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Cerebras Second-Gen Wafer Scale Chip: 2.6 Trillion 7nm Transistors, 850,000 Cores, 15kW of Power

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Some Laptop Makers May Only Fulfill 50 Percent of Orders in Q2 2021

Home News (Image credit: Acer) Demand for PCs in the second quarter continues to be high amid chip shortages, which constrains manufacturers’ ability to fulfill orders. A new report from Taiwan indicates that some vendors are projected to see shipments fall short of orders by 30% to 50% in Q2 2021. According to an IDC… Read more

Chinese Exascale Supercomputer Prototype Tested with AI Workloads

Home News (Image credit: Top500.org/News.cn) Chinese scientists have started to test a prototype of locally developed exascale supercomputer using convolutional neural networks (CNN) AI workloads. As reported by Next Platform the Tianhe-3 machine runs Armv8-based Phytium 2000+ (FTP) and the Matrix 2000+ (MTP) processors that were primarily designed for traditional supercomputing with full FP64 precision. Supercomputing and artificial… Read more

Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 15-inch review: redemption

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. On paper, the Surface Laptop 4 is a Surface Laptop 3 with better chips. In look and feel, very little has changed from the last generation. Sure, there are differences here and there: the Laptop 4 is… Read more

AMD’s EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here’s a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD’s EPYC Milan processors launched last month with 120 new world records to their credit in various applications, like HPC, Cloud, and enterprise workloads. But variants of these chips will eventually come to the market as Threadripper models for high end desktop PCs, and AMD’s server records don’t tell us… Read more

NFC certification for LG’s Rollable phone surfaces online

Before anyone gets unnecessarily excited – NO, LG hasn’t gone back on its decision to leave the smartphone business. At least not officially, that is. This is just another case of unfortunate timing surrounding the rollable phone that the company teased at CES 2021. Apparently the LM-R910N, as its official designation goes, was pretty far… Read more

Oppo A54 and A74 5G launching in India next week

Oppo will launch two smartphones in India next week – the A54 on April 19 and the A74 5G on April 20. The Oppo A54 is powered by the Helio P35 SoC, runs Android 10-based ColorOS 7.2 out of the box, and has two memory options – 4GB/64GB and 4GB/128GB. The smartphone’s built around a… Read more

Six months later, there still isn’t a MagSafe car charger

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. As Vergecast listeners know, I am a sucker for car phone mounts and chargers. They are a perfect gadget for the modern age — a design problem with no perfect solution, price points that usually land at… Read more

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Machine Learning With Seeed’s reTerminal

Home News (Image credit: Seeed) Seeed Studio announced the reTerminal, its latest addon for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. This $195 Compute Module 4 machine learning and industrial application carrier board comes enclosed inside a robust case and sports a 5-inch touchscreen and plenty of expansion possibilities. Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: Seeed)… Read more

Thermalright Outs Compact-Ish Dual-Tower CPU Cooler

Home News (Image credit: Thermalright) Thermalright might not be the most predominant name in PC cooling, but the company has been making cooling solutions since 2001. Today, the company revealed the Peerless Assassin 120 Black, which is a new dual-tower CPU cooler that’s just 157 mm tall. Of course, that’s not super-compact, but using only… Read more

Meet RuhaCam, a Raspberry Pi 3D-Printed Open Source Camera

Home News (Image credit: Ruha Camera) Smile and say cheese! This Raspberry Pi project, known as RuhaCam, is ready to capture all of life’s finest moments. It was created by Ruha Cheng and Penk Chen who decided to develop an open-source approach to handheld digital cameras. The camera is housed inside of a 3D-printed shell… Read more

SecretLab Titan SoftWeave Gaming Chair Review: a Minimalist Dream

Our Verdict The Secretlab Titan is a minimalist chair with many customizable adjustments. Unlike many gaming chairs, there’s no lumbar pillow. But it’s still a good throne for taller people. For + Very sturdy + Easy to assemble + Firm and comfortable + Helps maintain good posture Against – No lumbar pillow – Lumbar adjustment… Read more

Sony Xperia 1 III is the world’s first phone with a 120Hz 4K OLED screen

Home News (Image credit: Sony Mobile) Sony has launched a full refresh of its Xperia phone range, headed up by the Xperia 1 III (the successor to our favourite phone of 2020) and the Xperia 5 III (the follow-up to the five-star Xperia 5 II). The new third-generation Xperia handsets are virtually identical with almost… Read more

AMD Ryzen 5000G Cezanne APUs: Shipping to OEMs Now, Coming To DIY Later This Year

Home News (Image credit: AMD) AMD has announced that its 7nm Ryzen 5000G series APUs, codename Cezanne, are now shipping to OEMs with availability for the DIY/retail market coming later this year. AMD announced three primary 65W models that span from four Zen 3 cores up to eight cores, accompanied by Vega graphics that span… Read more

Tech workers at The New York Times have formed a union

Tech workers at The New York Times have formed a union under the NewsGuild of New York, and they are demanding voluntary recognition from the paper’s management. The new union, called the Tech Times Guild, represents more than 650 workers from the digital side of the company, including software engineers, designers, and data analysts. Those… Read more