Call of Duty Workers at Activision Blizzard Vote to Form Union, Second for Video Gaming Industry

A small group of employees from Raven Software working at the Activision Blizzard has voted for unionizing at a studio that works on the Call of Duty franchise. This is the second victory in the video gaming industry, followed by Vodeo’s efforts in December to secure union representation.

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Motorolas first 200MP phone will launch in July, could it be the long-rumored Moto Frontier

Motorola has shared a poster on the Chinese social site Weibo which teases a forthcoming 200MP phone from the brand. Well, that’s what we glean from the loosely translated texts from the teaser. The said image has got a giant camera lens along with an invitation to “the era of 200-million pixel images” and a promise of an “insight into unprecedented details”. Now, this isn’t the first time we are hearing about a Motorola phone with a 200MP camera. We’ve got a name also which is “Frontier”.

So, could the aforementioned marketing-speak be referring to Motorola Frontier? If yes, here’s what we know about the phone —

Motorola Frontier Specs and Features (Expected)

Leaked Motorola Frontier renders

From the previous leaks and rumors, we think the phone could sport a 6.7-inch HDR10+ FHD+ 144Hz AMOLED display. There could be a 60MP selfie taker. 

As for the rear, the setup could include a 200MP main camera, a 50MP secondary shooter, and a 12MP third snapper. 

Leaked Motorola Frontier camera island | Source: Weibo

Inside, the Moto Frontier could be bearing a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 that was recently announced. The memory combination could go up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB UFS 3.1 storage. The battery size could be 4500mAh and the charging speed could be a stupendous 125 watts.

The first Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Motorola phone could be Moto Razr 3 or the Moto Frontier  

It is an easy guess that the Motorola phone will have a nearly stock Android 12 software with MyUX skin on top.

Among other things, the handset is likely to have an in-screen fingerprint scanner, 5G, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, and a USB-C port. 

That’s a very flagship-y assortment of specs. However, as we said, they are still based on the rumor mill. So, we are still waiting for corroborative shreds of evidence to tie in these with the so-called Motorola Frontier. That said we could come across more concrete details in the times leading up to the July launch. Stay tuned.

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Oppo Reno 8 series launches with a 50MP triple camera setup and 80W fast charging

Oppo has announced the Reno 8 series in its home market. There are three phones namely, Oppo Reno 8, Oppo Reno 8 Pro, and Oppo Reno 8 Pro Plus. Oppo Reno 8 is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 1300, Reno 8 Pro by Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 1, and Reno 8 Pro+ by Dimensity 8100-Max. The common Reno 8 series specifications include a 50MP primary camera, AMOLED display, 32MP selfie camera, 4500mAh battery, 80W charging, Android 12, an under-display fingerprint reader, USB-C port, and WiFi 6.

Oppo Reno 8 Specs and Features

Oppo Reno 8 sports a 6.43-inch AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, and a punch-hole cutout. There is a 32MP sensor as the front camera.

The rear camera setup consists of a 50MP leader, a 2MP depth shooter, and a 2MP macro module. 

Inside, the phone has a MediaTek Dimensity 1300 chipset coupled with up to 12GB RAM, 256GB onboard storage, and a 4500mAh battery with 80W rapid charging. The software on top is ColorOS 12.1.1 based on Android 12. 

Oppo Reno 8 Pro Specs and Features

Oppo Reno 8 Pro is the first phone with Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip. This is paired with Mariana Marisilicon X NPU dedicated for imaging processing, a 3D cooling system, up to 12GB LPDDR4x+ 256GB UFS 2.1 memory configuration, and a 4500mAh cell with 80W fast charging. 

The front of the phone is a 6.62-inch AMOLED screen with FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. Therein within a punch hole resides the phone’s 32MP selfie snapper.

On the back, there is a triplet comprising a 50MP main camera, an 8MP ultrawide, and a 2MP macro clicker. 

The 8 Pro also comes with Android 12-based Color OS 12.1.1.

Oppo Reno 8 Pro+ Specs and Features

The top-of-the-line offering is the Reno 8 Pro+ which is powered by Dimensity 8100 Max. This is bolstered by up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM, 256GB UFS 3.1 storage, Mariana Marisilicon X NPU, supercrystalline graphite cooling solution, and a 4500mAh battery with 80W charging support.

The phone also flaunts a 120Hz FHD+ 6.67-inch AMOLED panel, dual speakers, Android 12-based ColorOS 12.1.1 software, a 32MP selfie snapper, a 50MP primary shooter, an 8MP ultrawide sensor, and a 2MP monochrome lens.

Oppo Reno 8 Series Price and Availability

Oppo Reno 8 is priced at a starting price of 2499 CNY (~₹29130) for the 8+128GB variant while the Reno 8 Pro starts at 2999 CNY (~₹34960) for the 8+128GB edition, and Reno 8 Pro+ carries a starting price tag of 3699 CNY (~₹43119) for the 8+256GB model. The phones are currently out in the Chinese market. However, they are likely to land in India soon. At least the Reno 8 Pro is, as suggested by its recent BIS certification listing.

