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Senin, 27 Mei 2019

NVIDIA Launches Studio Branding Program: High Performance Content Creation Laptops - AnandTech

As part of their Computex press briefing this afternoon, NVIDIA is taking the wraps off of a new laptop branding program, which they are calling NVIDIA Studio. Under the program, laptops that meet NVIDIA’s minimum specifications – which include a high-end CPU and, of course, a high-end ray tracing-capable NVIDIA GPU – will be able to participate in the NVIDIA Studio program and carry the RTX Studio badge. The Studio branding program is aimed at content creators, with NVIDIA and its partners looking to simplify the process of promoting and marketing high-performance laptops that are a good fit for content creation tasks by giving them a distinct brand.

Under the terms of the NVIDIA Studio program, participating laptops will have to meet a list of minimum system requirements. It should be noted that this program is not automatic – that is, not every laptop that meets these specifications is automatically a Studio RTX laptop – but rather this is an opt-in program for laptop vendors.

NVIDIA Studio Branding Minimum Specifications
Component	Min Spec
CPU	Intel Core i7 (45W H-Series)
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000
RAM	16 GB
Display	1080p or 4K
Storage	512 GB SSD
Other	Max-Q Design

In short, the minimum specifications look a lot like a modern high-end laptop such as a Dell XPS 15 or Razer Blade. The CPU needs to be at least a 45W Intel Core i7 CPU – lower TDP i7s would have notably fewer cores and lower performance – while on the GPU side the system must include an NVIDIA GPU that’s capable of hardware accelerated ray tracing. This means at least a GeForce GTX 2060, or one of NVIDIA’s new mobile Quadro RTX 3000 parts. The rest of the package is relatively straightforward, with lots of RAM, an SSD that’s at least decently sized, etc. And, while not explicitly noted in the specifications, the hardware requirements all but ensure that these are at least 15-inch laptops, with some 17-inch laptops also receiving RTX Studio branding.

Laptops that meet these specifications and are submitted to NVIDIA to participate in the program will, in turn, get to carry the RTX Studio branding. Note that because the Studio program includes both GeForce and Quadro parts, the branding will too. There are both Quadro RTX Studio and GeForce RTX Studio badges to match the underlying GPU. And all of the usual feature differences between the Quadro and GeForce families remain.

All told, NVIDIA is kicking off this branding program with 17 laptops. All of the usual suspects will be participating in the program, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, GIGABYTE, HP, MSI and Razer. NVIDIA isn’t setting a minimum price here, but their press release does note that these laptops start at $1,599, and, depending on the configuration, can go much (much) higher.

As an aside, I do get the impression that NVIDIA and its partners are gunning for the 15-inch MacBook Pro here. In NVIDIA’s presentation and their press release, they are consistently comparing RTX Studio laptops to Apple’s famous high-end laptop, which has long been a mainstay of the professional community – and famously only uses AMD GPUs. With Apple struggling in this space due to factors such as keyboard issues and a general dissatisfaction with Apple pro software development, it may be that NVIDIA and its partners smell blood in the water.

With Intel’s recent CPU launch, and NVIDIA launching their new Quadro RTX GPUs today, the first RTX Studio laptops are expected in June.

SDKs and Creator Ready Drivers Aligned Under Studio Brand

Along with the RTX Studio laptop branding initiative, NVIDIA is also making some changes to how their SDKs and drivers are named to align them with the new NVIDIA Studio brand.

According to NVIDIA, a portion of their SDKs and libraries will be moved under the Studio umbrella, similar to how NVIDIA has moved some of its machine learning SDKs under the CUDA-X umbrella. We don’t have a list at this time, but it looks like these are going to be content creation-related rendering and display SDKs.

Meanwhile the NVIDIA Creator Ready driver program, which was just launched a couple of months ago, is also getting rolled into the new Studio program. They will now be called Studio Ready drivers. The nature of the driver program hasn’t changed – these are more heavily tested drivers whose release cadence is aligned with major creative application releases – however their branding has. So as before, the goal here for NVIDIA is to offer users a series of drivers that are better tested under content creation applications, and to not release them nearly as frequently as the company’s gaming-focused Game Ready drivers; according to NVIDIA, Studio Ready drivers will always have a matching Quadro driver release. This also means the supported GPUs remain unchanged, covering all NVIDIA GeForce GTX/RTX, Quadro (RTX), and Titan cards starting with the Pascal architecture.

