Alleged Apple M1X Processor Specifications Leaked Again
Apple impressed everyone with the launch of their M1 processor last year and it would appear they are preparing to do it again with an upgraded version named the M1X for the 2021 Mac lineup. The Apple M1X will reportedly include an upgraded 12-core CPU consisting of eight Firestorm performance...
Manufacturing: Samsung Semiconductor Fabs in Texas Shut Down Following State-wide Power Shortages
News just keep flowing that are bound to have impact on pricing for components users of this website know and love. The Austin-American Statesman reports that Samsung has been ordered to shutter its Texas factories in wake of recent power shortages that have impacted the state. The order, which came...
Intel Core i9-11900T “Rocket Lake” Processor Allegedly Catches Up with Zen 3 in Single-Threaded Performance
When AMD announced its Ryzen 5000 series of processors based on the new Zen 3 architecture, the performance of these processors was the best on the market. Even in our own testing, we have found that AMD’s Zen 3 core is the highest performing core on the market, even beating...
Pat Gelsinger Becomes CEO of Intel
Today marks Intel’s official CEO transition as Pat Gelsinger becomes the company’s eighth chief executive officer in its history. Gelsinger is an accomplished CEO and industry veteran with more than four decades of technology and leadership experience – including 30 years at Intel, where he began his career. Gelsinger shared...
NVIDIA Faces Challenges: Qualcomm, Google, and Microsoft Protest Arm Acquisition
In September of last year, NVIDIA has officially announced that the current industry rumor about its big acquisition was true. The company has announced that it is acquiring Arm Limited from the Softbank Group. Paying as much as $40 billion for the purchase, NVIDIA is gaining access to the complete...
Intel Readies Core i9-10900KS Special Edition Processor, Refreshes “Comet Lake”
Intel is reportedly giving finishing touches to the Core i9-10900KS Special Edition desktop processor. The SKU was leaked to the web in an “eligible products list” as part of a “Crysis Remastered” game bundle campaign. This would be the third in a string of special edition processor models from Intel,...
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G Engineering Sample Overclocked to 4.8 GHz & Benchmarked
We recently reported on the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G Zen 3 APU being discovered in China. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G engineering samples were distributed to system integrators and OEMs for validation with confidentiality clauses however it seems many have made their way elsewhere with several selling on eBay for 500...
Intel Rumored To Launch Three 8-Core 11th Generation Tiger Lake-H CPUs
Intel announced their 11th Generation Tiger Lake-H processors for high-end gaming laptops at CES 2021. The three models announced are now shipping in slim gaming machines and target the AMD Ryzen 5000H series processors. The Intel models compete favorably in single-core performance but only feature four cores and eight threads...
Intel Apparently Discounting 10th-Gen CPUs in Bid to Claw Market from AMD
As if CD Projekt Red needed any more problems on their plate that weren’t of their own creation, it seems that the hackers who recently infiltrated the company’s infrastructure have turned out a profit on sensitive data. After source code for CD Projekt Red’s Red Engine, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher...
First Comprehensive Review of the Core i7-11700K (ES) Surfaces
Lab501 posted the first comprehensive review of an Intel Core i7-11700K “Rocket Lake-S” engineering sample. The ES has clock speeds matching the rumored clock speeds of the retail version, and should give you a fair idea of how the finished product should perform. The i7-11700K, which is an 8-core/16-thread chip,...
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