2024 will go down in tech history as the year Microsoft finally turned Windows laptops into serious MacBook competitors. So far, that’s been thanks to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chips, which switched to a homogeneous chip architecture, bumped up clock speeds and caught up to Apple’s speedy, power-efficient processors. But now AMD says it has chips … Read more
One game developer says it’s had enough of Intel’s 13th and 14th generation Core microprocessors, calling them “defective.” Australia-based indie developer studio Alderon Games vented its frustrations over Intel’s latest chips in an article titled “Intel Selling Faulty 13-14th Gen CPUs”, written by the studio’s founder Matthew Cassells. “My team at Alderon Games, working on … Read more
AMD’s Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core Desktop CPU has been tested on Geekbench and performs impressively better than Intel’s 14th Gen CPUs. AMD Ryzen 9 9900X 12-Core CPU Delivers 16% Single-Core Performance Improvement Over 7900X, Crushes Core i9-14900KS in Geekbench Benchmark The AMD Ryzen 9 9900X “100-000000662” CPU is a 12-core, 24-thread variant. This chip has … Read more
Intel’s Arrow Lake-S “800-series” desktop CPU platform block diagram has leaked, revealing dedicated Gen5 lanes. Intel’s Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs gain support on 800-series platform with up to 20 dedicated PCIe Gen5 lanes Intel’s 800-series platform for Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs has leaked again. We previously saw the platform details leak back in January (2024) … Read more
A block diagram of the Intel Arrow Lake-S “800-series” Desktop CPU platform has been leaked, revealing dedicated Gen5 lanes. Intel’s Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs support the 800-series platform with up to 20 dedicated PCIe Gen5 lanes Intel’s 800-series platform for Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs has leaked again. We previously saw platform details leak back in … Read more
A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware threatens the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar way to BlackLotus and others like it. Security firm Eclypsium has just published its report of CVE-2024-0762 (CVSSv3: 7.5) after disclosing it to Phoenix Technologies, whose UEFI firmware has been affected. Phoenix Technologies offers UEFI/BIOS … Read more
Dedicated AI hardware devices like the Rabbit R1 and the Humane AI Pin have so far failed to gain traction in the market, as they are few gimmicks in a world accustomed to versatile workhorses like the iPhone. The Humane AI Pin has a futuristic look, but it just doesn’t work very well. This is … Read more
With Intel’s foundry still trying to match the process and packaging offered by archrival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, Intel’s server CPU product line will have to make do with what the foundry has and create products that deliver the right mix of performance and offer price. to compete with CPU rival AMD in the X86 … Read more
Enlarge / A high-level breakdown of Intel’s next-generation Lunar Lake chips, which retains some of the changes from Meteor Lake while rolling back others. Intel Considering recent production issues, AMD’s resurgence, Qualcomm’s entry, and Apple’s shift from customer to competitor, it’s been a rough few years for Intel processors. Computer buyers have more viable options … Read more
From the first iMac in the 1990s to today, the “i” prefix has come to symbolize Apple, but Apple has been working to get rid of it since the original iPad in 2010. Steve Jobs launched the iPad in 2010: the last Apple device with an ‘i’ There’s still the iPhone and the iPad, of … Read more