After months of rumors and speculations, AMD finally announced Zen 5 based AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs for desktops in the Computex 2024 event. Two years ago, AMD announced AMD Ryzen 7000 CPUs for desktops. Now they have officially announced its successor.

While the whole tech world has landed in Taiwan for the Computex 2024 event, it unofficially got started a day ago with Nvidia’s Jensen giving out-of-the-show, pre-Computex presentation, which was filled with server hardware announcements and some interesting gaming software announcement for the desktops too.

However, day 1 of Computex 2024 was dominated by AMD and the announcements made by them. The most important being, announcement of the Zen 5 based AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs for desktops.

The whole presentation can be viewed via the official AMD YouTube video. Though, it must be mentioned, it’s a long one with many different subjects. So, lets stick to the most important points.

AMD Ryzen 9000

In the official announcement, AMD announced four processors in the Ryzen 9000 lineup.

• AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
• AMD Ryzen 9 9900X
• AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
• AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X comes with 16 cores, 32 threads, base clock of 4.3GHz, boost clock of 5.7GHz, 80MB cache (16MB L2, 64MB L3) and 170W TDP. In the presentation, AMD claims that the Ryzen 9950X is the fastest consumer CPU in the world.

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X comes with 12 cores, 24 threads, base clock of 4.4GHz, boost clock of 5.6GHz, 76MB cache (12MB L2, 64MB L3) and a 120W TDP. Interestingly, the TDP is 50W lesser than Ryzen 7900X, which had 170W TDP.

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X comes with 8 cores, 16 threads, base clock of 3.8GHz, boost clock of 5.5GHz, 40MB cache (8MB L2, 32MB L3) and a 65W TDP. The TDP here too sees a cut of 40W compared to Ryzen 7700X, which a 105W TDP.

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X comes with 6 cores, 12 threads, base clock of 3.9GHz, boost clock of 5.4GHz, 38MB cache (6MB L2, 32MB L3) and a 65W TDP. Here too, the TDP has been massively cut.

AMD claims that these processors will release starting July this year. But there is no mention of any pricing. Though rumors suggest that it will cost same as the original MSRP of AMD Ryzen 7000 series, but, it’s best to wait for the official confirmation from AMD.

Specs Table

For the benefits of the readers, we made a simple specs table, comparing the Ryzen 9000 CPUs and their comparable Ryzen 7000 series.

As one can see from the above table. Compared to their Ryzen 7000 counterparts, the Ryzen 9000 series maintains the same CPU core count, thread count and cache. However, the base clock has been cut a lot. This has allowed AMD to massively reduce the TDP.

The only CPU which has seen any increase in CPU speed is Ryzen 9600X, whose boost clock is increased by 100MHz. But the base clock has been cut massively here too.

The RAM speeds mentioned are the officially supported ones within specs. With EXPO (AMD version of XMP), they can go far higher.

Another thing to mention is that while AMD claims these new processors are made on a 4nm node of TSMC, this 4nm node is nothing but an improved version of TSMC’s 5nm node.

The I/O chip in the Ryzen 9000 is the same as the ones found in the Ryzen 7000, based on TSMC’s 6nm node. Even the basic built-in 2CU GPU is exactly the same.

Zen 5 Architecture

AMD says that Zen 5 based CPUs have been designed from the ground up. That means it’s an entirely new CPU architecture and not a refresh. It uses a new parallel dual pipeline front, which improves branch prediction, accuracy and reduces latency. It also allows more performance per every clock cycle.

AMD also says that Zen 5 has been designed with a wider CPU engine and instruction to run more instruction in parallel for top compute throughput and efficiency.

The result of this is that when compared to the Zen 4 CPU architecture, Zen 5 has double the instruction bandwidth, double the data bandwidth between the cache and the FPU and double the AI performance with full AVX-512 throughput.

AMD claims that the Zen 5 based Ryzen 9000 CPUs have an average 16% average increase in the IPC across different workloads, when compared to Zen 4 based Ryzen 7000 CPUs. It must be also mentioned that Zen 4 had lesser IPC uplift than Zen 5. So 16% increase can be considered very good, if not great.

Interestingly, AMD has added two different games in the list of its tests too, with one game showing an increase of 10%, whereas another one showing an increase of more than 20%.

AM5 Support Extended

AMD had released AM4 CPU socket way back in 2016. In almost a decade, AMD has released 145 CPUs and APUs across supporting this socket. So going by that, AMD has announced an extension for the AM5 CPU socket too.

AMD has announced that while the official support for the AMD AM5 was originally going to be till 2025, it has decided to extend it by 2 more years to 2027 and later. With more AM5 CPUs in many, many years to come supporting the AM5 socket.

Some expect that even next-gen AMD Ryzen processors based on Zen 6 could release on the same AMD AM5 platform.

New Chipsets

It must be mentioned, AMD Ryzen 9000 will to work on all AM5 motherboards with A620, X670E, X670, B650E, B650 chipsets. But, in addition to that, AMD also announced new X870 and X870E chipsets.

The motherboards with these new X870 and X870E chipsets support USB 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 for both storage and graphics cards. They also support higher AMD EXPO memory overclocking support for faster DDR5 speeds. Quoting them:

“We learned some lessons with the 600 Series [of motherboards]; memory technology has come a lot further, so we should be able to clock a little higher.” Unfortunately, no specifics, supported overclocked speeds, or timings were given – this will come later.

Interestingly, the additional usable PCIe lanes from motherboard in the has been cut in both the chipsets. Possibly to support the USB 4.0, which might use additional x4 lanes.

New Ryzen 5000 CPUs

The previous-gen Ryzen AM4 platform just keeps on giving. This is thanks to AMD, which seems to keep supporting the socket with newer launches. Today too, AMD has announced two new Ryzen 5000 series CPUs based on the AM4 platform.

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT, which comes with 16 cores, 32 threads, base clock of 3.3GHz, boost clock of 4.8GHz, 72MB cache (8MB L2, 64MB L3) and 170W TDP. This is a massive upgrade over Ryzen 5900X and similar specs with Ryzen 5950X.

The AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT, which comes with 8 cores, 16 threads, base clock of 3.8GHz, boost clock of 4.8GHz, 36MB cache (4MB L2, 32MB L3) and a 105W TDP. This CPU is only a small upgrade over Ryzen 5800X (non-X3D), with 100MHz faster boost clock.

