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Inside Control Data Corporation’s CDC 6600
Computers fill essential roles in modern, growing economies. Banks, airlines, and other large business have used computers to efficiently handle large amounts of data. As these businesses grow and...
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Intel’s Ambitious Meteor Lake iGPU
Intel and AMD both tried to ship iGPUs fast enough to compete with low end discrete cards over the past 10 years with mixed results. Recently though, powerful iGPUs have been thrown back into the...
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Raytracing on Meteor Lake’s iGPU
Meteor Lake iGPU is a testament to Intel’s mobile graphics aspirations. It’s almost a quarter of an Arc A770. The Xe-LPG architecture used in Meteor Lake inherits Xe-HPG (A770) traits, including...
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Intel Meteor Lake’s NPU
AI is a hot topic and Intel doesn’t want to be left out, so their Meteor Lake mobile processor integrates a Neural Processing Unit (NPU). Intel internally refers to the NPU as “NPU 3720”, though I...
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Sizing up Qualcomm’s 8cx Gen 3 iGPU
Qualcomm has long harbored ambitions to move up into higher performance segments. Their current Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 tries to make Qualcomm’s laptop dreams come true, and features in products like...
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Can China’s Loongson Catch Western Designs? Probably Not.
We previously looked at Loongson’s 3A5000 and 3A6000. The LA464 and LA664 cores in those chips are the most promising Chinese domestic designs we’ve seen so far. Both are capable of reasonable...
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