Apple shows off new chips in old laptop
Entry level hardware for the price of an expensive computer
Fruity cargo cult Apple’s "Scary Fast" event turned out to be pushing an over-priced “entry-level” laptop with one of its over-hyped M3 in-house chips on board.
RISC-V work is a risky business
Unless you are a manager
While the world+dog bangs on about the potential of RISC-V, it would appear the industry has not gotten the memo, and people with those skills are being sent to the dole office.
There’s an app for that
Users were somewhat disappointed that Intel’s latest 14th gen chips were not a vast improvement over the 13th-gen in gaming performance, but a new Intel Application Optimization (APO) feature promises to fix that issue.
Trick or Treat
Apple has announced a Mac event for 30 October with the caption "Scary Fast" in which it is expected to exhume its M3 series MacBook Pro models to the illiterate cawing of the Tame Apple Press ravens.
Qualcomm Oryon CPU beats Apple M2 Max in a single thread
Matches i9-13980Hx in multi-thread
Qualcomm's CEO Christiano Amon just announced the Qualcomm Oryon CPU, a part of the Snapdragon X PC platform. This twelve-core 4nm CPU is based on Nuvia architecture and should be a very efficient design.