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Geekbench was tricked: the Ryzen 7 7800X doesn't exist

TechSpot News | Oct. 29, 2022, 11:39 a.m. | Original

WTF?! For the last few days, the computer hardware microcosm of the internet has been awash with theories about an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X that appeared in the Geekbench database on October 27. It hadn't been seen, heard, or rumored anywhere beforehand, which is almost unprecedented. Had AMD really made a 10-core Zen 4 CPU without anyone knowing?

Nope. Chips and Cheese has come clean. They fooled Geekbench with a phony name by spoofing the CPUID on what was

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Linux 6.2 Picking Up Mainline Support For Apple M1 Pro/Max/Ultra Hardware

Phoronix | Oct. 29, 2022, 6:39 a.m. | Original
While Asahi Linux has been running on the higher-end Apple M1 SoC variants and those Macs utilizing them, with the mainline Linux 6.2 kernel will finally be the upstreaming of the Apple M1 Pro/Max/Ultra support with the various device trees set to be added.

Queued up this week via soc.git's for-next branch are the device trees for the Apple M1 Pro, Max, and Ultra SoCs and the Apple Mac devices containing those SoCs. Notably this gets the high
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(PR) TSMC Launches OIP 3DFabric Alliance to Shape the Future of Semiconductor and System Innovations

TechPowerUp News | Oct. 26, 2022, 8:48 p.m. | Original

TSMC today announced the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) 3DFabric Alliance at the 2022 Open Innovation Platform Ecosystem Forum. The new TSMC 3DFabric Alliance is TSMC's sixth OIP Alliance and the first of its kind in the semiconductor industry that joins forces with partners to accelerate 3D IC ecosystem innovation and readiness, with a full spectrum of best-in-class solutions and services for semiconductor design, memory modules, substrate technology, testing, manufacturing, and packaging. This alliance will help customers achieve speedy

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(PR) GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS Tachyon Breaks Cinebench R23 OC World Record

TechPowerUp News | Oct. 26, 2022, 3:20 a.m. | Original

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, and hardware solutions, today announced the overclocking world record of Cinebench R23 56783 pts, verified by HWBOT and chalked up by the latest Z790 AORUS TACHYON with Core i9-13900K all-core O.C 7584 MHz and DDR5-8300 O.C. Instead of high-frequency on single core but fail to all benchmarks,

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(PR) Intel Foundry Services Forms Alliance to Enable National Security, Government Applications

TechPowerUp News | Oct. 25, 2022, 12:01 a.m. | Original

Intel Foundry Services (IFS) today launched a strategic addition to its design ecosystem Accelerator program. The new USMAG (United States Military, Aerospace and Government) Alliance brings together a trusted design ecosystem with U.S.-based manufacturing to enable assured chip design and production on advanced process technologies and meet the stringent design and production requirements of national security applications. A first in the industry, the program's initial members include leading companies like Cadence, Synopsys, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Intrinsix and Trusted Semiconductor Solutions.

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Apple Mac Users Can Now Purchase a 36-Month Upgrade Plan From Best Buy

Tom's Hardware | Oct. 24, 2022, 3:39 p.m. | Original
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Best Buy has created program for Mac users called Upgrade+ (opens in new tab) that allows customers to upgrade to a new MacBook the way people often switch to new phones: in multi-year increments and paying month-to-month.

With Upgrade+ customers will need to finance a qualifying MacBook with Best Buy for 36 months. Once those 36 months are up, users get the chance to upgrade the MacBook to a newer version via financing, keep

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Apple hikes Canadian prices for its Music and TV services

CBC News | Oct. 24, 2022, 2:22 p.m. | Original

Apple Inc. is raising the price of its digital streaming services in Canada for the first time.

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Apple Mac Pro's M2 Extreme SoC to Reportedly Pack 48 Core CPU, 152 Core GPU

Tom's Hardware | Oct. 24, 2022, 12:20 p.m. | Original
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Apple’s upcoming Mac Pro refresh could feature a new processor which offers up to 48 CPU cores and 152 GPU cores, according to an email newsletter by Bloomberg’s Marc Gurman. In his weekly bulletin ‘Apple insider’ Gurman dubs the unannounced new processor the M2 Extreme, but there will be Mac Pro machines with M2 Ultra processor options too, he says.

Here in late 2022 the professional and content creator segment targeted by Apple Mac Pro

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Apple said to be testing multiple Mac Pro configurations including one with 48 CPU cores

TechSpot News | Oct. 24, 2022, 10:32 a.m. | Original

In a nutshell: The next version of Apple's high-end Mac Pro is expected to be the first to feature Apple Silicon. Apple insider Mark Gurman believes the Mac Pro could be offered with multiple chip options that are at least two to four times as powerful as the M2 Max and has affectionately dubbed them the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme. These chips are said to feature 24 and 48 CPU cores, respectively, alongside 76 and 152 graphics cores, and up to

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Apple CPUFreq Driver Updated For Linux - Initial M2 Support Added

Phoronix | Oct. 24, 2022, 5:06 a.m. | Original
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin today sent out the third revision to the Apple SoC CPU frequency scaling "CPUFreq" driver that is working its way toward the mainline Linux kernel.

He hopes this third time may be the charm for getting this Apple SoC CPUFreq driver squared away. The new v3 patches have addressed feedback raised during prior review. One notable addition with the new patches is adding initial support for the Apple M2 SoC (T8112). The Asahi Linux crew continues getting the Apple M
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