Apple Silicon M1 Chip In MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro

The first benchmark of Apple’s M1 chip shows that the multi-core performance of the new MacBook Air with 8GB RAM beats out all of the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro models, including the 10th-generation high-end 2.4GHz Intel Core i9 model. “That high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro earned a single-core score of 1096 and a multi-core score of 6870,” reports MacRumors. The MacBook Air…

Google Will Disable Microsoft’s RAM-Saving Feature for Chrome in Windows 10

“Google has decided to disable a feature in Windows 10 version 2004 that allowed Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers to use a lot less RAM,” reports ZDNet:
Windows 10 gave Win32 apps including Chrome access to a ‘segment heap’ API to allow apps to reduce memory usage, but as Techdows spotted, Chromium engineers have decided for now to turn off the feature…

AMD Launches Threadripper 3970X, 3960X and Smokes Intel’s New 18-Core CPU

MojoKid writes: Intel and AMD have been duking it out in the high-end desktop processor space lately. AMD’s return to competitive footing versus Intel has propelled the company forward and the brand has a loyal, passionate following due the competitive performance-per-dollar its 3rd Generation Ryzen processors bring versus Intel offerings. Today, both companies have launched new flagship many-core CPUs, the Intel…

Intel Launches Core i9-9900KS 8-Core CPU At 5GHz Across All Cores

MojoKid writes: As the “S” in its name implies, the new Intel Core i9-9900KS that launched today is something akin to a Special Edition version of the company’s existing Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU. The processors are built from the same slab of silicon — an 8-core, Coffee Lake-refresh based die and packaged up for Intel’s LGA1151 socket. What makes the Core…

AMD Unveils Zen 2 CPU Architecture, Navi GPU Architecture and a Slew of Products

MojoKid writes: AMD let loose today with a number of high profile launches at the E3 2019 Expo in Los Angeles, CA. The company disclosed its full Zen 2 Ryzen 3000 series microarchitecture, which AMD claims offers an IPC uplift of 15% generation over generation, thanks to better branch prediction, higher integer throughput, and reduced effective latency to memory. Zen 2…