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Intel Core Ultra CPU

First Ring Daily: Intel’s New Core Ultra CPUs and AI PCs

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel showing off its new "Meteor Lake" Core Ultra mobile CPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) arriving on laptops, and changes to the desktop.

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Intel vPro Platform

What is the Intel vPro Platform?

Last Update: Mar 14, 2023

The Intel vPro platform was first announced by the chip maker back in 2007, and it designates a collection of advanced CPU technologies for business PCs. As of today, it provides various features to increase security and manageability to support IT departments in organizations of all sizes. In this article, I’ll explain how the Intel vPro…

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Adds Ampere ARM CPU Support to Azure Virtual Machines

Microsoft has released a preview version of Arm support on Azure virtual machines (VMs). The company claims that its new Arm-powered Azure VMs should offer up to 50 percent better price-performance compared to similar instances with x86-based processors. “The new Azure Virtual Machines, featuring the Ampere Altra Arm-based processor, further extend our portfolio of compute…

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Improving Virtual CPU Performance

Crushed under poor CPU performance choices in your VMware virtual machines? Read on to learn about managing VMware CPU resources.

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