TSMC charts a course to trillion-transistor chips, eyes 1nm monolithic chips with 200 billion transistors By Anton Shilov published December 27, 2023 Transistor density will continue to increase with new process technologies, TSMC believes.
Apple's A18 and A18 Pro processors powers the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro — and Apple Intelligence By Brandon Hill, Andrew E. Freedman published September 9, 2024 Apple's new A18 and A18 Pro processors are the first designed for Apple Intelligence and is powering the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro.
Apple's A17 Pro Within 10% of Intel's i9-13900K, AMD's 7950X in Single-Core Performance By Anton Shilov published September 14, 2023 Apple's A17 Pro scores 15% higher than A16 Bionic in Geekbench 6 CPU performance test.
Apple's A17 Pro Is a 3nm Chip Powering iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max By Andrew E. Freedman, Brandon Hill published September 12, 2023 Apple announced the A17 Pro at its iPhone 15 event.
Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench By Anton Shilov published September 11, 2024 Apple's vanilla A18 shows solid performance in Geekbench, challenges M4 and AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X.
Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine By Andrew E. Freedman, Brandon Hill published May 7, 2024 Apple introduced a new M4 chip in its iPad Pros, focusing on AI performance. It's the first time Apple debuted an M-series chip in the iPad.
Xiaomi's in-house XRing 01 SoC leaked — melds 10-core Arm Cortex CPU plus 16-core Mali G925 GPU By Hassam Nasir published May 18, 2025 Xiaomi's custom XRing 01 chip is allegedly a 10-core powerhouse, rivaling the likes of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite and MediaTek's Dimsensity 9400.
Ampere announces 256-core 3nm CPU, unveils partnership with Qualcomm By Anton Shilov published May 16, 2024 Ampere plans to launch 256-core AmpereOne processors at 3nm next year.
Prototype 'Steam Machine' dusted off and tested — running Windows on an old AMD APU ten years later By Matthew Connatser published March 11, 2024 YouTuber Bringus Studios got its hands on an old Steam Machine prototype that used Windows instead of SteamOS.
Apple rolls out its C1 modem six years after buying in the technology from Intel By Anton Shilov published February 20, 2025 Apple claims its C1 modem is the most power efficient modem ever used in an iPhone.
Liquid nitrogen-cooled M4 iPad Pro flaunts remarkable single-core performance gains — M4 outperforms M3 Max and M2 Ultra By Zhiye Liu published May 16, 2024 Hardware enthusiast team Geekerwan cools Apple's latest M4 iPad Pro with liquid nitrogen.
Apple M4 comes to the Mac with new iMac, starts with 16GB RAM By Andrew E. Freedman published October 28, 2024 The first Mac to get M4 is Apple's new iMac, which has 16GB of base RAM and Thunderbolt 4 connectors.
Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab By Anton Shilov published September 18, 2024 TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona already produces A16 processors on the N4P node.
Apple M4 Specs, benchmarks, release date, and pricing By Brandon Hill published May 14, 2024 Apple Silicon has revolutionized performance and efficiency for Macs, M4 will continue that esteemed lineage.
Incredible Apple M4 benchmarks suggest it is the new single-core performance champ, beating Intel's Core i9-14900KS — results of 3,800+ posted By Mark Tyson published May 9, 2024 Apple M4 processors are convincingly breaking Geekbench single-core records. Multiple scores of roughly 3,800 points or over have appeared in the Geekbench online database over recent hours.
Apple M3 Ultra benchmark seen on Geekbench — beats M4 Max in multi-core, but not single-core By Jowi Morales published March 7, 2025 An early benchmark result of the Apple M3 Ultra shows the CPU beating every other Apple silicon in the multi-score result.
Apple's M4 Max is the single-core performance king in Geekbench 6 — M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X By Hassam Nasir published November 2, 2024 Apple retains its performance crown, beating the M3 Max by 30% in single-core performance making it the fastest chip in Geekbench 6.
Apple COO Reportedly attends secret meetings with TSMC to reserve first batch of 2-nanometer production By Jeff Butts published May 20, 2024 Rumors of Apple developing its own AI servers seem much more feasible using TSMC's 2-nanometer fabrication process.
Apple reportedly readies Baltra processors for AI servers By Anton Shilov published May 10, 2025 Apple is reportedly developing its data center-grade processor, Baltra, for its AI infrastructure as part of its broader effort to strengthen its Apple Silicon portfolio.
Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen By Jowi Morales published May 8, 2024 Unverified machine learning benchmarks have been posted to Geekbench and they seem to show an incremental improvement over the previous generation of Apple processor
Snapdragon X Elite shows 2X higher multi-threaded performance than Apple M2 in new benchmarks — Apple M2 is faster in single-threaded performance, though By Jowi Morales published May 25, 2024 The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 had more than double the performance of an Apple M2 device in a CPU-Z multi-threaded benchmark test.
Apple's Base M3 SoC Reportedly Won't Increase CPU or GPU Core Count By Mark Tyson published August 7, 2023 A new Apple M3 SoC leak indicates the base chip will come with 4P + 4E cores, 10 GPU cores, and 24 GB RAM – debuting in a Mac Mini refresh.
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X Plus – 10-cores is less than X Elite, but the same 45 TOPS from the NPU By Andrew E. Freedman published April 24, 2024 Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X Plus, a 10-core processor based on its Oryon technologies, with slower clock speeds than the Snapdragon X Elite, but the same 45 TOPS NPU.
Apple expects to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. factories this year By Anton Shilov published May 2, 2025 Apple plans to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. facilities in 2025 — including tens of millions from TSMC’s Arizona fab — while investing $500 billion to expand its American operations.
Snapdragon X Elite Outperforms Intel, AMD, Apple CPUs (In Vendor Benchmarks) By Zhiye Liu published October 30, 2023 Qualcomm shares Snapdragon X Elite benchmarks, comparing it to Intel, AMD, and Apple processors.
MediaTek Beats Apple to Announcing 3nm Chips By Anton Shilov published September 8, 2023 MediaTek tapes out first 3nm smartphone SoC with TSMC. But what about IFS relationship?.
Annotated Apple M3 Processor Die Shots Bring Chip Designs to Life By Mark Tyson published October 31, 2023 A tech enthusiast has added colorful highlights and annotations to Apple’s M3 family processor die shots.
Apple M4 processor family tipped to deliver AI focus — three next-gen chips believed to be nearing production By Mark Tyson published April 12, 2024 The next generation of Apple Silicon is already nearing production, according to Bloomberg. Apple M4 chips are designed to revamp the Mac computer line by delivering a new AI focus.
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus now comes in 8-core variants By Andrew E. Freedman published September 4, 2024 The Snapdragon X Plus 8-Core has slower multi-threaded performance, a lower-end GPU, and lesser camera support, but it should bring down prices for Snapdragon laptops.
Apple M3 Leads in PassMark's Single-Thread CPU Benchmark, But There is a Catch By Anton Shilov published November 9, 2023 Apple's M3 Pro is Ahead of Intel's Core i9-14900KF in PassMark single-thread CPU benchmark, but gets destroyed in multi-threaded workloads.
