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AMD Announces XDNA 2 NPU Architecture for Next Gen "Strix Point" Mobile Processors Arriving in 2024

AMD in its Ryzen 8040 series "Hawk Point" mobile processors announcement made the first mention of XDNA 2, its next-generation on-chip neural processing unit (NPU) architecture. Above all, the XDNA 2 NPU is expected to introduce an over 3 times improvement in performance over the first generation XDNA NPU powering the Ryzen 7040 series "Phoenix" processor. XDNA 2 is making its debut with AMD's next-generation Ryzen "Strix Point" mobile processor that the company looks
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AMD Advancing AI Event Live Blog: Instinct MI300 Launch, Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" Expected

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AMD CEO Lisa Su will take to the stage here in San Jose, California, to share the company's latest progress on enabling AI from the cloud to the edge and PCs. The show begins today, December 6, at 10am PT, and we're here to provide live event coverage.

AMD says it will reveal its Instinct MI300

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Apple shows off state-of-the-art lab where its homegrown silicon is designed and developed

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In context: Apple has been using in-house processors in its products for years, starting with the A4 SoC in the iPhone 4 and the original iPad in 2010. Ten years later, the company introduced the Arm-based M1 processor that replaced Intel's x86 chips in a range of Macs and iPads. After more than a decade of designing chips for its phones, computers


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Intel wins US appeal to overturn $2.18 billion VLSI patent verdict - Reuters

Intel wins US appeal to overturn $2.18 billion VLSI patent verdict Reuters

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蘋果首次對外公開芯片實驗室:自研芯片是過去20年裏蘋果最深刻的變化之一

近日,蘋果接受了CNBC的 採訪 ,首次對外公開了芯片實驗室。CNBC不但參觀了蘋果位於美國加利福利亞州庫比蒂諾園區的芯片實驗室,還和幾位蘋果涉及硬件業務的高管進行了交談,分享了轉為自研芯片背後的原因。畫面顯示,一個

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Samsung to be among first with Meteor Lake laptop - tipped to launch Galaxy Book 4 on Dec 15

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Samsung's Galaxy Book 4 will use Intel Meteor Lake CPUs and will be announced on the 15th of December, according to a report from Yonhap News . That's just a day after Meteor Lake's December 14 launch date. Samsung's apparent enthusiasm for Meteor Lake is thought to be down to its AI hardware, which the company plans to utilize through its 'Samsung Gauss' large language model (LLM).

The Korean language source report confirms that the

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Apple reveals the labs that produced the Apple Silicon line of custom CPUs

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CNBC Business News has shared the first video footage from inside Apple’s Silicon Valley HQ chip lab. The news organization’s Katie Tarasov visited the labs and talked with several senior Apple execs involved in hardware. She heard about the reasons behind the transition to bringing processor development in-house, the biggest achievements over the years, and the size and scale of the current operation.

The video tour starts in what is described as “a non-descript room filled with a couple hundred

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最新曝料Apple Vision Pro屏幕供應商為中國廠家,名單內無索尼出現

此前有消息稱Apple Vision Pro配備的兩塊4K microLED屏幕將由索尼(sony)生產。但如果供應鏈中只有一家供應商就意味着難以降低生產成本,為了達到更好的成本控制效果,此前已有 報道 稱蘋果正在對兩家中國顯示屏供應商進行評估。而根據


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Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support

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Ampere's new AmpereOne data center CPUs come bursting at the seams with up to 192 cores, but that plentiful helping of cores has caused some difficulties with Linux support. According to Phoronix , Ampere's new CPUs have so many cores that Linux doesn't support systems when two of Ampere's 192-core chips (384 total cores) are installed in a single server. For now, the ARM64 Linux kernel only supports systems with

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(PR) Renesas Unveils the First Generation of Own 32-bit RISC-V CPU Core Ahead of Competition

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced today that it has designed and tested a 32-bit CPU core based on the open-standard RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). Renesas is among the first in the industry to independently develop a CPU core for the 32-bit general-purpose RISC-V market, providing an open and flexible platform for IoT, consumer electronics, healthcare and industrial systems. The new RISC-V CPU core will complement Renesas' existing