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(PR) EVGA X570 DARK Motherboard Formally Launched

The EVGA X570 DARK brings the exclusive DARK experience to Team Red for the first time. This motherboard evolved through a comprehensive design overhaul to squeeze out the full performance of the legendary AMD Zen 3 processors. With a highly-efficient 17-phase digital VRM design, 10-layer PCB, and two built-in VRM fans, it's no wonder that some tried to fool you with DARK imitations.

Powered with unmatched multi-core performance and energy efficiency, the EVGA X57

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Microsoft's Surface Pro 8 could finally be worth the upgrade

Something to look forward to: A Microsoft Surface hardware event is only days away, but one of the key surprises of the event may have been spoiled prematurely by a retailer's listing of the Surface Pro 8. Alongside a sleeker, refreshed design of the popular 2-in-1, some important details around its hardware have also surfaced, including a 120Hz high refresh rate display


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Apple M1 USB Type-C Linux Support Code Sent Out For Testing

The latest patches sent out for review/testing on the long mission for enabling Apple M1 support on Linux is the USB Type-C connectivity.

Sven Peter has sent out the initial USB Type-C enablement work for the Apple ACE1/2 chips used by Apple M1 systems. In turn this Apple design is based on the TI TPS6598x IP but various differences. The Linux kernel support is being added onto the existing TIPD driver.

The driver code sent out this weekend is just

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AMD Instinct MI300計算卡或會有Exascale APU模式,將CPU和內存一起封裝

AMD在下一代桌面平台和服務器平台將分別採用AM5(LGA 1718)和SP5(LGA 6096)插座,雖然距離新款Zen 4架構處理器的發佈還有好一段時間,但基本沒有太多疑問,甚至有CPU散熱器廠商已做好了配套的產品。不過近期推

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Apple Silicon / M1 Port Planned For GCC 12

Developers are hoping for next year's GCC 12 release they will have Apple AArch64 support on Darwin in place for being able to support Apple Silicon -- initially the M1 SoC -- on macOS with GCC.

LLVM/Clang has long been supporting AArch64 on macOS given that Apple leverages LLVM/Clang as part of their official Xcode toolchain as the basis for their compiler across macOS to iOS and other products. While the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) supports AArch64 and macOS/

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80 Arm cores and 768GB of RAM power Adlink's tiny COM-HPC module

In brief: If you've been looking to build an Arm-based workstation for your embedded development needs, Adlink has created a small carrier board that packs a surprisingly high amount of compute power on a tiny 200 by 160 mm COM-HPC server type module.

For years, a startup called Ampere Computing had been focused on developing custom Arm-based silicon for the data

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AMD Instinct MI300 accelerator might have an Exascale APU mode

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

AMD MI300 might be the start of high-performance APUs

A new leak puts a new socket name alongside MI300 and Zen4 CPU socket.

ExecutableFix discovered a new socket name “SH5” which is internally called MI300. This name is likely referring to the Instinct MI300 accelerator, a successor to MI200 which has not yet been released. The MI300 is now rumored to

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Apple又面臨官司,這次是因MacBook屏幕開裂

9to5Mac 報導,Apple因為旗下的M1 MacBook而面臨官司。美國加州的一家律師行Bursor and Fisher表示,Apple明知M1 MacBook屏幕在正常情況下使用也會開裂,但拒絕為用户免費維修,並因此向Apple發起了集體 訴訟

由Apple推出,基於自研M1芯片打造而


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Via Labs Launches USB4 Controller, Paving the Way for USB4 Hubs

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Via Labs has introduced the VL830 device , one of the industry's first USB4 endpoint device controllers. This should enable peripheral manufacturers to build highly integrated USB4 hubs that will be able to compete against Thunderbolt 3/4 hubs, hopefully at lower price points.

The USB 4 specification takes a lot of pages from Intel's Thunderbolt 3 and was released in August 2019, almost a year before Intel introduced Thunderbolt 4. Yet, there are

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AMD considers Arm an area of investment, is ready to make chips

In context: One of the subjects Deutsche Bank covered in its interview with AMD late last week was AMD's stance towards Arm-based chips. While it didn't have anything concrete to announce, it didn't rule out working with Arm, either.

As part of its 2021 Technology Conference, Deutsche Bank interviewed the CFO of AMD over a range of topics, from the growth of its graphics sector to the supply of its consumer parts. They also touched on how AMD is looking at

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