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TSMC's Q1 revenue rise beats market expectations on AI boom - Reuters

TSMC's Q1 revenue rise beats market expectations on AI boom Reuters

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Mutant ASUS Frankenboard surfaces with SO-DIMM memory slots — rare Maximus XIII Hero includes Kingston Fury logo

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Intel's 500-series motherboards may be well behind us, having supported the 10th and 11th Gen Intel CPUs, but this rare hardware find is still interesting. Hardware enthusiast wxnod managed to get his hands on what appears to be a Maximus XIII Hero motherboard, adapted to use SO-DIMM memory modules instead of standard DIMMs.

The modified Maximus XIII Hero looks almost the same as the retail product. It's clearly

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Intel crams Meteor Lake laptop chips into a socket for edge computing — includes Arc graphics and NPU for AI workloads

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Intel announced it's finally bringing LGA1851 socket-compatible Core Ultra processors based on the Meteor Lake architecture to the market. But before you get your hopes up, these chips are targeted at edge computing rather than consumer desktops. Intel's new edge-focused CPUs will be the first-ever Meteor Lake CPUs to come in an LGA socket format.

The chips are optimized for on-premise edge computing. Intel reports that its Core Ultra processors for edge will

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Intel says Lunar Lake will have 100+ TOPS of AI performance — 45 TOPS from the NPU alone meets requirement for next-gen AI PCs

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger flashed a Lunar Lake processor, the company's next-gen laptop chip, at its Vision 2024 event, saying the chip provides 100+ TOPS of performance in AI workloads, with 45 of those TOPS coming from the NPU alone. That meets the bar of 45 TOPS from the NPU that Intel recently discussed as the requirement for next-gen AI PCs at its AI Summit in Taipei . At the event,

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Microsoft confident Snapdragon X Elite will defeat M3 MacBook Air laptops — prepares demos to showcase this and will put the chip into Surface laptops

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Microsoft is putting all of its weight behind Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X Elite , and expects it to outperform Apple's competing M3 silicon — at least in certain workloads. The Verge reports that the trillion-dollar software and hardware behemoth is extremely confident in Qualcomm's new CPU and is planning several demos for its upcoming AI PC event in Seattle that will show the Snapdragon chip outperforming Apple's M3-equipped MacBook Air laptops .

These demos Microsoft is putting

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Samsung unveils the All-in-One Pro: A sleek alternative to the iMac with a 27-inch 4K display

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In brief: Anyone who likes the look of an iMac but isn't a fan of Apple products might want to consider the Samsung All-in-One Pro, a new all-in-one PC from the Korean company. It comes with a 27-inch 4K screen, an Intel Core Ultra processor, and a slim all-aluminum body.

The All-in-One Pro marks a

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AMD Extends Leadership Adaptive SoC Portfolio with New Versal Series Gen 2 Devices Delivering End-to-End Acceleration for AI-Driven Embedded Systems

AMD today announced the expansion of the AMD Versal adaptive system on chip (SoC) portfolio with the new Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs, which bring preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing together in a single device for end-to-end acceleration of AI-driven embedded systems.

These initial devices in the Versal Series Gen 2 portfolio build on the first generation with powerful new AI Engines expected to deliver up to 3x higher TOPs-per-watt than first generation Versal
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Intel launches first Core Ultra CPUs for LGA-1851 socket, featuring Meteor Lake architecture for the edge

Intel launches Meteor Lake and Raptor Lake for systems on the edge

The first official LGA-1851 processor is here.

In 2023, Intel’s plans for the LGA-1851 socket didn’t materialize as rumored. Although there were expectations for the launch of the Meteor Lake-S desktop CPU series, Intel opted to prioritize the mobile segment instead. This decision led to the cancellation of the “S” series. However, Intel didn’t completely abandon the idea

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(PR) SiFive Unveils the HiFive Premier P550 Out-of-Order RISC-V Development Board

Today at Embedded World, SiFive, Inc., the pioneer and leader of RISC-V computing, unveiled its new state-of-the-art RISC-V development board, the HiFive Premier P550. The board will be available for large-scale deployment through Arrow Electronics so developers around the world can test and develop new RISC-V applications like machine vision, video analysis, AI PC and others, allowing them to use AI and other cutting-edge technologies across many different market segments.

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聯發科天璣9400擁有超過300億個晶體管:或成為最大尺寸的智能手機SoC

去年聯發科(MediaTek)帶來了天璣9300(Density 9300),採用了“全大核”CPU架構,峯值性能相較上一代大幅度提升。今年聯發科將堅持“全大核”設計,並採用台積電第二代3nm工藝(N3E),希望新款天璣9400能擊敗