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System76 reveal the brand new Darter Pro with Intel Xe graphics and Open Firmware

Liam Dawe · news.movim.eu / GamingOnLinux · Thursday, 21 January, 2021 - 21:34 · 1 minute

Looking to power up your Linux computing on the go or for around the hose? System76 have refreshed the Darter Pro with a brand new build powered by the latest tech.

Just like a lot of their recent hardware, it's coming filled with some great open source software too. System76 hooked up their new Darter Pro with their Open Firmware . This gives you coreboot and the EDK bootloader with System76 Firmware Apps. So say hello to fast boot times, better security and easy firmware updates from within the operating system.

"The Darter Pro has long been a customer favorite," says Sam Mondlick, VP of Sales. "We’re excited to reintroduce our users to this extremely versatile laptop with features that make it noticeably better than its already fantastic predecessor."

System76 claim it's a highly versatile machine for working on the go, with up to 9 hours battery life. Reasonably light too for moving around at 3.84 lbs / 1.74 kg. If you choose the option with Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution made by System76 then you also get all their built-in enhancements like the fun Auto-Tiling.

Here's some of the fancy tech specs for you:

Operating System	Pop!_OS 20.10 (64-bit), Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS (64-bit), or Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64-bit)
Processor	11th Gen Intel® Core i5-1135G7 : Up to 4.2 GHz - 8MB Cache - 4 Cores - 8 Threads 11th Gen Intel® Core i7-1165G7 : Up to 4.7 GHz - 12MB Cache - 4 Cores - 8 Threads
Display	15.6″ 1920×1080 FHD, Matte Finish
Graphics	Intel® Iris Xe Graphics
Memory	Up to 64GB dual-channel DDR4 @ 3200MHz
Storage	2 x M.2 SSD (1x PCIe gen4 + 1x PCIe gen3 or SATA). Up to 4TB total.
Expansion	1 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C / Thunderbolt™ 4, 1 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, 1 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, 1 × USB 2.0 Type-A, MicroSD Card Reader
Input	Multitouch Touchpad, Backlit Chiclet US QWERTY Keyboard
Networking	Gigabit Ethernet, Intel® Dual Band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5
Video Ports	HDMI, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C w/ DisplayPort 1.2
Audio	Stereo Speakers, 1× Headphone/Microphone Combo
Camera	1.0M 720p HD Webcam
Security	Kensington® Lock
Battery	Li-Ion - 73 Wh
Charger	65 Watts, AC-in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC-out 19V, 3.42A, USB Type-C Charging Compatible

Pricing starts at $1,099 and you can find the Darter Pro here .

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A quick Intel CES roundup: New gaming laptop CPUs and a glimpse at Alder Lake

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 18:58 · 1 minute

Some initial specs for the new Core i9-11900K. [credit: Intel ]

The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs it has already been shipping, plus an early look at what to expect from the 12th-generation Alder Lake.

Using an improved version of the 10nm SuperFin process, Alder Lake will take on Apple's ARM instruction set-based M1 chip and its ilk with a somewhat similar architecture. Namely, that means a hybrid architecture of high-performance (Golden Lake) and high-efficiency (Gracemont) cores similar in spirit to ARM's BIG.little design, and to Lakefield. Intel says these are desktop and laptop CPUs and that they'll reach consumers in the second half of 2021, but details are otherwise pretty sparse.

More than anything, it looks like Intel is trying to get ahead of the narrative that the company is facing some serious challenges ahead as Macs with M1 CPUs delivered much better price-to-performance ratios than what Intel is currently putting in competing devices—especially in the face of Intel's delays.

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Get ready for more Intel with new processor announcements for ultraportable gaming

Liam Dawe · news.movim.eu / GamingOnLinux · Tuesday, 12 January, 2021 - 10:22 · 1 minute

While CES has moved online, many companies continue to make announcements and Intel decided to take the time to announce some fresh CPUs coming aimed at ultraportable gaming.

The ultraportable segment of the laptop market is aimed at those with plenty of spare monies, who want a reasonable gaming experience they can take with them. 11th Gen Intel Core H-series mobile processors will be launching in the first half of 2021 through many different vendors including Acer, ASUS, MSI and Vaio already confirmed to be readying devices with it. What's interesting is how they teamed up with NVIDIA for this ultraportable push and talked up about how they're designed for connecting with the "latest discrete graphics"

Also coming soon is an 8 core / 16 thread H-series, for those who want "desktop-caliber gaming and creation performance" which Intel said will be shipping sometime in Q1 2021 which sounds like it's going to be pretty darn powerful (and so expensive).

