The stop of Moore’s Legislation is looming. Engineers and designers can do only so significantly to miniaturize transistors and pack as quite a few of them as achievable into chips. So they’re turning to other techniques to chip style and design, incorporating technologies like AI into the approach. Samsung, for […]
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Nvidia won’t buy Arm: The biggest chip deal in history just got scrapped
Nvidia’s proposed purchase of Arm for an estimated $40 billion in cash and stock was expected to have a difficult time winning the approval of regulators. It apparently could not, and the two companies called off the agreement on Monday night. Nvidia and Softbank, which owned Arm, said that the […]
Intel sees chip shortages lasting into 2023
While Intel recorded record revenue for the fourth quarter of 2021, Intel chief executive Pat Gelsinger said that chip shortages will persist throughout 2022 and into next year. “Looking across the industry, 2021 was dominated by two recurring themes, unprecedented demand, and ecosystem supply constraints,” Gelsinger said. Intel reported record […]
Intel’s new megafab won’t alleviate chip shortages anytime soon
As the worldwide chip shortage persists, Intel said Friday that it’s trying to build its way out of it. The chip giant announced plans for a new fab complex in Licking County, Ohio, near Columbus. Intel committed $20 billion to the new facility, which Time had earlier reported would include […]
Intel tips plans for a Bitcoin mining ‘Bonanza’ chip
Intel has signaled that the next generation of Bitcoin mining rigs may ship with “Intel Inside” stickers, as the company has announced plans to at least discuss a “Bonanza Mine” chip for mining Bitcoin at an upcoming conference. The upcoming program (PDF link) for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference includes […]
AMD CEO Lisa Su talks: Chip shortages, GPU prices, more cores, Apple M1, and tariffs
If you’re still smarting from the inability to buy AMD’s fantastic Ryzen 5000 CPUs and Radeon RX 6000 GPUs many months after their release, CEO Lisa Su feels your pain but says more products are on the way. “I do want to be very specific, and the main thing I […]
Microsoft refreshes Surface Pro X tablet with a faster SQ2 chip and new color options
Microsoft is taking the unusual step of refreshing its existing Surface Pro X tablet lineup by adding premium options built upon a second-generation Microsoft SQ2 Arm processor. In addition, Microsoft has reworked some of its key applications, delivering more performance and longer battery life on Windows on Arm. Microsoft’s SQ2 […]
Intel claims its Core i9-10900K Comet Lake chip is the world’s fastest gaming processor
Intel’s latest 10th-gen “Comet Lake S” desktop processors solve the hyperthreading issues that plagued Intel’s 9th-gen chips, with a unique wrinkle: the ability to dial hyperthreading on and off on a per-core basis. The fastest of the thirty-two new chips pushes clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, though that’s specific to a […]
Intel calls its 5.3GHz ‘Comet Lake-H’ chip for gaming laptops the ‘fastest mobile processor’
Intel’s 10th-gen “Comet Lake-H” mobile processors for gaming laptops aspire to something that, so far, AMD’s Ryzen hasn’t: pure clock speed. Announced Thursday, Intel’s 10th-gen H-series chips go above 5GHz, the first time a mobile PC processor has reached those heights. In fact, most of Intel’s six new Comet Lake […]