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  Seagate has designed a pair of custom RISC-V cores to be used in future products as next-generation storage controllers. The chips, which are not referred to by any codename or brand, come in two flavors: A high-performance core and an area-optimized core. The high performance core has already been …

  Chromebooks are so plentiful these days they might as well grow on trees. There are fewer Chromeboxes — small form factor desktop computers that run Chrome OS — but Asus has been keeping its line of Chromeboxes updated. It just announced a follow-up to the 2018 Chromebox 3, the …

  Apple announces new devices at most of its events, but the just-completed “One More Thing” unveiling is different. This is a big step for Apple as it begins the process of leaving Intel behind. As it had promised, Apple has unveiled its first computers with the new Apple-designed ARM …

  In 2019, several vendors — most notably Samsung — boldly launched the first wave of foldable phones. In theory, the concept sounds amazing, allowing a phone to expand out to tablet-size for watching content, then shrink down to handset size for talking or texting. First-generation devices were generally abysmal, …

  Slowly but surely, ARM-based processors are finding their way into laptops. Qualcomm announced its 8cx chip for Windows laptops in 2018, but only a few devices have used it. Apple recently confirmed it would design its own ARM-based silicon for upcoming MacBooks, which might push the latest Qualcomm laptop …

May Use External Foundries For Future CPUs “Building semiconductors is like playing Russian roulette. You put a gun to your head, pull the trigger, and find out four years later if you blew your brains out.” — Former Digital CEO Robert Palmer During its Q2 conference call last night, Intel …

CPG giant Unilever announces no more Facebook, Twitter ads through 2020 Yesterday Verizon announced it was joining the “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ads boycott. Today Unilever said it will stop all advertising on Facebook and Twitter through the end of the year. The company issued a statement explaining its …

Apple Announces A12Z CPU for Mac, Will Transition Away From Intel, x86 After 15 years and approximately 50 failed predictions, Apple has finally announced its own ARM CPU for the Mac and MacBook product lines. The upcoming A12Z will transition Apple away from the x86 CPUs it adopted in 2005 …

3900XT, 3800XT, and 3600XT Performance Desktop CPUs There’s been some question about what AMD’s Ryzen 3000 refresh would look like in 2020, given that Zen 3 is intended to launch before the end of the year. The company has given us our answer in the form of the new Ryzen …

Sony shared good news last week as part of its quarterly report. The company has shipped a full 60 million PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro ($399 at Amazon) consoles. The company also sold 2.9 million devices in the past three months, up from 2.3 million devices shipped in the same …