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2019-05-27 08:30:00Z
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NVIDIA Launches Studio Branding Program: High Performance Content Creation Laptops - AnandTech

NVIDIA Studio Branding Minimum Specifications
Component	Min Spec
CPU	Intel Core i7 (45W H-Series)
GPU	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000
RAM	16 GB
Display	1080p or 4K
Storage	512 GB SSD
Other	Max-Q Design

With Intel’s recent CPU launch, and NVIDIA launching their new Quadro RTX GPUs today, the first RTX Studio laptops are expected in June.

SDKs and Creator Ready Drivers Aligned Under Studio Brand

Along with the RTX Studio laptop branding initiative, NVIDIA is also making some changes to how their SDKs and drivers are named to align them with the new NVIDIA Studio brand.

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2019-05-27 08:00:08Z
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AMD Keynote at Computex 2019 in 9 minutes - Engadget

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2019-05-27 06:04:22Z
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AMD R9 3900X, 3800X, 3700X Specs & Price: 16-Core Held Back for Now (& RX 5700 GPU) - Gamers Nexus

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2019-05-27 05:53:41Z
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Minggu, 26 Mei 2019

EU election: German projections show heavy losses for ruling parties, surge for Greens - Deutsche Welle

- Sunday was the last day of EU elections. 21 nations went to the polls.

- In Germany, the ruling center-right and center-left coalition saw its numbers fall to historic lows while the Green party surged to second place.

- A recent scandal in Austria that brought down the government did little to dispell voter support for ex-coalition parties the People's Party (ÖVP) and Freedom Party (FPÖ).

All updates in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)

18:14 Manfred Weber, the CDU politician tapped to lead the European Commission for the EEP, said the high voter turnout across the bloc is the "most important" news from the polls.

"It is a clear strengthening of the European Parliament in upcoming discussions," Weber said. "The European Parliament is the place where the citizens of Europe are represented, and now it must have an equivalent influence on the decisions regarding issues and personnel on a European level."

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18:10 In Spain, pollsters said that the Socialist party was in the lead. It looked set to win 18 seats, up from 14 in 2014, while the far-right Vox was seen getting its first EU lawmakers, with four to five seats.

18:01 French exit polls put the far-right RN party at 23%, a slight drop from 2014, but still enough to put them in the lead. President Emmanuel Macron's En Marche got 22%, and the Green party garnerd 12.5%, a 3.5 point increase on 2014.

Macron called the result "respectable" and said that most voters had chosen pro-European parties.

17:59 The EU has announced that according to their estimates, turnout was 51 percent across the bloc, major increase on 42.6% total turnout in 2014.

17:45 Thee Greens/European Free Alliance group in the EU Parliament says they're delighted with exit polls showing a strong result for Germany's Greens in the European elections. Co-leader of the group, Phillippe Lamberts from Belgium, told DW's Max Hofmann the Greens/EFA would use the leverage that European voters are giving them to really influence policies from now on.

"Everything that we are hearing from various member states so far, points to a surge in the Green results — and that to me gives us a strong mandate for change in European policy."

"The Fridays for Future (protests) have helped in making people aware of the urgency of change, but quite obviously that's not enough. Because if there had not been a strong Green Party (in Germany) to start with, this popular energy would have had no way to express itself in politics."

17:25 Hungary's nationalist Fidesz party has won 56% of the vote in the EU election, according to pro-government pollster Nezopont. Fidesz was recently kicked out of the EU's biggest bloc, the center-right European People's Party (EEP), over some of their campaign methods.

The Socialists and the leftist Democratic Coalition were expected to win 10% each

17:09 In Germany, the latest projections put Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the CSU ahead with 28.3% , down 7.5 points. The CDU's coalition partner the Social Democrats (SPD) is on track for its worst performance in EU elections, picking up 15.2% of the vote, down 12.1% from the last vote in 2014.

Riding a wave of support from growing concerns about climate change, the Green party came in second in Germany with 21.1%, an increase of 11%. The far-right AfD came in fourth with 10.6%, and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the Left party each got 5.6% of the vote. Other smaller parties made up the last 13.6%

16:58 In the Netherlands, the Labor Party (PvdA) was leading, according to initial results, with 18.1%, a huge jump from the 9.4% it received in 2014. Prime Minister Mark Rutte's People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) came in secone with 15%, gaining 3 points on its previous result.

The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) took a noisedive from its 2014 result of 13.32%, getting only 4.1% of the Dutch vote.

16:54 The center-right EEP is projected to be the largest grouping in the European Parliament with 163 seats, according to figures published by Germany's Infratest dimap.

