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Apple reportedly developing high-end 32-core CPUs and 128-core GPUs

According to Bloomberg , Apple is currently heavy engaged in the development of its next-generation high-performance chips for 2021-2022 products.

Apple preparing 32-core high-performance processors

Last month Apple introduced its M1 chip featuring four high-performance and four high-efficiency cores paired with up to 8 graphics cores. This silicon is used by three products: MacBook Air, MacBookPro, and Mac Mini. Apple is slowly shifting its product stack away from x86 architecture


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Dell might be working on desktops with Intel Tiger Lake CPUs

Please note that this post is tagged as a rumor .

Intel might bring Tiger Lake to desktops?

S0ix power states support for Tiger Lake SoC

Intel and Dell are currently busy implementing S0ix power-saving states into the Linux kernel. Those patches are necessary because Intel is slowly abandoning the S03 (power to RAM) power states in favor of more sophisticated S0ix states (power to idle). The S0ix states effectively shut off parts of the Intel SoC, which are not


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Google Developing Own Processors for Smartphones & Chromebooks

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Makers of smartphones and PCs are always eager to offer their customers an experience not available from their rivals. Back in the day, vendors competed for the best ergonomics, software, and some exclusive features. Still, more recently, companies like Apple, Huawei, and Samsung started to develop their own system-on-chips (SoC) to differentiate at all levels. A report says that Google is now following their steps with its own silicon for Pixel smartphones and Chromebooks.

Google recently successfully

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高通高管在峯會上接受採訪:蘋果M1證明了其對ARM Windows投資的正確性

高通驍龍近日正式發佈了驍龍888處理器,這是一個很”接地氣“的名稱,看樣子它將成為明年上半年絕大多數旗艦手機的SoC。但是別忘了高通的8cx系列處理器,高通高管在Snapdragon峯會上發表了一些間接聲明,談到了蘋果的ARM M


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ASRock Implements CAM (Clever Access Memory) on Intel Z490 Taichi Motherboard

ASRock has released a BIOS update for their Z490 Taichi motherboard which implements a Clever Access Memory (CAM) system (might I say that's as clever as it sounds?) CAM is basically ASRock's own marketing push based on AMD's SAM, which is in itself a marketing push based on PCIe's Resizable BAR feature (the amount of marketing names employed to describe the same set of features is becoming mind-boggling). The feature is available through the 1.72

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ASRock adds CAM (Clever Access Memory) to Intel Z490 motherboard

ASRock adds Clever Access Memory to Intel Z490 motherboard, a response to AMD’s Smart Access Memory

ASRock today released a new Beta BIOS for the Z490 Taichi motherboard which adds support for a technology that enabled the processor to access the graphics card’s full video memory. The technology called Clever Access Memory appears to be ASRock’s marketing name for the same technology that was introduced by AMD for its 500-series motherboards – Smart Access Memory.

The technology is only available to

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神秘的 K12 計劃重啟?有傳 AMD 已開發出兩款 ARM 處理器

Apple 於新一代的 Mac 產品線用上了基於 ARM 架構自研的 M1 晶片,而且在各方面的效能表現都相當不錯,並打算在兩年內完全汰換取代 Intel x86 處理器。

不過這個星期,爆料者 Mauri QHD 爆出了一單大消息,內容指 AMD 實際上已研發出可與 Apple M


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AMD rumored to be working on an Arm-based Apple M1 rival

Rumor mill: Apple has shaken up the processor industry with the arrival of its M1-powered Macs, offering excellent performance despite being a low-power chip. But could another Arm-based competitor be on its way? According to a new rumor, rival AMD is almost ready to lift the lid on its version of Apple's SoC.

The rumor comes from hardware leaker Mauri QHD (via NotebookCheck ). They write that AMD is working on two versions of the chip—one with integrated RAM and one

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MSI mistakenly reveals 8-core/16-thread Intel Rocket Lake-S CPU-Z specifications

MSI shows Rocket Lake-S CPU with 4.3 GHz clock speed

In the latest press release where MSI showcases its Intel 400-series motherboard supporting the Re-Size BAR feature, the company mistakenly published a CPU-Z screenshot featuring Rocket Lake-S CPU. Intel 11th Gen Core series, aka Rocket Lake-S, are not yet released.

The screenshot confirms that this particular engineering sample featuring 8-cores and 16-threads is clocked at 3.4/4.3

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(PR) MSI to Add Resizable-BAR Feature to its Intel 400-series Motherboards

As a world-leading motherboard brand, MSI contributes to providing gamers and creators extremely pleasant experience when users choose MSI motherboards. For the sake of fulfillment of goals, MSI keeps updating the latest version BIOS for users to download and to increase performance. At the present, MSI prepares to release BIOS update for all Intel 400-series motherboards, including Z490, B460 and H410 chipsets. According to planning schedule, the first batch is expected to Z490

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