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Apple MacBook Air (M1, 2020) review: Big steps to a bright future

(Pocket-lint) – Yes, it really is only a few months since the last MacBook Air hit the streets. But while this new end-of-2020 model looks and feels the same as the one from earlier in the year, what’s inside is quite different. That’s because the MacBook Air now runs exclusively on Apple’s own processors, dubbed… Read more

Best Desktop CPUs for Workstations 2020

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Shutterstock) If you’re after the best processor for work, a lot of the decision boils down to just what your work is. Most processors can handle just about any workload you throw at them, given enough time. But faster CPUs (with more cores and/or faster clock speeds) chew through tough workloads… Read more

Activist Hedge Fund Calls for Intel to Spin Off Fabs

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) As reported by Reuters, activist hedge fund Third Point, which reportedly owns a $1 billion stake in Intel, has penned a letter to Intel Chairman Omar Ishrak asking the company to explore “strategic alternatives,” like spinning off its fabs and/or divesting itself of unsuccessful acquisitions, to address the company’s… Read more

Intel Alder Lake-S 16-Core CPU Shows Similar Multi-Core Performance as Ryzen 5 3600X

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake-S processors may be still be a far way off. But the chipmaker has already started sampling the chips to PC partners, and other engineering samples are already running in the hardware world, too. A high-end SKU (via Leakbench) with 16 cores has seemingly broken its… Read more

11 great apps ready for your new 2020 M1 Mac

This year marked the introduction of the first Macs to be powered by Apple’s own silicon instead of Intel chips. As is evidenced by our reviews of the M1 MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, these machines are incredibly powerful and offer wicked fast performance. This is especially true for apps that are… Read more

MSI Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio Review

Introduction MSI sent us the Radeon RX 6800 XT Gaming X Trio, its flagship custom-design graphics card based on the RX 6800 XT “Big Navi” that shook things up in the discrete graphics card market this November. This card sees MSI pull out its very latest generation Gaming X board design that debuted with its… Read more

2020 Winners and Losers: Apple

It’s been a difficult year for everyone, and even the giant that is Apple faced some atypical disruptions. It needed to sort a lot of supply and manufacturing hurdles in order to unload its considerable fleet of devices this year. It even needed to push the announcement of its golden goose – the iPhone line… Read more

Huawei’s first Kirin-powered laptop’s specs leak

A while back we heard that Huawei is working on several PCs powered by its own silicon – desktop PCs and laptops. With the company already confirming its desktop PC powered by its own HiSilicon ARM chip, we now more details about the notebook too, albeit from a leak rather than an official source. A… Read more

Adobe Premiere Pro, in beta, now supports Apple Silicon

by Mattia Speroni, published on 26 December 2020, at 08: 01 ?? Adobe Premiere Pro yes updates and in the latest beta version supports the new Apple M1 processor (part of the Silicon family). This will promise not to have to use Rosetta 2 and the Intel version. But beware of bugs! ?? Immediately after… Read more

The top Finnish overclocker Luumi brought new video card records to Finland

Lumi managed to grab the records in both the GPUPI and 3DMark Port Royal tests, but unfortunately the latter’s record has already been displaced. It is always nice to start digesting Christmas hams with positive news. This time they will be served by Juhani Luumi, a top superclocker who is also known to us from… Read more

For tomorrow's technology: from quantum dots to quantum technologies

The properties of electronically zero-dimensional quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures differ fundamentally from those in higher-dimensional structures such as quantum wells. In quantum dots, the energy of charge carriers is not a function of the momentum. Their properties are similar to those of atoms embedded in a dielectric matrix. Based on gas phase or molecular… Read more

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Review: The Pricing Conundrum

Our Verdict AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X offers great performance in applications, but the same gaming performance as its less-expensive counterpart, the Ryzen 5 5600X. For Strong gaming performance Solid single- and multi-threaded IPC gain, boost frequencies Power efficiency Overclockable PCIe Gen4 support 400/500-series compatible Against Price No bundled cooler No integrated graphics (Image credit: Tom’s… Read more

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold Review: Durable, but Major First-Gen Vibes

Our Verdict The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold, the first folding-screen PC, shows a clever way of moving mobile computing forward and is built solid. But there are some kinks to work out in Windows 10 and other software. For Folding OLED display Feels surprisingly durable Luxury materials No bloatware Against Starts at $2,499 without accessories… Read more

Nuro can now charge for robot deliveries in California

Nuro is now the first company in California that’s allowed to operate autonomous cars commercially (via TechCrunch). The company received a permit that allowed it to test its robots earlier this year, but this permit will allow the firm to actually charge people for the service. According to a Medium post by Nuro’s chief legal… Read more

TSMC will manufacture M-series ARM chips in 3 nm lithography for Apple. They will go to future computers and smartphones

The Apple Silicon M1 chip, which powers the latest MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac mini computers, uses TSMC 5nm technology. The results achieved by the said ARM chip are impressive and show the near future of device development, which is facing a significant leap in performance. Growers are also among the first Taiwan Semiconductor… Read more