Apple’s M1 isn’t witchcraft, it’s good chip design

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Engadget

When Apple announced it was dropping Intel in favor of its own, ARM-based laptop processors, the big question was how fast the computers with these new chips would be. In the last episode of our explainer show, Upscaled, we took a look at how Apple’s...

How is the M1 so much faster than other chips?

Posted on 03/02/2021 by Engadget

Apple’s new M1 processors have shaken up the entire CPU landscape. Apple has used Intel for more than a decade, but these new in-house chips, based on their designs for iPad and iPhone processors, are powerful enough to run a laptop.Well, that’s an u...

2020 put us on the edge of a processor revolution

Posted on 30/12/2020 by Engadget

In this episode of our explainer show Upscaled, we took a look back at the year in CPUs. From one perspective 2020 feels like the new normal for CPUs. Intel put out another high-end chip, 10th-gen “Comet Lake”, which added a few cores but is still ba...

How good is AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X for content creators?

Posted on 20/11/2020 by Engadget

RISC-V is trying to launch an open-hardware revolution

Posted on 30/10/2020 by Engadget

There are processors in everything. I’m not even talking about the SoC in your phone or smart TV; but modern devices from cars to consoles are filled with tiny chips. These microcontrollers manage power supplies, interpret sensor readings, move data,...

NVIDIA’s RTX 3000 cards make counting teraflops pointless

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Teraflops have been a popular way to measure "graphical power" for years. The term refers to the number of calculations a GPU can perform, but while it’s been on spec sheets forever, more recently the teraflop has gone mainstream, appearing in market...

Will QLC SSDs make hard drives extinct?

Posted on 11/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Flash memory has had a huge impact on the way we use computers. Flash, which powers everything from thumb drives, SD cards and the memory chip in your phone up to high performance SSDs in computers and data centers, stores information in a network of...

Will gallium nitride electronics change the world?

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Silicon is at the heart of most of our electronics. It’s a semiconductor, a material that can switch from an insulator that blocks current to a conductor, a material like copper that can carry a charge. This remarkable property is at the heart of tra...

Do Apple’s new Mac chips mean ARM has won?

Posted on 23/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

At WWDC, Apple announced a radical change to its computers. The company is dropping Intel as its CPU provider, and will be transitioning its laptops and desktops to custom Apple-designed chips over the next two years. These new processors will be bas...

How much does your CPU matter for gaming?

Posted on 21/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Normally when benchmarking processors it’s useful to look at a few models with similar specs or near the same price-point, to get a sense how they differ.That’s not what we did here. For the latest episode of our explainer show Upscaled, we compared...

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