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Qualcomm planning to add AV1 support to upcoming Snapdragon chip

Why it matters: Support for the AV1 video codec has been spreading recently. Qualcomm may be one of the most important companies hopping on the AV1 bandwagon through an upcoming mobile chip. Firefox is also upgrading its support for AV1 soon, though it will require some very recent hardware.

Last month, sources told Protocol that an upcoming Snapdragon mobile processor would be Qualcomm's first chip to support AV1 decoding natively. The chip, internally codenamed SM8550, is expected to launch towards the

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Here's the first Linux distro made for Apple M1 systems

Why it matters: The Asahi Linux Project has published the first public alpha of Asahi Linux, a distro made for the Apple M1 SoC and its derivatives. It's been eagerly anticipated by Linux users wanting to take advantage of Apple's newest silicon.

Support for the M1 was added to the Linux kernel in June 2021, seven months after Apple announced it. By

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Intel Arc-powered laptop gets listed then removed weeks before release

What just happened? Intel slated its Arc dedicated laptop GPUs for release at the end of March, but a seller accidentally revealed one Arc-powered computer before the lineup's release date. An online retailer briefly created then removed a listing for the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro, a 12th-generation Intel ultrabook with an Arc graphics card.

Someone on Twitter spotted a product page on US retailer B&H Photo Video's website that listed a 15.6-inch Samsung Galaxy Book 2 Pro


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LG正在測試8.5代OLED面板沉積技術,最快年內完成

The Elec 報導,LG自去年12月開始就已經開始測試8.5代OLED面板的沉積技術,為將來用來Apple的MacBook以及iPad上做準備。

8.5代的基板比起目前6代的要大不少,因此即便像是MacBook屏幕這樣大小的面板也可以用更加經濟的方式切割出


Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD正在招聘RISC-V架構工程師,未來或將相關技術用於CPU/GPU

近日,AMD的Radeon Technology Group(RTG)正在為現有的嵌入式RISC-V架構團隊 招聘 一名RISC-V CPU/GPU微架構師。這表明,未來AMD可能會開發基於RISC-V架構的解決方案,用於旗下的相關產品中。

根據AMD的崗位描述,該職位的主要責任分別有:與


Apple Silicon|Intel

Apple's M1 Ultra is a performance beast, but definitely not an RTX 3090 killer

Bottom line: Apple is likely correct when it claims the M1 Ultra is the most powerful consumer-grade desktop chip, but that's because it's hard to compare an SoC with 114 billion transistors with what's available now in the x86 space. Early benchmarks seem to suggest performance-per-watt is stellar, but GPU performance falls short against dedicated GPUs like Nvidia's RTX 3090.

When Apple introduced its M1 Ultra chipset, it made a big

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測試顯示M1 Ultra圖形性能不敵RTX 3090,蘋果説法引發爭議

蘋果在3月9日舉辦的“Peek Performance”春季新品發佈會上,推出了全新的Mac Studio,以及最新的M1系列芯片M1 Ultra。通過名為UltraFusion的創新封裝架構,蘋果將兩個M1 Max芯片互聯在一起,創建了前所未有的性能和功能水平的SoC,為Mac Studio提供了

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厲害好棒棒 !! 國產龍芯筆電由「可用」晉升為「好用」評級,開機速度僅 14 秒

根據中國無錫的「同方計算機」微信所公佈的消息,其與龍芯中科、統信軟件、中電科技等夥伴聯手,實現了「超銳 L860-T2」手提電腦的效能達到新水平,開機速度已達到了 14 秒。

官方表示,這是「中國芯」手提電腦

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蘋果iPhone 14系列或搭載A15X Bionic,所有iPhone 14機型均配備6GB內存

此前有 報道 指,蘋果在今年下半年推出的iPhone 14系列可能會繼續搭載A15 Bionic,而只有iPhone 14 Pro系列才會升級到下一代的A16 Bionic。與以往的iPhone 13系列和iPhone 12系列不同,不會再有mini機型,蘋果會以6.7英寸屏幕的iPhone 14 Max


Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel will invest nearly $90 billion in Europe's chipmaking industry

Intel plans to invest up to €80 billion ($89 billion) over the next decade to build up Europe's supply chain for semiconductor chips.