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As AI demand defies fears of a bubble, it is putting increasing strain on many products and resources. In some cases, such as with DRAM and NAND memory, suppliers are all too happy to try to keep up with the voracious demands of big AI firms. But in other cases, …

Microsoft Edge’s PDF reader, which began transitioning to Adobe’s tech in 2023, is about to receive improvements when running on low-end devices. The current Adobe integration has led to performance issues, especially when handling large PDFs on systems with limited resources. Microsoft is actively working on addressing these concerns, as …

  Verizon is rolling out a new cellular service in a frequency band that could bring big performance improvements. In some cases, the gains have been large enough to push 4G performance over and above the newer 5G standard. That’s according to PCMag’s Sascha Segan, who got an opportunity to …

  IBM has been scaling up its own quantum computing efforts over the past few years, and the company is now claiming it’ll deliver a 100x improvement in certain workloads. The company isn’t going to deliver this improvement solely through hardware, but through the deployment of new software tools, algorithms, …

  Yesterday, Apple announced its new M1 SoC. It’s an impressive piece of work — I’ll share some thoughts on it here — but I want to get one thing out of the way upfront. Apple made a lot of claims about the M1’s performance relative to x86 that I …

  Note: This article assumes that Zen 3 will deliver the 1.19x IPC improvement it has promised over the Zen 2 / Ryzen 3000 CPU family. AMD’s Zen disclosures have consistently been accurate enough that I am comfortable making that assumption. When AMD launches Zen 3 on November 5, it …

  Huawei is trying to position itself as being minimally affected by the technology bans levied against it by the United States government. The company’s 24-core ARM-based Kunpeng 920 CPUs are apparently almost ready for launch in desktop systems. The Kunpeng 920 family extends up to 64 cores and is …

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 …

Titan Is Moving Away From Saturn 100 Times Faster Than Expected Cassini’s mission to Saturn may have ended years ago, but scientists analyzing the data sent back by the probe continue to draw new insights about the sixth planet from the sun and its system of moons. We now know …

Faster than Previously Thought Saturn is orbited by 82 moons, and tidal friction within the giant planet causes the moons to migrate outwards. In a study published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers used two independent measurements obtained with NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure Titan’s orbital expansion rate. …