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 LibreOffice 7.3 will be released in early February, and to ensure that it becomes another successful feature release of this open source office suite, LibreOffice 7.3 RC1 was released today for some good holiday tests. Less than a month after the release of the LibreOffice 7.3 beta, the first release candidate was released on Monday. Since the last Beta milestone, nearly 250 commits have been made and more than 100 issues have been fixed. LibreOffice 7.3 introduces support for hyperlinks attached to shapes in Writer, Writer better tracks and indicates changes to text, various performance improvements, Bash-like auto-completion for Calc spreadsheets, and new bullet mode editing functions etc. As usual, LibreOffice 7.3 has made many import/export improvements to its Microsoft Office DOC, DOCX, XLSX and PPTX file format handling. If you want to help test this new version, you can download LibreOffice 7.3 RC1. The TDF Wiki’s tentative release notes outline all the important features/i...

 In terms of efficiency measured by FPS/Watt, the ARM Mali-G710 MP10 ranks top in the comparison chart of top mobile SoC GPUs. This amazing chart created using the GFXBench 3.1 benchmark also reveals the amazing position of the GPU part of the Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 888. A mobile SoC GPU efficiency chart has thrown out some arguably shocking results. The table contains 10 high-end SoCs, led by the ARM Mali-G710 MP10 component, which apparently appeared in the so-called MediaTek Dimensity 9000 prototype device. Apple SoC ranks third and fourth in the form of A15 and A14, while GPUs in Google's Tensor chip, Samsung's Exynos 2100 and Huawei's Kirin 9000 occupy seventh, eighth and ninth places respectively. Snapdragon chips with Adreno GPUs are scattered throughout the chart, providing a mixture of good news and bad news. MediaTek Dimensity 9000 has left a deep impression with its powerful CPU components, but the ARM Mali-G710 MP10 also proved its wor...

 Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is Qualcomm's most powerful chipset to date. At least on paper, gaming tests have shown that the chipset cannot keep up in terms of sustained performance because it succumbed to high temperatures, high power consumption, and significant throttling of less than five minutes. Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is Qualcomm's latest and best flagship chipset to date. It already faces fierce competition from MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and the upcoming Exynos 2200, but it may not be up to the task, at least if the early game tests are still available. According to Golden Reviewer's test, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 on the Motorola Edge X30 showed an incredible display effect in the 10-minute Genshin Impact test. Sources regularly test new chipsets to gain a deeper understanding of the continued performance of the real world. Recently, Google's Tensor has also disappointed. In the test, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 had a strong start, providing about 60 FPS in the first few minutes. However...

 Some Dell users stated that their devices experienced serious startup problems after installing the latest BIOS update. Certain models of Alienware, Inspiron and Latitude systems are affected. Many devices display blue screens and other errors. Bleeping Computer reported that certain models of Dell PCs are affected by boot issues due to the new BIOS update. Users described their startup problems on the Dell community website and social media. These problems usually involve blue screens and shutdowns, although some devices will turn on, but their displays will remain off. Other Dell users stated that their systems will shut down within a few seconds of powering on. The "time not set" error also appears on some laptops. The problematic models include Alienware Aurora R8 (BIOS version 1.0.18) and Dell Inspiron 5680 (BIOS version 2.8.0) desktops and Dell Latitude 5320 and 5520 (BIOS version 1.14.3) laptops. Some users have discovered a way to resolve the "time not set"...

 Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro did not take long after they were launched, but a large number of bugs have been exposed. This series of phones has become Google's most buggy phone so far. According to reports from Android Police, Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro software seems to have bugs frequently, and the one that seems to be most affected is the auto-rotation function of the phone’s screen. This problem was not fixed in the December patch, and many users still cannot make their phone screens rotate automatically. This problem seems to stem from a communication failure between the Pixel 6's physical sensors and the software. Sometimes, the device does not seem to be able to read the data provided by some of the sensors, namely the gyroscope, accelerometer and compass. This was discovered by testing using the sensor test application and found that feedback from the sensor sometimes fails. The gyroscope and accelerometer are responsible for detecting when the screen is autom...

 According to a Twitter user @BenchLeaks, the Intel Core i7-12700F processor running score without a core graphics card was exposed on the Geekbench 5 website today. This processor has 12 cores and 20 threads, of which 8 are performance cores, 4 are efficiency cores, and the L3 cache is 25MB. The test platform of the processor is ASUS TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 motherboard, which is installed with 32GB DDR4 memory. The Core i7-12700F has a single-core score of 1849 points and a multi-core score of 11277 points, both slightly surpassing the AMD R7 5800X processor. Intel i7-12700K and i7-12700KF processors are already on sale, with retail prices of 3199 yuan and 2,999 yuan respectively. The i7-12700F, which has not yet been released, has a maximum frequency of 4881 MHz for running time-sharing large cores. This processor is expected to be released during CES in 2022, and the price is less than 2,999 yuan. Intel is expected to launch 12th-generation mobile processors in 2022. At pre...

