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Trio of Prototype AMD-Based El Capitan Supercomputers Already Rank in Top 200

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The AMD-based El Capitan supercomputer isn't set to go online until 2023. However, in preparation for the new exascale supercomputer, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA, not to be confused with the NSA or NASA) has produced three smaller prototype supercomputers to test out El Captains' hardware systems. Despite not being the real supercomputer deal, these three computing monsters have been found to pack a serious punch, with each landing on the top 200 list

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(PR) AAEON Unveils UP Squared 6000 Edge Computing Kit

AAEON continues to innovate and improve with the introduction of their UP Squared 6000 Edge Computing Kit, which offers customers elite, exclusive features in a plug-and-play industrial turnkey solution powered by the Intel Atom x6425RE SoC (formerly Elkhart Lake).

An upgrade from the UP Squared 6000 Edge, the UP Squared 6000 Edge Computing Kit provides a wealth of additional features while only outgrowing its predecessor's form factor by 1 centimeter in height. This


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An Apple-1 signed by Steve Wozniak is being auctioned for an estimated $480,000

In brief: We've seen working Apple-1 computers sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past, but this latest model has some standout features: not only does the machine come with most of its original components, but it's also been signed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Only 200 Apple-1 computers were designed by Steve Wozniak and assembled and tested

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谷歌第二代Tensor SoC將採用三星4nm工藝,或於6月份量產

在谷歌 I/O 2022 開發者大會上,谷歌發佈並展示了一系列產品,其中就談及了今年即將發佈的新一代旗艦智能手機Pixel 7和Pixel 7 Pro,將搭載第二代Tensor SoC,不過並未透露太多的細節。

據DDaily 報道 ,谷歌在第二代Tensor SoC選擇採用三星


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Intel Unveils Rialto Bridge: Second-Gen Xe-HPC Accelerator to Succeed Ponte Vecchio

With ISC High Performance 2022 taking place this week in Hamburg, Germany, Intel is using the first in-person version of the event in 3 years to offer an update to the state of their high performance/supercomputer silicon plans. The big news out of the show this year is that Intel is naming the successor to the Ponte Vecchio accelerator, which the company is now disclosing as Rialto Bridge.

Previously appearing on Intel’s roadmaps as “Ponte Vecchio Next”, Intel’s GPU teams have

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Intel CEO會見三星高層,可能會找三星代工部分芯片

Intel新首席執行官Pat Gelsinger上任以來就在推行IDM 2.0戰略,使得公司改變了內部芯片製造和芯片外包製造方面的立場,可以看得出的成果就是Intel重新進入了芯片代工市場,而他們的Arc Alchemist GPU也外包給台積電生產,而下一步,他們開始找


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Apple's upcoming A16 chipset might stick to the 5nm TSMC process node

TL;DR: The A16 SoC that will be used on the iPhone 14 will probably not bring massive performance and efficiency gains if it's going to use the same process as the A15 Bionic. Apple will reportedly rely on architecture improvements and a switch to LPDDR5 memory and use the new chip only in their iPhone Pro series.

In a series of tweets today, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo indicated that Apple's upcoming A16 chipset might continue to use TSMC's N


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$289 Steam Deck Alternative AyaNeo Air Plus Announced

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A portable handheld PC to use as a Switch-like games machine is a wonderful idea we’re surprised we haven’t seen (opens in new tab) more (opens in new tab) of recently (opens in new tab) , and this one - which comes to us from the pages of TechPowerUp (opens in new tab) and Liliputing (opens in new tab) - looks rather interesting, as well as undercutting the Steam Deck (opens in new tab) on

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AMD's Mendocino APU Specs Leak - It isn't the Steam Deck competitor we wanted

Mendocino will be a great chip for mainstream notebooks, but not a great chip for gamers

Published: 30th May 2022 | Source: @olrak29_ | Author: Mark Campbell

No, AMD's Mendocino APU won't compete with Valve's Steam Deck SOC

When AMD revealed their mainstream Mendocino SOC, they confirmed that their budget-oriented chip would offer users four Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics, delivering hardware specifications that are similar to Valve's Steam Deck handheld

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Linux 5.19 ARM Excites With Apple M1 NVMe, 12 Year Old Multi-Platform Achievement

The various ARM SoC and machine/platform updates have landed in the Linux 5.19 kernel with a number of notable additions.

First up there is ARMv4T/v5 multi-platform support. It's been "12 years in the making" and "mostly finishes the work that was started with the founding of Linaro to clean up platform support in the kernel." The ARM multi-platform support is about allowing one kernel to handle multiple ARM platforms . Going back to Linux 3.
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