Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, and Qualcomm debuted their latest chips at the 2021 CES tech trade show this week. As is the case in most years, the new chips are faster and more power-efficient […]
Some initial specs for the new Core i9-11900K. [credit: Intel ] The Consumer Electronics Show this week was never going to be where Intel would venture into extreme detail on major new 12th-generation CPUs, but nonetheless, the company hosted a press conference this morning that laid out a few new evolutions of the 11th-gen CPUs […]
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Star chip designer Jim Keller has joined Tenstorrent, a Toronto startup that makes specialized computer processors for artificial intelligence. Keller previously designed breakthrough chips at AMD, Apple, and Tesla. He left his most recent role […]
(credit: Andrew Cunningham) Activist hedge fund Third Point has taken a stake of nearly $1 billion in Intel and called on the chipmaker to consider shedding its manufacturing operations, throwing a core part of its strategy into question. The firm with $15 billion in assets run by Daniel Loeb made a number of demands in […]
Enlarge / The iPhone 12. (credit: Samuel Axon) As rumored many months ago, Apple’s silicon ambitions don’t end with replacing Intel CPUs with its own in Macs—it plans to ditch Qualcomm modems in favor of its own custom-designed chips for iPhones, according to Apple hardware tech lead Johny Srouji. Srouji confirmed the company’s plans when […]
Computer software programmers to a conference phone are attempting to acquire a quantum computer, a buzzy successor to the supercomputers, to perform some of its own magic. They wish to observe how well the design system can replicate a very simple pattern of stripes and bars. Following the group pops up some applications code, then […]
Expand / / If it is on battery life powered, your new Ryzen 4000 series notebook does not deliver its accurate functionality till approximately ten minutes to some full-throttle workload. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / AMD) Within an embargoed demonstration Friday afternoon, Intel’s Chief Performance Strategist Ryan Shrout walked a bunch of technology journalists via […]
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 […]
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Apple is insane, right? The Mac only had its very best year of earnings, also Cupertino is hitting on the stage with a jolt like it has not had in almost 15 years–ago at a period when the Mac has been not with such a great […]
Expand / / Spoiler: When it comes to functionality through time, Intel is the gradual and steady tortoise into AMD’s speedy-but-intermittent hare. (charge: Aurich Lawson / / Getty Images) The remark wars between Intel and AMD lovers are popular for the past few release cycles, even with a great deal of electronic ink spilled about […]