cpu
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Some Apple iPhone 6s Processors Can Give 20 Per Cent Less Battery Life
The culprit here is apparently the new A9 processor, which is sourced from two different companies. Some users are seeing benchmark battery life almost 2 hours shorter, as well as a small performance different. So which CPU does your 6s have, and are you affected?
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DARPA’s Chipset Runs An Astonishing One Trillion Cycles Per Second
DARPA’s boffins have just set a new world record in computing with a solid-state integrated circuit that packs the power of a supercomputer into a single chip. You thought your six-core, 3.9Ghz Mac Pro was a computational powerhouse? This single chip is around 250 times as fast.
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This AMD Chip Is The First 5.0GHz CPU You Can Actually Buy
AMD just one-upped its own series of eight-core FX processors, and the golden child of this newest lineup is unquestionably the FX-9590, which it claims to be the world’s “first-ever 5GHz processor”. While technically that record was already beaten — and by AMD itself, no less — it is, in fact, the first commercially available…
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The Most Grotesque Fanless CPU Cooler I’ve Ever Seen
Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK!