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41 votes
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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 -
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?
13 votes -
Zenbleed - Zen 2 hardware vulnerability
19 votes -
Will Floating Point 8 Solve AI/ML Overhead?
6 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 -
We’re not prepared for the end of Moore’s Law
13 votes -
AMD EPYC 7002 Series Rome Delivers a Knockout
11 votes -
Rome is the fulcrum of AMD's Datacenter Pivot
9 votes -
AMD announced Ryzen 3000
22 votes -
"Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes"
23 votes -
The Performance Cost Of Spectre, Meltdown, & Foreshadow Mitigations On Linux 4.19 with Intel & AMD processors
14 votes -
Direct ring 3 to ring 0 privilege escalation on some x86 processors using an embedded RISC core.
19 votes -
Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches, No Benchmarking Or Comparison Allowed!
12 votes -
Linux boots on Shakti processor, India's first RISC-V chip
9 votes -
AMD’s Epyc Return To The Datacenter Ring
5 votes -
Anyone else here involved/interested in Formal Verification?
5 votes -
Build an 8-bit computer from scratch
29 votes -
Speculative Store Bypass explained: what it is, how it works (new variant of CPU speculative-execution exploit)
4 votes