Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel's $7 Billion Fab 34 Gets First Equipment

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This week, Intel said that it had begun to install equipment at Fab 34 , its renewed production facility in Leixlip, Ireland. As expected, the new fab will get online in 2023 and in addition to the company's Intel 5 technology (previously known as 7nm) will be also capable of producing chips using Intel 4 node eventually.

The first tool to be installed at Fab 34 was Intel's lithography resist track developed and made at an Intel

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Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) Intel Ireland Fab 34 Achieves Development Milestone, Facility to Drive Intel 4 Node

Intel Ireland last week chalked up a milestone in its $7 billion Fab 34 construction project: A team rolled in the new plant's first huge chipmaking tool. The machine, a lithography resist track, arrived by truck at Intel's Leixlip, Ireland, plant after a flight across the Atlantic Ocean from an Intel Oregon plant.

Ireland's new lithography tool runs in conjunction with an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) scanner, a crown jewel in Intel's manufacturing capability. The new tool provides precision coating

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Samsung overtook Intel as top chip seller in 2021

TOKYO -- Samsung Electronics surpassed Intel to become the leading chipmaker by revenue last year, according to industry data released Wednesday, thanks to a powerful lift from its memory business.


Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) EVGA Announces the Z690 CLASSIFIED Motherboard

Introducing the EVGA Z690 CLASSIFIED - The latest addition to EVGA's most-respected line of motherboards. This motherboard fully supports the latest 12th Gen Intel Core Series Processors and takes full advantage of PCIe Gen5 and PCIe Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs. The EVGA Z690 CLASSIFIED provides unbeatable power, performance and stability via a 19-phase VRM and 10-layer PCB. Moreover, this board supports up to 128 GB of DDR5 memory, 2

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Samsung's Exynos 2200 SoC is now official, featuring AMD RDNA 2 graphics

The big picture: Samsung’s Exynos 2200 chipset was supposed to be an exciting reveal, but the official announcement is surprisingly quiet about details like clock speeds or the performance capabilities of the AMD RDNA 2-powered GPU. The two companies claim this is the first chipset to bring ray tracing capabilities to smartphones, but it’s not yet clear when we’ll be able to see it in action.

Samsung was supposed to announce the Exynos 2200 SoC for smartphones on January 11


Apple Silicon

蘋果A16 Bionic已完成設計,台積電將在今年下半年量產

蘋果今年將會推出iPhone 14系列,上面會搭載A16 Bionic。近日網友 @Shadow_Leak 表示,蘋果已完成了A16 Bionic設計階段的工作已經完成。正常來説,幾個月後,A16 Bionic將會批量生產。

此外,蘋果已接受了台積電(TSMC)的加價要求,已


Apple Silicon

蘋果將推出搭載M2的14英寸MacBook Pro,自研芯片過渡計劃將在2022Q4完成

蘋果在2022年11月推出了搭載M1的13英寸MacBook Pro,這是最早使用自研芯片的機型之一。雖然M1提供了不錯的性能和更長的電池使用壽命,但配備M1 Pro或M1 Max的新款14英寸和16英寸MacBook Pro顯然有更大的性能優勢。


Apple Silicon

一機整合四個 M1 Max 晶片 ?! 2022 年 Apple 新一代 Mac Pro 規格曝光,售有望高達 55,000 美金

Mac Pro 系列是 Apple 旗艦級Desktop 產品,並擁有著全球最貴 Desktop 之名。然而接下來,Mac Pro 電腦準備要換上 Apple Silicon 自研晶片,據稱「堆料」程度十足。

據外媒取得的最新消息指,Apple 準備於今年底發佈新一代 Mac Pro,最頂級版本將搭載 4 x M1 Max 處理


Apple Silicon|Intel

(PR) Samsung Introduces Game Changing Exynos 2200 Processor with Xclipse GPU Powered by AMD RDNA2 Architecture

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced its new premium mobile processor, the Exynos 2200. The Exynos 2200 is a freshly designed mobile processor with a powerful AMD RDNA 2 architecture based Samsung Xclipse graphics processing unit (GPU). With the most cutting-edge Arm -based CPU cores available in the market today and an upgraded neural processing unit (NPU), the Exynos 2200 will enable the ultimate mobile phone gaming experience


Apple Silicon

Analyst says the Mac Pro's Apple silicon processor won't be an M2

Rumor mill: An Apple analyst and designer who has leaked information about Apple silicon before has come out with more information about the completion of the company’s transition to custom processors. The new leak about the Mac Pro supports existing ones.

In the past, Twitter leaker @dylandkt has given accurate details on the M1 iPad Pro and the 24-inch iMac before Apple’s announcements confirmed them. Last October he also said the 2022 MacBook Air will use an M2 chip, the next