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Intel Advertises Tiger Lake Processor with Stock Photo of a MacBook Pro

Home News (Image credit: Apple – B&H Photo) Intel’s marketing snafus are the gifts that keep on giving. iThinkDifferent reported Wednesday that the company has started advertising “the world’s best processor,” by which it means the Core i7-1185G7, in “a thin and light laptop.” The only problem is that the ad features a MacBook Pro,… Read more

Mysterious GPU Could Be AMD’s Next-Gen Big Navi Radeon Pro GPU

Home News AMD Radeon Pro GPU (Image credit: Chiphell) An unidentified Radeon Pro graphics card has emerged overseas in China. The graphics card, which appeared on the Chiphell forums, could be one of AMD’s forthcoming Big Navi Radeon Pro offerings. But take this leak with a grain of salt. Like AMD’s other Radeon Pro SKUs,… Read more

Core Temp CPU Monitor Adds Support for Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake, Meteor Lake

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Popular CPU temperature monitoring utility Core Temp recently got patched to version 1.17 with a few new updates, including support for not only Intel and AMD’s latest and best CPUs, but some chips yet to be released as well. Core Temp version 1.17 adds full support for Rocket-Lake-S, which includes… Read more

Nvidia Allegedly Increases GeForce GTX 1650 Supply To Fight GPU Shortage

Home News EVGA GeForce GTX 1650 XC Black (Image credit: Nvidia) The latest rumor coming out of China is that Nvidia is supplying its partners with more Turing silicon to deliver more GeForce GTX 1650 graphics cards to the market. The report specificially mentions mainland China, so it’s uncertain if Nvidia is doing this on… Read more

Study Shows How Fragile Semiconductor Industry Still Is

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) published a report today detailing the, well, semiconductor industry’s weaknesses as the entire world attempts to figure out how to respond to the ongoing chip shortage. Many enthusiasts probably know the biggest issue: The semiconductor industry relies on many companies… Read more

M5Stack Raspberry Pi RP2040 Board Could Be On The Way

Home News (Image credit: Future) The Raspberry Pi Pico is shaping up to be the most popular board of 2021 and while official partners are busy finishing off their range of RP2040 boards, other companies are starting development on their own. M5Stack, perhaps more notable for their modular ESP32 based M5Stick and M5Paper devices has… Read more

Amazon is reportedly working on custom networking chips

Amazon is reportedly working on custom silicon chips for its hardware network switches, according to The Information. The chips, which could help Amazon improve its internal infrastructure as well as AWS, are said to be the result of Amazon’s $350 million acquisition of Israeli chipmaking firm Annapurna Labs back in 2015. Amazon building the silicon… Read more

Arm’s first new architecture in a decade is designed for security and AI

Chip designer Arm has announced Armv9, its first new chip architecture in a decade following Armv8 way back in 2011. According to Arm, Armv9 offers three major improvements over the previous architecture: security, better AI performance, and faster performance in general. These benefits should eventually trickle down to devices with processors based on Arm’s designs…. Read more

TSMC Reportedly Plans Volume Production for 4nm Process This Year

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) DigiTimes today reported that TSMC is set to begin volume production for its 4nm process in the fourth quarter of 2021, rather than early 2022 as originally planned. The report also indicated that Apple has contracted initial production using this node for use in future versions of the custom silicon… Read more

AMD’s Radeon RX 6600 XT Will Land With Just 32MB of Infinity Cache

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD (via Kepler_L2) released a new Linux patch that exposes the cache configuration for its Navi 21, Navi 22 and Navi 23 silicon. The last is rumored to power the chipmaker’s upcoming Radeon RX 6600 series (or maybe RX 6500 series). The description for the patch reads: “The L1 cache… Read more

Intel Core i9-11900K Review – World’s Fastest Gaming Processor?

Introduction Intel today launched its 11th Generation Core “Rocket Lake” desktop processor family led by the Core i9-11900K—this is its long-awaited review. With the Core i9-11900K, Intel wants to respond to the AMD Ryzen 5000 series, which snatched overall performance leadership away from the company. Rocket Lake is Intel’s first attempt at improving per-core (single-threaded)… Read more

Apple WWDC 2021 announced as online-only event

Apple just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place on June 7th through June 11th this year, and that like last year it will be an online-only event. The announcement, as is typical for Apple, is opaque when it comes to details, but there might be a tantalizing hint: is the memoji… Read more

Intel MacBook Pro 13-inch vs MacBook Pro 16-inch: Which Intel Mac is best for you?

(Pocket-lint) – The 13-inch Intel MacBook Pro was upgraded with the latest specs in early 2020 to bring it in line with 2019’s MacBook Pro 16-inch. However, there’s also a version – released in November 2020 – with Apple’s own M1 processor. However, we’re only looking at Intel machines in this guide. If you want… Read more

Seeed Teases New RP2040 Board With WiFi

Home News (Image credit: Seeed) Seeed Studio is no stranger to the Raspberry Pi RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon,’ but it has yet to produce its own board based on the surprisingly adaptable microcontroller. In a recent tweet, we can see a teaser for the company’s upcoming board, currently known as the “Shield for Seeed Wio RP2040,”… Read more

Samsung Develops 512GB DDR5 Module with HKMG DDR5 Chips

Home News (Image credit: Samsung) Samsung has announced that it has developed the industry’s first 512GB memory module using its latest DDR5 memory devices that use high-k dielectrics as insulators. The new DIMM is designed for next-generation servers that use DDR5 memory, including those powered by AMD’s Epyc ‘Genoa’ and Intel’s Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’… Read more