Tag: chips

April 25, 2024

All the major motherboard makers have now introduced support for AMD’s next-gen desktop CPUs with their latest BIOS releases, and another vendor has specifically mentioned that these chips will be the Ryzen 9000 series. If you recall, Asus, Gigabyte, and […]

April 17, 2024

Following the launch of AMD’s first NPU-equipped processors, the Ryzen 8000G series from January, the company is expanding its portfolio with Ryzen Pro 8000 models that also feature AI acceleration hardware. These are the AMD Ryzen Pro 8000 chips for […]

January 5, 2023

Dell has announced plans to phase out chips made in China from its machines by 2024 in a move that could to have major repercussions across the wider tech industry. A person familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia(opens in […]

July 28, 2022

Now that the US Senate has passed the Chips and Science semiconductor production subsidies bill, it is likely only a matter of days before it will be passed by the House of Representatives and signed into law by the President, […]

September 3, 2020

Qualcomm is expanding its 5G portfolio to its budget Snapdragon 4-series chipsets in 2021, which will bring the faster networking standard to the cheapest range of smartphones yet. Qualcomm has steadily been expanding the list of chipsets that it’s offered […]

February 10, 2020

Edge AI is one of the biggest trends in chip technology. These are chips that run AI processing on the edge — or, in other words, on a device without a cloud connection. Apple recently bought a company that specializes […]

November 2, 2016

Samsung is still sorting out the mess connected to the recalled Galaxy Note7, but is nevertheless ramping up mobile chip manufacturing by investing $1 billion in an Austin, Texas, factory. The investment will be applied early next year, and will […]

June 1, 2016

If you are not happy with the quality of streaming video, it’s perhaps because your providers server doesn’t have a good graphics processor. To address that, Intel is improving the integrated graphics processor in its new Xeon E3-1500 v5 family […]

April 14, 2016

With rivals Nvidia and AMD both offering graphics processors, Intel is now deploying screaming co-processors of its own in the form of FPGAs. FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) are extremely fast chips that can be reprogrammed to do specific tasks. […]

December 22, 2015

Unofficial sources cited by South Korea’s Electronic Times say Samsung has entered into a partnership with AMD. The deal will see Samsung to manufacture chips for AMD in 2016. Samsung’s foundry business in conjunction with Globalfoundries will start making CPU […]

September 9, 2015

With more and more smartphones now launching with 4GB of RAM, it’s time to look forward and catch a glimpse of the future. Thanks to Samsung, it’s now in sight, as the company has started mass producing the industry’s first […]