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Apple rolls out 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip

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What just happened? Apple has announced new versions of its 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air powered by the company's own M3 silicon. According to the Cupertino-based company, it's up to 60 percent faster than

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Intel Foundry is trying to poach Samsung's South Korean customers in its bid to become world's second-biggest foundry: report

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Intel is poaching – or at least trying to poach – South Korean chip design firms that currently use Samsung's fabs, according to a report from Digitimes . It appears that Intel is motivated by its drive to become the world's second-largest chip manufacturer, a title that Samsung currently holds. Though Intel seems to be closer to the cutting-edge, Samsung has strong ties to its partners and customers, making it unclear if Intel can make a dent in the South Korean

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Apple's MacBook Air gains M3 upgrade and support for two external displays — both 13-inch and 15-inch get improvements

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When Apple updated the MacBook Pro family with M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max processors in late 2023, we knew that hardware upgrades would soon be on the way for the company’s more mainstream products. And right on cue, Apple today performed a soft launch of its 2024 MacBook Air family with standard M3 processors on the 15-inch model (13-inch models continue with the M2 as standard, with

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(PR) Apple Unveils the New 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air with the Powerful M3 Chip

Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip, taking its incredible combination of power-efficient performance and portability to a new level. With M3, MacBook Air is up to 60 percent faster than the model with the M1 chip and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air. And with a faster and more efficient Neural Engine in M3, MacBook Air continues to be the world's best consumer laptop for AI. The 13- and

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AMD's Strix Point Successor Codenamed "Sound Wave"?

Some of the earliest signs are emerging that AMD's mobile processor or desktop APU silicon that succeeds "Strix Point" being codenamed "Sound Wave." AMD tends to come up with quirky internal codenames for upcoming projects, mostly to zero in on the source of leaks, so "Sound Wave" as a codename is subject to change with time. While the upcoming 4 nm "Strix Point" and "Strix Halo" chips implement the "Zen 5" CPU microarchitecture and RDNA 3+ graphics architecture, besides XDNA

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網傳第四代驍龍8移動平台最高頻可達4.30GHz,但量產版本會被降頻

此前我們曾 報道 ,高通曾於MWC 2024宣佈第四代驍龍8移動平台將於今年10月發佈。網上許多消息稱這款SoC將採用台積電N3E工藝製造,並放棄基於Arm公版的設計,採用2個Nuvia Phoenix性能核心和6個Nuvia Phoenix M核心組成的全新雙集


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Intel's new Special Edition gaming CPU hits 6.2 GHz with 1.5 volts — upcoming Core i9-14900KS packaging and per-core frequencies revealed

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Images of Intel's upcoming Core i9-14900KS have leaked, including photos of the CPU's retail packaging, and the technical specs revealed in a motherboard BIOS (via @I_Leak_VN on X ). The new flagship CPU will seemingly have the same box Intel used for the Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K , which features a wafer-shaped plastic case

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Asus reveals pricing for its new NUCs — NUC 14 Pro starts at $394 and NUC 14 Pro+ at $869

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Asus (via FanlessTech ) has listed the new NUC 14 Pro and NUC 14 Pro+. These are the first NUCs from the company since it received a non-exclusive license from Intel to produce them.

NUCs have their place in the market, so when Intel announced that the chipmaker was axing its NUC business , there was a certain sadness in the air. Luckily, Asus was more than eager to receive the torch from Intel to keep the NUCs alive

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高通CMO在MWC 2024宣佈,第四代驍龍8將於今年10月發佈

近日,高通CMO(CEO)唐·莫柯東出席了在巴塞羅那舉行的MWC 2024大會,並且在社交媒體上發視頻 宣佈 第四代驍龍8將於今年10月發佈,同時還講到,AI在短期內不可能會取代人類,並且鼓勵人們合理利用AI,使其成為人類


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高通將在新款XR/AR芯片中採用3/4nm工藝,以對抗蘋果Vision Pro

蘋果在Vision Pro上採用了M2和R1的芯片組合,兩款芯片均採用了台積電(TSMC)的4nm工藝製造。相比之下,高通的第二代驍龍XR2+採用的是7nm工藝,對於MR、VR和智能眼鏡等設備來説,能效上會有一些差距。

據Wccftech 報道 ,高通