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15 votes
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Intel hit with $400 million EU antitrust fine in decades-old case
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Intel's next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs: A game-changing 40-year architectural shift to rival Apple
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Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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There seem to be two major popular processors. Which do you like?
First, let's add some actual context: I'm basically trying to decide on a new laptop. I don't know how quickly this falls into the "then it doesn't really matter" category, but the laptops I'm...
First, let's add some actual context: I'm basically trying to decide on a new laptop. I don't know how quickly this falls into the "then it doesn't really matter" category, but the laptops I'm most interested in either have AMD Ryzen or Intel Core processors. In addition, a general Internet search yields results that basically come down to "well, they're similar but also very different depending on xyz factors."
So this si where I turn to y'all. I know things in egneral about computers and laptops, but getting into the guts is not an area I know too much about. Also, I live outside the US, and the two main brands I'm looking into are Asus and Lenovo. Also, and this is the part where I know a bunch of you are going to groan or otherwise be disgusted, I'm intending to just run the default Windows OS that will come with it... and then try to uninstall a bunch of stuff. Something like Linux is far too complicated for my meager understanding.
As for what I intend to use it for? Just general purpose- lots of internet browsing, watching a bunch of video files I have (I already have a preferred video player), and playing the occasional game or two... but it's definitely not any sort of gaming laptop usage.
Also, with what I'm going for, it's going to be Ryzen 5 vs core i5. Which of these is better to go with, based on the above information?
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Downfall security vulnerability in Intel processors
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Intel discontinuing NUC manufacturing
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Gordon E. Moore, Intel co-founder behind Moore’s Law, dies at 94
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Fanless x86 mini PCs are getting absurdly fast and cheap
Pretty much what the title says - I’ve been looking for something small and not too expensive to run a few VMs on recently, and I’m just genuinely amazed at where the tiny SBC space is at right...
Pretty much what the title says - I’ve been looking for something small and not too expensive to run a few VMs on recently, and I’m just genuinely amazed at where the tiny SBC space is at right now.
The Celeron N5105 seems to be the go to choice at the moment. You can get an entire machine running that CPU that’s slightly smaller than an old double CD jewel case, for $150. Less than $200 if you want 16GB RAM and a fast NVMe SSD in there too. Four decent quality 2.5GbE NICs thrown in as a bonus. And it’s not that much slower than my expensive full size desktop from late 2020.
Part of me thinks I’m just getting old - phones have been plenty of people’s primary computer for years now, after all - but there’s something about having a real standalone x86 PC that size for literally 1/5th the price of a flagship phone that just blows my mind.
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Intel's Arc A770 GPU is priced at $329
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Hertzbleed - a new family of frequency side channel attacks on x86 processors
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Mesa 22.0 released with Vulkan 1.3, many open source Intel & AMD driver improvements
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The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security
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Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5
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Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
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'It's dead, Jim': Torvalds marks Intel Itanium processors as orphaned in Linux kernel
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The confusing world of USB
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Microsoft reveals Pluton, a custom security chip to be built into Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors
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Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
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Intel's new golden sample CPUs, and cryo coolers developed in partnership with EK and Cooler Master
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20GB of Intel's internal source code, schematics, specs, and documents released, allegedly found on an unsecured CDN server
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Intel drops two high ranking Intel staff in the last six weeks
On June 11th Jim Keller (Senior Vice President of Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group) retired immediately - Former tenure at AMD, Tesla, and Apple. - Link Next on June 27th Murthy Renduchintala...
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On June 11th Jim Keller (Senior Vice President of Intel’s Silicon Engineering Group) retired immediately - Former tenure at AMD, Tesla, and Apple. - Link
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Next on June 27th Murthy Renduchintala (Chief Engineering Officer) departs due to a massive layoff - Link
An interesting note is that Ann Kelleher who is a 24-year Intel veteran will lead the development of 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chip technology processes.
Editorial
With ARM, AMD, Nvidia, TSMC leading the charge, Intel might start their downward run. They are now relying on TSMC for fab capacity in hopes to outbid AMD and constrain supply. AMD is quickly growing in the enterprise space and providing comparable performance.
I believe we (consumers) are in for a great few years of accelerated CPU development.
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Developers leak Geekbench benchmarks from the Apple silicon-Mac Developer Transition Kit, running the 2020 iPad's A12Z Bionic processor
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Intel insider claims it finally lost Apple because Skylake QA 'was abnormally bad'
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MSI, Intel, and PCMR are giving away a MSI Z490 Godlike and a 2080 super X Gaming Trio
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Apple plans to announce move to its own Mac chips at WWDC
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Microsoft and Intel project converts malware into images before analyzing it
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Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU—the Core i9-10900K—has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
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Report from Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch several Macs with Arm-based processors in 2021, USB4 support coming to Macs in 2022
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Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute
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SVT-AV1, an open-source AV1 video encoder and decoder developed by Intel and Netflix
11 votes -
Something Wrong At Intel Graphics
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Information, photos, and demo of Intel's first discrete graphics card: the DG1, based on Xe graphics architecture
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Intel Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X CPU benchmarks hit Geekbench
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AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout
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Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business
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Apple in advanced talks to buy Intel’s smartphone-modem chip business
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Intel prepares to graft Google's bfloat16 onto processors
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Macintosh Forks
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AMD announced Ryzen 3000
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Exploring the impact of disabling Hyper-Threading on Intel processors to mitigate the new vulnerabilities
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Intel tried to bribe reseachers to downplay the severity of MDS vulnerability
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CPU.fail - Multiple attacks against modern Intel CPUs disclosed (ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout)
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"Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes"
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The Performance Cost Of Spectre, Meltdown, & Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux 4.19 with Intel & AMD processors
14 votes -
Intel reverses controversial update license
19 votes -
Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed!
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Intel Graphics teases first PC graphics card for 2020
@intelgraphics: We will set our graphics free. #SIGGRAPH2018 https://t.co/vAoSe4WgZX
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Why Intel will never let owners control the ME
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Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that Intel reckons we shouldn't worry about
13 votes