March 13, 2026Published by Sean Kim on March 13, 2026Categories Tech & HardwareSnapdragon X2 Elite Extreme Benchmark: 18 Cores, 80 TOPS NPU, and the Numbers That Should Terrify Apple1,432 points in Cinebench 2024 multi-core. That is 24% higher than the Apple M5. When I first saw this number, I genuinely thought it was a […]
January 7, 2026Published by Sean Kim on January 7, 2026Categories Tech & HardwareSnapdragon X2 Plus at CES 2026: 80 TOPS AI, 35% Faster CPU, and $800 ARM Laptops Are HereQualcomm just dropped the mic at CES 2026. The new Snapdragon X2 Plus packs 80 TOPS of AI processing power, a 35% single-core CPU leap, and […]
January 5, 2026Published by Sean Kim on January 5, 2026Categories Tech & HardwareCES 2026: AMD Ryzen AI 400 Series Arrives With 60 TOPS, Zen 5 Cores, and the First Copilot+ Desktop CPUAMD just fired the opening salvo of CES 2026. Today in Las Vegas, CEO Dr. Lisa Su took the stage to unveil the AMD Ryzen AI […]
October 14, 2025Published by Sean Kim on October 14, 2025Categories Tech & HardwareIntel Core Ultra 300 Panther Lake Unveiled: 18A Process, Xe3 GPU, and 5 Reasons Arrow Lake’s Successor Changes EverythingIntel just mass-produced a chip on a process node that doesn’t even exist at TSMC or Samsung yet — and it’s coming to laptops before the […]
August 19, 2025Published by Sean Kim on August 19, 2025Categories Tech & HardwareHot Chips 2025: Intel Lunar Lake NPU Delivers 48 TOPS — 11 Months of Real-World AI Performance Data48 TOPS from a laptop NPU. A year ago, that number sounded like marketing fantasy. Now, after 11 months of Intel Lunar Lake NPU shipping in […]