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New Samsung Exynos Chipsets Featuring an AMD GPU Could Power Future Computers

Samsung’s Exynos chips will power future Computers The post New Samsung Exynos Chipsets Featuring an AMD GPU Could Power Future Computers appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Apple Working on Two New Mac Pro Desktops, One of Which Will Be Reminiscent of Power Mac G4 Cube

Apple is developing two versions of the Mac Pro to succeed the ‌Mac Pro‌ that was first released in December 2019, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The first updated ‌Mac Pro‌ is a direct successor to the current ‌Mac Pro‌ and it will use the same design. It may also be equipped with Intel processors rather than Apple silicon chips, and it could be one of the sole machines in the Mac lineup to continue to rely on Intel technology. Rumors suggest that most other machines are transitio...
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Intel Has To Be Better Than 'Lifestyle Company' Apple at Making CPUs, Says New CEO

Intel's new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, doesn't start his new role until February, but he's already prepping the company to take on Apple's M1 chips. From a report: The Oregonian, a local newspaper in Oregon where Intel maintains a large presence, reports that the chip maker held an all-hands company meeting yesterday, and Gelsinger attended. "We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle company in Cupertino" makes, Gelsinger reportedly told Intel emplo...
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AMD and NVIDIA Will Continue to Face GPU Supply Issues Throughout Q1

We all know about the GPU shortage issue, but it looks like it will not be solved until Q1 2021. AMD and NVIDIA have officially confirmed it along with the increased prices due to an increase in tariffs and GPU mining. The post AMD and NVIDIA Will Continue to Face GPU Supply Issues Throughout Q1 appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Incoming Intel CEO Derides Company's Inability to 'Deliver Better Products' Than Apple's M1 Chip

Incoming Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has said that the company must "deliver better products" than Apple, which he described as a "lifestyle company," and says that Intel's best days are "in front of it" (via The Oregonian). Speaking at an Intel all-hands meeting yesterday, Gelsinger derisively implied that Apple is merely a "lifestyle company," so Intel must be able to surpass its technology: "We have to deliver better products to the PC ecosystem than any possible thing that a lifestyle compan...
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Qualcomm pays $1.4bn to acquire ex-Apple and AMD Arm server chip engineers (and the biz they set up)

Purchase of Nuvia raises eyebrows Qualcomm has announced it will pay $1.4bn for Arm data-center chip design biz Nuvia, a startup only established in 2019.…
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ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE Announced with AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs

ASUS to house AMD's Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs in Zephyrus Duo 15 SE The post ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 SE Announced with AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Intel CEO Bob Swan To Step Down in February, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger To Replace Him

Intel CEO Bob Swan is set to step down effective Feb. 15. From a report: VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger will take over the position, sources told CNBC. Intel's stock was up about 13% in premarket trading following the news. VMWare's stock was down nearly 5%. Swan was named CEO in January 2019 after serving as interim CEO for seven months. During Swan's tenure, Intel has suffered blows from competitors. Over the summer, Intel reported that its latest generation chips would be delayed while AMD's were a...
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Intel CEO Bob Swan to Step Down in February

Intel CEO Bob Swan is to step down as of February 15, according to CNBC. CEO of VMWare, Pat Gelsinger, is expected to take over the position. During Swan's tenure, Intel has faced a range of considerable setbacks. In the summer of 2020, Apple announced that it was severing its partnership with Intel to favor its own custom silicon instead. Microsoft, another major Intel client, is expected to follow suit in the near future. Intel also reported last year that its latest 7nm processors would b...
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AMD Unveils Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors

AMD today has officially announced their new Ryzen 5000U and Ryzen 5000H Zen3-powered lineup for the laptop and mobility notebook market. These chips are codenamed Cezanne and will feature a brand new core architecture to deliver improved efficiency & performance compared to Ryzen 4000 series mobile chips. The post AMD Unveils Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile Processors appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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AMD Shows Off Impressive Ryzen 5000 Mobile Processors and 3rd Gen Epyc Server Chips

