Lilbits: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide, Razer Blade 16, and more fallout from Chuwi’s processor mixup

Two recent laptops from Chinese PC maker Chuwi that were supposed to ship with AMD Ryzen 5 7430U processors actually had Ryzen 5 5500U chips inside. That means instead of getting a processor with a Zen 3 CPU, customers were getting notebooks with chips featuring AMD’s older Zen 2 architecture.

But the only way to prove this was to actually open up the computer and remove the CPU cooler to look […]

Lilbits: Arm’s first silicon, Chuwi’s not-quite-apology, and Pebble’s Time 2 smartwatch ships soon

Arm has just introduced a new processor for data centers. There’s nothing too unusual in that statement… except that for the first time the chip designer is actually making its own processor. The company has been licensing its designs to third party chip makers for decades, but the new Arm AGI CPU is an Arm-branded processor that Meta plans to use in data centers.

In other recent tech news […]

Compare Amazon Fire TV device specs (Fire TV Stick HD, Fire TV Stick 4K and 4K Max, and Fire TV Cube)

Amazon’s Fire TV line of media streaming devices now includes three different Fire TV Stick models with list prices ranging from $35 to $60. The good, better, best lineup includes an entry-level model with support for 1080p video at up to 60 frames per second, while the top-of-the-line model supports 4K video and features faster WiFi, among other things.

And for folks that want the best of the […]

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The $40 Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select ships with Vega OS

The new Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Select is a media streamer that plugs into the HDMI port of your TV to let you stream content from Amazon, Netflix, and other media sources. You can also use it to stream games from Amazon’s Luna or Microsoft’s Xbox Gaming platforms, and it supports Amazon’s Alexa+ AI features.

But there are two things that really make this new media streamer stand out from […]

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Lilbits: AYN Odin 3 is coming, TrueNAS ported to ARM (unofficially), and International packages valued under $800 no longer exempt from US tariffs

The “de minimis” exemption that allowed packages worth $800 or less to be shipped duty-free to the US is officially gone. The Trump administration ended the exemption for goods shipped from China and Hong Kong earlier this year, and now it has also ended for items shipped from all other countries… at the same time that the US government has imposed tariffs ranging from 10-percent to […]

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Walmart’s Onn 4K Plus is official: $30 Google TV media streaming box

For the past few years one of the cheapest 4K-ready media streaming boxes you could buy has been Walmart’s $20 Onn 4K. The company also offers a $50 model called the Onn 4K Pro that has more memory and storage, a faster USB port, and an Ethernet jack.

Now Walmart has introduced a mid-range version that sells for $30. The new Onn 4K Plus actually started to show up in stores earlier this […]

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