Testing Apple’s 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new “performance” cores

M5 Pro and M5 Max both use the same 18-core CPU die, but Pro uses a 20-core GPU die, and Max gets a 40-core GPU die. (Because ...

Early benchmarks show the likely performance gains of the iPad Air’s new M4 chip

As it usually happens when new Apple products are about to hit the shelves, early Geekbench benchmark results are already ...
MacRumors

M5 Chip Achieves Impressive Feat in 14-Inch MacBook Pro Speed Test

The first alleged benchmark result for the M5 chip in the new 14-inch MacBook Pro has surfaced, allowing for some performance comparisons. Based on a single unconfirmed result uploaded to the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Revolutionizing Chip Testing: Navigating Bottlenecks

In today’s rapidly evolving semiconductor landscape, System-on-Chips (SoCs) are becoming increasingly complex, integrating multiple processing cores, specialized accelerators and vast memory arrays.
PC Magazine

iPhone Inside? How Apple's A-Series Chips Could Power a New Budget MacBook

We've done the testing, and Apple's latest iPhone chips have the horsepower for a capable, low-cost MacBook laptop running on purely smartphone silicon. Might Apple make it happen? From the laptops on ...
EDN

System-level test’s expanding role in producing complex chips

System-level test (SLT), once used largely as a stopgap measure to catch issues missed by automated test equipment (ATE), has evolved into a necessary test insertion for high-performance processors, ...