News & Reviews:   Processor

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.

Earlier today, Lenovo has officially unveiled new laptops for their ThinkPad line-up which are equipped with the latest 10th generation Intel processors. These laptops include the ThinkPad X1 Carbon 7th Gen, ThinkPad X1 Yoga, ThinkPad T490, ThinkPad X390, ThinkPad L13, and lastly, the ThinkPad L13 Yoga.

ASUS has recently announced the launch of several gamer-centric laptops such as the ASUS ROG Zephyrus S, new TUF Gaming series lineup as well as the desktop-replacement gaming laptop called the ASUS ROG Mothership during CES 2019 held in Las Vegas.

We have talked about the Helio X25 SoC before, which was used in the Meizu Pro 6 smartphone. Today MediaTek has announced two new models that sits in the same family line – the deca-core Helio X23 and Helio X27 mobile processors.