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The big picture: Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 officially went on sale this week and promptly sold out within hours. In the US, Newegg, Best Buy and Micro Center all had cards on sale but saw inventory dry up shortly after launch. Over on Newegg, we’re seeing no less than 17 cards and bundles on offer from companies like Asus, Gigabyte, Zotac and MSI. Pricing ranges from $249.99 to $594.98, and 13 of the 17 offerings were restricted to Newegg’s Shuffle lottery program. All are currently listed as out of stock. Best Buy only has two cards in its system, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Eagle OC and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC, for $349.99 and $379.99, respectively, but both are sold out as of this writing. Micro Center has zero RTX 3050 cards available to purchase online, with very limited in-store availability at select retail stores for five different cards. If you live near a physical Micro Center and want a card, it’s worth checking out, but expect to pay a premium for these overclocked models (the cheapest one starts at $329.99) B&H Photo also had some inventory, but again, they're all gone now. Curiously, Amazon hasn't listed any 3050 cards yet. Predictably, lots of cards have already shown up on eBay. A Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Eagle OC from Best Buy, for example, is listed for $599.99 while another listing is asking $899 for the Gaming OC version. Cards from MSI, Asus and Zotac are also listed in the $700 price range. Rumors leading up to the card's launch suggested it wouldn't be ideal for crypto mining, leading some to believe it might be more readily available to purchase at retail. https://www.techspot.com/news/93177-nvidia-rtx-3050-desktop-gpu-launches-promptly-sells.html

Riot Games has sued a mobile developer for allegedly stealing character designs, dialogue, and other content from League of Legends in a game called I Am Hero: AFK Tactical Teamfight. Reuters reports that I Am Hero developer Imba Technology allegedly "copied paragraphs of text from 'League of Legends' verbatim, in addition to using characters with nearly identical visual designs, names, abilities and background stories to heroes from Riot's game." It seems like Imba Technology copied more than just some lore: I Am Hero's basic concept (as well as the AFK Tactical Teamfight tagline) is similar to that of Riot's own League of Legends spin-off, Teamfight Tactics, which the company released on Android and iOS in 2020. Riot Games wasn't the only one to notice these similarities. Reviews for I Am Hero on the Google Play Store mention that "ALL of the characters are stolen from LoL," for example, or that "they've also heavily copied league of legends characters from character design to even only changing a single letter (Zac changed to Zak, Viktor changed to Victor, etc.)." Other reviews claim that I Am Hero ripped off AFK Arena "with knock-off characters from LoL, Dota, and others." There are also allegations of Imba Technology gaming the Google Play Store by using bots to submit five-star reviews that counteract the one-star reviews from real players. Yet the game's been downloaded more than 500,000 times, according to the Google Play Store's statistics, and maintains a rating of 3.8 stars. Its rating is even higher on the App Store, where it has a 4.5 out of 5-star average with 248 ratings. (Apple doesn't share download numbers.) Reuters says that Riot Games sent Imba Technology a cease-and-desist related to I Am Hero in December 2021, but that Imba denied any infringement of Riot's copyright. Riot Games reportedly wants the US District Court to block sales of the game and award it damages.

In brief: The MediaTek Kompanio 1380 isn't the most advanced mobile chipset, and it certainly lacks the 5G connectivity of the Kompanio 1300T. That doesn't stop the Taiwanese company from pitching it to OEMs such as Acer, who are looking to build premium Chromebooks and Chrome OS tablets at a more affordable price point. MediaTek’s main focus right now is to get back into the high-end mobile chipset game with offerings such as the Dimensity 9000 SoC. Earlier this month, someone who got their hands on an engineering sample of the new chipset found it faster than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform and between Apple’s A14 and A15 chips in terms of performance. The story is different on the GPU side, but the MediaTek part is said to be slightly more energy-efficient than its competition. Another area where the Taiwanese company has been trying its hand is the Chromebook market. To that end, MediaTek just unveiled its next-generation Kompanio 1380 chipset, targeting high-end Chromebooks and Chrome OS tablets. The new chipset is built on TSMC’s 6nm process node and integrates an octa-core CPU with four high-performance Arm Cortex A-78 cores running at 3 GHz and four energy-efficient Arm Cortex-A55 cores running at 2 GHz. There’s also a five-core Mali-G57 GPU, and the chipset supports 2,133 MHz LPDDR4X RAM. This allows the Kompanio 1380 to drive up to two 4K UHD displays at 60 Hz, three 4K displays at 30 Hz, or a single 1440p display at 120 Hz. The first device to sport the new chipset is the Acer Chromebook Spin 513. Pricing will start at $599/€649, and Acer says it’s targeting an April release window for the European and Asian markets and a June release window for Canada and the US.

The big picture: Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 officially went on sale this week and promptly sold out within hours. In the US, Newegg, Best Buy and Micro Center all had cards on sale but saw inventory dry up shortly after launch. Over on Newegg, we’re seeing no less than 17 cards and bundles on offer from companies like Asus, Gigabyte, Zotac and MSI. Pricing ranges from $249.99 to $594.98, and 13 of the 17 offerings were restricted to Newegg’s Shuffle lottery program. All are currently listed as out of stock. Best Buy only has two cards in its system, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Eagle OC and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Gaming OC, for $349.99 and $379.99, respectively, but both are sold out as of this writing. Micro Center has zero RTX 3050 cards available to purchase online, with very limited in-store availability at select retail stores for five different cards. If you live near a physical Micro Center and want a card, it’s worth checking out, but expect to pay a premium for these overclocked models (the cheapest one starts at $329.99) B&H Photo also had some inventory, but again, they're all gone now. Curiously, Amazon hasn't listed any 3050 cards yet. Predictably, lots of cards have already shown up on eBay. A Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Eagle OC from Best Buy, for example, is listed for $599.99 while another listing is asking $899 for the Gaming OC version. Cards from MSI, Asus and Zotac are also listed in the $700 price range. Rumors leading up to the card's launch suggested it wouldn't be ideal for crypto mining, leading some to believe it might be more readily available to purchase at retail.

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