What just happened? Apple's much-hyped car project was canceled recently after a decade of development and more than a billion dollars of investment. Thanks to the secrecy surrounding the vehicle, not much is known about it yet, but a new report now claims that the car could have been powered by a super-powerful custom chip equivalent to four M2 Ultras combined.
The news comes from Bloomberg's Mark
Boiling hot: Laptops and portable devices are known for running hot when CPU and GPU units have to deal with demanding workloads. However, recent tests have shown that the newly released M3 MacBook Air can reach unprecedented heat levels.
Apple has launched new MacBook Air models to generally positive reviews. The new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Airs are based on the M3 SoC that Apple claims provide up
A retro computing enthusiast has successfully shoehorned 4MB of RAM into an Apple Macintosh Classic computer without using a daughterboard. Normally, this isn’t possible, but Adrian Black of Adrian’s Digital Basement compared the similar Motorola 68000 CPU-packing Mac Classic and SE models, and the inspired hardware hacking session paid off.
Black explains that he had a leftover Mac Classic motherboard with some chips missing after a repair session. He wanted to upgrade this
What just happened? In Q4 2023, Intel reportedly shipped 50 million CPUs, six times as many as AMD. The PC processor market is virtually a duopoly between Intel and AMD, with their chips powering almost all computers globally. However, over the past few years, OEMs have begun shipping some Arm-powered notebooks and convertibles, although they remain a small minority for the most part.
The
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon X Elite came out ahead of Intel's Meteor Lake in a head-to-head comparison running Windows, shared by YouTuber Erdi Özüağ (via TechPowerUp ). The Snapdragon X Elite X1E80100 beat the Core 7 Ultra 155H in all four benchmarks that were run, with two wider victories and narrower wins. The results are a good omen for the Snapdragon X Elite, though it's
Intel successfully defended its export license to Huawei after rival CPU manufacturer AMD and China critics pushed to get the license revoked, according to a report from Reuters . Thanks to an export license granted in 2019, Intel effectively has an exclusive deal to sell laptop CPUs to Huawei, which AMD says is unfair. The license will lapse later this year and likely won't be renewed, though Intel has already made hundreds of millions of dollars on CPU sales to Huawei.
Huawei has
