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Intel 8008 Becomes Single Board Computer

(Image credit: Dr. Scott M. Baker)

Move over Raspberry Pi , you’re not the only single-board computer around. Today we’ve got a cool custom PCB to share by maker and developer Dr. Scott M. Baker. After recently tinkering with the Intel 8008 microprocessor, he decided to use one to create a single-board computer from scratch. The end result is this cool Intel 8008-powered SBC called the Mini-08—complete with

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Apple M3 and the state of CPUs

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The big picture: Apple's M3 launch stood out for its focus on how people actually use computers, the lack of AI acronyms and the fact that they launched three chips all at once. It is only getting harder to compete with them. As with all things Apple, the M3 has been extensively covered in the press, but beyond the performance metrics, a few things stood out for us, and

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Imagination and Ventana to Build a RISC-V CPU-GPU Platform

(Image credit: Ventana/Jon Peddie Research)

When you think RISC-V, the first thing that comes to mind are microcontrollers and various special-purpose devices. However, the instruction set architecture is developing and is gaining popularity rapidly. As a result, more applications will adopt RISC-V. Ventana Micro Systems teamed up with Imagination Technologies to build a CPU-GPU platform based on the RISC-V, reports Jon Peddie Research .

Ventana Micro already has a RISC-V-based datacenter-grade Veyron

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Synthetic Diamonds and Ultrapure Glass May Make The Coolest, Fastest CPUs Yet

(Image credit: Diamond Foundry and Wall Street Journal)

One of the greatest fundamental challenges of microchip fabrication is temperature control, and traditional methods are showing greatly diminishing returns as we advance into the 2020s and beyond. Those keeping a close eye on the tech sphere can already see this happening with slowing advances on GPU and especially CPU architecture, but manufacturers have been pondering this issue for much longer and are working on new solutions, like synthetic diamond and purified glass!

To be more specific, the WSJ

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RX 7900M Beats RTX 4080 Mobile By a Hair In Early Benchmark

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The first reviewer benchmark of the RX 7900M is out, and its score is 4% higher than the average RTX 4080 for laptops in 3DMark's Time Spy test. It's a result that's remarkably in line with AMD's benchmarks , which showed the RX 7900M is 7% faster on average than the RTX 4080 Mobile.

AMD has never competed in high-end laptop graphics, but

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Apple Spent $1 Billion to Tape Out New M3 Processors: Analyst

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Apple's A17 processor was the first chip to use TSMC's N3 (3nm-class) process technology, and this week, the company expanded its N3 lineup with a family of PC-oriented M3 chips for desktop and laptop computers . Analyst Jay Goldberg from Digits to Dollars believes the company spent as much as $1 billion on M3's design and tape-outs alone.

"We have to assume that [M3-series

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第三代驍龍8移動平台三星Galaxy定製版GPU頻率曝光 : 頻率達到1000MHz

此前三星高管曾自信地表示,Exynos 2400的GPU Xclipse 920在性能方面將超越第三代驍龍8移動平台三星Galaxy定製版,但前段時間已有消息 曝出 後者在Geekbench的Vulkan測試中得分更高。昨日數碼博主@Ice Universe在X平台上 曝出 了第三代驍龍8移動平


Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) BOXX Introduces New APEXX T4 PRO AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series Workstation

BOXX Technologies, the leading innovator of high-performance computer workstations, rendering systems, and servers, today introduced APEXX T4 PRO, a workstation featuring new, AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX- Series processors. The most powerful AMD platform ever, Ryzen Threadripper PRO delivers state-of-the-art performance for a variety of creative industries.

"The new AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000-WX Series provides an outstanding platform for APEXX T4 PRO," said BOXX founder and VP
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Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD Introduces Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 Mobile Processors with "Zen 4c" Cores

AMD today launched its first client processors that feature the compact "Zen 4c" CPU cores, with the Ryzen 5 7545U and Ryzen 3 7440U mobile processors for thin-and-light notebooks. The "Zen 4c" CPU core is a compacted version of the "Zen 4" core without the subtraction of any hardware components, but rather a high density arrangement of them on the 4 nm silicon. A "Zen 4c" core is around 35% smaller
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Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD-Pensando Elba SoC & A Massive RISC-V 64-Core Chip Supported In Linux 6.7

There is some interesting new Arm and RISC-V SoC support to be found in the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel.

I've long been covering the upstreaming process around AMD's Pensando Elba SoC support and with Linux 6.7 that initial support is in place for this data processing unit (DPU) for offloading storage and networking tasks. But still to be upstreamed is Elba's SoC controller driver with just the base support making it for Linux 6.7. The Elba SoC consists of
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