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LG Released UltraGear Gaming Laptop With 11th Gen Intel Processor: Check Specs and Features

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A new LG UltraGear gaming laptop has been introduced. LG UltraGear 17G90Q is powered by 11th Gen Intel Core CPUs, also known as Intel Tiger Lake H processors, with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q GPU. A vapor chamber cooling system is used in the LG UltraGear 17G90Q gaming laptop. Details regarding the laptop will be announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2022. It is planned that the South Korean company will begin shipping gaming laptops in January 2022, with its own country as the first to get it.

Specifications and Features

An 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake H processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q graphics card, two-channel RAM, and an ultra-fast twin SSD arrangement power the LG UltraGear gaming laptop. The LG UltraGear gaming laptop features a 17-inch IPS panel with a 1 millisecond response time and a 300 Hz refresh rate, as well as the newest top-of-the-line hardware, ensuring immersive, seamless gameplay for even the most graphically demanding PC games. Depending on the game, the LG UltraGear Studio allows users to manipulate the CPU and GPU.
The storage of the LG UltraGear 17G90Q is an unnamed SSD, however, it supports both channels, according to LG. A vapor chamber cooling system and DTS: X Ultra 3D sound are included. A full-size keyboard with a number pad comes included on the gaming laptop.
In terms of thermals, it has a vapor chamber that, according to the manufacturer, keeps the laptop cool even when pushed to its maximum.
Aside from that, it weighs 2.64kg and includes a per-key RGB illuminated keyboard, USB 4 Gen 32 Type-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, HDMI, RJ45, DC-in, and microSD/UFS connections. A 93Wh battery, an FHD webcam with dual microphones, Wi-Fi 6E, and Intel Killer Wireless complete the package. Two-way speakers with DTS X Ultra round out the package.

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UltraGear laptops, along with lightweight brand Gram and high-performance Ultra PC, have been one of LG Electronics’ flagship brands since its inception in 2018. LG Electronics also released premium gaming speakers and monitors under the UltraGear brand earlier this year, including the LG GP9 speaker, which is compatible with both personal computers and gaming consoles.
LG has stated that the new LG Ultra Gear gaming laptops will be released in stages around the world, beginning in Korea in January 2022.

Price and Availability

The LG UltraGear 17G90Q’s price has yet to be determined. The gaming laptop will be released by LG in early 2022 in South Korea and the United States. The gaming laptop will be offered in only one color: Purple Gray.

About the Company

LG is a South Korean electronics company headquartered in Seoul that was founded in 1958 by Koo In-hwoi as GoldStar. After the Korean War, the company was founded to produce consumer electronics and household appliances for the local market. The company was the first to manufacture radios, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners in South Korea. While the company was formerly known as GoldStar, in 1995 it was combined with Lucky Chemical and LS Cable, two other LG group enterprises.
LG Electronics is now a multinational company that makes and distributes consumer electronics, mobile phones, and home appliances. In addition, it manufactures commercial devices and products such as G-, V-, and F-series mobile communication products, in-car infotainment, HVAC and motor, and vehicle engineering components. Aside from compressors and motors, the company offers commercial display solutions, solar solutions, energy storage systems and energy management systems, membranes, stylers, and lighting systems.

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Intel and China’s Baidu Collaborates to Develop Neural Network Training Chip

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Baidu is hosting its Create conference for AI developers at Beijing, and it has announced a new partnership with Intel at the same. The two companies have plans to work together to build a new Nervana Neural Network Processor for training, aka NNP-T 100.

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The Nervana Neural Network Processor for training is a 16nm NNP-T, and as the name suggests, it is specifically designed for the purpose of deep learning and research of the neural network. The two companies have collaborated for both the software and hardware manufacturing of the chip, such that it will provide full support for the Baidu’s PaddlePaddle deep learning framework. The PaddlePaddle framework focuses on deep learning and research of the neural networks, to utilize it for the AI applications. Intel already provides its support for the framework through its Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

The chip is being built under the code name Spring Crest and is based on a new class AI model. According to Intel, the chip has got a different architecture than the other chips made by Intel. The new NNP-T 100 is enabled with image recognition and has got the software support for the on-chip memory. The company claims that the chip is much faster at performance and has been equipped with the high-speed on- and off-chip interconnects.

The corporate vice president of Intel Naveen Rao made the announcement during the event, where he said, “The next few years will see an explosion in the complexity of AI models and the need for massive deep learning compute at scale. Intel and Baidu are focusing their decade-long collaboration on building radical new hardware, codesigned with enabling software, that will evolve with this new reality – something we call ‘AI 2.0.’”

The company had released the first version of NNP in 2017 and plans to ship this version of NNP by the end of this year. The two companies have been working together since 2016, and their future collaborative plans also include MesaTEE, a memory-safe function-as-a-service (FaaS) computing framework based on the Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) technology.

Intel’s Ninth Generation Processor will Now Speed up the Laptops with a Max Speed of 5GHz

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Last fall, Intel introduced its ninth generation Core processors, among which the i9-9900K chip for the CPU was the first to achieve the 5GHz. In the same line-up, Intel has just announced another series of the core processors, now for the high-end laptops. These are the new 9th generation H-series processors available in three different Core versions, i.e. i5, i7 and i9.

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The main attraction of this new series is the Core i9-9980HK processor, which will now be achieving the 5GHz speed for the notebooks and laptops, the highest speed to be achieved by a laptop processor. It features the base speed of 2.4 GHz and has got 16 MB of cache. The processors are having an eight-core/16-thread configuration, similar to its previous versions of the processors from the same series. It is shipped unlocked so that the enthusiasts who want to power up the process can easily overclock it.

All the six chips share a 45W TDP and are featuring the wifi 6, enabling it to provide as fast as 2.4 Gbps wifi speed for the laptops. These chips are based on the “Coffee Lake Refresh” (Coffee Lake-R) architecture and render the Intel’s Thermal Velocity Boost.

The chips also offer 28 per cent faster 4K video editing and deliver 2.1x faster framerates for gaming, streaming, and recording. The chips are also shipped with larger SSD storage, supporting the Intel‘s Optane Memory H10 module. Those chips are all about speed and likewise, open the large files 1.63x faster as well as load the games 2.29x than the older systems. The new chipset also has got support for up to 128GB of DDR4 RAM.

Compared to a three years old laptop processor, the Intel’s new 300 series laptop chipset has got more power and is obviously faster. So the ones who are looking forward to changing their, older than two or three years, laptops must go for the laptops with any of those new variations of Intel processors. The new chipset now will be available with the Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Razer, Lenovo, and MSI laptops.