Conclusion

On paper, AMD Ryzen 9000 series looks very good. The 16% IPC increase is good too. But those are just claimed marketing numbers. Real information will be available only when big sites review them.

AMD has interestingly cut both the base clock of all the CPUs. This has resulted in a decrease in TDP in some of them, at least on paper. Now this decrease in TDP is just because of cut in clocks or TSMC’s more efficient 4nm process is at play, it’s to be seen.

There were no announcements of any Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs like the Ryzen 9950X3D, Ryzen 9900X3D or Ryzen 9800X3D. Which is expected, as they will release much later.

Those on current CPU platforms who are looking for an upgrade, we would suggest them to wait for official reviews. They will come in July. That’s when these CPUs will officially release. Meanwhile, we will come to know about their prices.

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Xe2 is making its debut inside Intel's new Lunar Lake mobile processor, and the media engine of Xe2 is certainly impressive to bring VVC support. VVC or Versatile Video Codec is the successor to HEVC or high efficiency video codec. Hence, the formal is also officially referred to as H.266 just like HEVC is referred to as H.265 and it was announced back in 2020.

Just like the H.265 codec, H.266 also promised to bring even better quality at lower sizes by up to 50%. Sadly, unlike H.264 and 265, H.266 just did not get market adoption and AV1 became much more popular choice. Hopefully, with Intel adding support for the codec, eventually, AMD and Nvidia would do the same too. H.266, according to Intel, has an additional 10% file size reduction compared to AV1.

Coming to the GPU design itself, Intel says that Xe2 is 1.5x or 50% faster than the Xe graphics inside Meteor Lake. This gain is achieved thanks to the architectural improvements it has. Intel claims that Xe2's worst-case improvement is 20% which is in tessellation while in the best-case scenario, there is up to 12.5 times improvement.

The improvements have been highlighted by Intel in the slides below:

It will be interesting to see how Xe2 will stack up against AMD's new RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics processor (iGP) which was announced yesterday with its new Ryzen AI 300 series parts. Unlike Intel Xe2's 67 TOPS, AMD does not seem to specifically state what the AI performance of RDNA 3.5 iGP is.

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In a post on the game's Steam page, Larian says that the mod tools will be included as part of Update 7, which is currently set for release in September. Today, it will launch a closed alpha test of the mod software with a select number of mod authors being invited to try out the official tools. In July, there will be a way for PC players to sign up for a closed beta test, which will allow up to 1,000 players to test the mods created by people who got early access to the toolkit.

Mods made with the official toolkit will be hosted on the mod.io site. Here's what mod authors can expect to access as part of the Baldur's Gate 3 mod toolkit:

• Access the editor to create your own mods.
• Upload mods directly to mod.io servers.
• Load levels read-only to look at all the local entities, as well as the setup, and test your mods in-game while creating them.
• Get access to our internal editors for supported asset types such as textures and visual models, allowing you to override them directly in your mod through the developer interface.
• Publish your mod via the editor where it will be moderated and made visible in the in-game browser, or pack your mod locally to upload to a third-party site.
• Mod UIs through file editing. We will provide documentation that will explain how our internals are set up to solve mod loading/compatibility issues.
• Within Baldur’s Gate 3 itself, you’ll be able to:
  • Download and manage your mods directly.
  • Manage multiplayer and save game files through a verification UI.

While the plan is to release the mod tools in September for PC owners of the game, Larian says support for downloading and using mods made via the toolkit will be added later for the Mac, PlayStation, and Xbox versions of the game. More info on the mod toolkit can be found on Larian's Discord channel.

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There wasn't much that was new in the Qualcomm keynote today. However, as shown in its YouTube video of the address (at the 11:34 mark), Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon stated that these initial laptops will just be the first wave of Windows PCs that will have the Snapdragon X Elite chips.

In a slide posted behind Amon, Qualcomm showed off renders of PCs that will have the Snapdragon X Elite chips inside. Amon stated that the chip will be inside all form factors of PCs. The slide itself showed off tablet designs, along with what looks like a mini-PC, and all-in-one PCs as well.

Amon did not reveal which PC makers will be releasing Snapdragon X Elite PCs with these kinds of form factors, nor did he give any indication of when we can expect these PCs to be released. Perhaps we will learn more during the company's annual tech summit which is usually held in October.

Qualcomm has already started taking orders for a non-laptop Snapdragon X Elite Windows 11 PC. In late May, the company revealed its Snapdragon Dev Kit for Windows. As the name suggests, this PC was created for software developers so they can make new Windows 11 apps, or port existing ones, so they can run natively on the Arm-based Snapdragon X Elite and Plus chip. During today's keynote, Amon stated that orders for the dev kit have been doing well, so that's a good sign that we will see more native Windows 11 Arm apps in the future.

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Dean and Marshland developed much smaller balloons, each with a mass of less than 6 pounds and designed to persist in the atmosphere for weeks. By launching hundreds a day, over time, they can accrue data from around the world. WindBorne now operates the largest atmospheric balloon constellation in the world, Marshland said.

 

To test the assimilation of this balloon data into forecast models, WindBorne began to develop its own weather model about a year ago. It chose to experiment with AI forecasting because traditional models, based on complex computational physics, require an extraordinary amount of computing power.

 

“When we started to develop AI forecasting, I didn’t think it would be a more accurate model," Dean said. "It was a way to save computing power. A single desktop computer with a high-powered GPU can run it. That is insane compared to the compute power used for global forecast models.”

 

Pretty soon, however, the company's AI weather model, WeatherMesh, was performing better than traditional, physics-based models on tasks such as hurricane forecasting.

 

"It was mind-blowing how incredibly well it worked," Dean said.

 

WindBorne now offers two products to customers: balloon data and an impressively accurate deep-learning model.

Origins of AI forecasting

Some early academic work on using deep learning techniques for weather forecasting began about six years ago. This form of machine learning is based on neural networks, essentially connected nodes that are layered in a manner inspired by biological brains. By ingesting data, neural networks can be "trained" to identify and classify information and recognize patterns and possibilities.

 

Computer scientists were not overly optimistic that this approach would work because it was so wildly different from the science of weather forecasting that had been developed over decades. Traditional modeling uses complex physical equations to simulate the fluidic motion of the atmosphere. The most powerful global models take a set of initial weather conditions and then crunch through these equations to provide point forecasts for a grid a few miles across, out to 16 days, around the world.

 

The ECMWF model is the best physics-based model in the world, although other countries, including the United States, Canada, and Japan, also run global weather models for various forecasting purposes.

