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The Apple 2023 Fall iPhone Event Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)

It’s that time of the year again – Apple’s fall iPhone event, where the Cupertino company to unveil its newest generation family of iPhones. This year’s theme is “Wonderlust,” and will be the backdrop for the launch of iOS 17 as well as what should be the iPhone 15 series. This year is widely expected […]

Intel Unveils Barlow Ridge Thunderbolt 5 Controllers - TB5 Launching In 2024

Intel Unveils Barlow Ridge Thunderbolt 5 Controllers – TB5 Launching In 2024

The USB-IF and VESA released the specifications of USB4 v2 and DisplayPort 2.1 in Q4 2022. At that time, Intel also announced that their next-gen Thunderbolt specifications would build upon these standards. However, concrete details were not divulged. Today, the company is unveiling Thunderbolt 5 officially with discrete controllers in tow for both hosts and […]

Epos Winds Down Former Sennheiser Gaming Headphone Business

Epos Winds Down Former Sennheiser Gaming Headphone Business

Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company’s gaming products division, which was formerly part of the legendary Sennheiser, was responsible for shipping a number of notable gaming headsets over the past decade. However, the continuing weakness of the wired consumer audio market – […]

Qualcomm Extends Deal To Supply 5G Modems for Apple Through 2026

Qualcomm Extends Deal To Supply 5G Modems for Apple Through 2026

Qualcomm just shot over a brief note this morning, announcing that the company has signed an extended agreement with Apple to supply 5G modem-RF chips for their smartphones and other products that will be released in 2024, 2025, and 2026. The unusual Apple-related announcement, notably coming from a vendor rather than the tech juggernaut itself, […]

Minisforum Unveils Mini-ITX Motherboard with MXM Slot for… SSDs

Minisforum Unveils Mini-ITX Motherboard with MXM Slot for… SSDs

Minisforum continues to diversify its business beyond compact PCs and this week it introduced a rather unusual Mini-ITX motherboard with an MXM slot. Typically used for graphics cards, Minisforum’s Eyertec AD650i motherboard instead comes with an MXM adapter to house up to three M.2 SSDs. All together, the Mini-ITX board is able to drive 4 […]