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Wondershare UniConverter 14: the complete video toolbox for your needs

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Wondershare launched UniConverter 14 recently, with greatly improved conversion speeds, compressing speeds, and other features and functions that are super-powered in the UniConverter 14 update.

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The new Wondershare UniConverter 14 ushers in up to a huge 50% improvement in video converter speeds, as well as up to 50% speed bumps in 4K + 8K HDR video full-process GPU acceleration. Video editors will be happy with those upgrades, especially given that those improvements are just the beginning.

Wondershare also makes it easy for someone without video editing skills to be able to do things that someone with a much larger skill set does: we’re talking about converting and compressing video, editing, recording, saving, and merging videos, as well as burning videos to permanent media like DVD, and so much more.

We all know there are competing video editing suites on the market, but Wondershare makes complicated jobs like video editing, so much easier for end users. Wondershare also makes having power video editing tools at your fingertips cheaper than the competition, too.

Wondershare UniConverter 14 supports Apple Mac M1 native acceleration, for the new M1-powered Apple products in the wild, while there’s also multi-threaded GPU acceleration for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs. UniConverter 14 has support for VP9, ​​AV1, HEVC (H.265) encoder. Wondershare also provides support for WEBM, MP4 format video with alpha channel output which is good news for video editors.

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Wondershare UniConverter 14 supports popular web formats including YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, eBay, are all included. There’s support for a variety of 4K, 8K, and HDR video formats including MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, and more. Wondershare has also added MP4 (CFHD)/MOV (HEVC)/MKV (AV1)Webm (VP9/AV1).

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UniConverter 14 uses lossless conversion technology which is powered by “APEXTRANS” technology, which Wondershare says converts videos with zero quality loss or video compression. GPU acceleration helps speed things along, with 4K + 8K + HDR and other HD video full-process GPU acceleration.

Wondershare says its new UniConverter 14 is 50% faster than its predecessor, and 120x faster than “other video converters”.

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You can convert multiple videos in batches, all with GPU acceleration speeding things along with a single click of your mouse. Depending on your system and the settings you’ve got for the video and its conversion process, it’ll be super-speeded by Wondershare UniConverter 14.

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Wondershare’s new UniConverter 14 has no size limits in the video compression department, where if you are looking for the ultimate software toolkit to compress video then you’re safe here.

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No size limits and custom compression ready to go in UniConverter 14, with new features inside of the update including support for lossless compression of audio files, Wondershare has bumped compression quality by 80% while the compression time is reduced 90% without losing quality. There are multiple compression modes in UniConverter 14, which were added to meet the compression requirements of various scenarios.

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You can watch videos in all formats through the Wondershare HD Video Player, which is capable of playing HD, Full HD, 4K + 8K video smoothly. The video player is an independent process to UniConverter 14, which is capable of playing 1000+ formats of video in the wild.

Wondershare HD Video Player has the playback effects that you’d get out of the VLC professional player, not too damn bad at all, huh?

Powerful AI features in UniConverter 14 make everything easier

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Wondershare bakes in some new AI features that make UniConverter 14 even easier, with the Noise Remover function taking care of audio recordings and video that feature a lot of noise. This is perfect for post-processing tasks like recording meetings, editing videos, and recording audio for podcasts.

  • Noise Remover: Remove background noise from video/audio batch.
  • vowel remover: Automatically separate vocals from music.
  • Watermark Editor: Add or remove watermarks from your video.
  • SubtitleEditor: A powerful subtitle editing tool.
  • Smart Trim: Automatically trim your videos and make video editing easy.
  • Auto Crop: Automatically resize videos for different social networks.
  • AI Portrait: Change video background with AI.
  • Background remover: Automatically remove the background from images.

There’s also the vowel removewhich will separate your vocals from music… again: perfect for video editors.

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Wondershare keeps things on the cheap with its UniConverter 14 pricing: things start at $39.99 per year on an annual plan, while you’ll get “forever to use” UniConverter and all of its features for a $79.99 one-time fee. This means a single purchase can unlock it all, where you get access to 6 add-on features: Smart Trimmer, Watermark

Editor, Subtitle Editor, Auto Reframe, AI Portrait, Intro & Outro (Standard Subscription).

If you are flexing between Windows and Mac operating systems, then you could look at buying UniConverter in a bundle. Wondershare offers UniConverter on an annual plan for $71.98 per year, where you’ll get WonderShare UniConverter for Windows, and Wondershare UniConverter for Mac.

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There’s also UniConverter + DVD Creator, UniConverter + Filmora, and UniConverter + DemoCreator bundles that make things cheaper if you’re using multiple software suites from Wondershare.

Wrapping things up, if you’re editing or working with videos then Wondershare’s updated UniConverter 14 video editing suite could be for you. There’s so much here for under $100 it’s not funny, especially when competing software suites can’t do for much more money on the table.

