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Enlarge / A lot has changed since 1918. But whether it’s a literal (like the City of London School athletics’ U12 event) or figurative (AI chip development) race, participants still very much want to win. (credit: A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: […]
With certain exceptions, mid-range smartphones haven’t been keeping pace with the bells and whistles of higher-end handsets — you can still expect ‘just’ a single rear camera and 1080p video recording. Qualcomm might soon fix that. It’s launching the Snapdragon 632, 439 and 429 systems on a chip, all of which promise to make dual […]
GUEST: I vividly remember a distinct shift that occurred in the late 1990s in our common perception of the internet. Ambitious startups like Google, Yahoo, and Amazon began to break through the mainstream barrier, and traditionalists that once labeled computers a passing fad for the intrinsically tech-savvy started to recognize their tremendous pot…Read More
Intel’s transition to building processors on a 10nm manufacturing process has been delayed repeatedly. Once upon a time, the company said that it’d go into mass production at the end of 2015; with its most recent financial results, the company pushed that back, again, to 2019. But Intel has also said that, although the yields […]
Erik Haula’s goal in double overtime gave the Vegas Golden Knights a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night for a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series. With 4:37 left on the clock in the second overtime, Haula skated in on his own to beat goalie Jonathan Quick and send a […]
Stanford’s John Hennessy, now chair of Google parent Alphabet, and Berkeley’s David Patterson developed the Reduced Instruction Set Computer in the 1980s. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ab1a93aec5e9b19adb81e03/master/pass/TuringAward-Hennessey-web.jpg
Enlarge (credit: AMD) Secure enclaves like the one found in iPhones are intended to be impenetrable fortresses that handle tasks too sensitive for the main CPUs they work with. AMD’s version of that co-processor contains a raft of critical flaws that attackers could exploit to run malware that’s nearly impossible to detect and has direct […]
This has been a big week for specialized chips aimed at performing machine learning tasks. Google announced the open beta of its second generation Tensor Processing Unit, Amazon is reportedly working on a dedicated AI chip for its Echo smart speaker, and ARM announced its own AI hardware. It’s easy to see why that’s happening: […]
Amazon wants to cut the lag time between your asking Alexa a question and the virtual assistant giving you an answer. According to a report by The Information, the online retailer is developing its own artificial intelligence chips to be used in Echo devices and other hardware. If successfully created and deployed, these AI chips […]
Enlarge / Intel Skylake Core i7-6700K. (credit: Orestis Bastounis) After recommending customers not use its microcode fix for Broadwell and Haswell chips, Intel has issued a new microcode update for Skylake processors that gives operating systems the ability to protect against the Spectre flaw revealed earlier this year. The Spectre attacks work by persuading a […]
