Intel has announced that it’ll hold its Innovation event late in September, and it’s likely that this will be where we see the revelation of Arrow Lake, Team Blue’s next-gen desktop chips.VideoCardz reports that Intel has told us the date to mark in our calendars for the annual event, with Innovation 2024 set to run…
Artificial intelligence (AI) on the personal computer (PC) was a central focus of the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this year. PC and chip manufacturers such as AMD, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel and Nvidia announced AI PC innovations to come in the so-called “year of the AI PC”. Approximately 50 models…
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MSI on Thursday published the first image of a new desktop motherboard that supports the innovative DDR5 compression attached memory module (CAMM2). DDR5 CAMM2 modules are designed to improve upon the SO-DIMM form factor used for laptops, alleviating some of the high-speed signaling and capacity limitations of SO-DIMMs while also shaving down on the volume…
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To say that the global foundry market is booming right now would be an understatement. Demand for leading-edge process technologies driven by AI and HPC applications is unprecedented, and with Intel joining the contract chipmaking game, this market segment is once again becoming rather competitive as well. Yet, this is exactly the market segment that…
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AMD’s Strix Point processors are important for AMD – key, even, as they are laptop chips that’ll serve as the engine for Copilot+ PCs – but if the rumor mill is anything to go by, one thing Team Red can’t settle on is a name.This new leak on Strix Point comes from Golden Pig Upgrade,…
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…
