migration rate of 100% and an accuracy rate of 100% of migrated data.

According to Kingdee’s strategy of “Platform + Finance & HR & Tax + Ecosystem”, HRM cloud service has become another strategic deployment of Kingdee outside the field of finance and tax management and PaaS platform. Taking this Cosmic summit as an opportunity, Kingdee launched Constellation HR Cloud based on the best practices of Huawei HR, which focuses on the layout of the HR market, to support the creation of a new world of human resource management with an assembleable enterprise-level PaaS platform to help Chinese enterprises go global and develop quality workforces in the world!

About Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited

Kingdee International Software Group Company Limited (“Kingdee International” or “Kingdee”) was established in 1993. It is listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 0268.HK) and headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Adhering to the core values of “Acting in all Conscience, with Integrity and Righteousness”, the Company is committed to helping businesses achieve their growth targets through dedicated services. It strives to provide clients with the most trusted enterprise service platform.

According to IDC, Kingdee ranked as No.1 in the SaaS ERM (Enterprise Resource Management Cloud Service) for Large, Medium and SME enterprises in China, maintaining the No.1 in the market share in terms of SaaS EA (Enterprise Application Software Cloud Services) and Finance Cloud. Meanwhile, Kingdee has become the only Enterprise SaaS vendor in China that has entered into the top five of Gartner’s application platform software in 2020, as well as the only Chinese vendor to be selected in IDC’s Asia-pacific manufacturing ERP SaaS MarketScape, as a Contender. In addition, Kingdee Cloud was selected in “The State of Low-Code Platforms of Forrester”, having the most case studies among all enterprise PaaS+SaaS platforms. Kingdee has attached great importance to user privacy and data security, and obtained the “grand slam” of security and privacy certifications, including ISO27001, ISO27701, Grade III Protection of Information Security, Cloud Security Alliance CSA-STAR.

Many cloud service products of Kingdee have won the favour of benchmark enterprises, including Kingdee Cloud Cosmic (new-generation PaaS Platform for enterprises), Kingdee Cloud Constellation (SaaS solution for large enterprises), Kingdee Cloud Galaxy (SaaS solution for medium-sized enterprises), Kingdee Cloud Stellar (SaaS solution for micro and small enterprises). Kingdee has provided software management and cloud services for more than 6.8 million enterprises, governments and organizations across the world.

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AMD Announces the New Radeon RX 6950 XT – Same-Same, But Better in Every Way

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The GPU market today looks like a completely different one compared to the one we saw in the past two years. Stocks are normalising and gone are the ridiculous prices. To be fair, prices are still quite high for existing stocks, and the entire market is still in its recovery mode. We may have also suggested that it is a good time to build a new gaming PC, since prices are steadily on the fall and items are readily available.

It is a good time for chip makers to launch new products too, to recapture the market and to start normalising the prices of their items that are floating in the market now, albeit a little odd. It is a good time then for AMD to launch additions to their Radeon RX 6000 series. They launched the new Radeon RX 6650 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6950 XT. Guess which one we are interested in.

The Radeon RX 6650 XT and RX 6750 XT

They are still RDNA 2 GPUs, hence the RX 6000 series naming scheme. On paper, they are also just slight improvements to the RX 6600 XT and RX 6700 XT cards. As AMD puts it, they are more “enhancements” than anything else. You are supposed to get better Full HD 1080p (RX 6650 XT) and QHD 1440p (RX 6750 XT) performances out of both cards. Like their biggest brother, the RX 6950 XT, the new GPUS are also enhanced with the same sized but faster memory module than before. The speed boost could be quite significant in gaming performance though.

The Radeon RX 6950 XT

You guessed right; we are more interested in AMD’s most premium offering in the GPU market. The Radeon RX 6950 XT will set you back US$ 1,099, which is about the retail price of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, so you can sort of see where this is going now. The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a curious GPU though.

Despite its naming, AMD did not bother adding more compute cores to the Radeon RX 6950 XT GPU. It remains at 80 compute units, the same as the outgoing RX 6900 XT. There is no additional VRAM on the GPU either at 16GB. Despite those, the GPU demands a little bit more power at a typical 335W. In some early tests, the GPU can pull more than 400W at any given time. That could be result of a higher clock speed of 2,100 MHz (boost up to 2,310 MHz) on the compute units and a higher RAM speed at 18GBps.

You still get RDNA 2, AMD’s Infinity Cache technology, and Smart Access Memory from the GPU. Those has not changed much. You also get AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 support with the new GPU too. In supporting games, upscaling should look even better than before. DirectX 12 Ultimate is also supported, but unfortunately ray tracing performance will still pale in comparison to the NVIDIA GPUs with their dedicated ray tracing cores.

All of these should mean that you get quite a bit in boost in gaming performance. In some earlyu tests, performance numbers shows that the Radeon RX 6750 XT blew away its competition. Of course, you want to take those results with a pinch of salt. At the same time, you are also getting a boost in overall productivity performance if you are working with Adobe Creative Suite and other 3D software.

Price and Availability

The AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6950 XT is now available globally. Board partners are also expected to announce the availability of their cards soon. The GPUs are priced at US$ 399 (MYR 1,749)*, US$ 549 (MYR 2,407*), and US$ 1,099 (MYR 4,818*) respectively. MSI Malaysia has announced their AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT, RX 6750 XT, and RX 6950 XT cards in Malaysia with no specific mentions of date and pricing as of now. More information on AMD’s new Radeon RX 6000 series cards can be found on their website.

*Approximately based on exchange rate of US$ 1 = MYR 4.38 as of 11/05/2022 on xe.com

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Intel Launches Their Most Powerful Mobile Processors in the 12th Generation Core HX Processors

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Intel Vision 2022 is here! Their keynote was two hours long, but it was not for nothing. They touched on plenty of things that they are working on in the background. Most of it has to do with their corporate businesses and corporate initiatives. One of it though has to do with mobile workstations and that is one we were interested in. They announced the new 12th Generation Core HX processors for workstations. In other words, they have released their most powerful mobile CPUs yet.

Intel already has their 12th generation Intel Core processors on the mobile platform before this. While they are largely of similar build and architecture, they are different products, this Core HX one and the ones before. As Intel puts it, the Core HX is made for professionals and creators.

At the top, the 12th generation Intel Core i9 with Core HX still packs up to 16 cores. Eight of the cores are efficiency cores while the rest are performance cores. In their forms, they are still the same 10nm processors with the new big-small architecture. The new Core HX processors also still support the same DDR5 at 4800MHz speeds where available.

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Where the new Core HX differs to the outgoing 12th generation Intel Core processors is in its multi-threaded performance. Intel claims that the Core HX delivers 65% more multi-threaded performance compared to the regular Core processors. 65% is a significant amount and important when it comes to creative use. It means less rendering and processing time in video production, 3D rendering, and even animation purposes. The 12th generation Core HX processors, in this case, will see the most benefit in CAD, animation, and visual effect applications. How it will compare to team red is yet to be seen though.

Still, just because the Core HX processors are optimised to be workhorses in creative and professional applications, does not mean that Intel has forgotten their core strength. The Core HX processors are still powerful gaming processors at their hearts. Of course, if you are building a gaming rig, there are other Intel products that might suit you better, this one should be more of an all-rounder for those who needs the versatility.

With Core HX, Intel has introduced seven new processors in their 12th generation Core line-up. The seven new processors are spread out between the Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 offerings. Because they are mobile processors, we will have to wait and see what Intel’s manufacturing partners can come up with later in the year with the Core HX solutions. For more information on Intel’s Core HX processors, you can visit their website.