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Month: December 2023

New CPU from China’s sole x86 chipmaker grapples with AMD’s Bulldozer in Geekbench results — lower-end model isn’t the fastest, but it gives Zhaoxin a full roster of CPUs for use in the country

Published by craig on December 22, 2023

Zhaoxin’s KX6640MA x86 processor has popped up on Geekbench 6, and it’s about as good as AMD’s old Bulldozer chips. Powered by WPeMatico Go to…

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ASML ships groundbreaking new chipmaking tool to Intel — High-NA lithography tool needed for next-gen process nodes could cost ~$400 million

Published by craig on December 22, 2023

ASML on Thursday announced that it had begun shipping the industry’s first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tool with a 0.55 numerical aperture (High-NA) to Intel.…

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