Macworld Podcast: How AI affects Apple’s chip strategy
Apple is making major changes to its M-series chip cycle, and it’s all because of AI. In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, find out what Apple plans to do and how it affects your next Mac…
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Apple is working on an Ultra chip with 1.5TB of RAM, but we may never see it
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports Apple is developing an M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores, and 768GB RAM, expected to replace the current M3 Ultra…
AMD revives 7-year-old chip designs for budget laptops
AMD has resuscitated three mobile chips from 2019 and 2020 to ship to PC makers asking for cheaper processors for budget PCs, the company confirmed. AMD is now offering the AMD Ryzen 3 3100U and…
RTX Spark vs. Snapdragon X2 Elite: Which chip do you want in your AI PC?
One big thing changed at Computex this past week: Windows on Arm processors became the next big thing for Windows desktops, specifically for mini PCs designed for productivity and AI applications. So which Arm processor…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip ‘reinvents’ laptops for agentic AI
Nvidia has a vision to put AI productivity into the hands of virtually everyone on the planet. On Sunday night it advanced that mission with the debut of the Nvidia RTX Spark, a challenge to…
Intel’s Arc G3 is the handheld chip we needed, at the worst possible time
It’s been four years and change since Valve shook things up with the Steam Deck. In all that time, nearly every single competitor and alternative handheld gaming PC has used an AMD chip. MSI is…
Tested: The smartest work laptop chip of 2026 came out in 2024
When evaluating productivity laptops, two key features that I begin with are office performance and battery life: How well can I work, and how long can I work for? PCWorld’s list of recommended laptops is…
Sorry, Intel’s new chip won’t help PCs beat MacBook Neo
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld analyzes Intel’s new Wildcat Lake Core 5 320 CPU, which appears 21% faster than Apple’s A18 Pro in multi-thread benchmarks but matches single-thread performance. Despite Intel’s…
AMD launched a monster chip. But Intel made the bigger splash
I began writing about enthusiast hardware completely by accident. Picture a street cat wandering into a neighbor’s house often enough that one day it never leaves—that’s pretty much my story. Except in this case, I…
Ryzen 9950X3D2 tested: AMD made a creator’s dream chip in gamer clothing
AMD’s V-Xache-infused X3D series of processors has been an absolute smash hit in the PC gaming space, pushing AMD to the forefront of the performance discussion after years of Intel dominance. But after three generations…