M6 deep dive: A brilliant 2nm design held back by bandwidth
What 2nm enables Along with the A20 Pro in the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo, the M6 represents the first of Apple’s chips to use the new 2nm manufacturing process from TSMC, and it’s…
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Don’t underestimate memory bandwidth when buying a graphics card
If you’re on the hunt for a new graphics card, you’re likely looking at clock rates, how many shader cores, and how much VRAM it’s packing. But don’t underestimate memory bandwidth when shopping around as…
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Crawlers that evade detection Making the situation more difficult, many AI-focused crawlers do not play by established rules. Some ignore robots.txt directives. Others spoof browser user agents to disguise themselves as human visitors. Some even…
I’m sick of PC games wasting my bandwidth on 4K textures
Deciding on a new game can quickly lead to frustration when I click the purchase button and see how big the file size is and how long it’s going to take to download. Suffice to…