Declining sales of Apple's Mac computers in recent quarters couldn't help but influence the share of Arm-based processors in PCs overall. While shipments of Arm system-on-chips (SoCs) grew in the third quarter, sales of x86 CPUs grew more significantly, which reduced Arm's share compared to the prior quarter, according to Mercury Research .
Mercury Research believes that Arm system-on-chips (SoCs) commanded 10.6% of
Although Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) has been mass-producing its 232-layer 3D TLC NAND for well over a year now, we rarely get to see this type of memory in action since it looks like it is mainly used in products that are sold in China. But perhaps we will finally experience it in a device that will be available globally. That device is Xiaomi's recently announced 14 Pro smartphone, reports BusinessKorea , and it may feature
Phoronix tested four Thinkpad laptops in Fedora Linux, featuring Zen 2 , Zen 3 , Zen 3+ , and Zen 4 AMD Ryzen mobile CPUs to observe the generational performance difference in a non-Windows environment. Overall, Phoronix found that AMD's Zen 4 architecture yielded the greatest performance gap of the four CPU architectures, easily outpacing the performance advantages from Zen 2 to Zen 3 and from Zen 3 to Zen 3+. However, some of those Zen 4's gains come from
An Apple executive recently said in an interview that 8GB on the latest MacBook Pros is equivalent to 16GB on regular PCs . While Apple's unified memory architecture helps improve memory performance, it isn't a substitute for raw capacity. New benchmarks , courtesy of Max Tech , show that 8GB substantially limits the performance of Apple's cutting-edge M3 processor.
Anyone with a decent knowledge of hardware knows that having more memory is better for multitasking and
Apple's M3-series of chips have started to enter PassMark's CPU benchmark database and continued tradition of their predecessors of being ahead of all rivals in single-thread workloads. Unfortunately for Apple, its M3 Max processor does not stand a chance against flagship offerings from Intel and AMD, which are, of course, more power hungry, in multi-thread workloads.
For now, Apple's 11-core M3 Pro leads in PassMark's single
Why it matters: Apple's new M3 products push the emerging Arm PC sector to the next level, but the cheapest MacBook in the lineup is a $1,600 notebook with only 8GB of unified memory. Many consider 16GB the current standard and arguably the minimum for intense workloads, but Apple thinks its RAM is different.
Apple has defended its decision to continue releasing new MacBook Pro
The age of full-fledged RISC-V data center CPUs is nearly upon us, as Ventana's 192-core Veryon V2 is coming in 2024 (via ServeTheHome ). Ventana, founded in 2018, claims the Veryon V2 edges ahead of AMD's Genoa and Bergamo Epyc CPUs. However, the company foresees much bigger victories down the line with its domain-specific accelerator (or DSA) chiplets, which Ventana