News & Reviews:   Processor

At this year's CES, Intel has gone all out by announcing four new processor families that aim to cater to users' different needs. The processors announced are the 11th Gen Intel Core H-series mobile processors, 11th Gen Intel Core vPro processors, N-series 10-nanometer Intel Pentium Silver and Intel Celeron processors, and 11th Gen Intel Core S-series desktop processors. Besides that, the tech giant has also given a sneak peek at the next-gen processor "Alder Lake" which could compete with Apple's M1.

Based on a statement by gizmodo, it seems that there could be a possibility that Microsoft might unveil their own ARM processors sometimes in the near future. While there is no news on the exact release date of the chips, our source did mention that it will most likely be used for the Azure cloud servers, as well as their Surface laptops.

A report by BusinessKorea states that Samsung will be supplying chipsets to smartphone manufacturing companies such as Xiaomi, vivo, as well as OPPO. With that all being said, we can expect the chipsets to be available on lower-end smartphones while Qualcomm’s chipsets will be used for mid-range and higher-end smartphones.

Intel has recently unveiled their new 11th Generation Intel Core Processors which consists of 9 processors spread across the Intel Core i3, Core i5, as well as the i7 series. But that’s not all, all the processors mentioned comes equipped with Iris X Graphics, which provides an additional boost when it comes to graphically intensive workloads.

A while back, it was rumoured that the new Exynos 1000 chipset from Samsung could outperform the Snapdragon 865 in terms of GPU performance. But it looks like Samsung's next flagship chipset won't have what it takes to beat the upcoming Snapdragon 875 chipset.

Back then, if you were keen on getting a laptop that has good performance and battery efficiency, you’d have to go for laptops that typically cost more than RM3000. But thanks to AMD who recently released their new Ryzen 4000 series processors, they’ve managed to drive down laptop prices to a much more affordable level while maintaining adequate performance and battery life.

With that said, Acer recently unveiled the Swift 3 which is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 4500U processor with Radeon Graphics, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD for the price of only RM2599. Let’s have a closer look at the performance of the Swift 3 and see what kind of workloads this laptop is suitable.

Despite waving goodbye to Intel's processor, Apple will still have some connection with the semiconductor company for their upcoming Macs. It is announced that the Macs with the Apple Silicon will continue to support Thunderbolt even though they are lack of Intel processors.

Based on a statement by VideoCardz, it seems that there was a rumour going around that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla could be bundled along with selected AMD processors. These processors include the AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT, AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, as well as the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X.

Whenever Samsung launches a new smartphone series, the Malaysian market will always get the Exynos variant. Some people may be cool with it, but some may not as they prefer the one that comes with a more powerful Snapdragon Qualcomm chipset. However, it looks like Samsung is going to change that as the Exynos 1000 is rumoured to be three times faster than Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865.

Intel is expected to hold a press conference on 23 and 24 October 2019, where they will most likely release new information on their upcoming Tremont processor. The new Tremont processor is a highly efficient processing unit, which would most likely be used in devices such as tablets, IoT, microservers and more.