Samsung Announces UFS 5.0 With 2x the Speed of UFS 4.1
… UFS 5.0 is said to offer power efficiency improvements, too: Samsung reports a 40% improvement in energy efficiency compared to UFS 4.1. …
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Meet RDNA: AMD's Long-Awaited New GPU Architecture
… Power efficiency has improved substantially, with claims of a 1.5x improvement over GCN. A relatively small percentage of the total benefit of Navi is attributed to 7nm silicon, and AMD did not explain where it spent the chip's transistor budget in any detail. …
With Spintronics, Intel Sees Efficiency, Density Scaling Far Beyond CMOS
… After evaluating more than 25 proposals for beyond CMOS computing, Intel believes MESO -- that's the name for this new architecture, short for magnetoelectric spin orbit -- holds the most long-term promise for improving voltage scaling, interconnect scaling, energy efficiency improvements, and scal… …
Meteor Lake Mobile Block Diagram Leaks
… AMD claims its upcoming mobile platform will allow it to achieve "gaming dominance" over Intel, so that will be a cage match for sure. The GPU connects to the SoC with a single x8 PCIe 5.0 channel, which is interesting. Intel is probably not using a x16 channel to conserve energy. …
Motherboard Vendors Unhappy With Alder Lake's 12VXO Power Standard: Report
… ATX 12V 2.3 added higher efficiency targets and allowed for the provision of more than 20 amps per 12V rail. …
Intel Is at a Crossroads
… Intel CPUs are designed specifically for Intel process nodes, using a restricted, Intel-specific set of rules intended to maximize performance and energy efficiency on a given Intel node. …