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MSI Preps MEG Z590 Unify Motherboards For RGB Haters

MSI MEG Z590 Unify (Image credit: Gigglehd)

MSI dropped some bombs today during the transmission of its MSI Insider Show . In addition to revealing the pricing for its B560 and H510 motherboards, the company the also teased its upcoming MEG Z590 Unify/Unify-X motherboards for Rocket Lake-S processors.

MSI's Unify series of motherboards are recognized for two main traits. They arrive with a pure black design that lacks RGB lighting (for those that

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ARM架構處理器2020Q4創紀錄地交付了67億個,驚人的每秒842個

作為最受歡迎的微處理器架構,每年有數百億美元的設備使用基於ARM架構的芯片。據 TomsHardware報道 ,ARM僅在2020年第四季度,交付了創紀錄的67億 個基於ARM架構的芯片,也就是説達到了每秒842個的驚人速度。這意味着,ARM比


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Updated Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Bringing Up The Apple M1 SoC

Earlier this month Hector Martin and the Asahi Linux developers posted their initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the Apple M1 ARM SoC platform for the mainline kernel with devices like the 2020 Mac Mini / MacBook Pro / MacBook Air devices. The second iteration of those Apple M1 Linux patches have now been posted.

Hector Martin continues working on the Apple M1 Linux support via crowdfunding with the ambitious goal of getting Linux running well on these modern ARM-powered Apple devices. Linux is already booting on Apple

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Every second 842 Arm chips were built at the end of 2020

The big picture: As part of their last quarterly report, Arm has revealed that the popularity of their processor designs has continued to increase exponentially. Manufacturing partners have recorded shipments of 6.7 billion chips based on Arm designs, which is roughly 842 chips produced every second, an unprecedented rate.

Arm is the largest designer of processors in the world, if the sale of their designs is counted instead of the number of designs they produce: their rather slim Mali GPU series, for example, encompasses just nine

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842 Chips Per Second: 6.7 Billion Arm-Based Chips Produced in Q4 2020

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Being the most popular microprocessor architecture, Arm powers tens of billions of devices sold every year. The company says that in the fourth quarter of 2020 alone, the Arm ecosystem shipped a record 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, which works out to an amazing production rate of 842 chips per second . This means that Arm outsells all other popular CPU instruction set architectures — x86, ARC, Power, and MIPS — combined.

6.7 Billion

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Intel Snipes at Apple in New 'Go PC' Ads

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Do you remember the Mac vs PC commercials from the mid-2000s? While Microsoft and Apple may have become increasingly buddy-buddy since then, with Windows working on Mac and Mac ceding basic productivity app dominance to Microsoft Office, that doesn’t mean the war between Mac and PC isn’t still raging. The fighters are just different.

Intel's new ad campaign is taking aim at Apple by promoting PC heavily, a continuation of the company’s


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Intel's latest ad campaign mocks M1-powered MacBooks

A hot potato: Apple's M1 chips have been winning praise from reviewers and consumers alike, and it looks as if Intel is getting a case of the green-eyed monster. Chipzilla, whose own processors were pushed out to make way for Cupertino's in-house solution, has launched an ad campaign highlighting the M1-powered laptops' shortcomings.

Intel has been posting the "Go PC" ads on its official Twitter account. The latest of these boasts that PCs are the machine of choice

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Dirac Audio Technology Enabling Domestic Productivity Integrated with Latest Fujitsu Lifebooks

Swedish audio technology maker Dirac partnered with Fujitsu to debut a new audio technology that claims to enable clearer voice in video-conferences, without needing a messy software setup, or use of discrete GPUs. This is one of Dirac's first deployments on a commercial notebook, it's makers claim that over 500 million smartphones use Dirac technology for clearer voice in phone-calls. Among the notebooks integrating Dirac technology are the Lifebook U9311 and U9311X.

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Apple is Reportedly Working with TSMC on a Special Micro OLED Panel Technology

OLED panes are expertise areas of display makers such as LG and Samsung, however, when it comes to Apple, they have to rely on external manufacturers to make a display. For years Apple has been contracting LG and Samsung to make the display for iPhones and Macs, but it looks like Apple is now collaborating with another firm to develop micro OLED technology. According to sources over at Nikkei Asia, Apple is collaborating with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to develop "ultra-advanced display technology at a secretive facility

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Apple said to be working with TSMC to develop ultra-advanced micro OLED displays

In a nutshell: Apple has reportedly partnered with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on the development of advanced micro OLED displays at a top secret facility in Taiwan. The tech is still years away from reaching consumer devices but when it does, it should result in dramatically thinner screens with lower power requirements.

Sources briefed on the matter told Nikkei Asia that Apple aims to use the displays in upcoming augmented reality devices.

As the publication explains, the micro OLED displays are not built on glass substrates like those found in TVs

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