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New AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX to Offer 8-Channel DDR4 Support There’s been a rumor going around this week about a new, 64-core Threadripper CPU from AMD. Dubbed the 3995WX and debuting under the “Threadripper Pro” brand-name, this chip is supposed to debut with an eight-channel memory configuration with support for …

Apple Will Support Thunderbolt on Its Future ARM-Based Macs When Intel announced Thunderbolt 4 yesterday, one of the questions was whether companies like AMD would be able to use the standard. Intel’s slide, copied below, implies that Intel VT-d technology is required to implement TB4, due to the need for …

Nvidia Overtakes Intel as World’s Most Valuable Chip Maker Nvidia has overtaken Intel as the world’s most valuable chip maker, at least briefly. Increases in the GPU manufacturers’ market capitalization pushed its stock price to $404 on Wednesday, giving it a market capitalization at $248B, just about Intel’s $246B. Nvidia …

Coronavirus impact sends app downloads, usage and consumer spending to record highs in Q2 As the world continued to cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, the second quarter of 2020 became the largest yet for mobile app downloads, usage, and consumer spending. According to new data from app …

Qualcomm Breaks 3GHz Barrier With Slightly Faster Snapdragon 865 Plus ARM Chip Most of the fancy new 5G phones on the market run on the Snapdragon 865, but that’s old news. Qualcomm has announced a new mobile chip, the Snapdragon 865 Plus. What’s “plus” about it? Well, not as much …

Google Might Have Accidentally Revealed Android 11’s Launch Date The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown many businesses into disarray, and Google has been particularly hard hit. It had to delay the Pixel 4a launch, and it’s not even certain that phone will come out at all. Google also canceled its I/O …

Apple is Planning to Build Build Its Own GPUs, Too, But Playing Quiet for Now There’s news out that Apple isn’t just going to be getting rid of Intel silicon — it’s supposedly going to be pushing GPUs out of its products as well. That read is based on a …

Microsoft Working to Sunset Windows Control Panel Microsoft is moving ahead with plans to sunset the Windows Control Panel by moving its functions over to the Settings app, just as the company announced on July 1. Build 20161, which also debuts an updated Start Menu, moves the System applet to …

Amazon adds ‘hands-free’ Alexa to its Alexa mobile app Amazon is making it easier for mobile users to access its Alexa virtual assistant while on the go. The company announced today it’s making it possible to use Alexa “hands free” from within its Alexa mobile app for iOS and Android, …

TSMC to Build Supercomputing AI Chips, Ramps Wafer-Scale Computing Over the past year, companies like Cerebras have made headlines for their use of wafer-scale processing. TSMC wants to grow this area of its business and plans to build out its InFO_SoW (Integrated Fan-Out Silicon on Wafer) technology in order to …