That's not all though. Intel also previewed and teased their next-gen Rocket Lake and Alder Lake platforms for both desktop and mobile including 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors being Rocket Lake-S, which feature a big "19% gen-over-gen instructions per cycle (IPC)" which will be headlined by the Intel Core i9-11900K.

Meanwhile Alder Lake gets a claim of being a "significant breakthrough in x86 architecture" with Intel saying it's their most scalable yet and this will be due in the second half of 2021. Alder Lake is interesting since it will combine together high-performance cores and high-efficiency cores into a single product, with it being their first processor family built on their new "enhanced version of 10nm SuperFin".

Intel also took the time to announce the Intel Evo vPro platform, which they claim is "the best laptop experience for business users" along with Intel Pentium Silver and Celeron processors "with an unmatched balance of performance, media and collaboration for education systems".

You can see their video about it all below:

Watch video on YouTube.com

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Microsoft pourrait créer ses propres processeurs ARM, pour les serveurs et les Surface

Julien Cadot · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 21 December, 2020 - 10:16

Comme Apple, Microsoft pourrait s'émanciper de ses partenaires technologiques pour créer ses processeurs. [Lire la suite]

Abonnez-vous à notre chaîne YouTube pour ne manquer aucune vidéo !

L'article Microsoft pourrait créer ses propres processeurs ARM, pour les serveurs et les Surface est apparu en premier sur Numerama .

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Apple is full-steam ahead on replacing Qualcomm modems with its own

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 20:56

Enlarge / The iPhone 12. (credit: Samuel Axon)

As rumored many months ago, Apple's silicon ambitions don't end with replacing Intel CPUs with its own in Macs—it plans to ditch Qualcomm modems in favor of its own custom-designed chips for iPhones, according to Apple hardware tech lead Johny Srouji.

Srouji confirmed the company's plans when speaking to employees during an internal town hall meeting, as reported by Bloomberg today. Apple acquired Intel's 5G smartphone modem business last summer. That acquisition of Intel's intellectual property and resources was key for Apple's new efforts.

Quoted in the Bloomberg story, Srouji told Apple employees:

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En construisant ses propres modems, Apple réserve à Qualcomm le même sort qu’à Intel

Julien Cadot · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 11 December, 2020 - 09:23

Bientôt, Apple aura ses propres modems. [Lire la suite]

Voitures, vélos, scooters... : la mobilité de demain se lit sur Vroom ! https://www.numerama.com/vroom/vroom//

L'article En construisant ses propres modems, Apple réserve à Qualcomm le même sort qu’à Intel est apparu en premier sur Numerama .

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Mesa 20.3.0 is out bringing tons of improvements for Linux open source graphics drivers

Liam Dawe · news.movim.eu / GamingOnLinux · Thursday, 3 December, 2020 - 19:16

Mesa 20.3.0 is the latest and greatest when it comes to Linux open source graphics, bringing with it new hardware support, performance improvements and more. Mesa drivers are what power the likes of Intel and AMD on Linux with the latest Vulkan and OpenGL support whereas NVIDIA have their own proprietary driver.

As always, with it being a brand new release if you're concerned about stability you might want to wait for the first point release with Mesa 20.3.1.

Lots new with this version like the 'V3DV' Vulkan driver for the Raspberry Pi now being available, new extension support, big improvements to the Zink driver (OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan), new hardware support across both AMD and Intel for the latest chips and some upcoming stuff, the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs was extended quite a lot too and much more. You can see the release notes here , although they're quite technical and not great reading unless you really know what to look for.

Need to learn more about Mesa drivers? See the official site .

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Mac mini and Apple Silicon M1 review: Not so crazy after all

Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 19 November, 2020 - 14:03

The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ]

Apple is crazy, right? The Mac just had its best year of sales ever, and Cupertino is hitting the platform with a shock like it hasn’t had in nearly 15 years—back in a time when the Mac was not having such a good year. Apple is beginning the process of replacing industry-standard Intel chips with its own, custom-designed silicon.

In a way, we're not just reviewing the new Mac mini—a Mac mini is always a Mac mini, right? We're reviewing an ARM-based Mac for the first time. And this is not exactly the same story as all the other ARM machines we've looked at before, like Windows 10 on ARM—a respectable option with some serious tradeoffs.

