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When Lunar Lake processors appear in Q3, new Thread Director technology will attempt to pass all workloads through the new high-performing and power-efficient 'Skymont' Efficiency cores.

Intel's Senior Principal Engineer for P cores, Ori Lempel, gave a brief talk on the new ‘Lion Cove’ P cores explained why HyperThreading was no longer required.

At Intel's pre-Computex, Taipei Tech Tour, the new Lunar Lake processors were officially announced.

COMPANY NEWS: Synology held its mini Computex showcase a stone's throw from the main event, in Taipei's POPOP art space. It made for a more-relaxed, less-noisy presentation of the company's current thinking and new products. There were many interesting announcements with one being that ALL third-party hard drives would stop being supported in Enterprise products. Here's the video and a brief description of what's in it. 

Synology Hardware

We started off seeing the refreshed DS3622XS+ NAS which has 14, 3.5-inch drive bays and is suitable for SMBs that don’t have rackmount infrastructure. A smaller version was the eight-bay, DS1823xs+.

This was followed by seeing the latest network cards which can boost SMB NAS’ network speed by up to 10Gbps. Some work on PCIe cards while others use a bespoke, Synology connector.

Next up was the latest DS923+ which us a four-bay, prosumer NAS that Synology calls its flagship model owing to its sweet-spot popularity. Next to it was the two-bay DS723+. Both support network card upgrades and Synology’s bespoke NVMe solid-state hard drives.

Synology then showed us its latest, Enterprise hard drives. It also told us that it was completely cutting ties with third-party manufacturers for these product lines because it had had enough of finger-pointing disputes with drive makers when partners had any RMA issues. Apparently, firmware updates with previously certified drives from the likes of WD and Seagate were also causing havoc in this regard.

We then saw Synology’s SSDs which are very heavily certified for reliability and stability. They only go to a 800GB capacity to avoid thermal issues. We were told that there’s no increased capacity on the roadmap, yet.

Next up was Synology’s Surveillance-based NAS series which uses a discreet Nvidia GPU to run AI analytics. The DVA3221 NAS was one example that we saw.

Moving on, we saw Synology’s new surveillance cameras the BC500 and the TC500. These are PoE-powered cameras whose major USP is that they’re not made in China(!) They can also tell the difference between a car and a person. Plus, when tethered to Synology’s Surveillance Station, can identify the difference between a human and a cat!

Collaboration

After seeing Synology’s latest hardware, we moved to other zones which showed-off key elements of Synology’s popular, core, DSM ecosystem. This included new Office functionality which embraces AI to create and translate content (including emails) across all of its apps and add the results to various styles of presentations.

Data Management

We were reminded that many businesses are required to back-up their cloud-based data, even if it’s stored in the likes of Google Drive and Office 365 and that Synology supports this.

Active Backup can also back-up hundreds of office PCs and use Snapshots to create a single, disaster-recovery solution. The system also uses File and LUN (Logical Unit Number) versioning with multi-node replication and failover support to boost data integrity and help prevent data loss with ransomware attacks.

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) and de-duplication ensure that back-ups are done quickly and efficiently and that granular recovery is quick and easy.

Surveillance

Surveillance Station is also free and simple to use… you simply connect cameras via a third-party PoE switch.

It enables multiple-camera recording at scale, with centralised camera management, failover support plus, flexible on-prem and cloud archiving.

Cloud

We learned that Synology Cloud – called C2 – also makes syncing data between different NAS boxes in different locations simpler than ever.

C2 Backup protects personal and business files in a centralised cloud; C2 Identity can manage users and devices from a central location as well as performing maintenance tasks; C2 Object Storage is an S3-compatible, global object storage service; C2 Password is a corporate-grade password manager; C2 Transfer can send files securely across an encrypted and secure connection.

Meanwhile, Hybrid Cloud solutions include: Active Insight for remote troubleshooting and device health monitoring on a centralised dashboard, C2 Storage for Hyper Backup and Hybrid Share plus C2 surveillance for an extra cloud-based layer to Surveillance Station.

And finally…

Another highlight was the brand new BeeDrive which is an enhanced, personal backup hub that’s 1TB or 2TB in size. It can simply wirelessly transfer a photo from a mobile device to a tethered PC in one-click! It will be available in Australia imminently.

AMD's star has been rising ever since it launched its Ryzen and EPYC processors, with AMD bringing back much-needed competition to the computing space, making PCs great again and putting the super into supercomputing, and AMD's MD of Sales for the APJ region joined us on iTWireTV to talk about it all.

AMD's star has been rising ever since it launched its Ryzen and EPYC processors, with AMD bringing back much-needed competition to the computing space, making PCs great again and putting the super into supercomputing, and AMD's MD of Sales for the APJ region joined us on iTWireTV to talk about it all.

Promising the "world's best processor for thin-and-light Windows laptops just got better", Intel's two new 11th-gen Core processors feature Intel Iris Xe graphics, Intel Wi-Fi 6/6E (Gig+) and Intel 5G Solution 5000.

… or at least part of it – the trench, as used in Rogue One. This is the opening gambit from Colie Wertz who is both a 3D modelmaker and a concept artist who has worked on some massive movies over the past decades. Other highlights include contributing the internals of IronMan’s suit for Avengers: Civil War plus part of the main space ship from Galaxy Quest.

Computex gave us the opportunity to get hands on with two of MSI’s new gaming laptops: the all-rounder GE65 Raider which offers plenty of portable power and the beastly GT76 Titan which eschews portability in favour of even more power. Their predecessors have been particular favourites of ours in recent years so we were looking forward to seeing what the latest iterations brought with them.

ASUS has redefined what a notebook with two screens looks like, and the demos do make it look like a very practical and useful way to be more productive, and while the new tech is obviously expensive, the 2020s of dual screen laptops has arrived in 2019.

Apple launched the thin strip Touch Bar four years ago, but ASUS has launched what effectively is a full width half-size additional monitor above the keyboard on its new ZenBook Duo Models, dubbed ScreenPad Plus.

In spite of Donald Trump’s best efforts to fuel an international trade war, US chip maker Qualcomm and Chinese computers vendor Lenovo have collaborated to claim the world first launch of a 5G powered PC.

Global computer manufacturer ASUS has unveiled a new gaming hardware brand, and also launched its new headphones which work with any USB-C compliant gaming device.

Global computer manufacturer ASUS says it’s repeatedly been asked when it  will make a gaming phone. That day is Monday, as it announced the ROG Phone.

No matter if you’re an FPS or MOBA kind of player, global computer manufacturer ASUS has you covered with the announcement of its new ROG Strix Hero II and ROG Strix Scar II high-end gaming laptops.

With Intel’s major moves into the world of IoT and 5G, the massive chipmaker nevertheless continues to push the boundaries of PC innovation, as seen at Computex 2016.

Acer has kicked off Taiwan's Computex show with a bang, announcing several touch-friendly products including the industry's first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet.

VIA to demonstrate a wide range of next generation Smart Solutions for a truly interconnected world

With netbooks turning into notbooks thanks to the popularity of tablets, Intel has unleashed its 'Ultrabook' concept as a 'new class of mobile computer'.

VIA showcases advanced embedded platforms for tomorrow's industrial, digital signage and HMI applications in Taipei