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I met Renee James more than a couple of decades ago, when she was the technical assistant to then Intel CEO Andy Grove, one of the legendary leaders of Silicon Valley. She kept notes on what she learned from Grove, and she rose through the ranks to become president of the world’s biggest chip maker. […]
Apple’s chip manufacturer TSMC today broke ground on its first 5-nanometer fabrication facility in Taiwan, promising that 5-nanometer chips will be commercially available in 2020, with 3-nanometer chips planned for 2022. The tiny new processors will guarantee that future smartphones continue to shrink while offering superior performance and battery life to today’s models. First shown in […]
Intel has revealed that even its newer CPUs are affected by the frequent reboot problems brought about by the Spectre/Meltdown patches. The chipmaker previously said that the reboot issue affects systems running Broadwell and Haswell. Now that it has managed to reproduce the problem internally in an effort to fix it, the company found that […]
Samsung is the latest company to team up with NextRadio to bring FM service to its new phones. The company will unlock FM chips in all its upcoming smartphones in the US and Canada. The bulk of smartphones around the world are manufactured with an FM chip, but hardware makers often do not unlock them. […]
Enlarge (credit: Martin Larsen) According to a press release from NextRadio app owner TagStation LLC, Samsung will be the next major phone manufacturer to enable the dormant FM chips in their devices. The FM chips will be switched on in Samsung’s “upcoming smartphone models,” which will allow users to listen to local radio stations. Most […]
David Becker/Stringer Some of Intel’s data center customers are looking for alternative microchip vendors, following revelations that Intel’s chips contain a serious security flaw. Intel chips are behind 98% of data center operations, and a customer exodus could have a serious impact on one of the company’s faster growing business units. Flaws in Intel’s chips, […]
Processor giant Qualcomm makes its move from mobile devices to, well, everything else. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a53e5b3b86447115ea9a8d0/master/pass/BiometricHeadset-TopArt.jpg Feed: All Latest
Samsung has unveiled its next-generation smartphone chip that will give its upcoming Galaxy S9 some iPhone X-like features, including face unlocking and animated emojis. The Exynos 9810 is built on its second-generation 10-nanometer fabrication tech, and will outperform the current flagship Exynos 8895 chip by up to 100 percent in single-core mode, Samsung said. The […]
Apple has announced a second major investment from its $ 1 billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund that it launched back in May. Finisar, a Sunnyvale, California-headquartered optical components company, will receive a $ 390 million grant from Apple to expand its R&D and production of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), which are basically depth- and proximity-sensing chips that […]
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2016. (credit: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images) Tesla is building its own custom AI chips, CEO Elon Musk acknowledged on Thursday night according to reports from CNBC and the Register. “Jim is developing specialized AI hardware that we think will be the best in the world,” Musk said at a Tesla-organized party. […]
