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蘋果已經在開發A19 Bionic和M5系列芯片,或採用2nm工藝製造

雖然A17 Bionic和M3還沒有發佈,不過蘋果已經在開發未來新平台所使用的芯片了,即便還有幾年的時間才會到來。近日有網友 透露 ,蘋果已經在開發A19 Bionic和M5系列芯片,這也意味着A18 Bionic和M4系列芯片的設計工作可


Apple Silicon|Intel

780 Intel CPUs Seized In $137,000 Smuggling Operation Bust

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While some buy the best CPUs , others try to smuggle them. Chinese customs authorities sized 780 Intel processors that traffickers were trying to slip through the Gongbei Port connecting Macau and Zhuhai in China.

Chinese smugglers are always finding ways to finesse the customs authorities. Recent smuggling busts have shown that walking with hundreds of processor s or M.2 SSDs strapped to your body may not be the most clever way to get through customs. Hiding contraband hardware inside scooters or in

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New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board

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The latest version of Box64, a popular x86_64 emulator for Linux running on architectures like ARM/AArch64 and RISC-V, introduces significant performance improvements, making possible gaming on RISC-V-based platforms such as the Vision Five 2 board, reports Phoronix .

The most important addition to the Box64 version 0.2.4 is that Dynarec now works on RISC-V. This facilitates faster operations of x86_6

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) OpenHW Group Announces Tape Out of RISC-V-based CORE-V MCU Development Kit

OpenHW Group today announced that the industry's most comprehensive Development Kit for an open-source RISC-V MCU is now available to be ordered. The OpenHW CORE-V MCU DevKit includes an open-source printed circuit board (PCB) which integrates OpenHW's CORE-V MCU and various peripherals, a software development kit (SDK) with a full-featured Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE), as well as connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS) via AWS IoT ExpressLink for secure and

Apple Silicon|Intel

Threadripper Pro 7995WX Benchmark Shows 96 Zen 4 Cores Up To 5.1 GHz

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AMD's forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX (Storm Peak) will undoubtedly disrupt the list of best CPUs for workstations. The multi-core beast, which will lead the Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000WX army, has been spotted in a new benchmark with 96 cores and boost clock speeds up to 5.1 GHz.

The Geekbench 5 submission (via Benchleaks ) exposed Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX with 96 cores and

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Apple Silicon|Intel

StarFive VisionFive 2 Quad-Core RISC-V Performance Benchmarks

SiFive's HiFive Unmatched development board was interesting when it began shipping in 2021 with 16GB of RAM and four U74-MC RISC-V cores along with one S7 core. But pricing was rather steep at $665 USD. Fast forward two years, the StarFive VisionFive 2 has begun to enjoy wide availability and for $100+ this RISC-V development board features a quad-core RISC-V processor via the StarFive JH7110 SoC

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Tachyum利用新的EDA工藝,將Prodigy處理器核心數量提升到192個

早在2018年的Hot Chips上,Tachyum就公開了Prodigy通用處理器的設計概念,其利用動態二進制翻譯器可以運行任何代碼,同時有着非常高的執行和翻譯代碼效率。Tachyum也在去年 帶來 了Prodigy,並開始接受評估平台的預購,其中最高規格的是T1

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Frore System Unveils World's First 64TB SSD 3.5-inch Storage Enclosure With Solid-State Cooling

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Frore Systems, the inventors behind the world's first solid-state cooling devices, has unveiled a new 64TB U.2 SSD storage device cooled by the company's AirJet Mini. Made in collaboration with OWC, the storage enclosure is known as the Mercury Pro and is the first storage enclosure to utilize Frore System's technology.

For more details on Frore System's solid-state cooling technology , check our previous coverage. The quick summary is that Frore

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Chinese Chip Sector Is Five Generations Behind the World: The Gap Will Expand

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In 2020, Chinese chip champion Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. was two or three generations behind global leaders. Today, following several rounds of crippling U.S. sanctions against the Chinese semiconductor sector, the People's Republic's chip industry is at least five generations behind — and the gap can expand, according to Gerald Yin, chief executive of Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., a wafer fab equipment manufacturer from China, reports DigiTimes .

The past two U

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Lenovo's New Laptops Use AMD's Custom Ryzen 7840S APUs

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Lenovo has started selling its latest Yoga Slim 7 Gen 8 laptops in Europe and Yoga Air 14S in notebooks in China based on customized versions of AMD's Ryzen 7040-series accelerated processing units (APUs). According to IT Home, the new Zen 4-based processors come in FP8 packaging to enable better connectivity and performance while retaining their low power consumption.

The new 14-inch Lenovo Yoga machines (which are called differently in China and Europe

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