Apple Silicon|Intel

Planet Launches Funky Arm-Based XR Mini Desktops with Touchscreens

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The market for Arm-based desktops is dominated by Apple these days largely because major PC makers yet have to ship their Arm-based parts running Microsoft's Windows. But smaller PC makers look to be a little more active. Recently Planet , a UK-based computer maker, introduced its PlanetPC XR1 Mini and PlanetPC XR2 Mini desktop systems that even have a touchscreen to additional controls.

Planet's XR1 Mini and XR2 Mini desktops are based on Rockchip's

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Apple Rumored to Release First M3-Based Macs in October

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Apple's first personal computers based on its next-generation M3 system-on-chip may be unveiled as early as this October, according to Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman, who tends to have accurate information from Apple's supply chain. If Apple follows its traditional launch patterns, it makes sense to expect the company to reveal inexpensive M3-based laptops and desktops first. Yet, this is speculation at this point.

Apple has scheduled a launch event in October,

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Apple Silicon|Intel

ASRock's First White Motherboard Is For Zen 3 And Older CPUs

ASRock B550M Pro SE (Image credit: Hoang Anh Phu/Twitter)

AMD has launched the company's Zen 4 lineup, offering us some of the best CPUs on the market. That doesn't mean that motherboard vendors have brushed off older processors. ASRock will launch the company's first all-white motherboard as the B550M Pro SE for Zen 3 and prior chips.

The B550M Pro SE isn't ASRock's first white motherboard.

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MacBook Air (15-inch) Review: The Big Apple

Tom's Hardware Verdict

The 15-inch MacBook Air is exactly what Apple promised: a larger MacBook Air. It offers better speakers, but otherwise, it's the 13-inch laptop in a bigger body.

Pros

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    Sleek, thin, and indeed bigger!

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    Powerful M2 SOC

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    Long battery life

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    Speakers are powerful and offer bass

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    1080p webcam

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    Display gets very bright

Cons

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    Battery life isn't much longer than 13-inch model

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    No

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Ryzen Z1 Extreme Beats Core i5-10600K, Apple M1 in Cinebench R23

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AMD's Ryzen Z1 series isn't far from being one of the best CPUs ; however, the Zen 4-powered chips do wonders for handheld gaming devices, such as the ROG Ally , the primary rival to the Steam Deck . Despite being processors that consume no more than 30W, the Ryzen Z1 series can rival some desktop processors as long as the latter is a few generations old.

If you haven't been following the gaming

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Apple Silicon|Intel

AVX-512 Works Surprisingly Well on Ryzen 7040 Series Phoenix CPUs

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Phoronix recently benchmarked AMD's most sophisticated Ryzen mobile architecture, the 7040 mobile series, in AVX-512 workloads to see how performant it is compared to Intel's last two generations of AVX-512-supported CPUs in the mobile space. Turns out, AMD's Phoenix series CPUs are incredibly effective AVX-512 chips, easily beating out the competition in power efficiency and performance.

The CPUs Phoronix tested included a Ryzen 7 7

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A17 Bionic和M3的良品率僅為55%:蘋果只為台積電合格的3nm芯片付款

今年蘋果將帶來A17 Bionic和M3芯片,其中前者將用於iPhone 15 Pro和iPhone 15 Pro Max,後者則用在新款Macbook機型上。兩款芯片都會選擇台積電(TSMC)在3nm製程節點的首個工藝N3,蘋果佔據了該製程節點90%的初期訂單量。

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) Beagleboard.org Launches New BeagleV-Ahead RISC-V Single Board Computer

BeagleBoard.org, a leading developer of open-source hardware platforms, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated launch of BeagleV-Ahead, an innovative single board computer (SBC) based on TH1520, a quad core 64-bit RISC-V SoC from T-Head. This groundbreaking open-source SBC brings a new level of accessibility, performance, and flexibility to the rapidly growing RISC-V ecosystem.

BeagleV-Ahead is set to revolutionize the world of embedded systems and empower developers

Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel E-Core-Only N100 Gaming Benchmarks Emerge

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Gaming benchmarks of Intel's new Alder-Lake-N SoCs have been scarce, as these chips only come with E-cores and single-channel memory support. We wouldn't expect most people to even consider it for gaming purposes, but that didn't stop Team Pandory on YouTube from running some tests on the N100. Performance wasn't great, though the power efficiency was surprisingly good, with some (very light) games hitting 60 frames

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三星Exynos 2400將採用I-Cube封裝技術,或為了降低成本

近期有報道稱,隨着三星4nm工藝的良品率提升,現在傾向於將Exynos 2400放入到Galaxy S24系列上。三星很可能在明年Galaxy S24系列上重新啟用雙平台策略,屆時將分別會有搭載Exynos 2400和第3代驍龍8的版本,SoC具體變化取