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iPhone 13 benchmarks highlight A15 Bionic performance improvements

The big picture: Early benchmark results from Apple's new iPhone 13 family have started to hit the web, painting a clearer picture of the sort of performance improvement that you can expect from the A15 Bionic. Keep in mind that this is a small sample set, and that averages will start to solidify as more results are added to the database in the coming days and weeks.

Apple earlier this week took the wraps off its new iPhone 13 family of smartphones. Astute viewers may have noticed that

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(PR) VIA Labs Announces Launch of USB4 Device Silicon

VIA Labs, Inc. (VLI), a leading supplier of SuperSpeed USB, USB Power Delivery Controllers, and now USB4 controllers today unveiled the VIA Labs VL830 USB4 Endpoint Device. USB4 is a major update to the USB architecture, enabling multiple simultaneous data and display protocols to share a single high-speed link with support for a maximum aggregate bandwidth of 40 Gbps. VL830 offers both USB and DisplayPort functionality and operates at full performance when used with Thunderbolt 4 or USB

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Apple's A15 Bionic Geekbenched: 55% Higher GPU Performance

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As the first benchmark results of Apple's A15 Bionic application processor appear on Geekbench , we can reveal some more information about the architecture of the new chip.

When Apple formally introduced its A15 Bionic system-on-chip (SoC) earlier this week, it said that it featured a 50% higher CPU performance and a 30% higher GPU performance when compared to an undisclosed competitor, but it never compared the it to its previous-generation A1


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AMD首席財務官表示,如有需要會隨時再投入到Arm處理器

AMD曾在前些年曾推出過基於Arm架構(Cortex-A57)的服務器處理器,其開發代號為“Seattle”。也就是皓龍(Opteron)A1100系列。這是一款完整的系統級芯片(SoC),具備完整的功能,專為運行I/O密集型和擴展的應用程序而設


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Google自研Tensor芯片規格被髮掘:雙Cortex-X1的三叢設計

蘋果這一代iPhone 13系列改變不算少,但最重要的還是放在相機和芯片性能升級上,特別是後一部分更是他們引以為傲,在這次發佈會上,蘋果標註CPU和GPU是對比最快競品的領先幅度,大有當自己是大師兄的意思在,可見這種自研


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Learn all about Apple's M1 with this 350-page deep dive

Why it matters: Former Apple QuickTime developer Maynard Handley has published a preliminary analysis of Apple’s M1 system on a chip (SoC). Handley’s hope is that the research he has presented can be used to help others spend less time reinventing the wheel, and more time learning about Apple’s next-gen hardware when it finally arrives.

Handley’s technical analysis involved multiple experiments, and lots of reading up on Apple patents and related literature. It’s the sort of deep dive that


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Russian Company Develops 32-Bit RISC-V Microcontroller

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As we can see with the new Mikron MIK32 chip, the open-source RISC-V architecture opens doors for companies to redevelop existing microcontrollers. That's becoming even more important as countries around the world look to wean themselves off of Western technologies. But just how feasible is that approach?

Inherited from the USSR, the modern Russian Federation has its own CPU architecture (Elbrus) and platforms to build PCs and servers. In addition, there are Russian companies that develop various


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Reverse Engineering, Open-Source Driver Writing Continues For Apple's M1 GPU

Alyssa Rosenzweig spoke today at the virtual X.Org Developers Conference about the ongoing work for bringing up Linux display and graphics support on the Apple M1 graphics processor.

While there has been much progress this year bringing up Linux on the Apple M1 SoC, the display/graphics bring-up is particularly involved and will likely prove to be the most challenging aspect from its reverse engineering to driver writing.

Since earlier this year there has been the AGX Gallium3D driver in Mesa as the start of the OpenGL driver

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Apple M1: Crowd-Sourced Reverse-Engineering Doc Published

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Cornell-educated Maynard Handley , one of the developers behind Apple's Quick Time, has shared a 350 page PDF analyzing the inner workings of the M1 ARM chip. The document (current version 0.7) dives deep into the M1 architecture from a reverse-engineering perspective and is heavily fed by other professionals and enthusiasts in the field.

Apple's M1 chip shocked the tech world because of its incredible IPC and power-to-performance ratio ,


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RDNA2 in Mobile: Alleged Samsung Exynos 2200 GPU Details Appear

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Just a few days ago , we covered that the upcoming collaboration between AMD and Samsung is gearing up to deliver the first Exynos 2200 SoC with RDNA2 graphics paired with Arm-based CPU cores. Today, more information surfaced about the alleged clock speeds of the RDNA2 GPU itself, perhaps giving us a better understanding of things to come. However, as with all leaked information, you'll have to take it with a grain of salt.

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