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Realme Pad X 5G launching on May 26, 2022: Here are the expected specifications

Realme Pad X is going to be the new tablet from the Chinese brand. The X variant is likely the most powerful Realme tablet to date, at least that’s what its rumoured specifications hint at. The Pad X is expected to be armed with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor, up to 6 gigs of RAM, up to 128gigs of storage, a massive 8360mAh battery, and a large 11-inch panel with 120Hz refresh rate and QHD+ resolution. 

The marketing materials for the device are already out on the internet

Realme Pad X Specs and Features

Realme Pad’s X-factor could be the underlying power-house of a chip and cell combination. These could be a Snapdragon 870 chip and an 8360mAh battery. The internal space could be occupied by 4/6GB RAM, and 64/128GB of storage.

The front of the phone seems to have typical bezel breadth and the front camera could find a place in one of those black bands. The screen size could stretch 11-inches diagonally and sport QHD+ resolution and 120Hz refresh rate.

The camera details are not available yet. The rest of the device could include Dolby Atmos-rated quad speakers, and fast charging support as well. With all these, the device is said to have just a 7.1mm thickness.

Since we are just a few days away from its debut, we will know the details pretty soon. 

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Infinix Hot 12 Play launched in India with a 6000mAh battery and Unisoc T610 SoC

Infinix has released a new budget phone in the sub-10K price bracket called the Hot 12 Play. The phone had debuted in other markets including our neighboring markets earlier this month. Now that, it has been unveiled in our country, let’s have a look at all that’s offered for the asking price. For starters, it has got a Unisoc T610 chip, Android 11 OS, 4+64GB memory configuration, a 6000mAh cell, and a 90Hz HD+ screen.

Infinix Hot 12 Play Specs and Features

Infinix Hot 12 Play’s front is a 6.82-inch IPS TFT touchscreen with 720x1612 pixels resolution and 90Hz refresh rate. There’s a punch-hole cutout housing an 8MP selfie camera with dual flash. 

The back of the phone is home to a 13MP primary shooter and a 2MP supporter.

The Hot 12 Play ships with Android 11-based XOS software. The performance is taken care of by a Unisoc T610 processor, 4GB of RAM (with support for an additional 3GB VRAM), and 64GB of onboard storage. A 6000mAh battery keeps the phone alive and is aided by a 10W charger. 

Among other things, you also get a USB-C port, up to 512GB memory card with a dedicated slot, a rear-mounted fingerprint reader, a 3.5mm headphone jack, WiFi ac, and Bluetooth. 

Infinix Hot 12 Play Price and Availability

Infinix has priced the Hot 12 Play in India at ₹8,499. You can purchase the phone through Flipkart from May 30. You can also avail of a 5% cashback using an Axis Bank card as well as an EMI option of ₹295 a month. The available color options are Racing Black, Horizon Blue, and Racing Black.

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COMPUTEX 2022 - AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 desktop processors, AM5 Socket , DirectStorage API and more announced

AMD always has a bevvy of exciting announcements at COMPUTEX and this year is no different. AMD announced the new AMD Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors based on their upcoming ‘Zen 4’ microarchitecture and will be built on an optimised 5 nm process node from TSMC. The new desktop processors will also bring the AM5 socket to the fore along with the new 600-series chipset based motherboards. Other announcements included new notebook designs, Ryzen “Mendocino” and the implementation of Microsoft’s DirectStorage API. AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors will be formally launched in Fall 2022 which is late Q3-to-Q4.

AMD Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processors

The AMD Ryzen 7000 series CPUs will feature AMD’s new “Zen 4” microarchitecture which promises more than 15 per cent uplift in Single-Threaded performance. This was calculated by comparing the Cinebench R23 scores of an AMD Ryzen 5950X (16-Core) combined with a dual-channel DDR4-3600CL16 memory configuration against an AMD Ryzen 7000 series (16-Core) which was combined with quad-channel 2x16 GB DDR5-6000CL30 memory configuration.

L2 Cache has doubled per core and is now at 1 MB compared to Zen 3. Peak clock speeds will also cross 5 GHz and the processors will now feature an expanded instruction set aimed at providing AI acceleration. The AMD Ryzen 7000 series processors will continue to rely on the chiplet design with the desktop processors featuring up to 2x chiplets or CCDs (Core Complex Dies). The actual core counts within the CCDs were not revealed. The majority of the new changes are focused on the I/O die which is now based on a 6 nm process node and will feature AMD RDNA 2 Integrated Graphics making every AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor capable of providing a display signal without the need for a discrete graphics card. Also new are DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0 controllers within the I/O dies.

It’s very likely that the expanded instruction set offering AI Acceleration within the new AMD Ryzen 7000 processors is because of the integrated RDNA 2 graphics. Also, this casts doubts on the need for AMD desktop processors with a ‘G-suffix’ at the end which was meant to distinguish processors with integrated graphics. Lastly, some of the low-power states and low-power management features introduced with the Ryzen 6000 mobile processors will be making their way into the I/O die of ‘Zen 4’ processors.

