Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Just when you thought things were as bad in the GPU market as they could be, something new pops up. Demand for gaming graphics cards, game consoles, and GPUs used for mining cryptocurrencies have driven prices of graphics cards and graphics memory to new heights in recent months, but according… Read more
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EU Explores Massive Local Semiconductor Alliance and Fab
Home News (Image credit: GlobalFoundries) In a move that echoes the whole endeavor of the European Union in general, the conglomeration of nations is exploring the idea of a semiconductor alliance as an alternative (or a complement) to a leading-edge fab built by a multinational chip company, according to a Reuters report. The general idea… Read more
read more...Vergecast: the two Apple events from this week
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge You may have heard of the new Apple products announced at the company’s “Spring Loaded” event this week — including the redesigned colorful iMac, the location-tracking AirTags, and the boosted specs on the next iPad Pro. But there was another big event focused on Apple this week: on… Read more
read more...BlackBerry 5G smartphone with physical keyboard (2021 model)
OnwardMobility is about to release its first BlackBerry smartphone with 5G support and a physical keyboard. Take a look at the first concept photos. The Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry is at the beginning of a new era. Last year, the Chinese licensee TCL announced that it would stop selling BlackBerry phones. The 4 year license… Read more
read more...Global Chip Shortage Reportedly Delays MacBook Production
Home News (Image credit: Alena Veasey / Shutterstock.com) It’s said that money can’t buy everything—and the world’s most valuable company seems to be learning that lesson the hard way. Nikkei Asia Review today reported that even Apple’s supply chain has been weakened by the global chip shortage. Apple has devoted a lot of time, expertise,… Read more
read more...Arm Unveils Armv9 Instruction Set Architecture
Home News (Image credit: Qualcomm) Arm this week announced Armv9, its latest instruction set architecture that will power a broad range of processors and system-on-chips that will be launched in the coming years. The new ISA promises to enable designers to build SoCs with multiple special-purpose accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI), machine leading, digital signal processing (DSP),… Read more
read more...Vergecast: The Snyder Cut, Samsung Unpacked 2021, and this week in EVs
Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast The Vergecast, where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering our biggest stories. This week, co-hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn chat with Verge reporter Julia Alexander about the long-awaited release of the Zack Snyder version of Justice League on HBO… Read more
read more...iPhone Flip foldable smartphone
Apple is developing an inwardly folding smartphone with a clamshell design. Read all about the expected iPhone Flip and its possible design here. Since Samsung released the Galaxy Fold foldable smartphone in 2019, many are wondering when Apple will introduce its first folding phone. But we still have to be patient. Various sources have indicated… Read more
read more...Amazon is opening its first manufacturing line in India to produce Fire TV devices
Amazon is opening its first manufacturing line in India in a partnership with Foxconn-owned Cloud Network Technology, an India-based subsidiary of the Taiwanese electronics giant, Amazon announced on Tuesday. The partnership is part of an effort to work with the Indian government, which has embarked on a campaign to encourage companies to invest in the… Read more
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