蘋果公司正與台灣半導體製造公司（TSMC）合作，開發基於 2 奈米製程的新一代晶片，預計將於 2025 年投入使用。這些新晶片將為公司的 iPhone 和 Mac 產品線帶來更強大的計算及圖形性能，同時降低功耗。
蘋果已於今年早些時候宣布
蘋果開始開發基於台積電2nm工藝的芯片，預計在2025年到來
蘋果去年在主題為“Scary Fast”的2023年第二場秋季新品發佈會上， 發佈 了M3、M3 Pr和M3 Max芯片。這是業界首批個人電腦使用的3nm芯片，可將更多晶體管封裝於更小的芯片空間中，實現速度和能效的雙重提升。
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Apple Reportedly Working on Chip Designs with TSMC 2 Nanometer Process
A South Korean website, gamma0burst , has combed through many LinkedIn profiles in an attempt to find unintentional technology leaks—last week's investigation targeted big companies including Apple, AMD, Google and Qualcomm. Employee work histories occasionally display confidential project information—gamma0burst's latest "hidden in plain sight" discovery has linked Apple a TSMC 2 nm process node. Late January reports suggested that the American multinational technology corporation was already queued up for an N2 process technology that utilizes gate-all-around
Windows 11 24H2 will block processors that lack the SSE4.2 instruction set
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In context: Windows 11 has introduced more demanding hardware requirements for the installation and operation of the operating system. With the latest major upgrade on the horizon, Microsoft appears to be intensifying its efforts to ensure that the OS is incompatible with older components.
Windows 11 is approaching its third anniversary, and Microsoft is gearing up for the next major upgrade. Following the system requirement policy
Arm-powered Snapdragon X Elite laptop shown outperforming Intel Core Ultra by up to 10X in AI tests — Qualcomm fires early NPU shots at Intel
Qualcomm has published a short video that shows a Snapdragon X Elite laptop outpacing an Intel Core Ultra 7 laptop by up to 10X in AI workloads. According to the video description, the unnamed Snapdragon X Elite model offers “a groundbreaking 45 TOPS NPU that delivers unparalleled AI capabilities.” The NPU (neural processing unit) tests run by Qualcomm included AI image generation in Stable Diffusion and GIMP. Of course, the tests used the onboard processors rather than the cloud.
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Intel expects behemoth 144-core Sierra Forest chips to boost per-rack performance by 2.7X at lower power
Although Intel formally announced its Xeon processors codenamed Sierra Forest last year and even disclosed their maximum number of cores, the company has never revealed its performance expectations. But at this year's Mobile World Congress, Intel disclosed that its upcoming CPU platform will increase per rack performance by 2.7X compared to its 2021 platform while consuming around 30% less power.
Intel's Xeon 'Sierra Forest' processors with up to 1
SolidRun unveils AMD Zen 3-based Ryzen V3000 computer-on-module for networking and edge computing
SolidRun has launched its first x86-based computer on module (CoM) for networking using AMD's Zen 3-powered V3000 embedded APUs. The new CX7 CoM comes equipped with one of AMD's eight-core V3000 chips, and features up to 96GB of DDR5 memory, three slots for PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and a plethora of connectivity.
For SolidRun, CX7 represents a big performance upgrade
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" CPU Gets Geekbenched
Last October, Qualcomm introduced Snapdragon X Elite as its most powerful computing processor for PC, but the ARM-based mobile solution is still months away from launch—officially mid-2024. Company leadership has indicated that their custom Oryon CPU—for the "thin-and-light notebook market"—could be hitting retail at the same time as Microsoft's heavily rumored "Windows 12" inauguration. Several PC news outlets have picked up on a mysterious Qualcomm "ZH-WXX" platform appearing