AMD AM5 Socket (1718 pin LGA)

AMD is finally ditching the pins and moving from PGA to LGA with the new AMD AM5 socket. Also, if it wasn’t obvious enough, there’s no way that older AM4 processors can be installed on the new AM5 socket. AM4 socket had 1331 pins and with AM5, that’s going up to 1718 giving AMD a lot more signal, power and ground pins to play around with. However, AMD has stated that the cooler dimensions will not change with the introduction of AM5. So CPU coolers that were compatible with the AM4 socket will also be compatible with the AM5 socket. However, the native power support for processors on the AM5 socket has been upped to 170W so you will have to cross-check if your existing CPU cooler can dissipate the heat generated by the new AM5 processors. 

The new socket will be accompanied by the new X670 Extreme, X670 and B650 chipsets for enabling a wide assortment of motherboard designs. The top of the line chipset will enable 24 PCIe lanes for storage and graphics, feature up to 14 SuperSpeed USB Ports going up to 20 Gbps, support up to 4 HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2 ports, and feature Wi-Fi 6E along with Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2.

The X670 Extreme or X670E chipset will feature two PCIe Gen 5.0 x16 slots for graphics cards and one PCIe Gen 5.0 M.2 slot for storage devices. The X670 chipset will feature a similar set of x16 slots but PCIe 5.0 will be an option for the graphics cards but there will be one PCIe Gen 5.0 M.2 slot for storage. The B650 chipset is also the same but there is no option of PCIe Gen 5.0 for the graphics cards. Across the entire stack, you will get one PCIe Gen 5.0 storage option. It’s quite a confusing segmentation of features. Hopefully, the lines between the three will become clearer towards launch. 

PCIe Gen 5.0 M.2 NVMe Storage

There are no PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe storage devices in the market since the drives are still under development but AMD did reveal that certain controllers such as those made by PHISON have already managed to get more than 60 per cent faster sequential read speeds on AMD AM5 platforms. Considering that current-gen PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs can hit 7000 MB/s easily, this would mean that PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs might hit 11200 MB/s. Combining such ridiculous speeds with the newly released storage API from Microsoft could result in some interesting developments. 

AMD SmartAccess Storage (Microsoft DirectStorage API)

Speaking of interesting developments, Microsoft had recently released the production version of the DirectStorage API which is geared to making the most of the new generation of fast NVMe SSDs. Video games have been shipping with heavy texture files which enable game developers to build massive virtual worlds with life-like graphics. However, these heavy texture files also need a lot of bandwidth to be copied from the storage device to the graphics cards. Older storage mediums had low bandwidth and the controllers could only handle fewer I/O requests. That’s not the case with current-gen NVMe SSDs. So game developers started optimising the way data is fetched from the storage medium by breaking them down into smaller pieces and requesting them only when needed. This leads to a lot more I/O requests. However, current-gen storage APIs are still not optimised to handle such high levels of I/O requests. That’s where Microsoft’s DirectStorage API comes into the picture. Microsoft is bringing DirectStorage API to Windows 11 but it requires that the storage device, as well as the overall platform, is compatible. AMD SmartAccess Storage is AMD’s way of ensuring that. 

If you build a system with an AMD Ryzen processor, Radeon GPU and a fast NVMe storage device, then you can use SmartAccess Storage to reduce level load times in video games and have surface textures load way faster with reduced latency and also by reducing the workload on the processor.

AMD Ryzen 7000 series processor launch date

AMD has stated Fall 2022 as the launch window for the AMD Ryzen 7000 series desktop processors. This puts the launch date anywhere between September 23, 2022, to December 21, 2022. Details regarding the pricing, actual core counts, etc will be revealed closed to launch.

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Vivo T2 launch rescheduled to June 6, could come with Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC and 80W charging

The Vivo T2's launch in China has been pushed from May 23, 2022, to June 6, 2022. The phone will go on sale the same day. The brand announced the same from its official handle on the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo. Although the reason hasn’t been revealed, it could be because of the rising Covid cases in the country. The company has just cited "force majeure" or unforeseeable circumstances as the cause for rescheduling.

The Vivo T2 launch in China has been pushed from May 23, 2022, to June 6, 2022. The phone will go on sale the same day. The brand announced the same from its official handle on the Chinese microblogging website, Weibo. Although the reason hasn’t been revealed, it could be because of rising Covid cases in the country. 

Nonetheless when the phone debuts, here’s what you can expect it to feature.

Vivo T2 Specs and Features (Expected)

Vivo T2 comes with a 6.62-inch AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. FHD+ resolution, and a punch-hole cutout for a selfie snapper. The sensor within is likely a 16MP sensor.

Behind the phone, there could be a primary 64MP shooter, a 12MP ultrawide sensor, and a 2MP portrait lens. 

Under the hood, the T2 could house a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset, 8/12GB RAM, 128/256GB storage, and a 4700mAh battery with 80W fast charging support. The software on top could be Android 12-based OriginOS.

That’s about all we know about the upcoming Vivo smartphone. Stay tuned to receive more updates about the device.

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