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高通與Arm糾紛或影響驍龍X系列發展,AI PC市場發展遇到障礙

隨着驍龍X系列處理器的成功發佈,高通與微軟的CoPilot+ PC合作推動了AI PC的熱潮,相關新產品將會在6月18日上市。高通將AI PC視為一個新機會,認為SoC配備的NPU可以提升性能和電池的表現,同時AI引擎帶來新體驗,PC將進入


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Arm's lawsuit against Qualcomm might threaten all Copilot+ PCs

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Overview: Qualcomm chips powering the lineup of Copilot+ PCs that Microsoft has heavily promoted are based on designs that Arm claims Qualcomm does not have the rights to use. Amid its lawsuit, Arm stated that it wanted to halt the impending shipments of numerous notebooks, but Qualcomm disputes the complaint. The Copilot+ PCs will likely still launch next week, but the situation casts uncertainty on Arm's licensing deals going into 2

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EVGA's classified AMD motherboard has been declassified — EVGA X670E Classified prototype motherboard fetches over $1,300

EVGA X670E Classified motherboard (Image credit: Jiacheng Liu/X)

Hardware enthusiast Jiacheng Liu recently flaunted several EVGA X670E Classified prototypes on his X account. While the motherboard's future is unknown, the existence of the engineering samples (ES) indicates that EVGA was at least working on an AM5 motherboard for AMD Ryzen Zen 4 and newer processors.

Like previous Classified motherboards, the EVGA X670E Classified clings to the larger E-ATX form factor. Tailored

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Snapdragon X Elite's first real-world benchmarks can't even beat the iPhone 12, but a fix may be out soon

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A hot potato: Qualcomm hyped up its new Snapdragon X Elite processor as a game-changer for Windows PCs, promising performance that could even take on Apple's mighty M-series chips. But if the first reviews of X Elite-powered laptops are to be believed, it looks like Qualcomm may have oversold its new baby.

One Reddit user, u/caponica23, shared a disappointing review of the


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AMD首席執行官蘇姿豐回憶IBM工作經歷:曾參與PS3的Cell處理器開發

AMD首席執行官蘇姿豐博士曾在IBM工作了13年,先後擔任IBM紐約半導體研發中心的副主管、研發部門主管和CEO特別助理。1998年蘋果發佈的iMac G3裏,使用的PowerPC 750是首個採用銅互連技術的處理器,取代了鋁互連技術。此


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Snapdragon X Elite in the wild is allegedly slower than iPhone 12 — first benchmarks of Samsung Book4 Edge disappoint

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The Snapdragon X Elite is just starting to emerge in the wild, powering Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs , and early reviews are not promising for the future of Windows. Reddit user r/caponica23 shared his review of the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge on Monday, and the benchmarks fail to meet the performance of the iPhone 12 mini, released in 2021.

Running the laptop through its paces on GeekBench and CrystalDiskMark and subjective battery and gaming tests

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Apple accused in lawsuit of underpaying female workers in California - Reuters

Apple accused in lawsuit of underpaying female workers in California Reuters

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Details on Qualcomm's Adreno X1 GPU Architecture Emerge

Qualcomm has provided new details about the Adreno X1 GPU integrated into their latest series of processors, Snapdragon X Elite/Plus. The Adreno X1 is the first custom-designed GPU from Qualcomm for Windows on ARM systems. The highest configuration of this GPU, known as the "X1-85," features "8" indicating the GPU level and "5" denoting the SKU.

The Adreno X1 boasts up to 6 shaders, 1536 FP32 ALUs, and can handle
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Architecture Deep Dive: Getting To Know Oryon and Adreno X1

The curtains are drawn and it’s almost showtime for Qualcomm and its Snapdragon X SoC team. After first detailing the SoC nearly 8 months ago at the company’s most recent Snapdragon Summit, and making numerous performance disclosures in the intervening months, the Snapdragon X Elite and Snapdragon X Plus launch is nearly upon us. The chips have already shipped to Qualcomm’s laptop partners, and the first laptops are set to ship next week.

In the last 8 months Qualcomm has made a lot of interesting claims for their


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The world’s first RISC-V laptop gets a big upgrade — DeepComputing doubled the core count, increased clocks to 2 GHz, and added AI capabilities

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DeepComputing, the maker of the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop, just released an upgrade of its groundbreaking RISC-V-based computer. Dubbed the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II, this revamped PC gets a SpacemiT SoC K1, which features 8 cores that run up to 2.0 GHz. This is a massive improvement over the previous version of the laptop, which only had a quad-core CPU limited to 1.5 GHz. The DC

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