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M4 Mac mini proves Apple has fixed its biggest mistakes of the past

Apple’s M4 Mac mini is a surprisingly and wildly successful product. Per our homepage poll, it’s readers’ favorite product of the year—by far. Why is it such a hit? Because it’s the strongest evidence yet that Apple has learned from past mistakes.

The Mac is in the midst of a very exciting new era, inaugurated by Apple silicon. Macs are updated regularly with new chips, battery life and performance regularly impress, and exciting changes like cellular may be on the horizon

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Qualcomm Claims That Its In-House Oryon Cores Have Less Than 1 Percent Of ARM’s Technology When Asked By Lawyers In An Ongoing Trial

The Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus are Qualcomm’s first chipset offerings touting the company’s custom Oryon cores, which were supposedly developed completely in-house, as the company decided to follow Apple’s route of presenting the masses with a solution that is void of technologies from other companies. However, ARM would disagree, which is why the British chip designer and the San Diego are locked in a legal skirmish. During a U.S. federal court trial in Delaware, a former Apple executive was

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Apple Has Teamed Up With NVIDIA To Research On A ‘ReDrafter’ Technique That Speeds Up Text Generation With Large Language Models

Generative AI features under the Apple Intelligence banner have steered clear from leveraging NVIDIA GPUs to handle cloud-based inputs, with the California-based giant sticking with its custom silicon in its servers that will eventually be replaced by the unreleased M4 Ultra to speed up its Large Language Models. However, a recent blog post from the iPhone maker reveals that Apple and its engineers are not shying away from partnering with NVIDIA if it means both entities have a common goal; implementing faster text generation performance with LLMs. A new ‘

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AMD 3D V-Cache teardown shows the majority of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is dummy silicon

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It's been over a month since AMD launched its Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor which quickly established itself as the fastest gaming CPU in the world. To investigate AMD's design philosophy, semiconductor analyst Tom Wassick (via Hardwareluxx ) took apart the chip, and the findings of his first report suggest that a large part of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is just dummy silicon for structural integrity. Still, AMD has extracted a lot of

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The Highly Portable And Exceptionally Powerful 14-Inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro With 24GB Unified RAM Reaches A New Low On Amazon Thanks To Its 13 Percent Discount

Skipping a purchase of the more powerful 14-inch M4 Pro MacBook Pro during Black Friday or Cyber Monday could be one of the best decisions you could make this year because the portable Mac is now available for its lowest price on Amazon thanks to a 13 percent discount, or a $250 price reduction for those wanting to know the numerical value. The M4 Pro running in this machine features a 12-core CPU and 16-core CPU, making it a powerful configuration.

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Asahi Linux Gets Fedora 41 Remix with New Desktop Environment Options and AAA Windows Gaming For Mac Silicon

In October, we reported that Asahi Linux had madesome pretty substantial progress in getting Linux working on Apple Silicon, with a custom GPU driver counting itself as the first OpenGL 3.0 compliant graphics driver for Apple Silicon. Now, according to a recent Fedora Magazinepost, Asahi Linux now has a Fedora 41 Remix. The Fedora Asahi 41 Remix is still based on that same Asahi version from October 10, but it incorporates the myriad advancements from Fedora 41 and an improved Vulkan 1.4-
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Arm, Qualcomm lawyers grill ex-Apple exec in chip design battle - Reuters

Arm, Qualcomm lawyers grill ex-Apple exec in chip design battle Reuters

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AMD Strix Halo-powered laptop appears at retailer — Asus ROG Flow Z13 2-in-1 laptop listed on Belarus website

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A listing for an Asus ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA-RU003W has appeared on the Belarusian eCommerce site algo.by, and its description says that it’s powered by an AMD Strix Halo (2024) processor. This makes it one of the first laptops to arrive equipped with an AMD Strix Halo chip—a processor expected to debut in a few weeks’ time at CES 2025—

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Framework's new dual M.2 module boosts laptop max storage to 32TB — Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay is only $39

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Framework just released a module for the Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay, allowing you to add up to two 8TB M.2 2280 SSD modules to the device. This would let you have as much as 32TB of storage on the laptop: one 8TB M.2 2280 and one 2TB M.2 2230 SSD mounted internally, two 8TB M.2 2280 SSDs on the Expansion Bay,

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Apple’s 11-Inch And 13-Inch M4 iPad Pro Models Get Up To A $200 Discount On Amazon For Both Silver & Space Black Finishes, With The Flagship Tablets Starting From $899

The M4 iPad Pro models are the absolute best when combining Apple’s expertise in custom silicon and legendary design, with the competition not offering anything competitive. Not only are the 11-inch and 13-inch slates that thinnest tablets ever launched by the company, the M4 powering their innards deliver single-core and multi-core performance that rivals those large and beefy laptops. In a sentence, there is not one thing that the M4 iPad Pro series is not able to tackle, and
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