 

The initial skepticism about AI models was eased in 2022. A physicist and data scientist named Ryan Keisler presented some promising initial returns with what he called "graph neural networks." Shortly afterward, scientists from the China-based Huawei multinational company released information about their efforts to develop the "Pangu-Weather" model. These initial results, later published in Nature, found that under certain circumstances, the Chinese deep-learning model outperformed even the physics-based ECMWF model.

 

This sent a shockwave through the small community of scientists working with deep learning techniques and weather modeling. Chantry and the European weather center were among those paying attention as other models, such as Google's GraphCast, were released with similar promise. In early 2023, Chantry and a few colleagues began to study the possibilities, and in the summer of 2023, the member nations that fund the center agreed to support the development of a model.

 

The AI-focused team remained small compared to the developers who worked on the physics-based model, partly because this approach required fewer resources. Radically fewer, in fact. WindBorne, which developed the WeatherMesh model, is a company of about two dozen people. Its model can run on a single, powerful desktop computer.

 

The European scientists set to work making an operational model based on the work of the other deep learning models. It didn't take long. By the end of last year, the new Artificial Intelligence/Integrated Forecasting System, or AIFS, was already producing "very promising" results. This spring, the European forecasters started to publish real-time forecasts. As a meteorologist working in the field today, I use them and find them to be an increasingly useful tool.

 

But as someone who is not particularly literate in artificial intelligence technology, I was eager to find out how they worked. If I'm going to rely on this tool, I'd like to understand what I'm using.

What all this means

I started writing about the weather about 20 years ago, and the modeling tools we had back then were fairly simple. You had a few different kinds of models, and they were generally not very good. With major hurricanes like Katrina, there was a ton of uncertainty about where they would go. At the time, the average positional error in a five-day forecast was about 425 miles, about the distance from New York City to Bangor, Maine.

 

Today, that error is fewer than 200 miles. It's far from perfect, but it's a huge difference. Further improvements would help narrow down evacuation areas, saving an incredible amount of time, money, and heartache.

 

The Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, and it's expected to be a rather busy one. A good forecaster looks at many different models and understands that for any particular storm, one model may handle the atmospheric setup better than others. As we get into the season, I'm looking at Chantry's AIFS model as one of those tools and will evaluate its performance.

 

However, such AI models have not entirely entered the mainstream. Some of the best forecasters in the world work for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. This is the office within NOAA that is charged with forecasting hurricanes and issuing warnings for the entire Atlantic basin, including the United States. Having observed their work closely for a quarter of a century, they're fantastic.

 

This year, forecasters at the center will not be using the AI models for operational forecasts, a source told Ars. These are the official forecasts that include the familiar "cone of uncertainty" and warning areas. However, forecasters will be evaluating the new tools.

 

This is the first Atlantic hurricane season in which many of these new models will be fully available in real time. It's one thing to perform well on tests or in a "hindcast," where a model is tested on past operational data. It's another to make actionable predictions.

 

So in the coming months, on one of the biggest stages imaginable—a blockbuster Atlantic hurricane season where storms may threaten some of the largest cities in the United States—models such as AIFS, WeatherMesh, and others will have a chance to strut their stuff in real time.

 

We'll be watching closely.

 

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What you need to know

• AMD unveiled new Ryzen AI 300 mobile processors for laptops at Computex 2024.
• The new chips are built on AMD's new "Zen 5" architecture and are compatible with Copilot+.
• The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 each have an NPU with 50 TOPS performance for local AI acceleration.
• Acer, ASUS, HP, Lenovo, and MSI have stated that the new Ryzen AI chips are coming to AI laptops.

Computex 2024 is underway in Taipei, Taiwan, and AMD was one of the first to unveil a bunch of new hardware at its keynote address. Alongside the new Zen 5 Ryzen 9000 desktop processors (CPU), AMD took the wrapping off of its Ryzen AI 300 chips. These are the long-rumored "Strix Point" APUs complete with Zen 5 CPU cores, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and XDNA 2 Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for localized AI acceleration. 

The big news here if you're following the emerging world of AI PCs is AMD's offering of 50 TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second) of power from the NPU, making it more than capable enough to handle the new Copilot+ AI features coming to Windows 11. That also makes it more powerful than the Hexagon NPU in Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus chips, which comes in at 45 TOPS. 

For anyone interested in Copilot+ without Windows on ARM, this is our first official look at what AMD has cooked up.

Strix Point has arrived with a rebrand

A slide from AMD showing a breakdown of the Ryzen AI 300 chip. (Image credit: AMD)

AMD unveiled two new chips from its Ryzen AI 300 series, which has been rebranded to hopefully help avoid some confusion when shopping for a new laptop.

The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is the more powerful chip, offering a total of 12 cores and 24 threads. The cores are split into four standard Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c, which are essentially smaller Zen cores that are more efficient at the cost of overall performance, freeing up space for the GPU and NPU. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a base TDP of 28W, but the configurable TDP (cTDP) ranges from 15W to 54W.

Here is the changelog for the latest Surface Laptop Go 2 firmware update:

The following update is available for Surface Laptop Go 2 devices running Windows 10 October 2022 Update, Version 22H2, or greater.

 

Improvements and fixes:

 

• Addresses a potential security vulnerability related to Intel® Security Advisories INTEL-SA-00923, INTEL-SA-00929 & INTEL-SA-00950.

• Addresses pre-boot (PXE) and other security vulnerabilities.

• Extends device security certificate authority.

• Addresses a concern that was preventing the device to reset by holding the power button.

• Improves the stability of Wi-Fi during Reset/Recovery.

Here is the list of new drivers:

Here is extra information about the release:

Microsoft is distributing Surface firmware updates over Windows Update. Therefore, if you want to get the latest fixes, head to Settings > Windows Update and press "Check for updates." There are also cumulative packages for manual installation available on the official Surface support website.

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The naming scheme aside, AMD typically does release a new series of chipsets alongside a new generation of Ryzen processors and these generally bring new features. It is no different this time as well. AMD says the new chipset focuses on features like USB4 and faster DDR5 RAM speed support via EXPO.

Currently, AMD systems tend to run well at around 6000MT/s and despite many improvements to the memory training issues, users still run into them from time to time. It is possible that the new Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 series CPUs have improved memory controllers and thus better memory speed handling capacities. The chipset, of course, plays a part in that too.

