Your great tech news absorb, by method of the DGiT Daily newsletter, for Tuesday, March31
1. AMD
The fight for CPU supremacy in PCs has long been a two-horse race between Intel and AMD for years.
As Apple’s MacBooks rose in appeal (up until the keyboard mess, recently repaired), the more crucial conversations have actually had to do with size, form-factor, utility, battery life, more so than which CPU was on board, for many people. Not counting gamers, of course.
So what’s interesting? AMD’s brand-new lead in mobile CPU computing, thanks to the brand-new 7nm Ryzen 9 4900 H and 4900 HK mobile CPUs.
Believe Me, I haven’t seen tech websites this hype for a long period of time:
- PC World calls AMD’s Ryzen 9 chips “a squashing blow to Intel’s most effective laptop CPUs,” and provides “game-changing efficiency for laptops”.
- The Brink says “AMD has rewritten the guidelines of what a video gaming laptop computer can be,” and Digital Trends states “AMD drops the mic”.
- What is very important is that the AMD chips utilize 35 W of power, down from the usual 45 W, but that’s not a handicap to efficiency from 8 cores running at 3.0 GHz.
- Ryzen 9 laptops can be blisteringly fast, and with lowered cooling requirements, it suggests it can be used