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The Hot Take: I'm really hoping the US domestic production kick starts here soon.
Intel may be preparing another processor price increase in May, according to fresh channel checks and market research claims circulating through Asian supply-chain sources.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: If this is true, I feel ARM may have serious competition on their hands.
Many believe that Apple makes the most efficient laptop chips and that MacBooks have the best battery life because the Arm ISA supposedly offers superior performance and efficiency over the crufty x86 ISA. But that is not the case. Apple's products are relatively strong because Apple's engineers do an excellent job at designing them for a
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I'm sorry optimization is optimization. Stop crying.
Intel’s Binary Optimization Tool (BOT) has come under scrutiny following a technical analysis conducted by Geekbench, which examined how the software impacts benchmark performance.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I really hope that the rumors of Intel following AMD with keeping chipsets and sockets around longer. This new board and chip with these prices is crazy expensive these days.
With some leaks, a single screenshot is enough to keep the rumor mill churning for a few days. With Intel Nova Lake-S, things have gotten a bit more uncomfortable for anyone still hoping for a loose collection of speculations: Since early February, several separate clues have emerged that all point in the same direction. First, […] Source
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Reading through them using SIMD, just sounds like they're optimizing the thread pipeline. How can anyone think it's "Cheating"? It's just optimization all hardware vendors do with their silicon.
Geekbench has taken a closer look at Intel's Binary Optimization Tool and found that it can automatically vectorize a large number of instructions.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: AMD appears to have per-countered intel, sad this won't come out. Granted we can't get any of the other chips at this point.
Intel has officially confirmed that the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus will not be released, ending months of speculation around what many expected to be the flagship model in the company’s Arrow Lake Refresh desktop lineup.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Intel doing what it's great at with it's CPUs, software optimizations.
With the introduction of the new Binary Optimization Tool (BOT), Intel is taking a significantly different approach to boosting the performance of modern processors than in the past. While traditional optimizations rely heavily on developers and are determined during the software compilation process, Intel is now focusing on a post-compilation optimization layer based directly on […] Source
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: I'm wondering if Intel is holding out on the 290K to drop after AMD's price drops in response to these chips. They're getting good response from what I've been seeing.
Intel has shared official benchmarks of its Core Ultra 7 270K Plus & Core Ultra 5 250K Plus in gaming, apps, and more, against AMD Ryzen CPUs. Core Ultra 200S Plus Are Now The Fastest Gaming CPUs From Intel, Surpassing the Core i9-14900K. For performance comparisons, Intel is pitting the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus against the Ryzen 7 9700X and the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus against the Ryzen 5 9600X. Both of these CPUs are valid comparisons based on their prices. The company also compares the performance against existing Core Ultra 200S "Non Plus" & 14th Gen CPUs […]Read full article at https://wccftech.com/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus-core-ultra-5-250k-plus-official-gaming-app-benchmarks/
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Seems like ASRock keeps leaking everyones up and coming products. But this wasn't a surprise with Intel hitting back with their own on chip memory stack.
ASRock has inadvertently confirmed the existence of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor, following the premature publication of a press release on its official website.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Intel hopefully catches up. We'll have to see what the real word benches say.
When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like
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