processors
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Intel’s Got Some Big Changes That Have Me Excited About Its Mobile Processor Line-Up
Not content to talk about only its desktop processors, Intel had a lot to say regarding its mobile processor line-up, too. The chipmaker is releasing two new 10th-gen mobile processors, new 11th-gen mobile processors, and Chromebooks will even get Intel’s Tiger Lake processors for the first time, plus some extra goodies.
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This Was the Most Exciting and Disappointing Year for Computers and Consoles
This fall was a blizzard of hardware and console announcements from practically every major company, all timed to launch just before the holiday shopping season. Nvidia wowed us with new graphics cards. AMD hit the ground running with new processors and its own graphics cards. Intel’s Iris Xe integrated GPU was impressive, not to be…
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Someone Managed to Overlock a 14-Year-Old Intel Processor to 8.36 GHz
There’s overclocking, and then there’s overclocking. Sure, there’s a certain satisfaction in overclocking a brand new AMD Ryzen 9 5950X, but that seems like child’s play compared to what one overclocker was able to do with a 14-year-old Intel processor. According to TechSpot, HWBot.org user ivanqu0208 took an Intel Celeron D 347, a single-core, single-thread…
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Breaking Down All of Apple’s Tech Speak to Understand the New M1 Chip
After months of rumours and speculation, Apple has finally revealed the specs of its in-house custom ARM processor that will power future Macs — well, at least most of the important ones, like core count and number of transistors. Unfortunately, those specs don’t paint a complete picture of how the M1’s performance will actually compare…