The Party of European Socialists is projected to garner 147 seats, while the liberal ALDE grouping is on track to pick up 96 seats. Parties in the far-right EAPN grouping could see significant gains with 72 seats, Infratest dimap projections showed.

16:52 Broadcaster ZDF has reported that Germany's under 30 population overwhelmingly voted for the Green party:

16:44 Ireland's Fine Gael party, which currently rules in a minority coalition government, was leading in intial projections with 29%. Fianna Fáil came in second with 15%, as did the Green party. This was a massive upswing for the Greens, who garnered only 4.9% in 2014. Sinn Fein had only 13%, a tumble of 6.5%.

16:39 Germany's public broadcaster ARD said that voter turnout in Germany jumped nearly 11% from 48.1% of registered voters in 2014 to 59% in Sunday's EU elections.

16:31 In Greece, the conservative opposition New Democracy party is the projected winner, according to exit polls. New Democracy is projected to win 32% to 36% of the vote, compared to 25% to 29% for the ruling left-wing Syriza.

The extreme right Golden Dawn and the Communist party are expected to get between 5% and 7% each.

16:00 Initial official projections in Germany show that Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party the CSU have come out ahead with 27.9% , but suffered a dip in support of 7.5 points. The losses were even heavier for the CDU's coalition partner the Social Democrats (SPD), who came in third with 15.6% support, down 11.7% from the last EU elections in 2014.

The Green party continued to reap the rewards of the coalition shedding votes and increasing concern about climate change. It came in second in Germany with 21.8%, an increase of 11.1%. The far-right AfD came in fourth with 10.5%, and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the Left party each got 5.5% of the vote. Other smaller parties accounted for the remaining 13%.

SPERRFRIST 18.00!!! PROGNOSE 18.00 EU Wahl 2019 - Deutschland ENG

Germany is Europe's largest constituency with 96 seats in the 751-seat European Parliament.

15:39 Local media in Belgium have said that the far-right and nationalist parties are ahead in the Flemish-speaking north, while the Social Party is leading in the francophone south. In Flanders, the nationalist N-VA party has lost some votes to the far-right Vlaams Belang, but is still slightly in front. In Wallonia, the socialists were at 27.2%, followed by Prime Minister Charles Michel's center-right MR party at 20%.

15:22 Austrian public broadcaster ORF has reported in initial exit polls that the recent scandal that took down the former far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache just last week did little to dent the party's support.

The FPÖ was down only 2.2 points, to 17.5%. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who faces a confidence vote in parliament on Monday, saw his People's Party (ÖVP) gain 7.5% support placing it clearly in the lead.

es/rc (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)

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2019-05-26 17:37:34Z
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Samsung Galaxy S11: what we want to see - TechRadar

We're not expecting to see the Samsung Galaxy S11 release for a long time since, if Samsung continues its yearly cycles for phone releases, it will be out in or around February 2020 – but we've already been seeing some hints and clues as to what we can expect from it.

On top of that there are some features we didn't see in the Samsung Galaxy S10 that we were expecting, and there were aspects of the Samsung Galaxy A80 and Galaxy Fold that would work well in a new Galaxy S flagship.

Inspired by all these phones, we've drawn up a list of the things we'd like to see in the Samsung Galaxy S11, or whatever the next Samsung Galaxy S phone ends up being (it could be the Galaxy S20, given that phone companies seem to jump straight from 10 to 20 when numbering phones).

Cut to the chase

What is it? The next Galaxy S smartphone from Samsung
When is it out? Likely February / March 2020
What will it cost? Likely more than $899 / £799 / AU$1,349

Samsung Galaxy S11 release date and price

We saw the Samsung Galaxy S10 release alongside the Samsung Galaxy S10e and Galaxy S10 Plus, in late February 2019. Since Samsung tends to release its phones in yearly cycles, we expect to see the Samsung Galaxy S11 release in February or March 2020.

The Galaxy S10 cost $899 / £799 / AU$1,349 for its cheapest storage size, and went all the way up to $1,149 / £999 / AU$1,699, when it released.

We would expect the Samsung Galaxy S11 price to be a small increase on this, as the Galaxy S10 was pricier than the Galaxy S9. Taking into consideration the usual price increases on Galaxy S handsets between generations, we'd expect to see it cost around $1,000 / £900 / AU$1,500 for the cheapest version, and even more for more memory.

