Apple Silicon|Intel

MediaTek Announces Dimensity 8050 SoC, Seems to Rebadged Dimensity 1300/1200

MediaTek has been unveiling some new mobile chipsets this week, but keen-eyed news outlets have noticed that the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company is simply renaming and relaunching hardware from last year, with some tweaks here and there. Today's announcement of the Dimensity 8050 SoC was almost immediately questioned - GSMArena noticed that this "new" model was a near dead ringer, in terms of specifications, for last year's mid-range Dimensity 1300 and 1200 smartphone chipsets. There
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Apple Silicon|Intel

MediaTek Announces Dimensity 8050 SoC, Seems to be a Rebadged Dimensity 1300/1200

MediaTek has been unveiling some new mobile chipsets this week, but keen-eyed news outlets have noticed that the Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company is simply renaming and relaunching hardware from last year, with some tweaks here and there. Today's announcement of the Dimensity 8050 SoC was almost immediately questioned - GSMArena noticed that this "new" model was a near dead ringer, in terms of specifications, for last year's mid-range Dimensity 1300 and 1200 smartphone chipsets. There
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Apple Silicon|Intel

432-Core Chiplet-Based RISC-V Chip Nearly Ready to Blast Into Space

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The Occamy processor, which uses a chiplet architecture, packs 432 RISC-V and AI accelerators and comes with 32GB of HBM2E memory, has taped out. The chip is backed by the European Space Agency and developed by engineers from ETH Zürich and the University of Bologna, reports HPC Wire .

The ESA-backed Occamy processor uses two chiplets with 216 32-bit RISC-V cores, an unknown number of 64-bit

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三星正在Galaxy S24/+機型上測試Exynos 2400,東南亞對應版本或放棄驍龍平台

此前有報道稱,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


Apple Silicon|Intel

PowerLeader Announces x86 CPU for the Chinese Market

Rather unexpectedly, a mostly unknown Chinese company called PowerLeader—who seems to have mainly been in the server market space until now—has launched an unheard of x86 compatible CPU. There's no product information on the company website, not even a press release on the CPU which was announced only yesterday according to IT Home. Fortunately, there's a picture of the new CPU, which gives us a few more details. The CPU appears to be called the Pstar P3 and has the model name
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Apple Silicon|Intel

PowerLeader Announces x86 CPU for the Chinese Market, Looks like an Intel CPU

Rather unexpectedly, a mostly unknown Chinese company called PowerLeader—who seems to have mainly been in the server market space until now—has launched an unheard of x86 compatible CPU. There's no product information on the company website, not even a press release on the CPU which was announced only yesterday according to IT Home. Fortunately, there's a picture of the new CPU, which gives us a few more details. The CPU appears to be called the Pstar P3 and has the model name
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Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD闡明Ryzen 1系列與7040U系列之間的差異:優化了電壓曲線,禁用AI引擎

此前AMD已發佈了針對手持移動遊戲設備的Ryzen Z1系列APU,並確認了與華碩之間的合作,ROG Ally掌機將是首款搭載該芯片的設備。不過在更早之前,玩家根據ROG Ally掌機公佈的一些信息,就已推斷出Ryzen Z1系列與Ryzen 7040U系列非常


Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD Clarifies Differences Between Ryzen Z1 Gaming Series and 7040U APUs

The ASUS ROG Ally handheld games console emerged last month and it was revealed to pack some impressive "custom" AMD hardware - the two companies have boasted that the collaboration has resulted in two special SoCs - the Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme . Silicon enthusiasts were quick to point out that the Z1 series sported similar specifications to mobile/ultra-portable chipsets in AMD's 7040U family - in particular the Ryzen 7 7840U looks almost identical to its gaming equivalent (
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Apple Silicon

AMD's Ryzen 7040U and Z1 Chips for Handhelds Are Nearly Identical

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AMD's Ryzen Z1 series chips , designed for gaming handhelds like the Asus ROG Ally, and its Ryzen 7040U chips, which the company announced for ultraportables earlier this week, may be far more similar than anyone expected.

In the table below, I've compared the Z1 Extreme to the new top-of-the-line Ryzen 7 7840U with Radeon 780M, while the regular Z1 sits next to the

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Superfast 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro SSD for Just $119: Real Deals

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Take advantage of a fantastic deal at Newegg that sees $30 knocked off the price of Solidigm's P44 Pro 2TB Gen 4 SSD (opens in new tab) taking it down to just $119 (opens in new tab) . Use code SSCS428 at the checkout and grab a $30 discount on the usual $149 asking price. With superfast speeds of up to 7,000 MBps read and 6

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