2024-06-04
interesting, the answer is bigger than i thought
The Verge
Intel unveils its Lunar Lake laptop chips, with a new SoC design, up to 14% faster CPU, 50% faster integrated GPU, and NPU with up to 48 TOPS of AI performance
Last year, Intel boasted that its Meteor Lake processors, dubbed Core Ultra, represented the company's biggest architectural shift in 40 years.
2024-05-13
TLDR for the new Top500 list: -Frontier retains it's No.1 spot. -Aurora is about 200Pf RMax behind Frontier, using 16kW more power, 500,000 cores more than frontier, though it is about 270Pf higher Rpeak than frontier. Aurora is... not looking great [image]
Tom's Hardware
Top500: the Intel-powered Aurora supercomputer, not yet fully operational, came second behind the AMD-powered Frontier, but did take first in an AI benchmark
Aurora faces stability issues from hardware failures, cooling malfunctions, and operational errors.
2022-09-30
genuinely quite sad about this. as someone who doesnt game often, Stadia has been great. goood performance, great games, actually good latency. i see myself gaming less because of this, not moving to something else like GeForce now or whatever microsofts one is called https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Google plans to shut down Stadia on January 18, 2023, and will refund hardware, software, and DLC purchases; members of the Stadia team will be reassigned
which scary games do you have queued up? @slimefiend : but... game streaming is the future https://twitter.com/... @wario64 : “We will be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases ma...
2022-07-21
@anshelsag @Qualcomm it would have been dumb, but i would have loved to see them go to A510 for this. but even A55 would have been a nice boost
Android Central
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon W5 Gen 1 and W5+ Gen 1 chips for wearables, based on 4nm process and debuting in watches from Oppo and Mobvoi
The upgrade we've been waiting for is here. — What you need to know — Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon W5 platform for wearables.
2022-05-19
still no ryzen model, but this is pretty amazing, just upgrade the mianboard of your laptop for under $600 to get a newer faster model, huzzah! https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Framework updates the 13.5" modular Framework Laptop with 12th-Gen Intel CPUs, starting at $1,049; owners can upgrade existing laptops with a $538 kit
A new laptop that fits inside your old laptop — A little more than a year after announcing the first version of its ultra-repairable …
2021-06-11
of those ventures. 2 shipped, one was vaguely successful, 1 has been investigated for fraud and had multiple CEOs and the last is just a bit all over the place. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Apple has hired Ulrich Kranz, who ran the development teams for the BMW i3 and i8 and co-founded self-driving electric vehicle startup Canoo
- Ulrich Kranz also co-founded autonomous auto startup Canoo — Apple is in early stages of building self-driving vehicle
i really hope they laughed intel out of the room. I cannot stress how much I want a third high performance CPU ISA in the world https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Intel offered to acquire SiFive, which designs chips that are based on the RISC-V architecture, for more than $2B
Bloomberg :
2021-01-13
@RDRv3 one ofthe things that Qualcomm does that other OEMs don't is that it takes advantage of the architecture license it has and augments the memory subsystem to their advantage, not quite to Apple levels, but moreso than any other stock ARM licensee
AnandTech
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2100 flagship SoC, produced on a 5nm process node, touting 19% better single core and 33% better multi-core performance than last gen
2020-05-21
@JoshDWalrath Intel's Temps this gen though are surprisingly good, but yeah, that power draw is wow
AnandTech
Review of Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPUs: an iterative update pushing performance to new heights at the expense of power efficiency
Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech :
2020-05-14
Very interesting. the bulk of MS new windows users come from prebuilts and laptops not DIY, so eliminating 32bit from there and then slowly phasing out (hopefully not too slow) seems like a better option than the nuclear delete Apple did. https://twitter.com/...
Neowin
Microsoft stops offering 32-bit version of Windows 10 to OEMs for new PCs, but still offers support for existing 32-bit PCs
Rich Woods / Neowin :