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ARM Reportedly Developing Gaming GPU to Challenge NVIDIA and Intel
ARM, the British semiconductor giant, is reportedly developing a gaming GPU aimed at competing with industry leaders NVIDIA and Intel. According to Globes, the development is centered in Israel, where ARM has engaged around 100 engineers in chip and software development. Focus on Gaming and Potential AI Applications The project,…
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Apple Set to Launch First ARM-Powered MacBook
As a means of attempting to make their company more independent of other manufacturers, it was confirmed earlier this year that Apple was formally dropping Intel as the CPU provider for their MacBook/Mac products in favor of their own processor designs. Well, following that news, it seems things have been…
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Apple Hires CPU Engineer who worked at AMD, ARM, Intel
Apple Hires Mike Filippo from ARM One of the keys to Apple’s massive success is its push for vertical integration. The company is never content with relying on outside suppliers for core components. After bringing iPhone CPUs and GPUs in-house, the next obvious target is mobile MacBook CPUs. To this…
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Microsoft and ARM Turn Their Back on Huawei As Well After US Ban
Huawei Losing More Partners Following the US ban on Huawei last week, more companies are cutting ties with the Chinese smartphone giant. Initially, Intel, Micron and Qualcomm were the first. Now, Microsoft as well as ARM Technologies are suspending business with Huawei. ARM is reportedly telling their employees to cease…
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Vuzix Blade Smart AR Glasses are Now Available for $999
Finally Available for Purchase New York-based Vuzix has finally begun taking orders for their Blade Augmented Reality glasses. The device unveiled at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show delivers enhanced functionality for on-the-go, hands-free, mobile computing requirements. It is physically chunkier in comparison to something like Google’s Glass. In fact, it…
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Supercomputer with ‘One Million Cores’ Built in Manchester
The World’s Largest Neuromorphic Supercomputer Although Intel announced that they will have a 48-core Xeon processor coming out soon, AMD rained on their parade by announcing a 64-core EPYC processor of their own the next day. However, both pale in comparison to what scientists in the University of Manchester’s School…
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Gigabyte Launches Pair of ThunderX2 ARM Processor Servers
Gigabyte Server Alternative to x86 Gigabyte is expanding their server offering with the launch of two new ThunderX2 ARM server systems. The R181-T90 and R281-T91 are 1U and 2U bay servers featuring 2 x Cavium ThunderX2 CN9975 28-core ARM processors. These present a genuine alternative to x86 servers and performs 2…
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Samsung Updates Chromebook Plus with Intel Processor
Updated Chromebook Plus for 2018 Samsung is releasing a new version of their Chromebook Plus laptop introduced last year. This next generation version trades in its ARM-based chipset with an Intel Celeron solution. Specifically, the Chromebook Plus uses a Celeron 3965Y Kaby Lake processor. It operates at 1.5GHz and is a…
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ARM Cortex A76 Will Challenge Mobile x86
ARM Cortex A76 Aimed Squarely At Laptops Ever since ARM took over the smartphone and tablet markets, more serious aspirations have been cast on their CPUs. With every new ARM CPU release, the designs continue to gain more performance. At the top end, ARM CPUs have been touted as a replacement for…
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Intel Rumoured To Be Considering big/LITTLE x86 Cores
Intel Rumours For big.LITTLE Surface Again Over the past decade, there has been a long-term drive to improve efficiency. Both AMD and in particular, Intel, have made massive improvements to their x86 CPUs. Intel has focused on cutting power for their Core series to the point that some users complain…
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Qualcomm to Launch Snapdragon PCs Later This Year
American semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm has revealed that it is releasing its own ARM-based Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs later this year. Based on the Snapdragon 835 processor, these new Qualcomm PCs are set for release before the end of 2017, according to the company’s CEO. Thus far, we’ve only seen Windows…
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Thecus Announces the Affordable N4350 4-Bay NAS
Thecus’ N4310 was a fine NAS, but it is outdated by today’s standards which is why Thecus is launching their new N4350 as a successor. The new NAS features an improved processor, next generation memory, and it runs the latest version of ThecusOS. The new N4350 is powered by a…
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Lenovo Announces $279 Flex 11 2-in-1 Convertible Chromebook
Lenovo has just announced an interestingly affordable 2-in-1 convertible Chromebook option for only $279 called the Flex 11 which can be used as a laptop or as a tablet when folded. The Flex 11 has an 11.6-inch touchscreen IPS display with a resolution of 1366 x 768, designed for running…
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Ultigesture – The RC Car Controlled by ARM and Your Arm
Remote controlled cars have traditionally been controlled with joysticks and trigger styled remotes. But no more, at least if all goes as the makers of Ultigesure want it to. Ultigesture is a new remote controlled (RC) car and control system that has appeared on Kickstarter. The Ultigesture is powered by…
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ARM Unviels DynamIQ Dynamic big.LITTLE CPU Clusters
Over the past decade, ARM has established a stranglehold on the mobile CPU market. Starting from the simple single core designs, the CPUs have grown to dual, quad and even octa-core configurations. To make better use of higher core counts, ARM introduced the big.LITTLE designs with 2 core clusters, with one…
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