1. Better camera specs

The Samsung Galaxy S10 has three rear cameras: the 12MP main sensor with a regular lens, the 12MP second sensor with a telephoto lens for distance shots, and the 16MP third sensor with an ultra-wide lens.

The three lenses are generally what we'd expect in a smartphone camera, but the resolution of each is a lot lower than in many other phones.

Handsets like the Honor 20 Pro have a 48MP main snapper, which is a big step up from 12MP, and even affordable handsets sometimes now come with four lenses (the extra is usually a time-of-flight or macro sensor for close-up shots), so to stay competitive in the smartphone camera game Samsung needs to up its game.

The Honor 20 Pro's four cameras. Image credit: TechRadar

We've heard that Samsung is working on a 64MP smartphone camera that could be put in the Samsung Galaxy S11 – if this is true, the new phone would blow its competitors out of the water.

2. A 3.5mm headphone jack

If you're scratching your head thinking "the Samsung Galaxy S10 does have a 3.5mm headphone jack", then you're right – but it may be the last of its kind.

Newer Galaxy smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy A80 have ditched the headphone jack, so it seems Samsung is following suit behind many other smartphone companies in getting rid of the physical headphone port.

But since many, many people still use non-Bluetooth earphones, it's a feature that we'd love to see return in future Samsung smartphones, especially given it's one of the only high-end smartphone manufacturers to still be using them.

3. Different front-facing camera arrangement

The Samsung Galaxy S10 was one of the first phones to have a 'punch-hole' front-facing camera, which means the front snapper was in a cut-out section inside the screen, in the corner.

The Galaxy S10 Plus' punch-hole camera. Image credit: TechRadar

In theory this is a useful feature that replaces the top notch, so you get more screen real estate – but in practice the punch-hole takes just as much space, as there's a sliver of screen between the camera and the edge that just isn't used.

Going forward, we'd like to see Samsung take a different tack – Samsung itself has said it's planning to drop the punch-hole in favor of a camera under the screen, but that could still be a few Galaxy S phones down the line.

4. Greater battery capacity

The Samsung Galaxy S10 had a 3,400mAh battery – that's fine, but you've got no hope of that lasting more than a second day of use, especially if you use your phone a lot.

We'd hope the Samsung Galaxy S11 battery life would surpass that – it will definitely have to have a bigger capacity to cater for all the new tech the phone uses, but we'd like to see a serious improvement on the capacity, perhaps 4,000mAh or above.

5. More launch colors

The Samsung Galaxy S10 comes in a few colors, most commonly prism white and black – but we always love a vibrant design in a phone, and so far Samsung handsets have often seemed a little dull.

The vibrant Samsung Galaxy S10e. Image credit: TechRadar

We're not asking for the crazy back patterns of a Huawei or Honor phone, but it would be nice for the Samsung Galaxy S11 to launch in a few different colors.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 has a few colors that are only available in certain regions, like yellow, green or red, but if Samsung made these designs available from the get-go in all regions, we'd appreciate the design a lot more.

6. Affordable 5G

We're expecting there to be a Samsung Galaxy S11 5G – there was a Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, after all, and by the time the S11 launches 5G will be available in many countries.

However, the Galaxy S10 5G is even bigger than the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, and so is massive and expensive. Currently there are no affordable 5G smartphones on the horizon, but Samsung could really get ahead of the curve if the Galaxy S11, or Galaxy S11e, had a low price and ran on 5G networks.

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2019-05-26 16:00:00Z
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Samsung releases some clever Disney and Pixar wallpapers for the Galaxy S10 - The Verge

One of the ways that Samsung moved away from having a notch on its Galaxy S10 family of smartphones was to put the front-facing camera and sensors in the display, leaving a small cutout in the corner of the screen. Users have created some clever wallpapers to hide the hole, and Samsung recently partnered with Disney to release a series of its own custom wallpapers that camouflage the camera

Hiding the hole is pretty easy with the right wallpaper: it just needs to be surrounded by something that’s black, or call attention to it with something is actually a hole, or at least a small, round dot. Samsung partnered with Disney for its own series of wallpapers featuring characters from Frozen, Zootopia, and The Incredibles.

Most of Samsung’s official phone themes aren’t free — users can use them for 14 days before they expire and revert back to the phone’s default theme, unless they pay for it — but the company says that these new Disney ones will be free for Galaxy S10 and S10E (The Galaxy S10 Plus has a pill-shaped hole punch, and doesn’t seem to be included) users.

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2019-05-26 15:41:38Z
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