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28 votes
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Google unveils custom Arm-based chips, following similar efforts at rivals Amazon and Microsoft
10 votes -
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
41 votes -
Why x86 doesn’t need to die
28 votes -
Bugs and glitches of high-level NES Tetris
10 votes -
Reverse engineering standard cell logic in the Intel 386 processor
10 votes -
I built my own 16-Bit CPU in Excel | Inkbox
16 votes -
Loongson releases its next-generation CPU
15 votes -
I made a 32-bit computer inside Terraria
9 votes -
Can Windows make the jump to ARM like Apple did?
I'm seeing a lot of news in my feed about Qualcomm chips approaching laptop performance, such as...
I'm seeing a lot of news in my feed about Qualcomm chips approaching laptop performance, such as
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/qualcomm_x_elite/
Will this turn out any better than the last few times Microsoft tried to break away from Intel? Would you want such a laptop? Will it wake Intel out of its complacency?
33 votes -
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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Zenbleed - Zen 2 hardware vulnerability
19 votes -
Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?
6 votes -
AMD launches EPYC 9004 "Genoa" processors - Up to 96 cores, AVX-512, incredible performance
16 votes -
A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip
4 votes -
Hertzbleed - a new family of frequency side channel attacks on x86 processors
13 votes -
VRoom is an open source, very high performance, RISC-V implementation targeting cloud servers, it's licensed under a copyleft license (GPL3) but also available as a commercial license (like MySQL)
5 votes -
Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
10 votes -
Cores that don’t count
8 votes -
The story of 1987's Acorn Archimedes, the first production ARM/RISC-based personal computer
9 votes -
When important components become scarce
6 votes -
Apple preparing next Mac chips with aim to outclass top-end PCs; up to 32 core CPU's, 16 core GPU's rumored
18 votes -
Intel's new golden sample CPUs, and cryo coolers developed in partnership with EK and Cooler Master
7 votes -
AMD to acquire FPGA-creator Xilinx in an all-stock transaction valued at $35 billion
15 votes -
AMD Ryzen 5000 and Zen 3 on Nov 5th: +19% IPC, claims best gaming CPU
16 votes -
AMD announces CPU and GPU events on October 8th and 28th
@AMD Gaming: Join us on October 8 and October 28 to learn more about the big things on the horizon for PC gaming. pic.twitter.com/9dy8Lt5MP8
14 votes -
Achilles: Over 400 vulnerabilities found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon DSP chip, threatening the security of hundreds of millions of Android devices
17 votes -
20GB of Intel's internal source code, schematics, specs, and documents released, allegedly found on an unsecured CDN server
20 votes -
Developers leak Geekbench benchmarks from the Apple silicon-Mac Developer Transition Kit, running the 2020 iPad's A12Z Bionic processor
8 votes -
Intel insider claims it finally lost Apple because Skylake QA 'was abnormally bad'
15 votes -
The Apple ARM Mac transition: Re-engine, not re-imagine
6 votes -
A highly efficient, real-time text-to-speech system deployed on CPUs
2 votes -
Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU—the Core i9-10900K—has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
6 votes -
Google has made significant progress toward developing its own processor to power future versions of its Pixel phones and Chromebooks
11 votes -
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
13 votes -
Space-grade CPUs: How do you send more computing power into space?
8 votes -
The story of the team behind the 6502
4 votes -
iPhone 11 / 11 Pro Review and Silicon deep dive
8 votes -
The story of the IBM Pentium 4 64-bit CPU
7 votes -
Intel Core i9-10980XE Cascade Lake-X CPU benchmarks hit Geekbench
4 votes -
AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout
11 votes -
Rome is the fulcrum of AMD's Datacenter Pivot
9 votes -
Intel prepares to graft Google's bfloat16 onto processors
6 votes -
The global Cloudflare outage today was caused by a bad regex in a firewall rule that spiked CPU usage to 100% on all machines
23 votes -
Apple hires key chip designer from ARM as own efforts ramp up
8 votes -
AMD announced Ryzen 3000
22 votes -
Exploring the impact of disabling Hyper-Threading on Intel processors to mitigate the new vulnerabilities
12 votes -
All Intel chips open to new Spoiler non-Spectre attack: Don't expect a quick fix
23 votes -
An open source CPU
6 votes -
"Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes"
23 votes