Apple Silicon|Intel

Apple Will Move Macs to Custom Silicon, Details Transition From Intel

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Apple is transitioning its Mac computers to its own custom chip designs based on Arm. The company is detailing its transition away from Intel's processors at its annual WWDC  (Worldwide Developers Conference). Apple calls the new chip 'Apple Silicon.'

Apple's Johny Srouji, head of the company's chip design, said Apple's CPUs are often more powerful than PC laptops. He said he wants Apple Silicon to be more powerful while consuming less power.

Srouji said the

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Apple Silicon|Intel

Apple Confirms Their Future Desktops + Laptops Will Use In-House CPUs

Apple finally confirmed the log-running rumor that their future laptops and desktop computers will be using in-house silicon with their custom designed Arm-based chips...


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Apple's virtual WWDC kicks off today, watch the keynote here

Something to look forward to: Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference starts today with the anticipated keynote set to kick off the five-day event. Apple will be hosting the conference virtually for the first time in the event’s 31-year history due to ongoing Covid-19 containment efforts. Developers from around the world will get access to the next major versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS at the conference.

The keynote address starts Monday, June 22 at 1:0

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想見到新的iMac、MacBook?那明天凌晨的WWDC可能要讓你失望了

蘋果在每年一屆的世界開發者大會(Worldwide Developers Conference),也就是WWDC上面總會發布一系列的軟件,或是新的版本,或是新的特性。畢竟這個大會的名字裏面有開發者,相較於其他的硬件發佈活動,它更專注於軟件。不過蘋果也不是沒有在WWDC

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Microsoft Project xCloud Servers to be Powered by Xbox Series X SoC

Microsoft is preparing to launch a competitive product to Google's Stadia and Amazon's Project Tempo, which are both game streaming services. To Microsoft's advantage, the company has experience in building gaming systems and using cloud technology to integrate them. While both Google and Amazon are cloud providers and have the infrastructure to implement game streaming services, Microsoft has its Xbox division, which has been in the gaming industry for a long time. Despite already owning the infrastructure, Microsoft wants to use the hardware from its XboxXbox Series X SoC

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dav1d 0.7.1 AV1 Decoder Boosts 32-bit Arm Performance By ~28%

For those trying to carry out AV1 video decoding on a 32-bit Arm environment, the new dav1d 0.7.1 decoder should be a heck of a lot faster...


Apple Silicon|Intel

Watch AMD Threadripper 3990X Use 128 Threads To Render a Video in Task Manager

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Have you ever thought of using Windows Task Manager as a video player? Neither have I, though as my system progressed up in core and thread counts, I have always been mesmerized by the increased number of CPU cores it monitors. However, things are about to get a whole lot more mesmerizing with AMD's 64-core, 128-thread Ryzen Threadripper 3990X.

Pack all those threads together into Windows' monitoring station, and you've


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Jony Ive disagreed with Apple's AR and VR plans

Rumor mill: Most if not all Apple products released in the recent past had to go through former design chief Jony Ive. But according to new information, in the case of AR and VR, the company wanted to create an all-encompassing experience that required tethering to a hub and an uncomfortable headset. Ive wanted a different kind of AR device that had more mass appeal and didn't require extra hardware, while also letting people be aware of their surroundings when using it.

For years Apple has been exploring ways

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Apple Silicon|Intel

[XF 開箱] M板一樣可配 Ryzen 9 發揮性能 – ASRock B550M Steel Legend

B550 晶片解禁後,不同的主機板又開始推出市面,B550 晶片可支援下一代 Ryzen 處理器,甚至稍後時間推出的 APU 等,對於並非追求擴充性或極致性能用來說,可考慮接下來介紹的 ASRock B550M Steel Legend,MATX 規格雖刪減了部份擴充

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AMD A520芯片組規格詳解,不支持PCI-E 4.0,也不支持超頻

AMD在前幾天正式公佈三款Ryzen XT處理器的時候順便也公佈了A520主板芯片組,不過並沒有透露任何規格,所以我們此前都只是一直在推測A520的大概規格,但今天無意中看到了一份幾個月前就在網絡上流傳的AMD 500系列

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