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Marketing renders of the Galaxy Tab S8, Tab S8 Plus and Tab S8 Ultra have leaked, courtesy of the omnipotent Evan Blass. The trio should launch simultaneously, but with different designs.

Marketing assets for the Pixel Watch have leaked, Googles first smartwatch. The assets confirm the smartwatchs design with its near bezel-less display and its name. The Pixel Watch is tipped to rely on a custom SoC manufactured by Samsung, too.

A European retailer has leaked several SKUs of upcoming MSI gaming laptops, all with Intel Alder Lake-P processors and NVIDIA RTX 30 Ti GPUs. The GE66 Raider, GE76 Raider, GS66 Stealth and GS76 Stealth will also be upgraded, but prices will be steep.

Xiaomi is building momentum for the release of the Xiaomi 12 and Xiaomi 12X, both expected to arrive this month. As executives continue to tease its upcoming flagships, it is also preparing behind closed doors to bring Android 12 and MIUI 13-based builds to MIUIs Stable channel.

More details about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 and Intel Arc A380 have emerged. While the RTX 3050 is tipped to launch with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, the Intel Arc A380 could come in with 6 GB. The Intel Arc A380 is thought to offer GTX 1650 SUPER levels of performance, too.

MediaTek has now confirmed the launch details of its next-gen flagship chipset, the Dimensity 9000. The chipset will debut on December 16 and is expected to offer strong competition to Qualcomms Snapdragon 888 successor, the egregiously named Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9000 and Dimensity 7000 are expected to topple Qualcomms performance superiority in the Android space, thanks to impressive manufacturing nodes. At the moment, however, it appears Qualcomm still dominates, at least when running on Xiaomis MIUI 13 software.

MediaTek is set to release a new sub-premium chipset, the Dimensity 7000, and a new leak has now revealed details of the SoC ahead of launch. Specs look impressive, with Qualcomms Snapdragon 870 tipped to be the new chipsets obvious rival.

Rumour has it that Huawei has scheduled a substantial hardware event in December. The Watch D is thought to be Huaweis first smartwatch that can monitor your blood pressure, a feature that is becoming more popular among smartwatch manufacturers, like Samsung.

Sony is not expected to bring a PS5 Slim or PlayStation 5 Pro to market any time soon, with the current versions of the console little over a year old. Nonetheless, LetsGoDigital and ConceptCreator have imagined how a slimmer version would look, along with a presumed Pro model.