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Meteor Lake die shots show off inner workings of SoC and GPU tiles

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Die shots of Meteor Lake's SoC and GPU tiles have come out with a detailed view of each individual core and component inside the two chips (via @9550pro on X ). Intel previously showed die shots of the CPU tile , but this is the first time we've seen what the SoC and GPU tiles look like under the hood.

Although they were designed by Intel, the SoC and GPU tiles are manufactured at TSMC on the company's 6

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Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support

With patches pending for creating an Acer Aspire 1 embedded controller driver, this Qualcomm Snapdragon powered ARM laptop has "almost full support" with the upstream Linux kernel.

The Acer Aspire 1 (A114-61) is an aging ARM laptop design built on the Snapdragon 7c Gen1. It's no longer the latest and greatest with it being a two year old device, but for those wanting a low-power and long-battery-life laptop, the Acer Aspire 1 still has some
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World's first RISC-V handheld gaming system announced — retro gaming platform uses Linux

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RISC-V-based processors have been making inroads into a wide range of applications, from tiny microcontrollers to data center processors. However, RISC-V hasn't been used for many consumer or gaming devices (except, perhaps, in the form of the microcontrollers mentioned above). Sipeed is a Chinese company trying to change that with its Lichee Pocket 4A console, one of the industry's first RISC-V-based handhelds, targeting mobile gaming.

Sipeed officially positions

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(PR) ASRock Industrial Unveils the NUC Ultra 100 Motherboard Series with Intel Core Ultra Processors to Go Beyond

ASRock Industrial releases the NUC Ultra 100 Motherboard Series with breakthrough powered by Intel Core Ultra processors (Meteor Lake-H). Presenting a 3D performance hybrid architecture that supports up to 14 cores and 20 threads, complemented by the latest integrated Intel ARC Graphics and the pioneering Intel NPU AI engine. The NUC Ultra 100 Motherboard Series are designed in NUC form factor, providing two DDR5-5600 MHz memory up to 96 GB, triple storages, 4K quad displays
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Huawei's sanctions-evading Kirin 9000S processor tested: significantly behind its Kirin 9000 predecessor that used TSMC tech

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The year was 2020, and Huawei released its HiSilicon Kirin 9000, an application processor for smartphones that used TSMC's N5 (5nm-class) process technology and packed 15.3 billion transistors — just before the company got listed on the Entity List of the U.S. government and lost access to TSMC. In 2023, the company launched its Kirin 9000S : a version of the Kirin 9

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The Mainline Linux Kernel To Finally Support The Google Tensor GS101 SoC & Pixel 6

The Google Tensor GS101 SoC launched in 2021 with the Google Pixel 6 smartphone. More than two years later the mainline Linux kernel is finally to see upstream support with the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle.

The GS101 "Whitechapel" SoC as a reminder is an octa-core processor with a mix of Cortex X1 / A76 / X55 cores, Mali-G78 MP20 graphics, and is built on a 5nm LPE Samsung
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高通稱驍龍X Elite是很好的硬件,多核性能比蘋果M3高出21%

在今年的驍龍峯會期間,高通 宣佈 推出其迄今為止面向PC打造的最強計算處理器:驍龍X Elite。高通對驍龍X Elite寄予厚望,認為這款開創性平台將開啟計算新時代,顯著提升PC體驗。不少人都想知道,針對Windows on Arm設計的驍龍X Elite,

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Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is faster than Apple's M3

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Why it matters: Qualcomm is making some bold yet unconfirmed claims about the capabilities of its latest Arm chip. The company claims the Snapdragon X Elite is much faster than Apple M3 chips, even though user experience may vary.

Qualcomm recently announced the Snapdragon X Elite system-on-chip (SoC) device as a new laptop-class Arm processor, stating that it was so powerful it would beat Intel and AMD

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Tom’s Hardware Best of 2023 Awards

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While artificial intelligence dominated the tech news headlines, 2023 was quietly a strong year for PC hardware and other enthusiast tech. For the most part, prices either stayed steady or fell on key components while systems and devices got faster.

The price of SSDs continued to fall while we saw a new generation of PCIe 5 drives break previous speed records. AMD retook the gaming crown with its Ryzen 7000X3D series of chips while Intel spent most

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天璣9400仍採用“全大核”CPU架構,聯發科寄望新款SoC擊敗第四代驍龍8

今年聯發科(MediaTek) 帶來 了天璣9300(Density 9300),跳出了傳統架構設計思維,開創性地設計了“全大核”CPU架構,4+4的二叢架構包括了四個超大核(Cortex-X4@3.25 GHz)和四個大核(Cortex-A720@2.0 GHz),