USB4 will also finally get widespread adoption by motherboard manufacturers with these new chipsets. While USB4 is not new on AMD's socket AM5. there weren't that many options to consider in case some one wanted one. Therefore it looks like USB4 will finally be much democratised now for AMD desktop users.

Aside from wider USB4 support, PCIe 5.0 will start getting more common too as previously with the 600-series, only the X670E and perhaps some expensive X670 boards came with Gen5.

AMD also bragged about the longevity of its platforms and rightly so, as it has been supporting AM4 since 2017 with not just driver support and security updates, but also with new CPUs. In fact, alongside the Ryzen 9000 series, AMD has also announced new Ryzen 5000XT processors. If you are wondering about what AMD has in store for laptops, the company has released new Ryen AI 300 chips for Copilot+ PCs.

Keep in mind that the new chipsets will work with Ryzen 7000 CPUs and 8000 G-series APUs as well, and vice versa. Likewise, Ryzen 9000 is also compatible with older 600-series chipset mainboards.

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Towards the end of last year in December 2023, AMD introduced its Ryzen 8040 series (Hawk Point) mobile APUs and also briefly talked about next-gen Strix Point. Back then, AMD wanted to follow the same naming scheme as Strix Point APUs would have been labelled as "Ryzen 8050 series," though more recent leaks suggested that had changed as the company was seemingly looking at a "Ryzen AI" based moniker.

Today, at Computex 2024, AMD has officially confirmed its new naming scheme with the Ryzen AI 300 series CPUs. It appears the move comes as a way for AMD to separate its AI PC processors from its traditional gaming and productivity lineup, similar to how we have the Ryzen Threadripper series that only caters to the HEDT (high-end desktop) segment. The announcement comes in addition to Zen5-based Ryzen 9000 and Zen 3-based 5000XT series processors for desktops.

If you are wondering why AMD chose '300' series it's because this is the third generation of AMD processors with NPU after Ryzen 7040 (Phoenix) and Ryzen 8040 (Hawk Point).

As you can see in the image above, both the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and the Ryzen AI 9 365 come with an NPU rated to deliver up to 50 TOPS (Terra Operations Per Second) of AI throughput. This is the major headlining feature of these new APUs as it meets Microsoft's minimum requirement of 40 NPU TOPS for Copilot+ AI PCs. AMD is touting these as the "World's best processor for Copilot+ PCs". Till now, this was only supported on Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips.

While both the APUs have a similar performing NPU, the HX 370 has more cores, CPU-wise and GPU-wise, than the 365. Out of the 12 CPU cores on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, four of them are Zen 5 while eight are Zen 5C and in the case of the Ryzen AI 9 365, the number of Zen 5C cores is six, making it a 10 core processor.

What sets the Ryzen AI HX 370 ahead of the Ryzen AI 365 is the additional graphics performance. Both of these chips will feature the new RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture and the HX 370 will pack 16 CUs (compute units) compared to 12 on the 365. Paired with high-speed memory, the former can be quite a bit faster.

AMD has also shared details on how it was able to achieve the massive jump in AI processing power on its new NPUs. These are based on XDNA 2 architecture and AMD has actually managed to surpass its previous promise where it stated that second-gen XDNA would be three times faster.

AMD says this was achieved thanks to a combination of doubling of power efficiency and quintupling (5X) of AI compute capacity. It is also marrying the best of both worlds from INT8 and FP16 for high performance and high accuracy respectively, referring to the design approach as "Block" FP16.

AMD has also compared the performance of its new 3rd Gen Ryzen AI APU against those from Qualcomm, Apple, and AI, in both AI as well as non-AI tasks. First, we have the comparisons against Intel where AMD boasts about Ryzen AI 9's superiority over Core Ultra:

Up next, we have a couple of charts against Qualcomm Snapdragon X and Apple M3:

AMD promises over 100 Copilot+ PCs will be available from OEM partners like Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo and MSI, starting in July. You can check out our entire Computex 2024 coverage in these articles here.

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At Computex 2024, today, alongside, the new Ryzen 9000 series lineup for AM5, AMD has announced a duo of new Ryzen 5000XT series parts as well, namely a 16-core Ryzen 9 5900XT and an 8-core Ryzen 7 5800XT.

If you recall, AMD released a similar 300XT series back in 2020 which comprised of Ryzen 3600XT, 3700XT, and 3900XT.

The naming of the new 5000XT is partly inconsistent with the rest of the Ryzen 5000 series as well as with the 3000XT series since the 5900X is a 12-core processor while the 16-core SKU is the 5950X. However, the Ryzen 7 5800XT appears to be aptly named just like the Ryzen 5800X, both of them being octa-core parts.

In terms of the rest of the specs, both of them have a boost clock of 4.8 GHz and are rated for 105-watt TDP. The 5800XT has 36 MB of (L2 + L3) cache while the 5900XT has double that at 72 MB. They come with a stock Wraith Prism Cooler, the Prism in that name signifies that the cooler has RGB LED lighting.

As far as performance is concerned, AMD claims the 5900XT and the 5800XT will go toe to toe with Intel's 13th Gen (Raptor Lake-S) Core i7-13700K(F) and i5-13600K(F) when gaming.

Much like the newer Ryzen 9000 series lineup, AMD has not announced pricing for the new 5000XT chips yet. We can expect to hear about pricing closer to the availability dates sometime next month in July.

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Two years ago, at Computex 2022, AMD unveiled new Zen 4-based Ryzen 7000 processors and the Socket AM5 platform, the company's first LGA (line grid array) consumer socket. Zen 4 brought about several improvements and AMD claimed an average IPC (instructions per cycle/clock) gain of 13%. AMD was mostly right in those claims as third-party media reviews found out later.

Today, at Computex 2024, the company is unveiling the succeeding Zen 5, and this time, AMD is promising even higher performance per clock. Ryzen 9000 series is the traditional desktop lineup while AMD is also simultaneously debuting its new "Ryzen AI" 300 series of CPUs aimed towards Copilot+ AI PCs.

According to the company, Zen 5 will have an average IPC uplift of 16%. This was calculated as the geometric mean (Geomean) across various workloads with the biggest gain on AES-XTS performance which can lead to huge gains on upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 that is expected to be BitLocker-encrypted by default.

AMD says the performance gain has been achieved thanks to upgrades to branch prediction accuracy and latency. Multi-threading and parallel processing also see gains due to increased throughput achieved with the help of wider vector and pipeline implementations coupled with deeper window sizes. All this, AMD says, leads to a doubling of the instruction bandwidth, data bandwidth, and AI and AVX512 throughput.

