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Zen 6 Benchmark Leak Hints At Major IPC Gains For AMD's Next-Gen Chips

The Hot Take: Intel hopefully catches up. We'll have to see what the real word benches say.

When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like

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Samsung tries to lock in DRAM deals for years

The Hot Take: So we can lock in that price gouging?

Samsung is reportedly pushing memory customers into surprise three- to five-year supply contracts. It thinks it can spot price swings “early on” and adjust investment before it gets caught with too much new capacity and nowhere to ship it. Samsung chief executive Jun Young-hyun said, “We are now working with our major customers to shift this transaction environment toward fixed-term supply contracts, three- to five-year contracts. We expect to be able to identify fluctuations [in the market] early on and, because we are aware of them in…

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