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iFixit drilled a key ring hole into one of Apple’s AirTags in its latest teardown

The team over at iFixit has done its teardown thing again, this time examining Apple’s AirTag trackers. Part one of its two-part review digs into the guts of the little trackers, and for those lamenting the lack of a key ring loop on the AirTag, iFixit (carefully) drilled a hole into one without damaging any… Read more

TSMC Uses AMD’s EPYC Chips to Make Chips

Home News (Image credit: AMD) TSMC produces chips for AMD, but it also now uses AMD’s processors to control the equipment that it uses to make chips for AMD (and other clients too). Sounds like a weird circulation of silicon, but that’s exactly what happens behind the scenes at the world’s largest third-party foundry. There… Read more

You can save up to $147 on a preorder for the latest M1 iPad Pro or iMac

Following the official reveal last week of the new model refreshes for the iMac and iPad Pros, all of which are powered by Apple’s own silicon — the M1 chip — preorders began for all three products today. As spotted first by 9to5Toys, Expercom is offering an incentive if you pre-purchase any of the three… Read more

Intel’s Sapphire Rapids Could Have 72-80 Cores, According to New Die Shots

Home News (Image credit: Intel) Newly published images may reveal that Intel’s forthcoming Sapphire Rapids CPU might feature roughly 72-80 cores, considerably more cores than initially thought. Hardware blogger YuuKi_AnS, known for various leaks, has published pictures of what is claimed to be Intel’s Sapphire Rapid chiplets. This time around he removed the dies from the substrate… Read more

Vmware Puts the Windows-on-M1 Ball in Microsoft’s Court With Progress Update

Home News (Image credit: VMware) VMware updated us on its progress on making Fusion compatible with Apple’s M1 chip this week. The company said it’s committed to “delivering a Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon this year,” but it’s not clear if that version of the tool will support Windows 10… Read more

Google’s answer to the problems of open plan offices? Inflatable walls

Google is redesigning its offices for the post-pandemic world, and The New York Times has a big report full of pictures and videos outlining the company’s plans. But if I had to sum up the tech giant’s approach in two words I would choose “over” and “engineered.” Google has ambitious plans to shake up its… Read more

X86 Exodus? Apple’s M1 Chip Lures PC Users to Arm-Powered Macs

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Apple executives said Wednesday that roughly 50% of the Mac and iPad sales in the second quarter of 2021 were to people who’d never owned those devices before. Much of that growth has been attributed to the M1 system-on-a-chip, the release of which led the Mac to enjoy the best… Read more

Nvidia’s Enhanced Anti-Mining GPU Limiter Debuts in Mid-May

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstck) Nvidia released its GeForce 466.24 driver today, wherein the chipmaker also confirmed the exact arrival date of its improved anti-mining limiter. Listed as one of the driver’s new features, the bullet point reads: “This driver updates the hash limiter for the GeForce RTX 3060 12GB and is required for product… Read more

Nvidia’s Anti-Mining Ampere GPUs Are Allegedly En Route

Home News Ampere Graphics Cards (Image credit: Nvidia) VideoCardz has shared an update on Nvidia’s revised Ampere graphics cards with the improved anti-mining limiter. According to alleged information obtained from its sources, Nvidia will ship this new “Lite Hash Rate” series in the middle of May. That means some of the best graphics cards should… Read more

Behind the controversy at Basecamp

Basecamp announced it would ban “societal and political discussions” at work. But the hardest conversations at work were about the company itself. I. The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009, Basecamp customer service representatives began keeping a list… Read more

AMD Smashes Records Again, Data Center Revenue up 286%, Consumer Up 46%

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) AMD crushed expectations with its first quarter 2021 financial results today with a record quarterly revenue of $3.45B, an increase of 93% year over year (YoY). AMD grew in every segment of its businesses despite constant product shortages for its consumer CPUs and GPUs at retail, a byproduct of… Read more

Xbox Series X/S and PS5 gamepads now supported on iOS

Matthew Wilson 4 hours ago Apple The Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 consoles have been out for quite some time now, each with a new controller. Back in November, Apple confirmed it would be bringing support for these new gamepads to iOS, now six months later, that support has finally arrived. As part of… Read more

Apple Silicon M2 processor reportedly already in production

Matthew Wilson 4 hours ago Apple, CPU, Featured Tech News Apple embarked on a journey to create its own processors several years ago, which culminated in the launch of the M1, an ARM-based chip that now powers Macs and iPads. A successor is already in the works though and according to sources this week, Apple’s… Read more

Arm Details Neoverse V1 and N2 Platforms, New Mesh Design

Home News (Image credit: Arm) Yesterday marked the 36th anniversary of the first power-on of an Arm processor. Today, the company announced the deep-dive details of its Neoverse V1 and N2 platforms that will power the future of its data center processor designs and span up to a whopping 192 cores and 350W TDP. Naturally,… Read more

The Golden State Warriors are auctioning team memorabilia collections as NFTs

The Golden State Warriors are auctioning off a plethora of team-related memorabilia as non-fungible tokens, the team’s first foray into the world of NFTs. The Golden State Warriors Legacy NFT Collection has two series minted on the blockchain: the Warriors Championship Ring NFTs and Commemorative Ticket Stub NFTs, which were designed by artists’ studio Black… Read more