Apple Silicon|Intel

Samsung will manufacture 3nm chips for Nvidia, Baidu, Qualcomm and IBM

In context: Samsung will use its most advanced manufacturing process to make chips for four well-known technology companies. The race to overtake TSMC as the world's largest chip foundry is on, while geopolitical conflicts are tearing the old economic balance apart.

Samsung has been chosen as manufacturing partner by four of the biggest technology corporations in the world, according to unnamed industry sources. Nvidia, Qualcomm, IBM and Baidu will employ the South Korean company's newest manufacturing process to put their future products on the market,

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Miss The HEDT Glory Days? Build a 96-core 12-Channel DDR5 Beast with AMD EPYC

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AMD no longer ships its Ryzen Threadripper CPUs for high-end desktops and positions its Ryzen Threadripper Pro for workstations. But now that single-socket motherboards for AMD's 4th Generation EPYC 'Genoa' processors are available, you may no longer want to settle with 64-core Threadripper Pro, but opt for a monstrous system with 96 cores and up to 12 channels of DDR5 memory.

Recently ASRock Rack introduced several single-socket SP5 motherboards for AMD'

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Asahi Linux Project Makes Progress On USB3, Toward Speaker Support, Keyboard Backlight

The Asahi Linux crew has published their November 2022 status report highlighting recent open-source progress on supporting Apple Silicon M1/M2 devices under Linux.

Good progress continues to be made on fully supporting Apple's modern Arm-based SoC and systems under Linux thanks to the reverse-engineering, open-source community. Some of the latest Asahi Linux milestones in this long effort include:

- Thanks to PHY driver work, the USB3 mode for the Thunderbolt ports should be pretty solid. Prior
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Apple Silicon|Intel

TSMC Will Reportedly Charge $20,000 Per 3nm Wafer

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TSMC will reportedly hike the pricing of wafers processed using its leading edge N3 (3nm-class) process technology by 25% compared to N5 (5nm class) production node. This will immediately make complex processors like GPUs and smartphone SoCs more expensive, which will make devices like graphics cards and handsets costlier. Meanwhile, prohibitively high costs will make multi-chiplet designs more appealing.

One wafer processed on TSMC's leading edge N3 manufacturing technology will cost over

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) ECS Launches LEET Z790H7-A Motherboard and LEET B660 Barebone Gaming PC

ECS Industrial Computer Co., Ltd., also known as ECS IPC, is the subsidiary of leading motherboard and computer manufacturer Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS). ECS IPC has joined hands with Intel to announce a new generation of Intel Raptor Lake Z790 series for LEET Z790H7-A motherboard and the other product of the latest LEET B660 gaming PC to satisfy gamers' passionate gaming experience and enhance the passionate gaming soul.

The Z790H7-A

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(PR) AAEON Launches NanoCOM-EHL SBC Powered by Intel "Elkhart Lake" Processors

AAEON, a leading Computer-on-Modules developer, has launched the NanoCOM-EHL, a COM Express Type 10 CPU Module, to its multiplatform range of products powered by Intel Atom x6000E, Celeron, and Pentium N and J series processors (formerly Elkhart Lake). The NanoCOM-EHL utilizes power-efficient 12 W Intel Atom, Pentium, and Celeron processors with onboard LPDDR4 system memory of up to 16 GB on the compact 3.31" x 2


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Apple's Chip Purchase from Arizona Might Be Marketing Trick: Report

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While Apple is expected to buy chips from TSMC's upcoming fab in Arizona in a bid to lower its reliance on manufacturing in Asia in general, it does not look like the company will ever truly rely itself from Taiwanese chipmaking. As such, our colleagues from Bloomberg believe that the alleged decision , which yet has to be officially announced, is more of a marketing gimmick rather than a decision based on necessity.

But while Apple is yet to confirm the plan to use TSMC's

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Apple silicon supports the ancient Intel 8080 through a secret extension

The big picture: In 2020, Apple made the switch from Intel processors and started releasing Macs powered by its own custom chips. Due to the change, Apple needed to find a method to emulate x64-based programs on the new silicon. Apple found a way—a very ancient way.

Apple revealed its first custom processor, the Apple M1, during an event in November 2020. The chip was met with high praise for cramming loads of power into a tiny space

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Qualcomm goes beyond the smartphone, shows off new hardware

Why it matters: Qualcomm's annual Snapdragon Summit is typically a celebration of all things smartphone. After all, it's the time and place where the company unveils its latest SoC design for the next generation of premium Android smartphones. True to form, the company did introduce Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 , which is expected to be the engine powering upcoming premium phones from Samsung, Motorola, and many other vendors including Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi.

The latest chip from Qualcomm offers several impressive advances in computing performance,

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AMD第4代EPYC伺服器平台登場,單顆處理器最多可提供96核心,運算密度再創新高

每年定期於6月和11月舉行的兩場全球超級電腦大會期間,向來是各大運算平台廠商展現自家產品與技術實力的重要時刻,以便招攬高效能運算市場的客户,今年也不例外,英特爾(Intel)在2022上半陸續召開的投資者大會

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