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Wondershare provides super-easy everything-including-the-kitchen-sink features with video editing, converting, compression, recording, downloading, and more with UniConverter 14.

If you are working on multiple videos on the daily, then Wondershare’s batch utility in UniConverter 14 is a huge asset to you. This is highlighted if you’ve got the PC hardware to handle it all, with the GPU acceleration pumping speeds through the roof.

Wondershare’s new update with UniConverter 14 makes it a formidable video toolbox, packed with features that you can get on the cheap.

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Intel Tejas Project: Pentium 5 CPU at 7GHz to 10GHz story explored

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If you’re old enough then you’ll remember the GHz race of the day between Intel and AMD, the race towards 1000MHz (1GHz) was a huge deal… and then we went to dual-core CPUs, and the Pentium brand was left behind for entry-level CPUs in the last decade.

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But man, did Intel have a huge plan for the Pentium CPU family with Project Tejas and Jayhawk, where after all of these years we’re hearing about the next-gen Pentium 5 projects that were headed towards 7GHz. Intel kicked off Project Tejas in 2003, expected in 2004 and later pushed into 2005 after issues forced Intel to redesign the chip. Before the company could do that, the Tejas Project was shelved on May 7, 2004.

Intel Prescott CPUs could hit 5GHz+ but had huge power and temperature numbers, but Tejas was expected to clock higher than Prescott — with Intel chasing the huge 10GHz CPU clocks within 10 years between 2000 and 2011 — but it ended up not happening at all . AnandTech was the last to report on the Tejas processor, but now Fully Buffered has a new video after getting his hands-on Tejas and Jayhawk processors from John Culver of CPU Shack (eBay) for an “undisclosed amount” of money.

Steve Fischer was one of the Intel engineers that worked on the Tejas and Jayhawk CPUs, who explained: “Tejas was primarily led and developed by an engineering team based in Austin, and the Folsom processor development team playing a large existing role. Folsom had more is and designed for manufacturability expertise based on earlier P6 and P4 derivative product developments, while the Austin team was newer to intel but with some different microarchitecture expertise brought in from the outside like former Power PC engineers.“.

Fischer continued: “I came into this project late having spent a couple of years doing something completely different at one of intel’s acquisitions during the .com boom […] after returning to intel I focused on microcode development. With these efforts are first being applied on Prescott and then later on Tejas the latest and greatest P4 product. The thing had a pipeline depth of around 50 stages and an expected clock target at one point north of 7 GHz“.

“I call the thing “the Death Star of processors” and half-jokingly reasoned that consumer acceptance of liquid-cooled chassis would not be a big deal. By mid-2004, I believe I’d moved on to lead the microarchitecture activities [at Intel]“.

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AI asked to create an image of what death looks like

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An artificial intelligence has been asked to create an image of what death looks like, and the results are simply stunning.

The artificial intelligence (AI) that was asked to create the images seen in the above video is called MidJourney, which was created by David Holtz, co-founder of Leap Motion, and is currently run by a small self-funded team that has several well-known advisors such as Jim Keller, known for his work at AMD, Apple, Tesla, and Intel, Nat Friedman, the CEO of Github, and Bill Warner, the founder of Avid Technology and inventor of nonlinear video editing.

MidJourney is an incredible piece of technology, and it recently went into open beta, which means anyone can try it by simply heading over to its dedicated Discord server. Users can enter “/imagine“, followed by a text prompt of what they want the AI ​​to produce. Users have been testing the AI’s capabilities by entering descriptive words such as HD, hyper-realistic, 4K, wallpaper, and more. All of which work perfectly.

As for the predictive capability of MidJourney, none of the images seen in this article or any other source should be taken as a prediction. MidJourney was created to expand the human species’ imaginative power, not predictions.

Using MidJourney’s image generation algorithms, users are able to create ultra-realistic images of whatever they wish. The possibilities are truly endless, and with accurate text inputs, you can create wallpaper-worthy images. I tested the AI ​​and created several images that are now being used as wallpapers, but what was more impressive was what the other users in the Discord were making. Below are some examples of what I found and what the user inputted into the AI ​​to get the result.

Use MidJourney AI here.

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– A detailed futuristic soldier portrait gas mask, slightly visible shoulders, explosion in background

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– A detailed oil painting of final fantasy XIII versus battle of light and darkness

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– A young boy sleeping on a mat, smiling at the camera, big brown eyes, hyper realistic, 4K, very clear

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– Cyberpunk cat, 4K, red glasses, ultra realistic

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Intel loses first AIB, won’t make Arc GPUs over ‘quality concerns’

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We’ve been hearing all sorts of bad news about Intel’s new Arc GPUs where I’ve been reporting on news that Intel would outright cancel their Arc GPUs altogether over how bad it has gotten, and now Intel has reportedly lost their first AIB.

