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Exynos 2500 With A 10-Core Cluster Recently Showed Up In A Galaxy S25+ Prototype, With Unsurprisingly Lower Single & Multi-Core Scores Than The Snapdragon 8 Elite

wccftech | Dec. 4, 2024, 3:22 a.m. | Original

Samsung’s yield struggles with its first and second-generation 3nm GAA process meant that mass production of its flagship chipset to rival the Snapdragon 8 Elite, the Exynos 2500, would not have been possible. Despite these waves of setbacks, the chipset continues to be tested in various Galaxy S25 models, with the latest Galaxy S25+ prototype showing up in the benchmarking database, with the silicon sporting a 10-core CPU configuration. Unfortunately, another reason why Samsung would not

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Apple’s Latest MacBook Pro Models Are Creeping Up In Price, But The M4 Pro Variant With 24GB RAM Continues To Retain Its $200 Discount On Amazon, But For How Long?

wccftech | Dec. 3, 2024, 2:46 p.m. | Original

The base model of Apple’s latest portable Macs featuring the M4 started from just $1,399 a few days ago, but as you can tell, prices of these premium machines have started to pick up drastically after Black Friday and Cyber Monday ended. Fortunately, there are still some versions that have retained their full discount on Amazon and deliver immense value and it is none other than the M4 Pro variant of the 14-inch MacBook Pro. After the $200 price cut

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Apple turns to Amazon chips for AI pre-training and more

9to5mac | Dec. 3, 2024, 2:20 p.m. | Original

As , Apple’s senior director of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Benoit Dupin, made a surprise appearance at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today.

Dupin used the opportunity to explain that Apple uses custom artificial intelligence chips from Amazon Web Services for many of its cloud services. Apple is also evaluating using Amazon’s newest AI chip to pre-train its Apple Intelligence models.

While speaking at the event, Dubin touted that Apple has used AWS chips, like the Graviton and Inferntia,

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MSI's new Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+ bring Intel Lunar Lake performance to handhelds

Tom's Hardware | Dec. 3, 2024, 9:30 a.m. | Original

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MSI just launched the next generation Claw gaming handhelds, featuring the Intel Core Ultra 7 258V processor with 32GB of RAM and up to 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD (which MSI claims is easily accessible for upgrades). The company’s two new handhelds, the MSI Claw 8 AI+ and Claw 7 AI+, have almost the same specifications. The only noticeable difference between them is screen size, battery capacity, and thus the dimensions.

So, whether

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Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 Launching Next Year Will Reportedly Negatively Impact Smartphone Profits Due To Its High Price, But No Estimated Figure Was Mentioned

wccftech | Dec. 3, 2024, 6:52 a.m. | Original

A Qualcomm executive had previously hinted that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, now officially called the Snapdragon 8 Elite, was going to be more expensive than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 as the company would adopt its in-house CPU designs from hereon. While this would force phone partners to evaluate their position and profitability structure of the devices they manufacture, they will have to draft a new strategy for next year because a report claims that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 will be even more expensive to mass produce. The price of

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Intel’s CEO shakeup is an Apple silicon success story in a big way

9to5mac | Dec. 2, 2024, 12:21 p.m. | Original

It hasn’t been a great season for Intel, and now its CEO Pat Gelsinger . And in the midst of the chipmaker’s transitionary period, Apple silicon is looking like a bigger win than ever for Apple.

Intel’s indicates that Gelsinger is technically retiring. But reporting and the company’s turbulent few years make clear that this was an ousting.

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Pat Gelsinger was forced out after the board lost confidence in his plans to turn around the iconic chipmaker, adding to

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These are the best new MacBook deals for Cyber Monday: options as low as $599

9to5mac | Dec. 1, 2024, 4:42 p.m. | Original

With Apple Intelligence requiring an M1 chip or newer, it’s never been a better time to buy your first MacBook, or upgrade an older MacBook you’re still holding on to. MacBooks are more affordable than ever in the Apple Silicon era, with the cheapest options starting below $600. Cyber Monday deals make it a better time than ever to buy a new MacBook without blowing your bank account.

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Apple has launched 3 MacBook Airs since entering

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Apple’s M4 Mac mini In Three RAM & Storage Configurations Are Up To $55 Off For Early Amazon Cyber Monday 2024, Starting From $559 Only

wccftech | Dec. 1, 2024, 1:23 p.m. | Original

For all the criticism that Apple has faced when it comes to pricing its computers ludicrously, its compact and insanely powerful M4 Mac mini stands out from the competition. Even if you conduct a pricing comparison, there is no PC out there that can take on that $599 figure. Best of all, that starting price is even lower, thanks to the early Amazon Cyber Monday 2024 sale, as the M4 Mac mini with 16GB unified RAM and 256GB of SSD

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When to expect 2nm chips in your iPhone

9to5mac | Dec. 1, 2024, 1:21 p.m. | Original

Apple reportedly agrees with TSMC chip price increase after saying it wouldn't

Although Apple typically follows a two year cycle with process nodes, with the 7nm and 5nm processes lasting two years each – it seems highly likely that Apple is about to use the 3nm process for a third year in a row with the upcoming iPhone 17 lineup. There are a number of reasons for this, which we’ll be delving into.

Technically speaking, this isn’t the first time that we’ve had the same process node for three years in a row, it’s

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Linux AMD patch fixes glacial boot times for some Zen 1 and 2 computers — time saved ranges from seconds to multiple minutes

Tom's Hardware | Dec. 1, 2024, 9:45 a.m. | Original

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A bug that sometimes caused boot times on AMD Zen 1 and Zen 2 systems to swell to several minutes was patched today for the Linux 6.13 kernel (via Phoronix ).

While Linux can take a while to boot on old hardware ( nearly five days for the ancient Intel 4004 ), it’s not an operating system known to be particularly slow. Even an optimization made in August that shaved off just 0.035 seconds from the boot time

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