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(PR) Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, supercharged by the new M2 chip

Apple today introduced a completely redesigned MacBook Air and an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro, both powered by the new M2 chip—which takes the breakthrough performance and capabilities of M1 even further. MacBook Air takes everything users love about the world's best-selling laptop to the next level. With an all-new, strikingly thin design and even more performance, MacBook Air also features a larger 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a 1080p FaceTime HD camera,

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(PR) Apple announces next-gen M2 silicon with 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU

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Apple unveils M2, taking the breakthrough performance and capabilities of M1 even further

M2 delivers new levels of power-efficient performance and capabilities to the completely redesigned MacBook Air and updated 13-inch MacBook Pro

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(PR) Apple unveils M2, taking the breakthrough performance and capabilities of M1 even further

Apple today announced M2, beginning the next generation of Apple silicon designed specifically for the Mac. Built using second-generation 5-nanometer technology, M2 takes the industry-leading performance per watt of M1 even further with an 18 percent faster CPU, a 35 percent more powerful GPU, and a 40 percent faster Neural Engine. It also delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth compared to M1, and up to 24 GB of fast unified memory. M2 brings all of this

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Apple Announces Its New M2 Processor

Apple's WWDC keynote this year was used to announce the M2 processor alongside a slew of other announcements.

The Apple M2 is being launched with a new MacBook Air model beginning next month. Some of the key Apple M2 highlights include:

- 20B transistors, built on a second-gen TSMC 5nm process.

- 100GB/sec of unified memory bandwidth using 128-bit LPDDR5 memory. Up to 24GB of memory is supported by the M2
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Apple unveils its M2 processor, boasts impressive performance gains

Apple's latest chip is up to 40% faster than its predecessor

Published: 6th June 2022 | Source: Apple | Author: Mark Campbell

Apple has officially revealed their 5nm M2 microprocessors

It's official, Apple has launched their second generation off Apple Silicon Mac processors, using 2nd generation 5nm technology to deliver notable performance improvements across a variety of workloads.

In terms of memory bandwidth, Apple's new M2 processor can support up to 24GB of LPDDR

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AMD Files Complaint Against Realtek, TCL for Graphics Patent Infringement

AMD and ATI Technologies ULC have filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) against Realtek Semiconductor and TCL Industries holdings. The complaint lists five patent infringements from both companies, mostly related to graphics technologies such as texture decompression, a unified shader approach to graphics architectures, a multi-threaded graphics processing system, as well as methods to synchronize thread wavefront data and events and a patent covering a processing unit for asynchronous dispatch.

According to AMD, both companies integrated solutions based on AMD's intellectual property


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NIO automaker to use AMD 3rd Gen EPYC powered systems for car development

NIO will use AMD EPYC CPUs to shorten product development cycle

AMD China today announced they have entered a partnership with NIO automaker.

AMD 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs will be used to speed up the deep learning training process and as a result shorten the product development cycle. This has been stated in a video posted by AMD today.

It should be noted that EPYC CPUs will obviously not be used by product vehicles, but only for the development purposes. NIO automobiles currently make use of Qualcomm chips for its onboard infotainment/cockpit

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Apple Reseller Lists Mac Mini With M2 CPU, Mac Mini Tower

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Popular online electronics retailer B&H photo has set up a placeholder product page for a new Apple Mac computer featuring an Apple Silicon M2 processor. Apple will host its WWDC keynote on Monday, and the Apple press is keen to get early scoops. Still, sites like 9to5 Mac (opens in new tab) admit that the B&H listing may be an attention-grabbing prank or hoax, as Apple doesn't pass on any information to resellers ahead of product

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Asahi Linux Celebrates First Triangle On The Apple M1 With Fully Open-Source Driver

While there has been progress with the Mesa code targeting Apple M1 to run basic tests like glmark2, that has traditionally been an effort running under macOS with its kernel driver. This week the Asahi Linux crew celebrated their first rendered triangle running with a fully open-source driver stack.

Since last year there has been early Apple M1 code in Mesa from the Asahi Linux developers with Alyssa Rosenzweig leading that graphics reverse engineering effort. Much of that early OpenGL driver work has been carried out under macOS due to the
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Intel 14th-gen Core desktop processors will likely require a new LGA 2551 socket

The big picture: Intel's Meteor Lake processors will reportedly move to a new socket, forcing Alder Lake owners to buy a new motherboard as well if they want to upgrade. This is in stark contrast to AMD's AM4 platform, where CPUs launched this year work remarkably well even on five-year-old boards.

According to new rumors , Intel's 14th-gen desktop processors, codenamed Meteor Lake, will require a new LGA 2551 socket, meaning that current LGA

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