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ARM explained: How a chip designer became central to modern computing

Because ARM licenses its designs, multiple companies can integrate ARM technology into a single system-on-a-chip, or SoC. A ...

Chip wars: What to expect from Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Snapdragon at CES 2026

An early glimpse at the CPUs and GPUs powering the PCs of tomorrow. Here's a rundown of the chips we hope to see from Intel, ...

Windows on Arm had another good year

Windows on Arm had a good year. The gap between x86 and Arm Windows laptops is narrowing, and it’ll narrow further in 2026.

Lenovo’s Next Wave of Snapdragon X2 PCs Just Leaked

Lenovo leak reveals Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Plus laptops, including Yoga Slim 7x and IdeaPad 5x, ahead of CES 2026 ...

Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X2 Plus beats AMD and Intel in new benchmarks

The benchmarks are drawn from Geekbench 6.5 and UL's Procyon suite, run on Windows 11 laptops. Qualcomm claims the 10-core X2 Plus can deliver up to ...
InfoQ

AWS Introduces Fifth-Generation Graviton Processor with M9g Instances

AWS recently announced the new Graviton5 processor and the preview of the first EC2 instances running on it, the ...
Liliputing

Bit-Brick Cluster K1 lets you build a 32-core RISC-V computer (by clustering 4 SpacemiT K1 boards)

At least that’s the idea behind the Bit-Brick Cluster K1. Real-world performance will obviously vary depending on the task. But for applications that support parallel processing, this cluster board ...

Samsung Returns to Custom CPU Design for Exynos 2800 After Mongoose Disaster

Samsung will return to custom CPU design for the Exynos 2800, trying to leave behind the Mongoose cores disaster to rival ...
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I Finally Moved Away From My Synology NAS, and I Don’t Miss It

After years of trusting Synology, a slow drift in hardware choices and software decisions pushed me to finally move on.