The Hot Take: Out of left field Samsung comes out with Exynos 2700 to best Qualcomm? Interesting.
Back in August, insiders claimed that the Exynos 2700 beat Qualcomm's next flagship chips in internal testing. Those Snapdragons have since become official, and Samsung has reportedly put its upcoming chip up against them once again. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power at least some models in the Galaxy S27 series, which should arrive early next year.
This time, the tests were allegedly run against the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Exynos 2700 reportedly scored around 13,000 points in the Geekbench 6.5âŚ
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The Hot Take: That's 1/4 of their workforce, that is insane.
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
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The Hot Take: Race to the ST champion on next architecture has begun.
AMD's Zen 6 processors are out! Well, the EPYC 9006 family of server CPUs is out, anyway. These aren't chips that mere mortals like you and I can reasonably acquire, so there aren't really many third-party benchmarks out there yet, but somebody ran GeekBench 7 on one, and you know what that means: time for some wild speculation, such as the supposed 15% single-threaded IPC increase you might have seen reported this week. However, it isn't quite that clear yet. Well-known enthusiast and occasional leaker HXL (@9550pro) spotted the EPYC 9996âŚ
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The Hot Take: Interesting if true.
New details surrounding the Exynos 2700 talk about the chipsetâs internal tests allegedly outperforming the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in both CPU and GPU workloads. The latest claim paints Qualcommâs top-end SoC in a negative light, indicating that its transition to TSMCâs 2nm node and Offset PoP packaging didnât help matters. However, weâve noticed a trend on foreign outlets where the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6âs capabilities are being downplayed, likely to hype up the Exynos 2700. While this is a decent strategy when discussingâŚ
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The Hot Take: One of the reasons I stay away from foldable devices.
Some iPhone Duos are already experiencing hinge issues that cause display cracks, based on photos shared on Reddit and the MacRumors forums. Almost all of the display faults are right along the hinge, and most result in a line of bright pixels across one side of the screen.
An iPhone Duo owner in Australia said his device cracked after being opened fewer than 20 times, and there was no visible damage beforehand.
Had my iPhone Duo for about six hours and had probably opened it fewer than 20 times. I was showing it to aâŚ
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The Hot Take: Linux is growing up!
AMD has submitted a Linux overclocking driver for Ryzen processors, giving enthusiasts official tuning controls after a lengthy wait outside the Windows club.
AMD engineer Shyam Sundar S K posted the proposed AOD WMI driver, which connects Linux to platform firmware. The initial patches expose Package Power Tracking, Thermal Design Current and Electrical Design Current limits through sysfs, together with their supported ranges. Users can toggle simultaneous multithreading at the firmware level and read current memory clocks.
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The Hot Take: Nice.
Nvidiaâs latest GeForce driver adds Advanced Shader Delivery, promising to cut the tedious wait while PCs compile shaders.
According to TeakTown Driver 621.01 introduces support for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day, with Windows 11 and the Xbox PC app required.
Microsoftâs technology can reduce shader compilation times by up to 95 per cent in supported games. That is a welcome improvement for anyone who bought a graphics card to play games and ended up watching progress bars. The system compiles shaders ahead of timeâŚ
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The Hot Take: Intel roaring back to a manufacturing powerhouse.
Intel is accelerating work on its long-delayed US semiconductor manufacturing projects, with equipment installation underway at its Fab 62 facility in Arizona and construction progressing at its Ohio site. The developments come as stronger demand for AI data center processors supports the chipmaker's efforts to expand capacity and strengthen its foundry business.
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The Hot Take: I guess we'll see if this pans out, question is does Ai/Si start helping write code for these chips.
Running complicated algorithms on quantum computing hardware is going to require the use of logical qubits, where collections of hardware qubits are linked together in ways that allow errors to be detected and corrected. In general, the more hardware qubits you dedicate to each logical qubit, the better the chances are of identifying errors. But, given that the hardware qubits are prone to errors, adding more of them also increases the probability that errors will occur. If the hardware error rate is too high, then growing the logical qubitâŚ
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The Hot Take: Man, this language just doesn't die, I guess Ai might be the only way to finally lay it to rest for good.
OpenAI says its models now come with better COBOL capabilities.
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