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    Apple M4 Chip Benchmarked: 22% Faster Single-Core and 25% Faster Multi-Core Performance

    My point is it's a collection of benchmarks rather than a single task, and unless I'm missing something, there is no breakdown of each task. intel were caught manipulating benchmarks like these many times by just getting the benchmark company to run the tests more favourable to intel more often...
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    Apple M4 Chip Benchmarked: 22% Faster Single-Core and 25% Faster Multi-Core Performance

    geekbench is a joke. I want to see some classic benchmarks that actually use the CPU cores and not the bunch of accelerators attached to it. I bet if someone ran something like Pifast or wprime it wouldnt look so good.
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    AMD "Ryzen AI 9 HX170" Surfaces, Suggests New Naming Scheme for Ultraportable Processors

    I can just hear the marketing people.....I have a great original idea......lets call it Ryzen AI! Everyone wants AI right?......right?
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    AMD "Strix Point" Mobile Processor Confirmed 12-core/24-thread, But Misses Out on PCIe Gen 5

    isnt the main limitation is decompressing it rather than the drive speed.
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    Samsung Signs $3 Billion HBM3E 12H Supply Deal with AMD

    There has been a lot of news about Samsung struggling to move silicone, I suspect we will see a lot more AMD and Samsung collaborations in the future, they already worked on a GPU for Samsung. Perhaps some IO or consoles will get fabbed there if it's cheap enough.
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    NVIDIA Points Intel Raptor Lake CPU Users to Get Help from Intel Amid System Instability Issues

    AMD at least have finally set hard limits for motherboard auto overclocking after the x3d chips started getting killed by the same overvoltage bs motherboard manufacturers have done to both Intel and AMD, they have done it for decades, MCE, fsb overclocking, etc. The main difference is that its...
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    AMD Extends Leadership Adaptive SoC Portfolio with New Versal Series Gen 2 Devices Delivering End-to-End Acceleration for AI-Driven Embedded Systems

    This is probably a Xilinx product that was coming down the pipe when AMD bought them.
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    AMD Ryzen 9000 "Granite Ridge" Zen 5 Processor Pictured

    The 8000 series is already available, its just zen4 APU chips
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    Chinese Company Revives AMD Vega GPU in a Unique NAS Motherboard

    If i had to guess I think this has originally been for digital signage. With Ethernet used to send video rather than HDMI, that's why it had the GPU and all the network controllers, since you need the full capacity of each controller for the video stream to each monitor and a half decent GPU to...
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    NVIDIA Accused of Acting as "GPU Cartel" and Controlling Supply

    Intel got fined billions in multiple countries, and AMD was almost bankrupt, it was only because they won those cases against intel that were they able to make any progress with sales since intel would cut off "rebates" if a company used a CPU other than Intel. If Nvidia is doing the same thing...
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    NVIDIA Accused of Acting as "GPU Cartel" and Controlling Supply

    people keep missing the point of the article, its nothing to do with features or anything like that the issue is "afraid to even meet with rival AI chipmakers out of fear that NVIDIA will retaliate by delaying shipments of already ordered GPUs." this is exactly what intel done to AMD with CPUs...
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    Intel Core i9-14900KS Pricing Confirmed to be $749

    The sole purpose of this CPU is for benchmarks to bump Intel up the CPU performance charts. It will get sent to reviewers, who will benchmark it and add it to their charts, making intel look faster. nvidia used to do this like the special edition 2060 KO that was really a 2070 that Nvidia...
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    Loongson LS3C6000 Server Processor Nearing Completion

    They are for Chinese government, intel and amd or even arm are irrelevant in that market. It just has to be fast enough and manufacturable in China. They even run their own architecture, its not x86 or arm.
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    Chat with NVIDIA RTX Tech Demo

    this just reads like an advert.
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    NVIDIA Introduces NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada Generation GPU

    its just an RTX 4060 for $1200.
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