On Friday, Intel gave a presentation to various journalists and analysts alleging a serious discrepancy between AMD CPUs performance on-battery versus the performance of the same systems off-battery. According to Intel, while AMD’s latest CPUs offer slightly better battery life than their Intel counterparts, they achieve this by reducing …
Read More »Autodesk Performance Management
Autodesk faced a challenge with which many marketers are familiar. Teams that were expert in their various disciplines — channel marketing, regional marketing, industry marketing, etc. — had diverged into silos in the absence of a strong marketing performance management program. There was no unified view of how marketing …
Read More »RISC-V SiFive Dev Board
One architecture I’ve been keeping an eye on for the past few years is the revolutionary, open-source RISC-V ISA. A number of companies have announced low-level RISC-V CPUs, though these are often used as embedded controllers. Companies like Alibaba Group, Western Digital, and SiFive have all been working to …
Read More »AMD’s 8-Core Jaguar APU
There’s a rumor going around claiming that an AMD APU called the A9-9820 is capable of offering Xbox One S-class performance. This is potentially interesting to folks because the nameless motherboard with this piece of silicon attached is selling for just $125 — significantly less than the supposedly-equivalent Xbox …
Read More »Performance Potential
How connected TV measurement proves its A lot has been written about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world of advertising. Budgets were decimated and marketers scrambled to find other ways to do more with less. One of the less talked about themes, however, has been how the …
Read More »AMD Announces Ryzen
3900XT, 3800XT, and 3600XT Performance Desktop CPUs There’s been some question about what AMD’s Ryzen 3000 refresh would look like in 2020, given that Zen 3 is intended to launch before the end of the year. The company has given us our answer in the form of the new Ryzen …
Read More »Google Recipe Filters
Google Search Console performance report gets recipe filters Google has added new filter options to the performance reports within Google Search Console. If you use recipe markup, Google may give you the ability to filter your performance report within the “search appearance” options. Where are these filters? You can access …
Read More »Understanding Google Ads
How to use Google Ads Explanations to understand performance changes Explanations may be available when comparing recent campaign performance to a previous period. Google Ads is testing “Explanations” in the interface to help advertisers diagnose potential reasons behind changes in conversion volume. Announced this week, Explanations are available at …
Read More »AMD Updates Ryzen’s Windows Power Plan, Boosts Performance With New Chipset Driver
When AMD launched Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 earlier this year, it recommended that reviewers test with Windows 10’s power plan set to “High Performance,” as opposed to the “Balanced” configuration we typically prefer for testing and that Windows uses by default. Now, the company has released a new chipset …
Read More »SEO & intelligent content: Discovery, connection and improved performance
Customer journeys have evolved significantly in their complexity, with the sheer amount of touch points possible exploding due to digital advancements. Mobile has risen to number one, in terms of consumer use and accessibility; hyperlocal has become a paramount focus of strategy; and intelligent content marketing is now critical to …
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