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As shown on the above slide, AMD will be bringing a re-architected Compute Unit and pipeline enhancements to RDNA 3 graphics, plus a “next-gen” Infinity Cache, in addition to the headlining move to a chiplet approach rather than a large monolithic die. AMD claims that these improvements, along with the move to a 5nm process, […]
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Apple’s Latest SoC Expands on the Original Apple has announced their M2 chip at WWDC 22, and this time it’s a new design – not a fusion of two existing chip designs as we saw with the M1 Ultra back in March, Apple’s fusion of two M1 Max SoCs. One thing that hasn’t changed is […]
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Single Thread Performance Uplift Examined While some have taken the “greater than 15% uplift in single-thread performance” as an indication of Zen 4 IPC improvements, there are a number of factors at play here. AMD does not make any such IPC (instructions per clock) claim, as the uplift is a combination of the architectural improvements […]
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Apple has unveiled their updated M1 silicon today, but it’s not the rumored “M1X”, but a pair of powerful new chips called M1 Pro and M1 Max. Graphics are a big focus of the launch, with Apple is positioning the M1 Pro as a more balanced power/performance option with a 2x faster GPU than the […]
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Also Had A Great Q1, Even With The Texas Flood Samsung’s Pyeongtaek Line 2 will be ready for mass production of 5nm and 7nm in the second half of 2021, to help feed the pent up demand for silicon world wide. This new line in their South Korean fab will also likely be the testing […]
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Apple’s reported gains of 2.3x to 3.9x in multi-threaded workloads against the quad-core i7-powered MacBook Air are quite impressive, though we are talking about applications that have presumably been compiled and optimized for MacOS on Arm. But if you’re a Mac user, that’s exactly what you want – developer support for a new architecture that […]
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