Year: 2024
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Qualcomm Adreno X1 GPU Performs Well, Reduces Power
Borrowing smartphone-GPU power-saving tech but cranking up the GHz, the Qualcomm Adreno X1 GPU should deliver adequate Windows-on-Arm laptop gaming frame rates. Qualcomm is continually testing games and updating its GPU drivers to improve users’ experience. While third-party benchmarks are needed to understand how good the GPU is, they should be viewed in the context…
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Qualcomm’s Oryon CPU Challenges x86 But How Does It Stack Up Against the Arm Cortex-X925?
Qualcomm’s Oryon CPU promises high performance and low power consumption, aiming to rival Intel and AMD in Windows laptops. The Arm Cortex-X925 will challenge Qualcomm’s compatible design, however, by clocking as fast and implementing a wider microarchitecture.
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Will TSMC Really Fall Behind Intel and Samsung?
Samsung claims a first-mover advantage with GAA transistors, while Intel plans to overtake it by being the first to combine GAA and backside power. The open question is whether either company can deliver the production volume and best yields, power, speed, and density or match TSMC’s customer service.
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Flow PPU Promises to Accelerate Threaded Code 100×
Startup Flow Computing is developing a coprocessor targeting threaded workloads and promising to double unmodified code’s throughput. Refactored software should see much greater gains. In principle, Flow’s PPU is compatible with all instruction sets, but…
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Nvidia and Intel Talk Data-Center-AI Economics at Computex 2024
At Computex 2024, Nvidia enraptured audiences with its data-center AI success, and Intel sought to stay relevant in data-center and PC markets.
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Arm Immortalis-G925 GPU Enhances Hidden-Surface Removal
Arm’s new Immortalis-G925 boasts 35%+ graphics and AI performance leaps, but this factors in a bigger configuration and optimized physical design. Ray tracing speeds up and Arm added a fragment-prepass stage to raise system efficiency.