Tag Archives: CPUs

AMD has officially announced the Ryzen 7000 processor models, which the company had accidentally revealed back in July. It will release four models on September 27th, to be specific, the most affordable of which is the 6-core Ryzen 5 7600X that will set you back $299, followed by the 8-core Ryzen 7700X that costs $100 more at $399. The 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X CPU will be sold for $549, while the 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X will cost $699. As Ars Technica notes, the 7600X and the 7900X models have… Source link

Google’s custom chips could expand past the Pixel 6 to Chromebook laptops and tablets as early as 2023, according to a new report from Nikkei Asia on the company’s expanding emphasis on designing its own processors. The company is already preparing to release its first major custom chip this fall, with the Pixel 6’s upcoming Tensor SoC. The report also lines up with rumors from 2020 that Google was planning in-house Chromebook chips after it debuted the concept on Pixel phones —… Source link

TAIPEI — Google is developing its own central processors for its notebook and tablet computers, the latest sign that major tech players see in-house chip development as key to their competitiveness. The U.S. internet giant plans to roll out the CPUs for laptops and tablets, which run on the company’s Chrome operating system, in around 2023, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Nikkei Asia. Google is also ramping up its efforts to build mobile processors for its Pixel smartphones… Source link

Microsoft might let you install Windows 11 on PCs with older processors, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get the full experience you’d find on newer machines. The company told The Verge that PCs with unsupported CPUs aren’t ‘entitled’ to get Windows 11 updates, and might not even get driver or security upgrades. You may have to get more recent hardware just to keep your system secure, in other words. We’ve asked the company if it can comment further, although it declined to elaborate when The… Source link