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    Apple is an existential threat to the PC

    Which are great increases for just 7 months. Remember some of the scores are probably from the 3 performance core variant as well. Memory bandwidth also increased by 20% from 100GB/s to 120GB/s. I'm guessing the less dense N3E process really helps with clock speeds at the expense of a slightly...
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    Apple is an existential threat to the PC

    Geekbench 6 benchmarks starting to appear. This one shows us the M4 (base frequency 4.4GHz) in an iPad solidly trouncing the M3 series in single-core and matching the M3 Pro in multi-core. Single-Core score: 3810 (20% increase over M3) Multi-Core score: 14541 (25% increase over M3) It seems...
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    Apple is an existential threat to the PC

    I'm not that worried about an attack vector that requires physical access to the hardware in the first place 😅 Hopefully the Mac Studio and Mac Pro jump straight to M4 Max and M4 Ultra or Apple could have made a larger monolithic chip to replace the quirky Ultra. We will likely see next month...
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    Apple is an existential threat to the PC

    So that was fast. We already have M4 after 7 months. 4 Performance cores 6 Efficiency cores The new Display Engine is interesting, perhaps the base chip finally supports 3 monitors. Unfortunately it is all wasted in an iPad and iPadOS. It would be really great if they made a dock and gave...
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    TSMC wafer pricing

    Always provide some context with a link, please 😅
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    New Qualcomm silicon for new Surface May 2024

    Android Authority seems to have some power figures as well as performance figures here showing the different SKUs compared to the Intel Ultra 7 155H and the Apple M3 Pro. Performance: Power: The Intel Ultra 7 155H used around 80 Watts while the Apple M3 Pro used around 42 Watts.
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    LLMs may force Apple to integrate more RAM into A-series SOCs

    They also do FaceID, autocorrect, facial recognition, the integration with the ISP (as mentioned above) and a bunch of smaller task. Apple have been doing machine learning with dedicated hardware all the way back to the iPhone X on device pretty much. They (Apple) have just released their own...
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    LLMs may force Apple to integrate more RAM into A-series SOCs

    The title is a bit misleading (should refer to LLMs) as Apple has been doing machine learning for many years on device. The biggest component being their computational photography workflow.
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    Pax Dei (PC MMO)

    It is an MMO after all, so that is a given. They usually aren't fun without an active guild or friend group.
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    New Qualcomm silicon for new Surface May 2024

    I didn't even notice the difference. But they are the same device, one is using the DirectML backend and the other the CPU backend. Is the DirectML backend testing the NPU or GPU? It does list the GPU under Inference Information, so we can assume it is the GPU? Initially I only tested the...
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    New Qualcomm silicon for new Surface May 2024

    For comparison the Apple M2 Max SoC gets 3497 (Core ML) and the Apple M1 SoC gets 2998 (Core ML). It clearly shows the Qualcomm Oryon cores are really good at certain workloads (I8).
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    Crazy PC deal at Costco *spawn

    It's even the 16GB 4060 Ti and 32GB DDR5 memory 😱 Everyone from Europe is rightfully envious at that price! Intel i7-13700F Raptor Lake (16-core/24-threads) GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 32GB DDR5 Memory 1TB Solid State Drive 2TB Hard Drive Intel Wi-Fi 6E & BT 5.3 Includes KB + Mouse Really like...
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    TSMC wafer pricing

    Isn't it just because it has limited supply? Apple and in some part NVIDIA have pretty much gobbled up whatever supply there was.
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    No Rest for the Wicked [PC, PS5, XBS-X/S]

    They are hard at work on a macOS port, which is great to hear. The art direction looks really nice! It's really cool that all the game logging is handled separately from the graphics engine with a new simulation engine - which includes fully 3D deterministic physics system designed for...
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    Apple is an existential threat to the PC

    Regardless the aforementioned software is already ported to Aarch64 now 🤷🏼‍♂️ The list also includes Redshift and Zbrush.
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