Time for Apple to dump Intel
Intel's revelation that it won't have 7-nanometer processors ready until 2021 should be a wakeup call for Apple.
Intel's revelation that it won't have 7-nanometer processors ready until 2021 should be a wakeup call for Apple.
Multi-threaded performance blows away the Intel competition.
Remember the processor core wars? They're back, as AMD puts a fire under Intel with a 16-core 3rd-generation Ryzen chip.
The good folks at iFixit have partnered up with the reverse-engineering gurus at Chipworks to give us an inside view of Apple's A4 processors as used in the iPad.All images courtesy of iFixit/Chipworks
Sapphire has just made the Radeon HD 4670 faster.
You want more performance? AMD will give you more performance. A lot more.
NVIDIA is accusing AMD of carrying out "questionable optimizations" to its Catalyst drivers in order to gain an unfair advantage over GeForce hardware in benchmark testing.
Haswell might add hours of battery life to Ultrabooks, but that comes with a hefty price tag attached. Will price sensitive consumers be willing to pay a premium for improved power consumption?
Another month, and another set of Catalyst drivers from AMD for its ATI GPUs.
It's sometimes really hard to gauge just how much progress has been made in the silicon world over the past few years. The problem with most benchmarks is that they are used to compare the latest stuff with stuff that was the latest a few minutes ago. However, the ever-useful The Tech Report has put together a benchmark of CPUs ranging from the monster Core i7 975 "Extreme Edition" all the way down to the lowly Pentium 4 670.