Apple Silicon

Apple Safari 16.4 beta browser gets AV1 codec support

AV1 support with future Apple Silicon?

Apple adds AV1 codec support to its Safari web browser.

Modern APUs and GPUs support decoding of this latest royalty-free format, while streaming and recording services are beginning to implement AV1 support for their platforms. The only company that made no progress on this front is Apple, whose M1 and M2 silicon series do not have hardware acceleration for AV1 codec whatsoever.

Things might be about to change, as Safari web browser 16.4 beta now lists

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富士康仍是iPhone 15 Pro系列獨家代工廠,立訊精密即將進入供應鏈

富士康一直是iPhone Pro系列的獨家組裝廠,但蘋果基於風險管理,一直有意尋找其他代工廠。此前有 報道 稱,蘋果已確定立訊精密為第二家生產iPhone Pro系列機型的代工廠,將進入iPhone 15 Pro Max組裝供應鏈行列。

據Wccftech 報道 ,有消息人士稱,


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在M1、M2芯片Mac電腦上使用Windows 11?微軟推薦用Parallels Desktop

自從蘋果把Mac電腦轉向自家Apple Silicon後,這對於我們國內用户還是有很大使用上的影響,因為新一代Mac電腦已經沒有了原生的Bootcamp雙系統安裝支持,但買MacBook Air/Pro來裝Windows系統使用的人又不在少數....不過現在 微軟官方教大家 怎樣在


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Microsoft (Sort of) Officially Sanctions Running Windows 11 on Apple's M1/M2 Macs

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When Apple moved to its own silicon, its Mac computers lost a feature called Boot Camp, which let people dual boot between macOS and other operating systems, like Windows. Now, Microsoft is officially sanctioning running Windows 11 on Macs with M1 and M2 processors. Today, it published a new support page (opens in new tab) entitled "Options for using Windows 11 with Mac computers with Apple M1 and M2 chips."

The options to do

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(PR) Intel Launches New Xeon Workstation Processors - the Ultimate Solution for Professionals

Intel today announced the new Intel Xeon W-3400 and Intel Xeon W-2400 desktop workstation processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), led by the Intel Xeon w9-3495X, Intel's most powerful desktop workstation processor ever designed. Built for professional creators, these new Xeon processors provide massive performance for media and entertainment, engineering and data science professionals. With a breakthrough new compute architecture, faster cores and new embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB
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Intel Launches Xeon W-3400 and W-2400 Processors For Workstations: Up to 56 Cores and 112 PCIe 5.0 Lanes

For all of the singular focus that Intel has placed on its consumer Core desktop CPU parts in the last few years, you could be forgiven for thinking that Intel has forgotten about their Xeon premium processor lineups for workstations. Between the de facto retirement of Intel’s desktop-grade Xeon W-1x00-series lineup, and the repeated delays of Intel’s current-generation big silicon parts for servers, the Sapphire Rapids-based 4 th Generation Xeon Scalable series, there hasn’t been much

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ASUS teases upcoming W790 motherboard for Xeon workstation CPUs

First look at ASUS W790?

ASUS teases its workstation motherboard for upcoming Xeon CPUs.

Just a day ahead of the official Xeon W2400/W3400 series, ASUS is teasing its first platform for these new high-end desktop CPUs. The motherboard is not named, but we can clearly see it has LGA-4677 socket supported by the newest Intel Sapphire Rapids WS series.

A closer look at the photo confirms it supports up to 8-channel DDR

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(PR) Primate Labs Launches Geekbench 6 with Modern Data Sets

Geekbench 6, the latest version of the best cross-platform benchmark, has arrived and is loaded with new and improved workloads to measure the performance of your CPUs and GPUs. Geekbench 6 is available for download today for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

A lot has changed in the tech world in the past three years. Smartphone cameras take bigger and better pictures. Artificial intelligence, especially machine learning, has become ubiquitous in general and mobile applications. The number of cores in computers and mobile devices
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Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel Core i9-13950HX Review: 24 Cores, 32 Threads


Here's our first look at Intel's 13th-gen Raptor Lake mobile CPUs and we'll do that by thoroughly benchmarking the Core i9-13950HX , which is just about the fastest laptop chip that Intel has ever made.

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A look at the prototype hardware and software Intel uses for CPU validation

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What just happened? Overclocking enthusiast der8auer recently took a trip to Intel's OC lab in Portland, Oregon. During his visit, he was allowed to see how far he could push Chipzilla's new Core i9-13900HK mobile CPU. The results are impressive and did not take much work to achieve, although there are a few footnotes to be aware of.