The rivalry between Intel and AMD continued this week at CES as both companies vie for silicon supremacy. These two incumbents will not only be competing against each other, but this year, they’re both trying to fend off threats from Apple, Qualcomm, a…
Enlarge / Intel Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan during an Intel press event for CES 2020 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on January 6, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Intel is replacing its chief executive Bob Swan after a series of manu…
Some initial specs for the new Core i9-11900K.
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And here’s a slide for the H-series mobile CPUs.
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More on those ultraportable gaming laptop CPUs.
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The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would…
Historically, Intel has used CES as a venue not only to showcase its latest innovation in silicon design, but also as the stage for presenting its vision for computing. At CES 2020 last year, for example, it teamed up with Lenovo to show off new comp…
Once the scrappy underdog to Intel in the CPU space, AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 series processor proves that the company can attract the attention of enthusiast gamers. AMD has shown that gamers can achieve a nearly two-fold improvement in performance b…
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Jason Torchinsky
Let’s be honest: 2020 sucks. So much of this year has been a relentless slog of bad news and miserable events that it’s been hard to keep up. Yet most of us have kept up, and the way most of us do so is with the small handheld …
Micro Magic’s new CPU prototype is seen here running on an Odroid board.
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Micro Magic Inc.—a small electronic design firm in Sunnyvale, California—has produced a prototype CPU that is several times more efficient than world-leading competito…
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini.
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The chassis is the same as before, but it’s only available in classic Mac silver.
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The rubber bottom.
Samuel Axon
Apple is crazy, right? The Mac just had its best year of sales ever, and…
Enlarge / Spoiler: When it comes to performance over the years, Intel is the slow and steady tortoise to AMD’s speedy-but-intermittent hare.
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The comment wars between Intel and AMD fans have been hot for the last few release…
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Researchers have devised a new way to remotely steal cryptographic keys from Intel CPUs, even when the CPUs run software guard extensions, the in-silicon protection that’s supposed to create a trusted enclave that’s impervious to such attacks.
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