Based on leaked spec details and chipset support information, we already knew AMD was going for the "Ryzen 9000" naming scheme, though we also later learned that the company was working on a new X870 chipset instead of X770. It alongside X870E has also been unveiled today.

The company hasn't forgotten about AM4 owners either as it has a couple of new products in the form of the 'Ryzen 5000XT' series.

The good thing is that AMD will continue using the same naming scheme as with previous generation models. First up, we have the flagship Ryzen 9 9950X which has 16 cores and 32 threads, and packs 80MB of cache across level 2 (L2) and level 3 (L3) (16 MB L2 + 64 MB L3). Hence, it looks like the overall chip layout is not going to be different than what we had with Ryzen 7000 series. This is also reflected in the rest of the lineup as well which comprises the 12-core 24-thread 9900X, 8-core 16-thread 9700X, and 6-core 12-thread 9600X.

AMD says its processor is better than Intel's i9-14900K at both gaming as well as productivity. The most impressive thing AMD says is the performance jump the 9950X will have on certain creative workloads like Handbrake and Blender. This means users who do lots of video production or rendering can see huge benefits with these chips, provided Team Red is not over-stating its performance figures here.

AMD also says 9950X is around 20% faster at AI performance and has double the PCIe bandwidth of 14900K during simultaneous graphics and storage operations.

As far as availability is concerned, AMD expects all four Ryzen 9000 series SKUs to be on the shelf in July. The company is also tight-lipped on pricing and says it will be announced closer to retail availability.

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Video length: 13m 20s

0:00 Welcome to my AMD Computex 2024 Keynote Recap

0:25 AMD’s focus: Zen 5 and XDNA 2

0:55 Ryzen 9 9950X CPU - Specs and Details

1:53 Ryzen 9 9900X

2:50 Ryzen 7 9700X

3:21 Ryzen 5 7600X

3:42 AMD’s Ryzen 9000 performance numbers - quick analysis

5:31 Ryzen AI 300 Series mobile processors

8:58 AM4 Socket Longevity and new X870 and X870E Chip sets

10:12 Two new AM4 CPUs: 5900XT and 5800XT

11:34 Conclusion, Closing Thoughts

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0:00 Welcome to Computex 2024 - NVIDIA Keynote Recap

0:26 First: No New Gaming GPUs Announced

1:08 Rumors aren't always true

1:47 Recapping the other stuff - NVIDIA staff working hard

2:26 AI was the focus

3:47 Earth 2 - a digital twin of the earth

4:45 AI applications can be hard to get excited about

5:20 NIM - NVIDIA Inference Microservice, software “AI in a box”

7:29 Jensen finally mentions Blackwell, 1 hour in

10:12 1.5 hours in: physical AI, robots building robots

11:11 My Random Closing Thoughts, and NVIDIA's Ultimate Goal

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Table of contents:

1. Windows 10 and 11 news
2. Windows Insider Program
3. Updates are available
4. Reviews are in
5. Gaming news
6. Random fact about Microsoft

Windows 11 and 10

Here we talk about everything happening around Microsoft's latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And of course, you may find a word or two about older but still supported versions.

Do you remember the new Recall feature that Microsoft announced at its May 20 event? Guess what? It has already been ported to existing hardware. Despite requiring a new Copilot+ PC with a minimum of 16GB of RAM and an NPU, enthusiasts managed to run it on low-end Windows on ARM hardware, such as the budget-friendly Snapdragon 7cx processor. Check out this article to learn how to make that thing run on your computer.

Recall could be a feature to look for when upgrading from the soon-to-be-unsupported Windows 11. But Recall is not available yet, so Microsoft uses other quirks of its operating system to entice upgrades from Windows 10 with its dominant position. One of those reasons is, no joke, celebrity gossip on the taskbar.

Microsoft launched the latest non-security updates for Windows 10 and 11. Windows 10 received KB5037849, and Windows 11 got KB5037853. The most interesting part about Windows 11's latest non-security update is that it finally fixed the broken address bar in File Explorer. You can finally drag and drop files and folders on the "breadcrumbs," something that was broken for many months.

However, the update is not perfect. Shortly after the release, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 11 users may experience quite significant issues with the taskbar.

In a somewhat surprising move, Microsoft announced that the upcoming Windows 11 version 24H2 will ship without the AC-3 codec support (Dolby Digital or "surround sound"). Customers who need AC-3 on their machines can use third-party software or prebuilt codecs by manufacturers.

Windows Driver Verifier GUI is another thing Microsoft killed this week. It is now listed on the official page of deprecated features, and the company suggests users use the Verifier Command Line instead.

Interestingly, Microsoft seemingly brought back the Windows Subsystem for Android. The company announced a surprise partnership with Tencent to let Windows users run Android apps and games on Windows PCs. Sadly, that will only be available in China, where mobile games are much more popular.

Windows Insider Program

Here is what Microsoft Released this week for testing in the Windows Insider Program:

Build 26227 does not contain a lot of exciting stuff, but sharp-eyed users noticed that there is a hidden feature ID that lets you bring over two important mouse settings from the old legacy Control Panel to the modern Settings app. Those are mouse acceleration and scroll direction.

Also, Phone Link users with Android smartphones can try out new AI-generated replies for SMS.

Microsoft recently released Windows 11 version 24H2 for public testing in the Release Preview Channel. If your device is not getting it despite being in the correct channel, check out this article to learn how to mitigate that. It is also worth noting that EEA-related changes are currently rolling out to insiders, which means you might be able to uninstall Edge and do other things just yet.

Microsoft also reminded users upgrading to Windows 11 24H2 that security changes in the operating systems may break connections to some network-attached storage with SMB. There is a detailed post on how to address the issue, what the cause of it is, and what options users and admins have.

To finish the Windows section, here are some beautiful alternatives to the original Windows 10 wallpaper, which were made using real glass, acrylic, lasers, projectors, and more.

Updates are available

This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.

Microsoft announced a new partnership with Currys, the UK's major tech retailer. Now, Surface owners in the UK can take their computers for warranty replacement to Currys, ask for certified repairs and parts replacement, and more. Until now, the only way to officially warranty a Surface computer was directly through Microsoft.

Speaking of Surface, a couple of Surface PCs received the May 2024 firmware update. The Surface Go 3 got security patches and fixes for the unknown device bug in Device Manager, and the Surface Pro 9 5G received fixes for display flickering and other nasty glitches.

