Intel’s Meteor Lake series of processors has had a drawn-out launch since its details were officially revealed in September 2023. The series marks Intel’s foray into the consumer market with a tile-based chiplet configuration held together with Foveros packaging. Similar to Tiger Lake, the focus of Meteor Lake has primarily been on the mobile market…
According to a CIRP report, Apple customers usually wait at least three years to upgrade to a new iPad model. Now, Consumer Intelligence Research Partners discovered that compared to iPhone users, iPad customers just hang on to their old devices, which might be a problem for Apple’s iPad business.That said, while a minority of users…
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At its European Technology Symposium last week TSMC revealed some of the details about its Global Gigafab Manufacturing program, the company’s strategy to replicate its manufacturing processes across its multiple gigafab sites. The need for large-scale multi-national fabs to have a process in place to replicate their facilities is well-documented at this point. As scaling-up…
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The Snapdragon X Elite CPU delivers just as Qualcomm promised, at least according to an early review of the new Surface Laptop which has the chip as its engine.Tom’s Hardware noticed the review of Microsoft’s new notebook in which Ryan Shrout (an ex-Intel exec on the graphics side) put the new Snapdragon X Elite through…
Gigabyte has a bunch of motherboards in the pipeline for Intel’s next-gen Arrow Lake processors, and they come with an unsurprising twist – the inclusion of AI (well, everything has to have AI these days, right?).The leak of eight Gigabyte Z890 motherboards for Arrow Lake is also telling in that this is another piece of…
Infinidat has added two HDD and flash storage array products – dubbed Infinibox G4 – that claim a 2x performance increase on predecessors by virtue of a switch from Intel to AMD central processing units (CPUs) in their triple-active controllers. The launch sees the emergence of the Infinibox SSA G4 F1400T series, which brings a…
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Nvidia has announced that it’s going to beef up the power of Copilot+ PCs, Microsoft’s new more powerful spin on its AI PCs, by equipping these laptops with Nvidia RTX GPUs.In a blog post, Nvidia tells us: “In the coming months, Copilot+ PCs equipped with new power-efficient systems-on-a-chip and RTX GPUs will be released, giving…
Intel has been fanning the flames of hype around its Lunar Lake CPUs, as well as dropping some info about another next-gen range, Arrow Lake.Arrow Lake will be desktop and higher-end laptop processors, whereas Lunar Lake is for laptops only and designed to be supremely power-efficient.As Tom’s Hardware reports, by way of running interference with…
Ever since AMD re-emerged as a major competitor within the x86 CPU scene, one of AMD’s top priorities has been to win over customers in the highly lucrative and profitable server market. It’s a strategy that’s paid off well for AMD, as while they’re still the minority player in the space, they’ve continued to whittle…
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The next few weeks in the PC industry are going to come fast and furious. Between today and mid-June are multiple conferences and trade-shows, including Microsoft Build and the king of PC trade shows: Computex Taiwan. With all three PC CPU vendors set to present, there’s a lot going on, and a lot of product…
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