Arm s supercharged Cortex-X2 CPU takes aim at Intel
The new Cortex CPUs and Mali GPUs could power Windows laptops and tomorrow s Android flagships. Credit: Arm
On Tuesday, Arm announced details of the first Cortex-X2 CPU and Mali-G710 GPU cores that will drive future Arm-based smartphones and PCs in 2022. In the latter category, Arm is already making fairly aggressive claims against Intel.
Specifically, Arm claims that its new flagship “performance” core, the Cortex-X2, should be 40 percent faster in single-threaded performance than an Intel 11th-gen Core i5-1135G7 at 15W essentially as fast as 2020’s mainstream “Tiger Lake” CPU, in other words. Arm also revealed a new “big” core, the Cortex-A710, as well as a new “little” power-sipping core, the Cortex-A510. A choice of three new Mali GPUs the Mali-G710, the Mali-G510 and the Mali-G310 will also be integrated inside the chip.
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Significant performance gains compared to Intel Macs, according to Adobe on March 10, 2021, 16:15
Why it matters: Adobe s first version of Photoshop for Apple Silicon is now official, even if it misses some features that have yet to be ported to the new architecture. The company says the performance improvements are a big reason for the early push, and that the missing features are coming in the near future.
Last year, Adobe quietly released a beta version of Photoshop for Arm-based Windows and macOS machines which got people excited about not having to run it in emulation mode or through the Rosetta 2 translator in Big Sur.
With the Samsung Galaxy S21, it’s time for Bixby to put up or shut up
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Today, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus, and Galaxy S21 Ultra (I’ll take the Zune-inspired brown one thanks). It’s happening a couple months earlier than usual for the S line of phones, but otherwise the script will remain the same.
Here’s the script. Samsung will be the first major Android maker out of the gate with Qualcomm’s newest chips, this time with the Snapdragon 888. Samsung will use its unseemingly immense marketing budget and longstanding carrier relationships to ensure it will be seen as the default option if you want a premium Android phone
Video: Testing Windows on an M1 Mac With Parallels 16
Tuesday December 22, 2020 12:44 pm PST by Juli Clover
Late last week, Parallels launched a Parallels Desktop 16 for Mac Technical Preview Program, which allows M1 Mac owners to use the Parallels software. Paired with a version of Arm-based Windows that s available through the Windows Insider program, it s possible to get Windows up and running on an Arm-based Mac.
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In our latest YouTube video, we installed Parallels on an M1 Mac and tested out Windows, but it didn t exactly go smoothly. When we first set up Parallels on an M1 Mac, it was functional, but about an hour into the experience we kept running into errors attempting to get Windows working. It continually froze and the performance was abysmal.