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(PR) AMD Exceeds Six-Year Goal to Deliver Unprecedented 25 Times Improvement in Mobile Processor Energy Efficiency

TechPowerUp News | June 25, 2020, 4:36 a.m. | Original

AMD today announced it has exceeded its moonshot 25x20 goal set in 2014 to improve the energy efficiency of its mobile processors 25 times by 2020. The new AMD Ryzen 7 4800H mobile processor improves on the energy efficiency of the 2014 baseline measurement by 31.7 times1, and offers leadership performance2 and extraordinary efficiency for laptop PCs. Greater energy efficiency leads to significant user benefits including improved battery life, better performance, lower None

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AMD Beats 25x20 Goal for Mobile CPU Energy Efficiency

Tom's Hardware | June 25, 2020, 1:49 a.m. | Original

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AMD has handily beaten its 2014 goal, known as "25x20," to make its mobile CPUs 25 times more energy efficient by the year 2020. The company says that the AMD Ryzen 7 4800H beat the company's baseline measurements by 31.7 times.

The company didn't release any specific results, but listed that the new testing performed on April 15 with the baseline

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Intel's Raja Koduri teases Xe-powered graphics chips

Overclock3D.Net | June 25, 2020, 1:15 a.m. | Original

Intel's new Xe chips appear to use a tiled design, bringing multi-chip to the GPU market.

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Ex-Intel engineer says "abnormally bad" Skylake QA prompted Apple switch to ARM

TechSpot News | June 25, 2020, 12:05 a.m. | Original

A hot potato: Earlier this week, Apple confirmed what had been rumored for years: it would move away from Intel and use its own Arm-based chips in next generation Macs. According to a former Intel engineer, the company made this decision because of the “bad quality assurance of Skylake.”

It’s been a good week for Arm: Apple finally announced it is transitioning the Mac to Arm-based silicon, bringing the computers in line with iPads and iPhones, and the world’s fastest supercomputer

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Bad Intel Quality Assurance Responsible for Apple-Intel Split?

TechPowerUp News | June 24, 2020, 11:40 p.m. | Original

Apple's decision to switch from Intel processors for its Mac computers to its own, based on the Arm architecture, has shaken up the tech world, even though rumors of the transition have been doing rounds for months. Intel's first official response , coupled with facts such as Intel's CPU technology execution being thrown completely off gear due to foundry problems; pointed toward the likelihood of Intel not being able to keep up with Apple's growing performance/Watt demands. It turns out now, that Intel None

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Intel's Raja Koduri Shows Off Huge Mysterious Chip: Is This a Gargantuan Xe GPU?

Tom's Hardware | June 24, 2020, 9:54 p.m. | Original

(Image credit: Raja Koduri Twitter)

Remember two months ago when Intel tweeted an image of a huge, mysterious chip ? Well, we still don't know exactly what that chip is, but Intel is back again teasing something even bigger. Well, rather, Intel's Raja Koduri is here, showing off his (we quote) "big 'fabulous' package."

BFP - big â€˜fabulousâ€™ packageðŸ˜€ pic.twitter.com/e0mwov1

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Intel表示仍會支持蘋果，但他們家的處理器才是最好的

EXPREVIEW | June 23, 2020, 11:08 p.m. | Original

蘋果在昨天凌晨的WWDC 2020大會開幕演講上面正式宣佈了他們將會在Mac產品線上面開始使用自家研發的ARM處理器的消息，這也意味着他們和Intel之前長達十數年的合作關係已經進入尾聲，即將告一段落。那麼收到這個並不太好的

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Intel Gives its First Comments on Apple's Departure from x86

TechPowerUp News | June 23, 2020, 7:40 p.m. | Original

Apple on Monday formalized the beginning of its departure from Intel x86 machine architecture for its Mac computers. Apple makes up to 4 percent of Intel's annual CPU sales, according to a MarketWatch report . Apple is now scaling up its own A-series SoCs that use Arm CPU cores, up to performance levels relevant to Macs, and has implemented support for not just new and upcoming software ported to the new Arm machine architecture, but also software over form the iOS and iPadOS ecosystems on Mac, starting with None