PCMag

I Tested 'Wildcat Lake,' Intel's New CPUs for Budget Laptops. Here's the Early Verdict

Intel says its new Wildcat Lake Core 3 Series chip family is built for affordable laptops. My first wave of tests shows ...
IEEE

A 65-nm Digital Stochastic Compute-in-Memory CNN Processor With 8-bit Precision

Abstract: Compute-in-memory (CIM) is an emerging solution that embeds compute logic inside the memory array to achieve high energy efficiency and reduce memory access cost. However, current CIM ...
Ars Technica

Minecraft Ramps Up CPU (APU): Optifine???

I have an AMD A8-3850 APU with a Radeon HD 6550D, 16gigs of RAM and I've just returned to playing Minecraft after a looooong time away from it. When I play it ramps up my APU and fans go to max. I ...
TweakTown

FinalWire releases AIDA64 8.30 with FPS tracking and next-gen CPU support, but drops 32-bit Windows support

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. FinalWire has released AIDA64 version 8.30, the latest update to its widely used Windows system diagnostic, benchmarking, and monitoring tool. The update ...
IEEE

A 28-nm 8-bit Floating-Point Tensor Core-Based Programmable CNN Training Processor With Dynamic Structured Sparsity

Abstract: Training deep/convolutional neural networks (DNNs/CNNs) requires a large amount of memory and iterative computation, which necessitates speedup and energy reduction, especially for edge ...
Gizmochina

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 tipped to feature LPE core as co-processor

Qualcomm’s next flagship mobile chip, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series, has previously been tipped to focus more on efficiency than major CPU gains. Now, a fresh detail from tipster Fixed Focus ...
Android

Snapdragon 8 Gen 6 Pro Leak: Decent CPU Gains, But the GPU Is the Big Star

A new leak claims the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro will deliver less than 20% CPU improvement over its predecessor, a modest gain that falls short of the hype surrounding TSMC’s 2nm process. The ...
CNBC

Alibaba reveals new AI chip designed for 'agents'

Alibaba designed the XuanTie C950 central processor unit (CPU) for agentic AI purposes. While much of the attention has focused on GPUs, an area Nvidia dominates, CPUs are seen as key for AI ...
Android Authority

Samsung confirms the Galaxy S26 Ultra's screen is worse than it initially claimed

Samsung has now confirmed that the Galaxy S26 Ultra uses an 8-bit display. This comes despite early pre-launch briefings claiming the use of a 10-bit panel, which would enable greater color ...
9to5google

Samsung confirms Galaxy S26 series has an 8-bit display following 10-bit confusion

There seems to have been a mistake, and Samsung’s Galaxy S26 base model and Ultra variant are shipping with a display capable of 8-bit color, instead of 10-bit. This was always supposed to happen, but ...
PC Gamer

This simulation of how an old 8-bit processor fetches data from ROM is a thing of beauty

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