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Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

The first Geekbench 6 result for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max chip surfaced today, and Apple has achieved record-breaking performance. In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core ...

First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In: Here's How It Compares to the M1 MacBook Air

Benchmarks for the new MacBook Neo surfaced today, and unsurprisingly, CPU performance is almost identical to the iPhone 16 Pro. The MacBook Neo uses the same 6-core A18 Pro chip that was first ...

Intel bigs up its 18A chip node as fit for external customers but probably not Nvidia, for now

Intel CPUs living with Nvidia GPUs, yup. But maybe not Nvidia GPUs made by Intel.

Intel's 18A node debuts in the data center with the 288-core Xeon 6+

The new chips mark a turning point for Intel's strategy in cloud and telecommunications workloads, where efficiency and integration are now prioritized over sheer clock speed.

Microsoft CEO says 'I look at all agents as users', and that means AI ones too, as each agentic bot 'will have its own identity'

The background to all this is Microsoft's claim that "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS". The implication is that there will be elements of the OS that give Copilot "agents" autonomy to perform ...

RTX 5070 gaming laptops can't be beaten for value when the sales hit, and this Acer Nitro V16 deal proves my point

Acer Nitro V16 RTX 5070 gaming laptop | $1,399.99 $1,249.99 at Newegg Save $150 - Newegg has the Acer Nitro V16 on its shelves for just $1,249.99 with an RTX 5070 GPU at the helm this week. That's far ...