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Why is Apple making a data center chip?

Editor's take: Of course, Apple is designing its own AI chips for its data centers. This will give them an end-to-end, cloud-to-edge AI system that its competitors will not be able to match anytime soon.

Arm expects more vendors to enter Windows PC chip market alongside Qualcomm Snapdragon

Only the 1TB and 2TB iPad Pros feature the full M4 core count and 16GB of RAM

Samsung taps AI to design first 3nm mobile processor with Synopsys

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 SoC is meant for budget flagships

Apple's Car was powered by a custom chip that was equivalent to four M2 Ultras

Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding

Qualcomm claims Snapdragon X Elite Arm SoC is faster than Apple's M3

Apple shows off state-of-the-art lab where its homegrown silicon is designed and developed

Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC will bring "premium performance" to mid-range smartphones

Apple M3 and the state of CPUs

The big picture: Apple's M3 launch stood out for its focus on how people actually use computers, the lack of AI acronyms and the fact that they launched three chips all at once. It is only getting harder to compete with them. As with all things Apple, the M3 has been extensively covered in the press, but beyond the performance metrics, a few things stood out for us, and here's our thesis on the overall sector.

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite outperforms AMD's Radeon 780M in 3DMark

Apple unveils M3 chips powering new MacBook Pros and iMac during Scary Fast Halloween event

New speculative execution hack can expose passwords and other sensitive data on Apple SoCs

Qualcomm's next-gen Arm SoC runs Windows, can beat Intel and Apple in some applications and efficiency

Something to look forward to: After years of monotony and relative stasis in the PC industry, things are starting to change. And man, it's getting exciting again! Earlier this year, AMD launched the Ryzen 7040, the first PC SoC with a built-in NPU (Neural Processing Unit) – otherwise known as an AI accelerator. Then a few weeks ago, Intel debuted its Core Ultra chip featuring its own AI accelerator. Now Qualcomm is putting an exclamation point on the AI PC trend with the launch of its Snapdragon X Elite SoC for PCs.

Apple A17 Pro SoC single-core benchmark score close to the Intel i9-13900K and AMD 7950X

Huawei and the Land of Magical Thinking

Apple signs licensing deal with Arm for iPhone and Mac processors "beyond 2040"

Are we reaching the limits of homegrown silicon?

Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 entry-level chipset built on 4nm process node

Apple M2 Ultra can double the performance of M2 Max in many tests, proving claims true

Hybrid AI concept would move AI generation from the cloud to our devices

Arm unveils new mobile CPU and GPU designs with 64-bit only cores

Hot Pixels attacks exploit power management in modern SoC and GPUs to leak data