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Snapdragon X Elite laptops from Dell are launching soon, leaked docs claim nearly double the battery life

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In context: Recent leaks have started to support Qualcomm's bold claims about the capabilities of its upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors. The most significant leak yet comes from Dell, one of the manufacturers expected to release a line of Snapdragon laptops soon. The upcoming XPS laptops, among others, are expected to launch a new phase of Arm Windows PCs leveraging generative AI.

A leaked internal document from Dell has revealed a lengthy

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Apple M4 Specs, benchmarks, release date, and pricing

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Apple has announced its new M4, the latest in the line of high-end Apple Silicon chips. Surprisingly, the new chip didn’t debut in a Mac but instead in the company’s new 11- and 13-inch iPad Pros . The company explained that the existing M3 couldn’t handle the technological advances incorporated into the new iPad Pros, and only the M4 would suffice

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Qualcomm Talks Up Their Linux Support For The Snapdragon X Elite

While much of the emphasis for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite laptop SoC has been around Windows on Arm PCs, Qualcomm has also been working to have upstream Linux support for this high-end SoC and everything is coming together for said support.

Qualcomm has been upstreaming Snapdragon X Elite support for the mainline Linux kernel. The SoC support is coming together nicely while we'll see how the actual product / laptop platform support is playing out in the months ahead.

With Linux 6.8~6.9 they have
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9核版M4芯片跑分出爐:多核性能比10核版低10%,比上代8核M3高13%

蘋果在上週舉行了名為“Let Loose”的特別活動,不僅推出了全新iPad Pro和iPad Air,同時還帶來了M4芯片和Apple Pencil Pro。其中M4芯片有兩個版本:一個是10核版(4性能核+6能效核),另一個則是9核版(3性能核+6能效核)。發


Apple Silicon|Intel

Dell XPS Roadmap Leak Spills Beans on Several Upcoming Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Processors

A product roadmap leak at leading PC OEM Dell, disclosed the tentative launch dates of several future generations of processors by Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. The slide was detailing hardware platforms for future revisions of the company's premium XPS notebooks. Given that Dell remains one of the largest PC OEMs, the dates revealed in the leaked slides are highly plausible.

In chronological order, Dell expects Intel's Core Ultra 200V series "Lunar Lake-MX" processor in September 2024, which

Apple Silicon

高通或今年6月完成第四代驍龍8的設計,目標核心頻率提升至4.26GHz

此前高通首席營銷官Don McGuire在巴塞羅那舉行的MWC 2024大會上,宣佈第四代驍龍8將於2024年10月發佈。傳聞第四代驍龍8將引入融合了NUVIA技術的定製Oryon內核,而且很可能採用台積電(TSMC)的3nm工藝製造。

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Multiple Arm vendors are making chips for desktop PCs — Arm exec says Qualcomm Snapdragon won't be the only game in town

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One reason Microsoft 's Windows and IBM -developed PC architectures are so pervasive now is that both were open for third parties to innovate. For some time, x86 processors have dominated the Windows PC space. It will change as Qualcomm launches its Snapdragon X Elite processors for Windows PCs in the coming months. Furthermore, Qualcomm will not be alone, according to Arm's chief executive.

"For the PC industry to grow, particularly the Windows on Arm segment, is going

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英特爾Sierra Forest出現在基準測試:Xeon 6E配備144核心和180MB緩存

此前在Vision 2024活動期間,英特爾 宣佈 將改變Xeon處理器的命名方式,即將推出的第六代Xeon可擴展處理器將命名為Xeon 6系列,將分為Granite Rapids(P-Core)和Sierra Forest(E-Core)兩條產品線,以簡化產品的命名,讓服務器處理器和最新的消

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Latest AMD Strix Point leak highlights monster 120W TDP and 64GB RAM limit

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A shipping manifest listing printed circuit board components designed for AMD's upcoming Strix Halo mobile APU has been discovered (reported by harukaze5719 on X ). The specs also reveal the chip's TDP and memory capacity, which are 120W and 64GB, respectively.

The system components are part of a prototype system AMD is potentially using to test its new Zen 5-based Strix Halo mobile APU. But the most intriguing information from the manifest is

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Huawei and OrangePi launch new dev board with mystery CPU and AI processor — Huawei again hides chip specs from prying eyes

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Huawei and OrangePi have announced a joint venture in the OrangePi Kunpeng Pro development board. The Raspberry Pi alternative runs not only a quad-core 64-bit Arm processor but also an AI processor that's integrated into the same package, but Huawei and OrangePi aren't releasing the specifics of the processor. In fact, the name of the chip has been hidden in the official renders, a practice that we've seen from Huawei in the past as it seeks to avoid

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