This week, Huawei introduced the flagships P60, P60 Pro and P60 Art with support for two-way satellite communication, and this was expected – Apple and Huawei are actively promoting such technology, although the Chinese company has already surpassed Apple in terms of convenience (two-way communication is clearly more convenient than one-way). But now Huawei may be able to pull off another technological marvel by adding satellite connectivity to mid-range devices.

Huawei nova 11 can become such smartphones. Even the date of their premiere in China is reported – April 17th. If the devices in this series do receive satellite communications support, then this will be a precedent in the industry. It is also reported that nova 11 can borrow technology from the P60 and Mate X3 line of phones to improve the quality of communication.

Over the past couple of months, the Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card has been actively cheaper, and is now offered at a price below the recommended one. It seems that the time has come for the older RX 7900 XTX. Over the past few days, the adapter has significantly fallen in price both in the US and in Europe.

In the US, the card sells for $1,030 or more, with a suggested retail price of $1,000. That is, we can say that the prices were lowered almost to the recommended ones. What’s more, NewEgg is also temporarily offering a $30 discount coupon, so the Sapphire model can be purchased for exactly $1,000. In Europe, interestingly, the situation is even more curious. There, they ask for a card from 1090 euros, but you need to remember that this is the price including taxes, while in the USA for most states you need to add another tax to the price indicated above.

In any case, the RX 7900 XTX is becoming more profitable against the backdrop of the RTX 4080, which is not getting cheaper and is still sold at a price of 1250-1300 dollars / euros. At the same time, for example, in the latest Resident Evil 4, the AMD adapter is much faster than the competitor, and even with ray tracing retains a slight advantage.

Last month, AMD published a Processor Programming Reference (PPR) for its Zen 4 processors, codenamed Phoenix, and the description states that these CPUs will feature a combination of large and small cores. Thus, rumors are confirmed that AMD will switch to the principles of architecture, once introduced by Arm, and then adopted by Intel.

However, there will be one major difference from Intel: if the “blue” cores of different architectures are used in their CPUs (high-performance Golden / Raptor Cove and energy-efficient Gracemont), then AMD will have all the cores on the Zen 4 architecture, only conditionally small ones will receive less cache and will work at lower frequencies, but they will consume less energy. One of the Phoenix CPUs was previously lit up on the network – 2 of it are two “large” cores and four “small” ones. But this is just one of the options, and besides, it is clearly not the most powerful.

The premiere of Phoenix processors is expected at CES 2024 or a little later – in the second half of 2024.