Author: Zach_Wilson
Data about AMD’s next generation Threadripper 9000 high performance CPU surfaces — mention of Zen5-based, 96-core super chip point to a 2025 release of world’s most powerful prosumer processor
VideoCardz has spotted, via Olrak29 on X, the appearance of AMD‘s upcoming Threadripper 9000 series on NBD (a shipping manifest aggregation and query system). Codenamed “Shimada Peak” the information provided positions this as-yet unannounced series as AMD’s most powerful processor for the prosumer market. The first SKU identified is a…
Read MorePixel 9 Pro Fold review: A grown-up, glowed-up foldable
Growing up. It’s something we all do, and devices do too. While there’s been very little innovation in mainstream smartphones lately, foldable phones have been maturing over the last few years and finally seem to be coming into their own. It’s like they’re in the young adult phase of their…
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The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is the foldable we’ve been waiting for
The highest compliment I can pay the Pixel 9 Pro F — oh forget it, let’s just call it the Pixel Fold — is that I forgot I was using a folding phone while I was using it. Sounds like a weird compliment, right? Isn’t the whole point of the…
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Dell reveals promising new Intel XPS 13 AI PC, but can it surpass the Snapdragon model?
Dell already released its first AI-powered laptop in 2024, the Dell XPS 13 equipped with Snapdragon X Elite, and now it plans to follow up with another entry in the line, the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 AI processor. The latest XPS 13 features a dedicated NPU capable of up…
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Intel comes roaring back with new Lunar Lake chips to battle AMD and Qualcomm with all-day battery, AI, and serious gaming performance
Intel launched its latest mobile processor series, the Intel Core Ultra 200 series (known as Lunar Lake), this afternoon at an event in Berlin ahead of the start of IFA 2024. The new system-on-a-chip (SoC) promises substantial performance increases over last year’s Intel ‘Meteor Lake’ Core Ultra 100 series, as…
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Intel’s Core Ultra 200V chips aim for AI PC dominance
The race to build the most compelling AI PC processors continues with the launch of Intel's Core Ultra 200V. At Computex in June, we learned these "Lunar Lake" laptop chips would feature a powerful 48 TOPS (tera operations per second) neural processing unit for AI work, and, surprisingly enough, they'd…
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