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Die Shot of HiSilicon's Sanction-Busting Kirin 9000s Chip Revealed
By Anton Shilov published
Die shot of Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000s shows four high-performance cores, two energy-efficient cores, massive image signal processor.

Intel's Wi-Fi 7 Adapters, Chipsets Arriving Soon
By Anton Shilov published
Intel's Wi-Fi 7 adapters to emerge in various forms this fall.

AMD's A620 Chipset Quietly Arrives Without Default Support for 65W-Plus CPUs
By Paul Alcorn published
AMD has announced the details of its A620 motherboard for the Ryzen 7000 processors, including a slide deck with more technical details.

Gigabyte Confirms X670 AMD Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 AM5 Motherboards for Computex
By Brandon Hill last updated
Gigabyte flagship Ryzen 7000 motherboards will be the X670 Aorus Xtreme.

Pics of Apple M1 Max Die Hint at Future Chiplet Designs
By Francisco Pires last updated
Apple's M1 Max chip appears to be hiding a die-to-die interconnect bus on its underside, perhaps unlocking the ability to create chiplet-based designs.

Intel's Z690 Chipset for Alder Lake Detailed in Leak, DDR5, DDR4, and PCIe 5.0
By Aleksandar Kostovic last updated
A new leak shows us further details of Intel's Z690 chipset designed for Alder Lake, with PCIe Gen5 and mixed DDR4/DDR5 support.

WD Preps New Firmware to Restore WD Black SN850's Performance On AMD X570 Chipset
By Zhiye Liu last updated
Western Digital is prepping a new firmware to recover the lost performance on the WD Black SN850 M.2 NVMe SSD.

Alder Lake Chipsets Will Not Support PCIe Gen 5.0
By Aaron Klotz last updated
Alder Lake 600 series chipsets will not support the PCIe Gen 5.0 standard. Instead, it will be limited to Gen 4.0 with an x4 configuration.
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