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The first AIB to stop production of custom Intel Arc GPUs has reportedly made history, becoming the first AIB to pull out of Intel’s new Arc GPUs before they even really began. The news is coming from Igor Wallossek at Igor’s Lab, who reports that the first of the big board partners have “stopped the production of Intel cards completely” which his sources say are “due to quality concerns”.

Igor reports: “At least one of the big board partners has even stopped the production of Intel cards completely (“due to quality concerns”), as I could find out yesterday and today. […] Other board partners have at least already completely capped their marketing activities, and it does not currently look as if there will be any real launch offensives from the board partners in the time window I mentioned between August 5, 2022 and September 29, 2022. What will really arrive on the market (as retail) will be seen in the next few weeks. From the customer’s point of view, I can only hope for the best, I alone lack faith“.

So all that “negativity” that I’ve been accused of, which is me just doing my job: reporting the news, the rumours, and everything in between… seems to be true. Intel has been a mess for a while now, with miscommunication about its Arc GPUs reportedly happening both inside, and outside of the company. Intel is telling some of its departments one thing while having a different external message.

We might see this particular AIB partner spool up the production of Intel Arc GPUs in the future, but I’m sure they’ll be wanting to wait to see how Intel’s new Arc GPUs go in the coming 6-18 months. Game compatibility, driver issues, hardware and software issues, and a million other things that I’m sure AIBs are scared of… warranties and returns will happen.

AIBs will take a huge hit when that happens, and I’m sure Intel isn’t worried about its brand (it’s big enough, they’ll survive… but the image of their GPU marketing will be almost beyond destroyed, all credibility gone) but it’ll cost them in the end in terms of consumer confidence, market confidence, and I’m sure many more ways that the company will experience throughout the end of this year and into 2023.

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AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 7000 CPUs will arrive before September ends

AMD's next-gen Ryzen 7000 CPUs will arrive before September ends

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AMD will ship its next-generation Ryzen 7000 processors this quarter, AMD executives confirmed. That means Ryzen 7000 will hit the streets by the end of September.

Previously, AMD had said that Ryzen 7000 would ship in the second half of the year, but the company narrowed its release schedule in a conference call with analysts. AMD representatives indicated that the change in timing should be taken as a clarification, not as a change in the company’s roadmap.

AMD made it clear that Intel’s unexpected, catastrophic loss this quarter was mainly due to Intel’s execution, rather than wider industry problems, with AMD delivering record revenue for the eighth straight quarter. The good times appear ready to keep rolling, too.

CEO Dr. Lisa Su said that AMD’s fourth quarter will be highlighted by the company’s new lineup of 5nm products, that we’re very excited about.

Those include the Ryzen 7000 lineup but also Radeon’s next-gen RDNA3 graphics cards. AMD expects the new RDNA3 GPUs will deliver more than 50 per cent generation-over-generation improvement, a combination of design as well as the 5nm process technology.

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Intel confirms VPU chip for Meteor Lake CPU, proves leaker right again

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Intel is definitely adding a VPU chip to its new 14th Gen Core “Meteor Lake” CPUs that will debut in Q3 2023, a year from now: with the VPU confirmed as the Versatile Processing Unit.

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The new Intel UPV was teased close to a year ago by leaker Moore’s Law is Dead, yet another leak of his confirmed… MLID explained back in September 2021: “Meteor Lake will get an integrated VPU Accelerator. It’s similar to the Neural in the Apple M1 for speech recognition, language models, and conceivably tons of apps by the time Meteor Lake launches“.

Intel confirmed the Versatile Processing Unit (VPU) in a new commit to Linux VPU driver. The new VPU driver was baked into the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) in the same fashion that graphics drivers get integrated.

Intel’s upcoming Versatile Processing Unit inside of the new 14th Gen Core “Meteor Lake” CPUs will be one of the Tiles inside, as Intel is moving into a new Tile-based CPU architecture. The new hybrid architecture that Intel will be using packs Redwood Cove and Crestmont CPU cores into the latest Intel Xe-LPG graphics architecture. Intel might be suffering with its GPU department now, but things will get better over time and Meteor Lake is going to (hopefully) come in like a wrecking ball against AMD in 2023 and beyond.

Intel says that the new VPU is a CPU-integrated inference accelerator for Computer Vision and Deep Learning applications. As for the VPU device itself, it will have the following components:

  • buttress: provides CPU to VPU integration, interrupt, frequency and power management.
  • Memory Management Unit (based on ARM MMU-600): translates VPU to host DMA addresses, isolates user workloads.
  • RISC-based microcontroller: executes firmware that provides job execution API for the kernel-mode driver.
  • Neural Compute Subsystem (NCS): does the actual work, provides Compute and Copy engines.
  • Network on Chip (NoC): network fabric connecting all the components.

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