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Apple Discontinues Several iMac Configurations Ahead of Possible Refresh

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Apple could release an iMac featuring its own chip sooner rather than later. MacRumors reported that several configurations of the all-in-one computer have been removed from the company’s website, which suggests that they have been discontinued.

MacRumors said the 512GB and 1TB SSD options have disappeared from the 21.5-inch iMac’s page on the Apple website. Those options were previously greyed out, so there was a fair chance they would return, but


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單線程效能提升 20% !! 外媒曝光第 12 代 Intel Alder Lake-S 處理器獨家資料

Intel 第 12 代 Alder Lake 處理器將會於今年稍後的時間發佈,不過日前外媒 VideoCardz 就爆出了獨家資料。據資料指,Alder Lake 將採用大小核設計,大核為 Golden Cove,小核則為 Gracemont。而 Intel 聲稱新設計下 大核的單線程效能提升了 20%,小核在多線程工作負載

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U.S. jury tells Apple to pay $308.5 million for patent infringement - Reuters

U.S. jury tells Apple to pay $308.5 million for patent infringement Reuters

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MSI MEG Z590 ACE Review

MSI aims to continue their legacy of excellent performance and overclocking with the new Z590 line-up. Targeting the top end of the mainstream stack, the MSI MEG Z590 ACE features a robust VRM design, four M.2 slots, Thunderbolt 4, and a plethora of overclocking features. Has the MSI MEG Z590 ACE hit its target?


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Intel launches website showing why PCs are better than M1 MacBooks

What just happened? Not content with launching an ad offensive against M1 MacBooks, Intel has created a website dedicated to extolling the virtues of PC ownership while highlighting the shortcomings of Apple's latest laptops.

Intel's site is part of its Go PC campaign that began in February with a series of ads that boasted only PCs could "power a rocket launch and launch Rocket League." It recently expanded to commercials in which actor Justin Long, the "I'm a Mac" guy seen in Apple'

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Intel Demos Eight-Core Tiger Lake-H CPU Running at 5.0 GHz

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Intel has demonstrated a laptop based on its upcoming eight-core Tiger Lake-H processor running at up to 5.0 GHz, essentially revealing some of the main selling points of its flagship CPU for notebooks. Mobile PCs based on the chip will hit the market in the second quarter, Intel said.

As a part of its GDC 2021 showcase (via VideoCardz ), Intel demonstrated a pre-production enthusiast-grade notebook running a yet-to-be-announced


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AMD Expected to Become TSMC's Second Largest Customer

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Now that AMD produces most of its CPUs, GPUs, and custom SoCs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the company may become the foundry's second-largest customer, right after Apple (according to a report from Seeking Alpha ). If this happens, AMD will have a much more favorable negotiation position with TSMC than other companies such as Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Broadcom. If AMD becomes TSMC's second-largest client, it will not only be able


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(PR) Intel and DARPA Develop Secure Structured ASIC Chips Made in the US

Intel and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today announced a three-year partnership to advance the development of domestically manufactured structured Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) platforms. The Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) partnership enables the design of custom chips that include state-of-the-art security countermeasure technologies. A reliable, secure, domestic source of leading-edge semiconductors remains critical to the U.S.

"We are combining our most advanced Intel eASIC structured


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(PR) addlink M.2 Gen4x4 SSDs Optimized For 11th Gen Intel Rocket Lake-S

addlink Gen4x4 NVMe SSD series, S90, S92, S95 are ready for the latest Intel Rocket Lake-S platform. The processors have been confirmed as going on sale on March 30.

Rocket Lake will make PCIe Gen4 SSDs fly faster than Ryzen, Intel says. Rocket lake is a code name for Intel 11th Gen's desktop chip family. It supports the PCIe 4.0 Interface, which provide twice the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0.


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Apple’s 'I’m a Mac' Guy Switches Sides in New Intel Ads

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Remember Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” guy from Apple’s old Mac vs PC ad campaign from the mid-2000s? Well, now it seems he’s switched sides since he’s starring in a new series of “I’m a Justin” videos that are part of Intel’s new “ Go PC ” ad campaign.

Titled “Justin Gets Real,” the series opens each of its videos with Justin standing in