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Apple M1 Chips Capture 90% Share of Arm PC SoC Revenue: Report

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Apple's transition to its own custom Arm-based system-on-chips enabled the company to increase its systems' sales and made it a dominant supplier of PC-grade Arm SoCs. As for Arm Holdings LLC, its instruction set architecture now commands nearly 9% of the global PC market.

"Apple established itself as a distant market leader in Arm-based notebook PC processors with almost 90% revenue share [in 2021]*," wrote Sravan

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Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 is now available to order

In brief: Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 SoC is seemingly arriving ahead of schedule. he new machine, along with the company's redesigned MacBook Air, broke cover during the WWDC keynote earlier this month. Apple at the time said both laptops were on track to ship in July but that no longer appears to be the case.

Apple is now accepting orders

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According to Intel, Arc GPUs must use Resizable BAR for optimal performance

A ‘quick start guide’ for Intel Arc desktop GPUs lists Resizable BAR as a requirement

Intel published the requirements for Arc GPUs on desktops. The document confirms support for three Intel CPU product lines.

According to the guide, only three Intel CPU series are supported as of today: Intel 12th Gen Core “Alder Lake” and 600-series motherboards, Intel 11th Gen Core “Rocket Lake” and 500-series and Intel 10th Gen Core “Comet Lake” series

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AMD reportedly working on quad-core Zen4 and RDNA3 APU for next-gen Steam Deck

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

AMD rumored to be working on Zen4 Phoenix APU variant with four cores

Is Steam Deck getting an upgrade or this is just a new side-project from AMD engineers?

According to Moore’s Law is Dead , AMD is now working on an entirely new chip poised to feature Zen4 and RDNA3 architectures. The YouTuber does not have the official name for this processor, but in general sense it is a smaller “Phoenix Point” APU which is why


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TSMC says it will make ultra-advanced 2nm chips by 2025

TAIPEI/SEOUL -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it will begin production of ultra-advanced 2 nanometer chips by 2025, putting fresh attention on the race to develop cutting-edge semiconductor technologies following similar announcements by Samsung Electronics and Intel.

TSMC made its announcement at an industry event on Thursday in the U.S., its first in-person tech symposium in two years. The Taiwanese chip titan said its 2nm tech will be based on "nanosheet transistor architecture" to deliver significant improvements


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Here are the first benchmarks of Apple's upcoming M2 chip

Something to look forward to: Even if Apple's M2 series of SoCs don't feature significantly-improved performance compared to the M1s, they'll probably still be some of the most efficient chipsets found in today's laptops - beating most if not all of their x86-based competitors in that department.

Last week, Apple unveiled their new M2 SoC, which will start shipping in the redesigned MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro next month. Fortunately, we

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Apple M2 CPU & GPU Benchmarks Surface on Geekbench

The recently announced Apple M2 processor which is set to feature in the new MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro models has been benchmarked. The processor appeared in numerous Geekbench 5 CPU & GPU tests where the chip scored a maximum single-core result of 1919 points and 8928 points in multi-core representing an 11% and 18% CPU performance improvement respectively from the M1. The chip brings significant GPU performance increases achieving a Geekbench Metal score of 306

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蘋果M2芯片Geekbench跑分放出,相比M1單線程快10%、多線程快16%

蘋果在前段時間的WWDC22上,拿出了下一代的M2芯片,宣稱CPU性能提升了18%,GPU性能提升了35%,AI運算性能提升了40%,而且還拿了英特爾幾年前的CPU出來對比,號稱快了15倍...這讓PC DIY玩家們“看不懂,但


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AMD Ryzen 7000 4nm Zen4 “Phoenix Point” mobile processor has been spotted with 8 cores

AMD Phoenix Point: Zen4 for laptops

Following last week’s reveal mobile Phoenix and Strix Point series for next-gen Ryzen mobile CPUs, the first 7000 series SKU might have just been spotted over at [email protected] website.

The engineering sample carries an OPN code of 100-000000709-23_N, a code which has not been seen before. The Family and Model information appears to match the A70F00

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Apple's M2 Geekbenched: Mediocre CPU Meets Impressive GPU

Geekbench results of Apple's M2 SoC show tiny single-thread CPU performance improvements and notable GPU performance hikes.