The updated Sticky Notes experience is now rolling out to the OneNote app on Windows. The new version lets you create new notes faster, screenshot anything, and do more to write things to remember. Also, OneNote on different platforms now supports Loop components.

Microsoft also unveiled details about how it made its browser UI notably faster. Version 122, which arrived in the Stable Channel in February 2022, improved the UI responsiveness of the Browser Essential panel by roughly 42%.

On the third-party side, Firefox received a new update under version 126.0.1. It fixed high VRAM usage on systems with AMD graphics cards and other issues plaguing users since the release of Firefox 126.0 earlier this month.

Other notable updates include the following:

• Windows Subsystem for Linux is getting a Settings GUI app and other improvements.
• Weather in Microsoft has been once again declared the most accurate forecast provider.
• Microsoft Edge 127 is now available in the Dev Channel.
• PowerToys 0.81.1 is out with fixes for the new Advanced Paste tool.
• Copilot is now available in Microsoft Launcher Beta for Android.

• Microsoft launched the preview of the new DirectSR API for game developers.

• Outlook Lite for Android gets SMS support so that you can send and receive text messages.
• Copilot is now available in Telegram.
• Microsoft warned about a new cybercriminals group targeting gift cars for fraud.
• Google to start phasing out Manifest V2 extensions on June 3 in preview versions of Chrome.

And here are the latest drivers released this week:

• Intel 31.0.101.5534 non-WHQL with F1 and MultiVersus optimizations.

Reviews are in

Here are the software and hardware we reviewed this week

If you are in the market for a mini PC with the latest AMD hardware, check out Steven's review of the GEEKOM A8, a small form factor PC with the Ryzen 9 8040 processor, a dedicated NPU, USB4, sleek casing, and other neat amenities.

On the gaming side

Learn about upcoming game releases, Xbox rumors, new hardware, software updates, freebies, deals, discounts and more.

The biggest gaming story of this week is undoubtedly the early announcement of Call of Duty Black Ops 6, a new installment in the popular first-person shooter franchise. There is no information on when the game will be available on all supported platforms, but we already know that it will be a day-one release for Xbox Game Pass subscribers. The full announcement is coming on June 9.

Microsoft Flight Simulator received a new free content update. City Update 7 delivered a series of reworked and much-improved European cities to the game. In addition, there is a new cargo plane to buy in the in-game marketplace.

Microsoft partnered with Toys for Bob to bring a new game to Xbox. For now, details are scarce, and the game is in the very early stage of development. Therefore, it will take a while before we hear more information about the upcoming title.

Also, Microsoft has reportedly signed the team behind the Batman: Arkham games for a new Xbox title. There is no official info on this, but you might hear about it at the upcoming June 9 Xbox Showcase.

Minecraft fans received a few interesting announcements this week. For example, Microsoft is working with Netflix on an original Minecraft animated TV series. Not much is known about this venture, but expect an original story with new characters and plot lines. Also, there is now the official release date for Minecraft 1.21, which is also known as the "Tricky Trials" update. Expect to get it on your device on June 13.

Deals and freebies

Now to discounts and freebies - everyone's favorite part. This week's Weekend PC Game Deals features plenty of discounts across different marketplaces, such as Steam, GoG, Humble Store, and more. The Epic Games Store is also giving away Chivalry 2.

Other gaming news from this week include the following:

• A team of former Forza Horizon developers is working on a new narrative racing game for Amazon.
• Nvidia GeForce NOW received a batch of new games, including World of Warcraft.

• Silent Hill 2 remake is coming to PC and PlayStation 5 on October 8.

• Multi-platform launches of older Microsoft titles boosted game sales significantly.

• God of War Ragnarök is coming to PC in October.

• Lords of the Fallen is now available on Xbox Game Pass with new content.

• Redfall received its final update.

   

Random fact about Microsoft

And here is a randomly selected piece of trivia about the company, Windows, and other Microsoft-made things.

There has been quite a lot of discussion about Microsoft raising CPU requirements for Windows 11, dropping devices without SSE3 support in Microsoft Edge, and making it impossible to install its OS on the original ARM devices. Did you know that a similar thing happened to Windows 7 in 2018? One of the cumulative updates (KB4088875) made the OS unable to boot on old processors without the SSE2 instruction set.

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More and more PC gamers are building their rigs in Small Form Factor case designs. However, it's sometimes hard to find graphics cards that can fit and work well inside these cases. Today, as part of Computex 2024, Nvidia announced a new effort to help gamers who want to build SFF PC with the best graphics cards inside the small cases.

In a blog post, Nvidia announced it is working with a number of well known SFF PC companies on guidelines to help gamers who want to build SFF gaming PCs. It stated;

Manufacturer product pages and listings on global retailers will soon be updated with text labeling graphics cards that meet the guideline as “SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards”, and cases as being “Compatible with SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards”, instantly identifying parts that fit together and allowing you to buy and build with confidence.

The guidelines for graphics cards that get the new label include Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 or higher products with the following dimensions:

• 151 mm maximum height including power cable bend radius
• 304 mm maximum length
• 50 mm or 2.5 slots maximum depth

There are currently 36 graphics cards, made by companies like Asus, Galax, Gigabyte, INNO3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, and Zotac that fit the new "SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards" label and more will be revealed during Computex this week.

As far as SFF cases that will get Nvidia approval with the new label, the blog post states

Depending on graphics card orientation, a total of 154.5mm clearance is required from either the motherboard or riser PCB to the side or top case panel. Additionally, a case must have clearance for 312mm in length, including the graphics card and extender (if any).

At the moment, Asus, Cooler Master, Corsair, Fractal Design, InWin, KOLINK, Lian Li, MSI, NCASE, NZXT, Phanteks, SilverStone, Sliger, and Thermaltake all currently sell PC cases that have the "Compatible with SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards” approval.

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According to Google Finance, Apple has a market cap of $2.95 trillion whereas Nvidia’s market cap is $2.7 trillion. Reuters explains that Nvidia is still benefiting from the AI boom but Apple is currently struggling with weak iPhone demand and significant competition in China.

Providing analysis of the matter to Reuters, Brian Mulberry, client portfolio manager at Zacks Investment Management, said:

“It is certainly notable because Apple has been so dominant for so long, especially on the growth and innovation front. Recently though, Apple's innovation curve seems to have flattened, showing slower future growth. On the other hand, Nvidia has been able to catch wave upon wave of growth. Beginning with gaming demand, then crypto and now AI, they have been able to perfectly match innovation with demand and that equals explosive growth.”

What could help Nvidia overtake Apple is the speed at which its stock price is rising. Nvidia became the fastest company to grow from $1 trillion to $2 trillion in 2024, flying past Amazon, Alphabet (Google), and oil firm Saudi Aramco.

The stock has also been doing so well that it has been propping up the S&P 500, masking the difficulties other companies are facing with the impacts of higher interest rates.

With innovations coming out all the time in generative AI, we could continue to see Nvidia do well, as long as these applications continue to rely on Nvidia hardware. There is still loads of potential for AI, such as third-party companies adopting them to enhance their products.

What will be interesting to see is how well Nvidia holds up when interest rates start to come down. After rates were lowered around the time of the Great Recession, the stock market corrected (fell) harshly.

Source: Reuters | Image via Depositphotos.com

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Google’s AI Overviews feature draws on Gemini, a large language model like the one behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to generate written answers to some search queries by summarizing information found online. The current AI boom is built around LLMs’ impressive fluency with text, but the software can also use that facility to put a convincing gloss on untruths or errors. Using the technology to summarize online information promises can make search results easier to digest, but it is hazardous when online sources are contractionary or when people may use the information to make important decisions.

“You can get a quick snappy prototype now fairly quickly with an LLM, but to actually make it so that it doesn't tell you to eat rocks takes a lot of work,” says Richard Socher, who made key contributions to AI for language as a researcher and, in late 2021, launched an AI-centric search engine called You.com.

Socher says wrangling LLMs takes considerable effort because the underlying technology has no real understanding of the world and because the web is riddled with untrustworthy information. “In some cases it is better to actually not just give you an answer, or to show you multiple different viewpoints,” he says.

Google’s head of search Liz Reid said in the company’s blog post late Thursday that it did extensive testing ahead of launching AI Overviews. But she added that errors like the rock eating and glue pizza examples—in which Google’s algorithms pulled information from a satirical article and jocular Reddit comment, respectively—had prompted additional changes. They include better detection of “nonsensical queries,” Google says, and making the system rely less heavily on user-generated content.

You.com routinely avoids the kinds of errors displayed by Google’s AI Overviews, Socher says, because his company developed about a dozen tricks to keep LLMs from misbehaving when used for search.

“We are more accurate because we put a lot of resources into being more accurate,” Socher says. Among other things, You.com uses a custom-built web index designed to help LLMs steer clear of incorrect information. It also selects from multiple different LLMs to answer specific queries, and it uses a citation mechanism that can explain when sources are contradictory. Still, getting AI search right is tricky. WIRED found on Friday that You.com failed to correctly answer a query that has been known to trip up other AI systems, stating that “based on the information available, there are no African nations whose names start with the letter ‘K.’” In previous tests, it had aced the query.

Google’s generative AI upgrade to its most widely used and lucrative product is part of a tech-industry-wide reboot inspired by OpenAI’s release of the chatbot ChatGPT in November 2022. A couple of months after ChatGPT debuted, Microsoft, a key partner of OpenAI, used its technology to upgrade its also-ran search engine Bing. The upgraded Bing was beset by AI-generated errors and odd behavior, but the company’s CEO, Satya Nadella, said that the move was designed to challenge Google, saying “I want people to know we made them dance.”

Some experts feel that Google rushed its AI upgrade. “I’m surprised they launched it as it is for as many queries—medical, financial queries—I thought they’d be more careful,” says Barry Schwartz, news editor at Search Engine Land, a publication that tracks the search industry. The company should have better anticipated that some people would intentionally try to trip up AI Overviews, he adds. “Google has to be smart about that,” Schwartz says, especially when they're showing the results as default on their most valuable product.

Lily Ray, a search engine optimization consultant, was for a year a beta tester of the prototype that preceded AI Overviews, which Google called Search Generative Experience. She says she was unsurprised to see the errors that appeared last week given how the previous version tended to go awry. “I think it’s virtually impossible for it to always get everything right,” Ray says. “That’s the nature of AI.”

Even if blatant errors like suggesting people eat rocks become less common, AI search can fail in other ways. Ray has documented more subtle problems with AI Overviews, including summaries that sometimes draw on poor sources such as sites that are from another region or even defunct websites—something she says could provide less useful information to users who are hunting for product recommendations, for instance. Those who work on optimizing content for Google’s Search algorithm are still trying to understand what’s going on. “Within our industry right now, the level of confusion is on the charts,” she says.

Even if industry experts and consumers get more familiar with how the new Google search behaves, don’t expect it to stop making mistakes. Daniel Griffin, a search consultant and researcher who is developing tools to make it easy to compare different AI-powered search services, says that Google faced similar problems when it launched Featured Snippets, which answered queries with text quoted from websites, in 2014.

Griffin says he expects Google to iron out some of the most glaring problems with AI Overviews, but that it’s important to remember no one has solved the problem of LLMs failing to grasp what is true, or their tendency to fabricate information. “It’s not just a problem with AI,” he says. “It’s the web, it’s the world. There’s not really a truth, necessarily.”

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The good thing is that Google seems to be aware of this problem. The company posted word at about 9:47 am Eastern time on its Google Search Status Dashboard website about this outage:

There's an ongoing issue with serving some features in Google Search. We've identified the issue and we're working on a fix.

The company clarified the issues in a post on its Google Search Liasion X account.

Features included some results on Google News, Discover and other products, for those who have asked about specific ones.

As of this writing, it looks like Google News results have started to return for many people since the initial outage reports, However, it looks like Google's search development team is still trying to fix the problem for others.

This outage for Google News capped off a rather shaky last several days for the Search team. It started with reports that many of the new AI Overviews results that were put into Search in the US earlier this month were generating incorrect and often weird answers to search inquiries.

Google quickly sent out a statement saying that most of the answered created by AI Overviews in search "provide high-quality information". Late on Thursday, the company posted a more detailed look at how it developed AI Overviews. It added that it made some improvements since the launch a few weeks ago, including putting in limits for how AI Overviews gets results from user-generated content.

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May 31, 2024

Video length: 14m 38s

0:00 Welcome to Probing Paul #87

1:08 Pre-Probing Notes

1:42 When is the best time to build a new PC?

4:42 Should I still get screen tearing with freesync/gsync?

7:55 What about *other* reasons to water cool? 10:33 Are more hoodies coming soon?

11:10 MAIL TIME - new shirts! Help choose colors!

