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House cleaners find two of the world's first desktop PCs in random boxes — Intel 8008-powered Q1 PC has 16KB of memory, 800 kHz CPU

Photography of the Q1 PC on display at Kingston University. (Image credit: Kingston University via The Mirror)

London, UK-based waste firm Just Clear was living up to its name and just clearing another house when tucked under some random boxes, they found two of the first desktop microcomputers ever made: the Q1 PC, from Q1 Corporation, released in 1972 (h/t The Mirror ). Fortunately, this piece of computing history was not scrapped, and Just Clear kept its

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The iPhone 16 could feature major Neural Engine upgrade for on-device generative AI tasks

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Rumor mill: Apple might have been slow to jump onto the generative AI bandwagon, but the company is starting to go all-in on artificial intelligence. According to a new rumor, nowhere will that be more apparent than in the iPhone 16, which is said to come with a massively upgraded Neural Engine for on-device AI tasks.

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Apple M4 & A18 Chipsets Linked to Significant Neural Engine Upgrade

Apple CEO, Tim Cook, discussed planned generative AI software features during an early February earnings call: "As we look ahead, we will continue to invest in these and other technologies that will shape the future. That includes artificial intelligence, where we continue to spend a tremendous amount of time and effort, and we're excited to share the details of our ongoing work in that space later this year." His "prepared" statement did not provide any specific insights into involved technologies, but many iPhone experts believe
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Intel Core i9-14900KS alleged benchmarks leaked — up to 6.20 GHz and 410W power draw

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Intel's alleged Core i9-14900KS processor has found its way into the OCCT benchmark database (as discovered by @BenchLeaks ), which can be considered as a confirmation of its existence. The listed specifications correspond to what we learned about the purported CPU back in early January, but what we did not expect was the whopping maximum thermal power of the processor. This is still unofficial information and thus subject to change, but if accurate it appears Intel is

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高通已要求台積電和三星提供2nm芯片樣品,或為第五代驍龍8雙代工廠策略做準備

此前有 報道 稱,高通考慮未來驍龍8平台採用雙代工廠策略,分別採用台積電(TSMC)和三星的3nm工藝。高通原打算在2024年的第四代驍龍8開始執行該計劃,不過由於三星3nm產能擴張計劃趨於保守,加上良品率並不穩定


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NVIDIA to Create AI Semi-custom Chip Business Unit

NVIDIA is reportedly working to set up a new business unit focused on designing semi-custom chips for some of its largest data-center customers, Reuters reports. NVIDIA dominates the AI HPC processor market, although even its biggest customers are having to shop from its general lineup of A100 series and H100 series HPC processors. There are reports of some of these customers venturing out of the NVIDIA fold, wanting to develop their own AI processor designs. It is to cater to exactly this segment that

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Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel

After years of work by Qualcomm and Linaro engineers, the Qualcomm SoC support on the mainline Linux kernel has finally matured enough that new hardware support tends to come rather quickly and be well supported. With the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can boot on the mainline kernel, the Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad X13s has been popular with Linux developers thanks to the upstream support, and other Qualcomm-powered devices tending to play more nicely with upstream Linux these days rather than having to resort
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iFixit Teardown Guide Puts Spotlight on Apple Vision Pro Logic Board

iFixit has finally posted photos of the Apple Vision Pro 's inner bits, following on from the release of a video teardown (uploaded last week)—the American e-commerce and how-to website spent plenty of hours exploring the expensive mixed reality headset's "creepy" features, before breaking seals and deconstructing the device's highly complex interior. The iFixit teardown team have often complained about Apple computer products being notoriously difficult to deal with—the Vision Pro is no exception, but they eventually managed to
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Apple defeats lawsuit claiming it overpaid CEO Tim Cook, others - Reuters

Apple defeats lawsuit claiming it overpaid CEO Tim Cook, others Reuters

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Intel Looking to Grab Microsoft Xbox Semi-custom SoC Business from AMD

Intel is reportedly pitching Microsoft to work on an "all American" semi-custom SoC for Microsoft's next Xbox generation that succeeds the Series X/S. The company's main pitch to Microsoft is the fact that the chip would be made entirely in the US, including its silicon fabrication and packaging. Microsoft currently relies on AMD for its SoC, which combines an AMD "Zen 2" CPU with a powerful RDNA2 iGPU that meets DirectX 12 Ultimate requirements.

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