Enlarge (credit: TSMC) When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The reason for the construction frenzy […]
Enlarge / The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. (credit: Samuel Axon) Microsoft has released a new version of source-code editor Visual Studio Code that runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs like the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini models with Apple M1 chips. The change came in Visual Studio Code 1.54 (now 1.54.1 thanks to […]
Enlarge / To call Sony’s PlayStation 5 in-demand would be an understatement. The global semiconductor shortage is threatening to constrain PlayStation 5 supplies throughout the rest of this year, even as Sony’s gaming chief insisted the company would be able to produce “decent numbers” of its new console in the second half of 2021. The […]
Enlarge / Some current Arm licensees view the proposed acquisition as highly toxic. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Nvidia) In September 2020, Nvidia announced its intention to buy Arm, the license holder for the CPU technology that powers the vast majority of mobile and high-powered embedded systems around the world. Nvidia’s proposed deal would acquire Arm from Japanese conglomerate […]
Enlarge / Ford has cut production at its Chicago facility from three shifts to one as a global chip shortage takes a toll on the car industry. (credit: Scott Olson | Getty Images) The Biden administration has pledged to take immediate action to address a global shortage of semiconductors that has forced the closure of […]
Enlarge / A splash image for Nuvia from the company’s blog. (credit: Nuvia) Chip-maker Qualcomm announced a major acquisition today: it will buy Santa Clara-based silicon company Nuvia for $1.4 billion dollars. Qualcomm intends to use Nuvia’s technology in future chip designs for a wide range of devices, from phones to cars. Nuvia was founded […]
Expand (charge: Jason Torchinsky) Let us be truthful: 2020 sucks. So a lot of the season was a constant slog of awful news and gloomy events which it has been difficult to maintain. Yet most people have maintained, and how the majority of us do this is using the tiny handheld computers we take with […]
Expand / Microsoft has thus much neither confirmed nor denied Bloomberg’s claims concerning in-house CPU layouts. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Grid Engine) This day, Mr reported which Microsoft is in the process of creating its ARM CPU layouts, following in the footsteps of Apple’s M1 cellular CPU along with Amazon’s Graviton datacenter CPU. Bloomberg cites […]
Expand / / It’d be fantastic to see Linux operating and fully working on Apple M1 hardware such as that Mac Mini–{} appears unlikely to take place. (charge: Produnis / / Jim Salter) In a recent article on the Real World Technologies discussion –among the very few public net venues Linux creator Linus Torvalds is […]
The picture representing the Apple M1 processor, as exhibited by Apple in an event earlier this season. A while {} an Apple campus construction, a bunch of engineers got together. Isolated from the other people in the business they even accepted the guts of outdated MacBook Air laptops and joined them for their prototype boards […]