Technology

Intel’s already-rough process technology ramp took another hit last week. According to Mark Li, an electronics engineer and analyst with Bernstein, the company will delay its introduction of Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) until 2021. That’s several years after rivals TSMC and Samsung are expected to have the technology in play …

If you spend any amount of time at your computer working or playing games, you may very well be missing out on one upgrade that can improve your computing experience: namely, using a mechanical keyboard. I make no secret of my obsession with mechanical keyboards as both a hobby and …

With GlobalFoundries having announced that it will cancel its 7nm deployments and cease development of leading-edge FinFETs, the number of companies with leading-edge fabs has fallen to three. But of the three, Samsung is a bit of a special case — while it has foundry customers and has competed for …

Intel has announced a new set of CPUs for its 15W and 5W TDP brackets. These new CPUs are a small improvement on their predecessors, with tweaked maximum turbo clocks and a few small chipset changes, some of which are being communicated inaccurately.There are six new SKUs in total — …

In an effort to simplify its product development process while still taking advantage of new OS features, Adobe has announced that it will be chopping quite a few older OS versions from its next major update to Creative Cloud. On the Windows side, Windows 8.1 will no longer be supported, …

Somewhat lost in its success in the drone market is DJI’s heritage in camera gimbals. It is part of why their drones do such a good job of photography and videography. But they’ve continued to innovate in more-traditional stabilization and gimbal offerings, including their Osmo family of smartphone stabilizers. I’ve …

In the wake of AMD’s decision to take its 7nm business to TSMC, GlobalFoundries has announced some radical restructuring plans of its own. The company is killing its 7nm deployment and retrenching around both 12/14nm and its investments in product offerings like FDX. According to GF’s press release, this major …

Magic Leap isn’t having a great time of things. The company’s actual tech demos have been panned, its hardware hasn’t reviewed particularly well, and now Palmer Luckey, the onetime founder of Oculus, has weighed in with his own thoughts on the platform, hardware, and capabilities. His conclusion is that the …

Epic Games is riding high on the success of Fortnite, which is available on desktop, game consoles, and even mobile devices. The company took the unusual step of skipping the Play Store for Android distribution, which brings the potential for security issues. Sure enough, the first version of Fortnite on …

When Microsoft announced the Surface Go, the diminutive, inexpensive tablet was hailed as a potential new standard for low-cost computing. It was hoped that the device, which starts at just $400, would combine Microsoft’s established reputation for solid overall hardware design with higher performance and longer battery life than the …