Apple announced online event on October 30!

• Apple will be launching new Macs on their last event of 2023

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Qualcomm is promising BIG improvements with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3!

• 4nm fabrication process (Apple A17 Pro is based on 3nm)
• CPU: 30% more powerful, 20% more power efficient compared to 8 Gen 2
• GPU: 25% more powerful, 25% more efficient, 40% better Ray Tracing
• Peak clock speed of 3.3GHz (Prime core)
• New Qualcomm Hexagon NPU is 98% faster & 40% more efficient
• 10% overall power savings for the same tasks
• Snapdragon X75 modem with 10Gbps 5G downlink & 3.5Gbps uplink
• 77 GB/s memory bandwidth
• 200MP image capture, 8K/30FPS video recording
• 8K external display support
• Unreal Engine 5 support with Lumen lighting system

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OnePlus 12 front shared by CEO Pete Lau

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Xiaomi 14 launched in China!

• 6.36" 1.5K OLED display
• LTPO 1-120Hz with 3000nits peak brightness
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
• 50MP (OIS) Light Hunter 900 + 50MP (UW) JN1 + 50MP (3.2X Optical) JN1 + 32MP selfie (4k video)
• HyperOS 1.0
• 4,610mAh battery with 90W wired & 50W wireless charging
• IP68

💰Price starts at ¥3,999 (~₹45,900/$545/€518) for 8GB/256GB

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Xiaomi 14 Pro launched in China!

• 6.73" 2K OLED display
• LTPO 1-120Hz with 3000nits peak brightness
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
• 50MP (Variable Aperture) Light Hunter 900 + 50MP (UW) JN1 + 50MP (3.2X Optical) JN1 + 32MP front camera
• HyperOS 1.0
• Leica Summilux lens
• 4,880mAh battery with 120W wired & 50W wireless charging
• IP68
• USB 3.2 Gen 2

💰Price starts at ¥4,999 (~₹57,300\$685\€648) for
12/256GB

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Apple increased the price for some of its services by over 40% 😲

US Prices (similar in the EU and the UK)
• Apple TV+: $6.99 ➡️ $9.99 (43% price increase)
• Apple Arcade: $4.99 ➡️ $6.99 (40% price increase)
• Apple News+: $9.99 ➡️ $12.99 (30% price increase)
• Apple One Individual: $16.95 ➡️ $19.95
(18% price increase)

For now there’s no price hike in India atm. TV+ still costs ₹99 ($1.19/mo) or Free w/ Apple Music Student plan.

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Apple introduces M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max processors in its Scary Fast event

Apple announced M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max, ARM-based SoCs built on 3nm process for the Mac

• 60% faster Neural Engine (16-core)
• AV1 decoding
• Rendering speeds are 2.5x faster than on the M1
• Utilizes Half the power than M1

What's NEW in GPU:
• Based on NEW Architecture
• Mesh Shading
• Hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing

Dynamic Caching: With this new technology, only the exact amount of memory needed is used for each task

Apple M3:
• 25 billion transistors (5 billion more than M2)
• 8-core CPU (4P + 4E)
• 10-core GPU
• 24GB unified memory
• CPU 35% and GPU 65% faster than M1

M3 Pro:
• 37 billion transistors
• 12-core CPU (6P + 6E)
• 18-core GPU
• 36GB unified memory
• CPU 30% faster in single-threaded than M1
• GPU 40% faster than M1

M3 Max:
• 2x Pro-Res Engines
• 92 billion transistors
• 16-core CPU (12P + 4E)
• 40-core GPU
• 128GB unified memory
• GPU 50% & CPU 80% faster than M1 Max

🔗 Via: @TechLeaksZone

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Apple updates 24″ iMac with M3 chip

Apple has updated its 24″ iMac with the new M3 chip features 8-core CPU, bringing a major upgrade to the SoC and GPU compared to its 2021 model with M1 chip

It features the same 4.5K Retina display but it gets faster Wi-Fi 6E.
The iMac now supports up to 24GB of unified LPDDR5 memory, and the next-generation GPU supports hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing.

Pricing:
• 8GB+256GB (8 core GPU) : 1300$ OR Rs.1,34,900
• 8GB+256GB (10 core GPU) = 1500$ OR Rs.1,54,900
• 8GB+512GB (10 core GPU) = 1700$ OR Rs.1,74,900

🔗 Via: @TechLeaksZone

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