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First Look: Qualcomm Is Coming for Intel’s Lunch With the Snapdragon X Plus
The ARM-based chips will come to PCs soon, but they’re promising AI performance that might finally see AI run on your PC, and not the cloud.
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Nvidia’s CEO Was the Man of This Year, Next Year, and the One After That
Jensen Huang was BFFs with everyone in Silicon Valley this year, becoming the only person to walk across all three conference stages of Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Why? Because everyone needs his GPUs to power their AI dreams. Graphics Processing Units were once only coveted by PC gamers looking to max out their home setup,…
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Apple Remains Beholden to Qualcomm Modems for 5G Despite Push to Proprietary Chips
Apple is hell-bent on becoming a closed ecosystem unto itself by designing the chips inside its own devices. With the upcoming iPhone 15 moving toward the A17 Bionic chip, the company’s first 3nm processor, and Apple’s desktop and laptops gunning for an M3 chip, the company headquartered at the end of 1 Infinity Loop still…
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Nvidia is Dominating AMD in GPU Sales Despite Higher Prices
The consumer graphics card market, for as long as I can remember, has been a two-horse race between Nvidia and AMD (or ATI, before AMD bought it). Intel is finally re-entering the competition, but remains very much in the early training stages as it ramps up its upcoming Arc cards. For now, it’s red versus…