12:12 MAIL TIME - Fan Mail (and pens) from Steven (@firedrillninja)

12:46 MAIL TIME - Extra Life 2023 Plaques

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However, AI Overviews sparked criticism after people started reporting the feature going haywire, suggesting bizarre and sometimes harmful answers. To the surprise of many, AI Overview suggested that users should add glue to stick cheese to pizza and drink urine to pass kidney stones.

In a blog post, Google explained how the AI-powered feature works and the actions it took after user reports started coming in. The company said the AI Overviews "simply doesn't generate an output based on training data" and works differently than AI-powered chatbots and other LLM products.

Because of the way it works, AI Overviews doesn't make things up on its own or "hallucinate." However, AI Overviews can mess things up by "misinterpreting queries, misinterpreting a nuance of language on the web, or not having a lot of great information available," Google said.

While AI Overviews are powered by a customized language model, the model is integrated with our core web ranking systems and designed to carry out traditional “search” tasks, like identifying relevant, high-quality results from our index.

 

That’s why AI Overviews don’t just provide text output, but include relevant links so people can explore further. Because accuracy is paramount in Search, AI Overviews are built to only show information that is backed up by top web results.

Google notes that its other Search features have these problems too. The company claims that the accuracy rate for AI Overviews is "on par" with featured snippets, which are also powered by AI.

Talking about the odd results reported on the web, Google claims that not all of them were true and "there have been a large number of faked screenshots shared widely."

Others have implied that we returned dangerous results for topics like leaving dogs in cars, smoking while pregnant, and depression. Those AI Overviews never appeared. So we’d encourage anyone encountering these screenshots to do a search themselves to check.

However, it admitted that AI Overviews "featured sarcastic or toll-y content" by pulling information from discussion forums. "Forums are often a great source of authentic, first-hand information, but in some cases can lead to less-than-helpful advice, like using glue to get cheese to stick to pizza," Google said.

The company said it had made more than a dozen technical improvements to its system and determined the patterns it didn't get right. Among various changes, Google has updated its systems to limit the use of user-generated content in responses that could offer misleading advice.

It has built a mechanism to limit the inclusion of satire and humor content in answers and identify "nonsensical queries that shouldn't show an AI overview." It added triggering restrictions for queries where AI Overviews aren't helpful.

With that said, while you can't disable it completely, there is a way to remove AI Overviews from the search results. When you're on a search results page, click on the More button below the search bar and select the "Web" filter from the drop-down menu. Note that the filter will be removed if you close the browser tab or go to the Google home page.

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Note: the update is not available for the Surface Pro 9 with Intel processors.

What is new in the May 2024 Surface Pro 9 5G firmware update?

The official changelog contains the following:

The following update is available for Surface Pro 9 with 5G (SQ3 Processor) devices running Windows 11 Update, Version 22H2, or greater.

 

• Enhances the gaming experience by preventing glitches in the video playback.

• Addresses an issue that was causing the device to unexpectedly crash.

• Fixes a flickering or screen flashing issue when the device is connected to Surface Dock 2.

Here is the list of new drivers:

Here is extra information about the release:

You can update your Surface Pro 9 5G by heading to Settings > Windows Update. Keep in mind that firmware updates are one-way only, so back up important data before installing the latest release.

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Since Microsoft announced Windows 11's big next-gen AI feature push, the internet has been up in arms over Windows Recall, the company's magnum opus AI experience that's exclusive to Copilot+ PCs launching this summer. While some responses have been sane, a large percentage of people have wasted no time spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) over this new feature without really understanding it.

In case you've been living under a rock: Windows Recall is a new feature that will take snapshots of your screen every few seconds and use on-device AI to analyze and triage that content. This allows you to semantically search for anything and everything you've ever done on your computer using natural language, and is arguably the next generation of search of Windows.

Unsurprisingly, this has led to many people calling Recall a spyware tool for Microsoft to watch everything we do on our computers, which is a particularly unfair description of the feature. Microsoft is actually taking privacy and security very seriously, and this article attempts to explain how, and why your worries about Windows Recall are unfounded.

Windows Recall data is encrypted on your device

Windows Recall is encrypted on your device, and its data is not shared across accounts. (Image credit: Microsoft)

First thing is first, the snapshots and strings of text that Windows Recall logs are safely encrypted on your PC using Device Encryption and Bitlocker. This means if your laptop is ever stolen, intruders can't access the contents of your storage without an encryption key, and they won't be able to gain access to any stored snapshots without being logged in to your account.

Additionally, Microsoft also says that Windows Recall does not integrate with other apps or services. This means it's not sharing stored data with other Windows services or apps, and the only time it does share a snapshot is when the user manually initiates the share button in Recall. When this happens, Recall will make a copy of the snapshot and place it in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Temp. Once the share is complete, Windows will delete the snapshot from that temp directory. 

While Windows Recall does have an API, this is only for developers to create a seamless experience, jumping from snapshot into a live app. It does not allow the app access to Recall's stored snapshots.

Windows Recall does not send your data to the cloud

Microsoft cannot see your snapshots as they don't get uploaded to the cloud. (Image credit: Microsoft)

This is arguably the most important point to hammer home: Windows Recall does not talk to the cloud. It does not send your data from your device to Microsoft servers. This includes snapshots, strings of text, and search queries. Microsoft cannot see anything that Windows Recall collects, and this is by design.

In a post on the Xbox Wire site, Hello Games says its next expedition update will be released later this week. It's called Adrift, and it takes place an a kind of alternative universe compared to what players of No Man's Sky have encountered and explored in the past.

Hello Games says:

There is no life to be seen anywhere – no aliens, no space stations, none of the usual network of shops and buildings. Although everyone awakes on the same planet (the desolate, worm-infested Lapezuk), you will not be together in the usual sense. Communication is consumed by static and the boundaries between each of your individual realities have thickened.

The Adrift expedition will reportedly give No Man's Sky players more of a challenge as they will have to rely more on their own skills than ever before just to survive in this empty universe.

The game's official website has more info on the Adrift update. Players will be able to earn new rewards during the event, and even access the new Iron Vulture starship. There will also be new starship customization options, new posters, decals, and titles, and an abandoned frigate that players can explore if they dare. The Adrift event will last for seven weeks.

Hello Games says it has even more updates for No Man's Sky in the works for the rest of 2024. in December 2023, the team announced a new game, the fantasy-themed Light No Fire. The team has not revealed when that game will be released.

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