Advanced Micro Devices showed off some impressive Ryzen 5000 mobile processors today and teased the performance of its 3rd Gen Epyc server chips. From a report: Those chips are aimed at keeping AMD's performance lead over its rival Intel in the mobile and server markets. AMD CEO Lisa Su showed off the new chips in a keynote speech at CES 2021, the online-only tech trade show. AMD is launching its Ryzen 5000 Series mobile processors for gaming laptops and thin-and-light notebooks. These eight-cor...
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Lenovo announces ThinkBook 14p / 16p Gen2 business laptops with latest AMD APUs and next gen Nvidia RTX GPUs

Even though the spec sheets do not mention the exact processors, the ACH denomination added to the products names suggests that Lenovo...
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Lenovo’s bevy of new Legion gaming laptops go all-in on Ryzen 5000

Lenovo unveiled its refreshed Legion laptop lineup at CES, and the company is turning to AMD's latest Ryzen processors -- rather than Intel -- for gaming.
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Intel Unveils New Core H-Series Laptop and 11th Gen Desktop Processors At CES 2021

MojoKid writes: At its virtual CES 2021 event today, Intel's EVP Gregory Bryant unveiled an array of new processors and technologies targeting virtually every market, from affordable Chromebooks to enthusiast-class gaming laptops and high-end desktops. Intel's 11th Gen Core vPro platform was announced, featuring new Intel Hardware Shield AI-enabled threat ransomware and crytpo-mining malware detection technology. In addition, the Intel Rocket Lake-S based Core i9-11900K 8-core CPU was revealed, ...
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AMD Ryzen 5000 Cezanne APU Die Render Surfaces Online

Pictures of AMD Ryzen 5000 “Cezanne” leaked in die shots. As for the technical specifications, the Cezanne will share the same number of graphic cores as Renoir APU, which will be 8 compute and graphic cores. The post AMD Ryzen 5000 Cezanne APU Die Render Surfaces Online appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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The best budget laptops for 2021

Looking for a budget notebook for work or play? The best budget laptops will get the job done without gouging your wallet.
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14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro Models Expected to Boost Apple Silicon's Market Share in Second Half of 2021

Apple is expected to release new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon in the second half of 2021, boosting Apple's market share of notebook CPUs to about 7%, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce. In July 2020, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with Apple silicon and an all-new design will launch in the late second quarter or third quarter of this year. Kuo later added that these MacBook Pro models will feature Mini-LED...
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Graphics Cards Are About To Get a Lot More Expensive, Asus Warns

Ever since Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30-series and AMD's Radeon RX 6000-series graphics cards launched last fall, the overwhelming demand and tight supply, exacerbated by a cryptocurrency boom, has caused prices for all graphics cards to go nuts. Brace yourself: It looks like it's about to get even worse. From a report: In the Asus DIY PC Facebook group, Asus technical marketing manager Juan Jose Guerrero III warned that prices for the company's components will increase in the new year. "We have an a...
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Linus Torvalds Rails At Intel For 'Killing' the ECC Industry

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Linux creator Linus Torvalds has accused Intel of preventing widespread use of error-correcting memory and being "instrumental in killing the whole ECC industry with its horribly bad market segmentation." ECC stands for error-correcting code. ECC memory uses additional parity bits to verify that the data read from memory is the same as the data that was written. Without this check, memory is vulnerable to occasional corruption where a bit is...
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Xbox Series X and S Shortages Have Microsoft Asking AMD for Help

Supply issues have hamstrung the rollout of the latest generation of video game consoles. Even now, nearly two months after the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S released, Microsoft is still scrambling to meet demand and has reportedly reached out to chipmaker AMD to fast-track production on its end. From a report: AMD manufactures the GPU and CPU for both consoles, so if it's able to push out its chips faster, Microsoft could, in theory, churn out more consoles by extension. As spotted by VGC, Mi...
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Speculation Grows As AMD Files Patent for GPU Design

Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: AMD filed a patent on using chiplets for a GPU with hints on why it has waited this long to extend their CPU strategy to GPUs. The latency between chiplets poses more of a performance problem for GPUs, and AMD is attempting to solve the problem with a new interconnect called high bandwidth passive crosslink. This new interconnect will allow each GPU to more effectively communicate with each other and the CPU. "With NVIDIA working on its own MCM d...
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Intel Core i9-11900K 8 Core Rocket Lake CPU Is a Serious Threat to AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Apparently, the first benchmark results for the Rocket Lake-S architecture based, upcoming Core i9-11900K CPU have been leaked. The CPU will feature Cypress Cove core design, and it is expected that this design will provide double-digit IPC gain compared to the Skylake-based series. The post Intel Core i9-11900K 8 Core Rocket Lake CPU Is a Serious Threat to AMD Ryzen 9 5950X appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Intel Urged to Take 'Immediate Action' Amid Threats From Apple Silicon and AMD

Activist hedge fund Third Point LLC is pushing for a major shakeup at Intel in response to threats from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, TSMC, and Samsung (via Reuters). Intel's in-house manufacturing capabilities have struggled to provide the chips its clients want in recent years, with many of its offerings lagging behind its rivals in terms of speed and power consumption. While 2020 has afforded Intel a boost in the form of surging laptop sales, the company has failed to capitalize on demand...
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The Coolest Gadgets of 2020

It didn’t feel like it, what with a major pandemic and massive financial crisis, but 2020 was actually an incredible year for gadgets. For companies like Apple and Microsoft, this could have been a landmark year were it not for everything else going on. While the competition for our attention this year was steep,…Read more...
Tags: Apple, Google, Science, Microsoft, Zen, Samsung, Commerce, Sony, Amd, Fitbit, Jbl, Onyx, Peloton, Surechip

GIGABYTE Unveils Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING OC 16G

Gigabyte has listed Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING OC 16GB on its website. Currently, it is the fastest Radeon Graphics card by Gigabyte as it is yet to confirm its plans for the AORUS Master series. The post GIGABYTE Unveils Radeon RX 6900 XT GAMING OC 16G appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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2021 will be a calmer year for semiconductors and chips (except for Intel)

If ever there was a typically quiet tech industry that seemed to drive massive headlines this year, it was semiconductors. From record-setting M&A purchases to prodigious venture capital financing, the decline of major players and huge international trade fights, semiconductor companies found themselves in the crosshairs of inventors, VCs, regulators, politicians and, well, Apple. 2020 was a banner year, mostly since it was the culmination of patterns we’ve been watching in the industry for year...
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This Was the Most Exciting and Disappointing Year for Computers and Consoles

This fall was a blizzard of hardware and console announcements from practically every major company, all timed to launch just before the holiday shopping season. Nvidia wowed us with new graphics cards. AMD hit the ground running with new processors and its own graphics cards. Intel’s Iris Xe integrated GPU was…Read more...
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600H “Cezanne” Processor Benchmarked-Much Faster Than Renoir

The Ryzen 5 5600H has already appeared in a leak last month. The rumors suggested that the processor will feature a base clock speed of 3.0 GHz and a boost clock speed of up to 4.1 GHz. The post AMD Ryzen 5 5600H “Cezanne” Processor Benchmarked-Much Faster Than Renoir appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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AMD is Preparing Ryzen 9 5900 12 Core & Ryzen 7 5800 8 Core ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPUs For OEMs

AMD to provide Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 Desktop CPUs for OEMs The post AMD is Preparing Ryzen 9 5900 12 Core & Ryzen 7 5800 8 Core ‘Zen 3’ Desktop CPUs For OEMs appeared first on ThinkComputers.org.
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Apple's Fantastic M1 Processor Is Held Back by Software Compatibility

It’s easy to look at the benchmark numbers of Apple’s home-grown processor with wide, astonished eyes—and some heart-felt expletives, too. The M1 is no doubt impressive enough to capture the interest of the most die-hard of die-hard PC users, and it’s clear that Apple’s gamble with making its own in-house chips is…Read more...
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