330: Our E-Cores Are Better Than Your P-Cores

About this episode

The episode covers a range of recent hardware news including Microsoft's Project Helix, new Apple products, and Intel's CPU updates.

There's kind of a mountain of hardware news from the last week, so we're rounding it up this week, starting with Microsoft's Project Helix (a.k.a. the next Xbox), interrogating what exactly that box is going to look like inside and out, how much machine learning is going to factor in, and more. There's also the tiny, cheap MacBook Neo (and a surprising theory about future tiny iPhones), Intel's refreshed Arrow Lake CPUs, upscaling improvements on PS5 Pro (and Sony's anything-goes history of system settings), DLSS 4.5, Valve's continued supply-chain struggles, and more. That's a lot of podcast!

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Topics covered

• hardware news
• gaming
• machine learning
• Apple products
• Intel CPUs
• Sony gaming
• supply chain

Keywords

• Project Helix
• Xbox
• MacBook Neo
• Arrow Lake CPUs
• PS5 Pro
• DLSS 4.5
• Valve
• supply chain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft, Intel, Sony, Valve

Products: Project Helix, Xbox, MacBook Neo, iPhone, Arrow Lake CPUs, PS5 Pro, DLSS 4.5

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