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Apple is blocking Apple Silicon Mac users from sideloading iPhone apps

Apple has turned off users’ ability to unofficially install iOS apps onto their M1 Macs (via 9to5Mac). While iOS apps are still available in the Mac App Store, many apps, such as Dark Sky and Netflix, don’t have their developer’s approval to be run on macOS. Up until now, there was a workaround that allowed… Read more

Apple reportedly planning big iMac redesign and half-sized Mac Pro

In addition to revamped MacBook Pros that ditch the Touch Bar and resurrect MagSafe, Apple is also said to be planning to announce its long-awaited iMac redesign this year — and a pair of Mac Pro refreshes are on the roadmap, too. This is all according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says the iMac will… Read more

MacBook Pro of the future: via the TouchBar and the MagSafe returns, here are the analyst's predictions

Ming-Chi Kuo provides that next MacBook Pro, scheduled for market debut in the third quarter, will bring several surprises: goodbye to the TouchBar, MagSafe is back and there will be more connection ports by Andrea Bai published on 15 January 2021 , at 18: 01 in the Apple channel Apple MacBook The analyst Ming-Chi Kuo,… Read more

HP S700 Pro in the test: a lot of pros, but also cons

Page 1: HP S 700 Pros in the test: A lot of pros, but also cons An SSD , which appears with the addition “Pro” in the name, basically makes you sit up and take notice. In the case of the HP SSD S 700 The IT giant can come up with solid key data… Read more

MacBook Pro 2021: New displays, MagSafe – and no more Touch Bar?

Apple is preparing a new edition of the MacBook Pro: In addition to a 16 “model, the manufacturer is planning Also reportedly the introduction of a new 14 “model. Both pro notebooks also use brighter, higher-contrast screens, as reported by the financial news agency Bloomberg with reference to an informed person. Mini-LED technology may be… Read more

TSMC Preps for 3nm Risk Production

Home News (Image credit: TSMC) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said this week that it would significantly increase its capital expenditures this year as it needs to build and equip new fabs to ramp up its existing and next-generation leading-edge process technologies. Demand for advanced fabrication nodes is on the rise. In Q4 2020, revenue for… Read more

Intel has to be better than ‘lifestyle company’ Apple at making CPUs, says new CEO

Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, doesn’t start his new role until February, but he’s already prepping the company to take on Apple’s M1 chips. The Oregonian, a local newspaper in Oregon where Intel maintains a large presence, reports that the chip maker held an all-hands company meeting yesterday, and Gelsinger attended. “We have to deliver… Read more

TSMC will take its 3 nanometer node to the risk production stage this year

by Jordi Bercial Ago 15 minutes ago … As we can read in Digitimes, TSMC seems to be quite sure of the progress of its 3-nanometer processor manufacturing node , which is why the company is preparing to start, this year, the production at risk of this latest generation node. A general features, risk production… Read more

heise + | Seven SSDs with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in the test

Seven SSDs with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in the test Flash memory SSD controller Similarities Measurement results One-to-one meetings Conclusion Test table Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read At the beginning of the PCIe 4.0 era there were SSDs with Phison controllers and Toshiba Flash: They achieved a good 5 GB / s for… Read more

For the first time, Intel outsources the production of high-quality CPUs

Intel will outsource part of its CPU production. TSMC will be producing Core i3 processors in Taiwan in the second half of the year. Next year CPUs from the middle and upper price segment will be added. This is practically a taboo breaking with the world market leader, who has always attached importance to at… Read more

Start-up with CPU architect veterans: Qualcomm wants to buy Nuvia

Founded less than a year ago and already valued at a ten-digit figure: Mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm wants to take over the start-up Nuvia. Both companies have agreed on a purchase price of 1.4 billion US dollars – now only the authorities have to approve the takeover. Reason for the high price, Nuvias are engineers,… Read more

Chip order maker TSMC manages record quarter even without Huawei

Chip order manufacturer TSMC has in the fourth quarter 2019 about , raised $ 7 billion, of which almost exactly $ 5 billion remained as profit. Throughout the year 2020 TSMC achieved a turnover of 45, $ 5 billion and a profit of 17, $ 6 billion. TSMC recently announced the financial results. Compared to… Read more

Graphic interface: Vulkan officially available for Apple platforms

The Khronos Group has released an update to the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Vulkan, which officially covers Apple’s platforms. It is based on Vulkan Portability and also covers Apple Silicon. This allows developers to write cross-platform applications on Vulkan instead of implementing them natively for Apple’s own Metal graphic architecture. Vulkan applications also run… Read more

Samsung Announces Radeon powered Exynos SoCs are in the works.

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) Nearly two years ago, Samsung announced a partnership with AMD that would allow Samsung to use AMD RDNA silicon in SoC designs in around 2 years. Samsung announced at the end of the Exynos 2100 presentation that Samsung is still on track to deliver Radeon equipped SoCs rather soon. Unfortunately,… Read more

Intel CEO Bob Swan to Step Down, Replaced by Pat Gelsinger

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Intel CEO Bob Swan is stepping down from his position, effective February 15, and will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, who will leave his position as the CEO of VMware to take the role. Gelsinger will also join Intel’s Board of Directors and has penned a memo to Intel’s employees… Read more