ARM Cortex-A15 explained: Intel's Atom is down, but not out
For the past two years, smartphone advances and the tablet market have been driven by ARM's Cortex-A9. The diminutive mobile processor has proven to be extremely capable, but it's…
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Intel Announces Tiger Lake Coming Mid-Year, 10nm Ramp Accelerating
…plan to launch 10nm desktop chips. Despite this omission, Intel is taking several steps to ensure a large supply of Tiger Lake CPUs (Opens in a new window) comes to market. The…
Move Over GPU Shortage, Here Comes the CPU Materials Shortage
…It's not clear what TSMC is planning, but Samsung is reported to be looking at a 20 percent price increase. The impact of these price changes will likely be felt far…
Meet RDNA: AMD's Long-Awaited New GPU Architecture
When AMD launched Graphics Core Next (GCN) back in 2012, few would have predicted that this GPU architecture would rule the company's graphics products for nearly a decade. GCN was an…
Beyond Hardware: AMD's Planned Software Improvements For Navi, GCN
…AMD plans to keep GCN GPUs (Opens in a new window) in-market to handle HPC workloads. The AMD engineer we spoke with compared GCN with an enormously effective broadsword if swung…
AMD analyst day sketches big picture, leaves critical details unanswered
…AMD also claims it will take market share in professional graphics, but offered no concrete plans for how it will do so, or which features of its current or upcoming GPUs will…
New Apple MacBook Pro banned from bar exams in multiple states thanks to Touch Bar
…That programmability is causing problems for the MacBook Pro in certain markets and is limiting its usefulness in various bar exams. A new notice (Opens in a new window) from the state…
Affordable Star Trek-like transparent aluminum could protect phones, windows, and lenses
…sports a sapphire screen (a Kyocera model), sapphire hasn't taken over the market the way some originally predicted. Instead, Apple's sapphire supplier went out of business amid allegations of poor…
Ice Cream Sandwich will not save Android tablets
…Android is not even a blip on the radar when it comes to this market segment. The iPad 2 is predicted to outsell Android based tablets by a ratio of almost 10…
Intel Has 10nm Fixes for Meltdown, Spectre; May Have Lost Share to AMD in 2017
Intel's Q4 earnings call was yesterday, and the company shared updates on its battle against Meltdown and Spectre, its plans for 10nm, and its overall performance in a much more competitive…