 A few days ago, the reviewer enthusiastic citizen Stroke Monster released the evaluation of the 12th-generation Core i3 12100 and 12300. The results show that the new generation of i3 has almost no rival in the current quad-core products. First look at the parameters, i3-12100, 12300 are both 10nm ESF process, 4 cores and 8 threads, the former is up to 4.3GHz, the latter is up to 4.4GHz, 12MB L3 cache can be described as a huge improvement, TDP is only 60W. In Cinebench R20, i3-12100 single-core 645, multi-core 3276, i3-12300 single-core 664, multi-core 3334, there is little difference. For comparison, AMD 4-core APU R3 5350G single-core 531, multi-core 2638. In the AIDA64 baking machine test, i3-12100 power consumption 61.2W, i3-12300 power consumption 64.1W, not as low as AMD R3 5350G (44.8W). But in terms of baking machine temperature, Intel's 12th-generation i3 performed better at 61 degrees and 62 degrees, and AMD R3 5350G was 68 degrees. In the game test with RX 6800XT, the ...

 According to foreign media Phoronix news, the official version of the Linux kernel 5.16 was released recently, which improves the performance of laptops equipped with AMD processors and Radeon graphics cards. According to the actual measurement of foreign media, Linux 5.16 is an increase of 5%-14% for AMD processors. Horonix uses a laptop to perform a comparison test of the two versions of the system. The notebook is equipped with an R5 5500U processor and runs Gravity Mark, Legacy, GLmark2 and other test items. In GLmark 2 and Xonotic, the performance increased by 14%; in the Xonotic and Unvanquished tests, the performance increased by 10-11%. On another notebook equipped with R7 Pro 5850U (Zen 3 architecture), the test results are similar to the previous notebook. Most running sub-projects have a slight improvement when using Linux 5.16. IT Home learned that the AMD Ryzen R5 5500U processor has 6 cores and 12 threads, L3 cache 8MB, the highest frequency is 4.0GHz, and adopts the...

 According to MacRumors, the South Korean website The Elec released a supply chain report showing that next year’s Apple iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max will use perforated LTPO OLED display panels provided by Samsung and LG. Rumors that the 2022 iPhone model will not have bangs gaps began in March of this year, when analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said that they would use a punch-hole design, which has been used for many years on Android mobile devices. The perforated design is an incision that places the front camera in the center, allowing a larger display area to replace the notch notch. Guo Mingchi believes that at least the high-end iPhone 14 Pro models will use a punch-hole design. If the benefits are good, all iPhone 15 series models in 2023 may use the same non-notch design. There have been recent rumors that the non-professional iPhone 14 models (size 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches) will continue to use notch notches, while Apple will limit the perforation design to the more expensiv...

 According to MacRumors, according to a brief rumor shared by the Brazilian website Blog do iPhone, Apple iPhone 15 Pro / Pro Max models may lack a physical SIM card slot. Although recent iPhone models have a physical nano-SIM card slot and a digital eSIM, the report says that the iPhone 15 Pro series models expected to be released in 2023 will have two eSIMs to ensure that the dual SIM function is still available. IT Home is informed that the dual SIM card mode allows you to have two service networks on an iPhone, which is very useful for buying a pure data plan when traveling abroad or having personal and business networks on an iPhone. In view of the fact that the iPhone 15 Pro series models are still two years away from the release, this rumor should be treated with a certain skepticism until it is confirmed by other sources. If this rumor proves to be accurate, iPhone 15 Pro series models may still need to be equipped with a physical SIM card slot in countries and regions with...

 Intel officially released the code-named Alder Lake, the 12th-generation Core processor, using the new Intel 7 process (10nm), adding the P-Core / E-Core large and small core hybrid architecture to the Desktop platform for the first time. Compared with the previous generation IPC, the performance is improved by 19 %, single-core performance beats AMD Zen 3, multi-core performance is similar, and claims to regain the title of the strongest gaming CPU. The HKEPC editorial department will analyze the internal design improvement of the Alder Lake processor and find a new Intel Core i9-12900K for processing The sample of the device, compared with the previous generation Core i9-11900K and the rival AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Alder Lake: Intel's 12th-generation Core processors debut The toothpaste factory is finally working hard!! Intel officially released the code-named Alder Lake, the 12th generation Core processor, using the new Intel 7 process (10nm Enhanced SuperFin), Hybrid small-core hyb...

There are new rumors regarding AMD's next-generation Ryzen 7000 CPUs codenamed Raphael and based on the 5nm Zen 4 core architecture. AMD Ryzen 7000 'Raphael' CPU Rumors: 5nm Zen 4 Lineup To Be Announced at Computex, X670 Flagship Chipset For AM5 Platform, RDNA 2 iGPUs The next-generation Zen 4 based Ryzen Desktop CPUs will be codenamed Raphael and will replace the Zen 3 based Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs that are codenamed, Vermeer. From the information we currently have, Raphael CPUs will be based on the 5nm Zen 4 core architecture & will feature 6nm I/O dies in a chiplet design. AMD has hinted at upping the core counts of its next-gen mainstream desktop CPUs so we can expect a slight bump from the current max of 16 cores & 32 threads. The brand new Zen 4 architecture is rumored to deliver up to 25% IPC gain over Zen 3 and hit clock speeds of around 5 GHz. AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3D V-Cache chips based on the Zen 3 architecture will be featuring stacked chiplets so tha...