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Intel Claims Meteor Lake Beating Ryzen 7040 Phoenix in both Graphics and CPU Performance

Intel on Wednesday held a pre-launch round-table with HotHardware, in which it made several performance disclosures of its upcoming Core "Meteor Lake" mobile processor, comparing it with the current U-segment chips based on the 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake," and competing AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix." In these, the company is claiming that its next-generation iGPU based on the Xe-LPG graphics architecture, armed with 128 EU, is significantly outperforming the Radeon
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U.S. officials doubt China's SMIC foundry can produce enough 7nm chips to satisfy Huawei's demand

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The U.S. Department of Commerce is worried that Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) can make chips in significant quantities using a 7nm class process technology . However, it doubts SMIC can produce enough chips to meet Huawei's demands. As a result, the DoC believes that its curbs against China's semiconductor sector in general and SMIC in particular are working as intended.

"Neither the performance nor yields may match the market of the device," said Thea Kendler

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TSMC's 2nm process node could debut with the iPhone 17 Pro in 2025

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What just happened? Taiwan's TSMC, the world's No. 1 foundry player, has reportedly demoed its prototype 2nm chips to its two biggest customers, Apple and Nvidia. The new 'N2' technology is expected to debut in Apple's in-house SoCs in 2025 as an upgrade over the 3nm process used in the A17 Pro processor that powers the iPhone

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HP Z6 G5 A Workstation Review: 96-Core AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX Impresses

With AMD's recent launch of their Zen 4 architecture-based Threadripper 7000 series CPUs, the company and its OEM partners have unleashed a new wave of high-end PCs and workstations based on the considerable-core-count processors. Though not a massive market in and of itself, the workstation market is by most respects the pinnacle of the PC market, with systems employing the biggest and fastest hardware available, and often a whole lot of it. As a result, the workstation market is still


Apple Silicon|Intel

兆芯開先KX-7000處理器發佈:新架構+Chiplet,支持DDR5/PCIe 4.0/USB4

兆芯 宣佈 ,推出新一代開先KX-7000系列桌面處理器。新產品在性能、互連、I/O等技術方面取得了顯著提升,可以廣泛應用在台式機、筆記本、一體機、雲終端以及嵌入式計算平台等,極大改善整機的綜合體驗。

開先KX

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台積電2nm工藝將在2025年量產,為iPhone 17 Pro生產處理器

在今年9月的蘋果推出了搭載A17 Pro處理器的iPhone 15 Pro,這顆處理器是採用台積電3nm工藝生成的,與之前相比有更好的性能與能效比,當然蘋果肯定不會就此停下來,他們已經開始在研發新一代處理器,根據最新的消息,台


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TSMC 2 nm Node to Debut in 2025 with Apple SoCs for the iPhone 17 Pro

TSMC's 2 nm-class foundry node, dubbed N2, will enter mass production only in 2025, a report by the Financial Times says. The premier Taiwan-based foundry has been reportedly showcasing TSMC N2 to its biggest customer for advanced nodes, Apple. The node will likely power Apple's in-house silicon that drives the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max devices that are slated for 2025. This implies that the current 3 nm class nodes from TSMC will

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Minisforum Launches AR900i: A $559 Core i9-13900HX Mini-ITX Platform

Minisforum has launched a new high-performance Mini-ITX motherboard that's based on Intel's 13th Generation Core HX mobile parts. The upsized, highly integrated AR900i platform promises to bring together the power efficiency benefits of a mobile platform with desktop-class performance and features – and all at a rather moderate price.

Minisforum itself calls its AR900i platform an ultimate mobile-on-desktop (MoDT) platform and indeed it is quite capable thanks to its 14

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Exclusive: Apple offers to let rivals access tap-and-go tech in EU antitrust case, sources say - Reuters

Exclusive: Apple offers to let rivals access tap-and-go tech in EU antitrust case, sources say Reuters

Apple Silicon

Sony PlayStation 5 Pro Packs an Updated RDNA3 GPU with 60 CU

Sony is developing the PlayStation 5 Pro console that targets higher refresh-rate gaming at 4K Ultra HD, or higher in-game eye-candy, given its faster hardware. Details about the console are few and far between, given its late-2024 tentative release, but by now the company would have co-developed its semi-custom SoC, so it could spend the next year extensively testing and optimizing it, before mass production in the 2-3 quarters leading up to the launch.