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First Details About Samsung's 1.4nm Process Emerge

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Samsung said that its upcoming SF1.4 (1.4nm-class) process technology will increase the number of nanosheets from three to four, Jeong Gi-Tae, vice president of Samsung Foundry, told The Elec , reports DigiTimes . The move promises to bring significant benefits for performance and power consumption.

Samsung was the first company to introduce a process technology that relies on gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet transistors with its SF3E (also known as 3

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Intel's Arrow Lake for Desktops and Laptops Will Have Different Instruction Sets

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It is not uncommon for server processors to support instructions that are not supported by client CPUs. But it looks like Arrow Lake S processors for desktops will support instructions that will not be supported by Arrow Lake CPUs for laptops, as noticed by @InstLatX64 .

As it turns out, Arrow Lake processors in LGA1851 packaging will support such instructions as AVX-VNNI-INT16, SHA512, SM3, and SM4. In addition,

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Snapdragon X Elite Outperforms Intel, AMD, Apple CPUs (In Vendor Benchmarks)

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Qualcomm recently announced the Snapdragon X Elite , a new 4nm processor that brings the company's latest Arm-based Oryon cores to laptops. Qualcomm also held a private event with members of the press and analysts to offer a preview of the Snapdragon X Elite's power and how it stacks up against current chips from Intel, AMD, and Apple. Our colleagues at Anandtech were on hand to get the full benchmark results.

For the demonstration, Qualcomm prepared two Snapdragon

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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Put Through Graphics Tests, Beats AMD Radeon 780M iGPU in 3DMark

Qualcomm Snapdragon X is out to change the thin-and-light notebook market, and is out to eat the lunches of U-segment and possibly P-segment processors from Intel and AMD. The Arm based processor promises to be a competitor to Apple's M2 and M2 Max SoCs powering the latest generation of Macbooks, so Windows 11 and Chrome OS-based thin-and-lights could offer similar levels of performance and battery life. Geekerwan put the Adreno iGPU of the Snapdragon X Elite through
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Apple Silicon|Intel

Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Performance Preview: A First Look at What’s to Come

Last week we saw the announcement of Qualcomm’s first post-Nuvia laptop SoC design, the Snapdragon X Elite . A new brand name being anchored by a new, custom Qualcomm CPU core, the Snapdragon X Elite will be Qualcomm’s most aggressive entry into the laptop SoC market to date, with Qualcomm dedicating far more in the way of engineering resources – and marketing resources – into developing their latest generation Arm SoC for Windows laptops. Backed by Qualcomm’s custom Arm CPU core, Oryon, the company is


Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel CEO Doesn't See Arm-based Chips as Competition in the PC Sector

During the Q3 2023 earnings call, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was answering some questions from analysts regarding the company's future and its position on emerging competition. One of the most significant problems the company could face is the potential Arm-based chip development not coming from x86 vendors like Intel and AMD. Instead, there could be fierce competition in the near future with the recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X , possible NVIDIA Arm-based PC processor , and in the future, even more Arm

Apple Silicon|Intel

首次發現AMD Ryzen 8040U系列處理器,Ryzen 7000G系列也已現身

Hawk Point是現有Phoenix芯片基礎上做的優化,仍沿用4nm工藝製造,TDP為28W,面向移動平台。其中CPU部分仍然為Zen 4架構,最多擁有8核心,但GPU部分會升級至RDNA 3.5/3+架構,最多配備12個CU,XDNA架構AI引擎也會得到進一步


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蘋果明天或帶來三款M3系列芯片:M3、M3 Pro和M3 Max

此前蘋果已官宣了2023年第二場秋季新品發佈會,主題為“Scary Fast”,定於太平洋時間2023年10月30日星期一下午5點(北京時間10月31日早上8點)舉行。不少人猜測蘋果可能會發布新款Mac產品,以及M3芯片


Apple Silicon|Intel

PC CPUs are getting more interesting, and competition is coming

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Why it matters: Five years ago there were only two companies that made CPUs, today there are a dozen. Most of the new entrants went after the big, profitable data center market, but now competitors are coming for PCs. Nvidia and AMD are reportedly preparing Arm-based CPUs for PCs. With Microsoft opening up the market for Arm laptop CPUs, this spells bad news for Qualcomm today, and potentially bad news

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Asus Preparing Updated ROG Scar 16 Gaming Laptop With i9-14900HX: Benchmark

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According to a benchmark result from PugetSystems , Asus is preparing to release an updated version of its ROG SCAR 16 gaming notebook, packing Intel's upcoming Raptor Lake Refresh Core i9-14900HX mobile CPU. The chip's specifications are unknown, but we suspect the 14900HX will receive the same treatment as Intel's desktop Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs.

This is the second leak we've reported on in two days surrounding mobile

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