Sure, longer battery life and quick waking from sleep are already out there on other ARM computers. But as you may have seen in our hands-on earlier this week , what we're encountering here is also a performance leap—and as you'll also see in this review, a remarkable success at making this new architecture compatible with a large library of what could now, suddenly, be called legacy Mac software.

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A history of Intel vs. AMD desktop performance, with CPU charts galore

Jim Salter · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 17 November, 2020 - 12:30 · 2 minutes

A tortoise and a hare are on a racetrack.

Enlarge / Spoiler: When it comes to performance over the years, Intel is the slow and steady tortoise to AMD's speedy-but-intermittent hare. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images )

The comment wars between Intel and AMD fans have been hot for the last few release cycles, with a lot of digital ink spilled about which company has—or has not—improved significantly over the years. There's been no shortage of opinions about the current raw performance of each company's fastest processors, either. We thought it would be interesting to dive into archived performance benchmarks of the fastest desktop/enthusiast CPUs for each company to get a good overview of how each has really done over the years—and perhaps to even see if there are patterns to be gleaned or to make some bets about the future.

Before we dive into charts, let's start out with some tables—that way, you can see which CPUs we're using as milestones for each year. While we're at it, there are a couple of irregularities in the data; we'll discuss those also and talk about the things that a simple chart won't show you.

Twenty years of enthusiast computing

Year	Intel Model	AMD Model	Notes
2001	Pentium 4 2.0GHz (1c/1t)	Athlon XP 1900+ (1c/1t)
2002	Pentium 4 2.8GHz (1c/2t)	Athlon XP 2800+ (1c/1t)	Intel introduces hyperthreading
2003	Pentium 4 Extreme 3.2GHz (1c/2t)	Athlon XP 3200+ (1c/1t)
2004	Pentium 4 3.4GHz (1c/2t)	Athlon 64 FX-55 (1c/1t)
2005	Pentium 4 3.8GHz (1c/2t)	Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2c/2t)
2006	Pentium Extreme 965 (2c/4t)	Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (2c/2t)	Intel takes the undisputed performance lead here—and keeps it for a decade straight.
2007	Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (4c/4t)	Phenom X4 9600 (4c/4t)	Intel and AMD both launch the first true quad-core desktop CPUs
2008	Core 2 Extreme X9650 (4c/4t)	Phenom X4 9950 (4c/4t)
2009	Core i7-960 (4c/8t)	Phenom II X4 965 (4c/4t)
2010	Core i7-980X (6c/12t)	Phenom II X6 1100T (6c/6t)	Intel and AMD both introduce hex-core desktop CPUs
2011	Core i7-990X (6c/12t)	FX-8150 (8c/8t)
2012	Core i7-3770K (4c/8t)	FX-8350 (8c/8t)	Intel abandons hex-core desktop CPUs—but few miss them, due to large single-threaded gains
2013	Core i7-4770K (4c/8t)	FX-9590 (8c/8t)	AMD's underwhelming FX-9590 launches—and it's Team Red's last enthusiast CPU for four long years
2014	Core i7-4790K (4c/8t)	FX-9590 (8c/8t)	Intel's 5th generation Core dies stillborn. AMD releases low-power APUs, but no successor to FX-9590
2015	Core i7-6700K (4c/8t)	FX-9590 (8c/8t)
2016	Core i7-7700K (4c/8t)	FX-9590 (8c/8t)	Strictly speaking, 2016 was an Intel whiff—Kaby Lake didn't actually launch until January 2017
2017	Core i7-8700K (6c/12t)	Ryzen 7 1800X (8c/16t)	Launch of AMD's Zen architecture, return of the Intel hex-core desktop CPU
2018	Core i9-9900K (8c/16t)	Ryzen 7 2700X (8c/16t)
2019	Core i9-9900KS (8c/16t)	Ryzen 9 3950X (16c/32t)	AMD's Zen 2 architecture launches, Intel whiffs hard in the performance segment
2020	Core i9-10900K (10c/20t)	Ryzen 9 5950X (16c/32t)	AMD's Zen 3 finally crushes Intel's long-held single-threaded performance record

Although both Intel and AMD obviously launch a wide array of processors for different price points and target markets each year, we're limiting ourselves to the fastest desktop or "enthusiast" processor from each year. That means no server processors and no High-End Desktop (HEDT) processors either—so we won't be looking at either Threadrippers or the late model XE series Intel parts.

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