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Honor Pad X9a LTE To Be Available Starting 25 April

1 day ago | lowyat.net | John Law

The Honor Pad X9a LTE tablet will be available at all brand stores and authorised resellers from 25 April onwards. Not to be confused with the earlier Wi-Fi only model that launched last month, this model is the LTE version. Specs-wise, the Pad X9a LTE features 16GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage. Powering it is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 685 4G SoC, as well as an 8,300mAh battery.
Photo Essay: NVIDIA Consumer AI Event

1 day ago | lowyat.net | John Law

NVIDIA held a closed-door event earlier today, mainly to show off its product lineup, to date. As usual, it kicked off with a slideshow presentation from John Gillooly, Technical Product Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific South at NVIDIA. The presentation was basically a rehash of what was originally presented at CES 2025 this year: the Blackwell architecture, DLSS4, Multiframe Generation. In short, everything that’s good and great about the GPU architecture, as well as the new GeForce RTX 50 Series.
Nintendo Is Chasing After Individual Responsible For Last Year's Pokemon Leak

2 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Nintendo says that it is on a warpath and is now actively hunting down the leaker responsible for last year’s massive Pokemon data breach. The game company has asked a US court in the state of California to exert pressure on Discord, the popular instant messaging and VoIP platform, and have it divulge the name of the individual, who went by the handle “GameFreakOUT”. Specifically, Nintendo wants Discord to give GameFreakOUT’s name, address, phone number, and email address.
NVIDIA Releases Hotfix 576.15 For GeForce Driver 576.02

2 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

NVIDIA has released a hotfix to the current GeForce 576.02 WHQL driver that has been plagued by several issues. Among these issues is a bug that incorrectly displays the temperature of all GeForce RTX series cards. The myriad of problems with GeForce 576.02 driver have been a source of displeasure and unhappiness among gamers, with the temperature bug being a top complaint. One Reddit post by user fricy81 said that the bug potentially causes overheating during gaming and other GPU heavy workloads.
G.Skill Launches Large Capacity 256GB DDR5-6000 UDIMM Memory

2 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

G.Skill officially announced its latest ultra-high capacity kit of 256GB DDR5 UDIMM RAM. The kit comprises four 64GB memory sticks, running at 6000MT/s, along with CL32 timings.
Future Intel Arc GPUs Could Ship Out With GDDR7 Memory

3 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

While GDDR7 has been around since last year, NVIDIA is currently the only GPU brand that has adopted the standard, while AMD and Intel are still sticking with the previous generation GDDR6. For the blue chipmaker, that may change with future Arc GPU generations. According to a job listing by Intel, which was discovered by Haze and posted on X, the chipmaker is currently looking for experts to work in the field of “Memory tuning and Qualification”, particularly for discrete graphics.
Synology Is Cracking Down On Third-Party NAS Hard Drives

3 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Synology, the popular network-attached storage (NAS) maker, appears to be bearing down on third party hard drives and how they can be used with all future NAS systems made by the brand. To put it simply: if the hard drive isn’t certified, it may not be given access to certain features.
Sonos Arc Ultra Lightning Review: The Brand's Most Premium Soundbar Yet

3 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

The Sonos Arc Ultra was first unveiled back in October last year but the soundbar didn’t reach our lab until earlier this year. I’ve had a chance to sit down with it right and proper, and here’s what I think of it. What Am I Looking At? When it comes to its soundbars, Sonos, as with other brands in their own right, rarely deviate from their own tried-and-true designs. With the Arc Ultra, the main difference in aesthetics is the more pronounced control bar at the rear of the product.
Intel Nova Lake Rumoured To Use New LGA1954 Socket

4 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

Rumours have it that Intel’s next-generation Nova Lake, the successor to the current Arrow Lake desktop CPUs, may introduce a new socket LGA1954 design into the market. If true, this would mark LGA1851 as one of the shortest socket generations the chipmaker has used. For context, the previous platform, socket LGA1200, was used for a total of three generations: Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh.
Biwin Unveils New Fingernail-Sized SSD With PCIe 4.0 Speeds

5 days ago | lowyat.net | John Law

While a Chinese university in the city of Shanghai recently made a breakthrough by creating the world’s smallest flash memory device, memory maker Biwin recently unveiled its own pint-sized flash storage device. On paper, the storage accessory is called the “Mini SSD”, which is apt, considering that it the size of a fingernail. Despite having a diminutive size of 1.4mm, the Biwin Mini SSD boasts PCIe 4.0 average speeds.