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A couple of the biggest vendor partners of AMD, Asus and MSI, have inadvertently revealed some of the early details about the upcoming Zen 5 processors, thanks to firmware and chipset driver updates.
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AMD recently released chipset drivers for Windows which are optimized for Ryzen 7000X3D chips and boost performance-per-watt. A new CPPC patch reveals power efficiency gains are also coming to Linux.
It appears that Intel has identified an issue with the new series of Arc GPUs where they are consuming a too high rate of power when idle. Here's how to fix this in the Power management and BIOS.
Intel has released a patch that claims to fix a problem related to Speed Select Technology (SST), which is causing a performance loss of more than 10%. SST is a power management solution on Xeons.
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AMD's 21.4.1 Adrenalin driver that launched recently has a lot of new and cool features. The new driver apparently also reduces the power draw of the latest Radeon GPUs by a ton when not gaming.
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Apple is bolstering its efforts to develop more efficient chips by licensing Dialog Semiconductor's power management integrated circuits and acquiring its certain assets in a new deal.
Apple is introducing Battery Health with the iOS 11.3 update. This new setting will allow you to see your battery health and give you control of the CPU underclocking that may be applied to an iPhone.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed during an interview with ABC News that an iOS update will roll out in the near future to help users manage the power management feature on older iPhone models.
Owners of Microsoft's Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 can now download new Intel driver updates, two of which are focused on power management on the company's flagship Windows 10 devices.
