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IBM shared new details on its upcoming Telum CPU at Hot Chips, and the new microarchitecture looks to be a significant advance over the older z15. This will be IBM’s first 7nm CPU built using Samsung’s EUV and a huge step forward for Samsung as far as demonstrating its EUV …

  Apple released a new generation of iPhones late last year, and the says of just one or two new iPhones are dead and gone — there are five members of the iPhone 12 family, including the iPhone 12 Mini. You probably heard a lot of banter about the tiny …

  Last year, a lot of semiconductor companies promised they’d be exiting the current supply crunch by the end of Q1 2021. In January, we started hearing companies say they thought the shortages could last until the end of Q2. Now, analysts are predicting they could actually persist for the …

  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 …

  Mozilla, the non-profit organization behind the development of the Firefox web browser, has announced it is firing 250 people or roughly one-quarter of its workforce. The company’s blog post announcing these changes reads like some kind of utopian fan fiction. It declares “Changing World, Changing Mozilla” before opening with: …

Paid search advertising accounted for roughly $35 billion in 2016, split almost evenly between the desktop and mobile. That’s according to the IAB’s 2016 revenue report, released yesterday. On a percentage basis, desktop paid search declined by 10 points and was down by a little under $3 billion in real …

Google has announced a new and improved JPEG implementation that it claims can shrink file sizes by as much as 35% with better image quality than you’d see in an equivalent standard JPEG file. That kind of improvement would be significantly useful, if true — repeated studies have shown a …

In its quarterly Paid Search Trends report, digital marketing agency, iProspect, says 2016 was “the year of efficient growth” for paid search. It was a year in which click volume rose and cost per click (CPC) went down. Overall, impressions rose 19 percent, clicks were up 15 percent in 2016 among …

Alexander Supertramp / Shutterstock.com Voice search and use of voice commands on mobile devices is on the rise. However, there’s still some embarrassment or reluctance to use it, according to a new survey of more than 900 US smartphone owners from Stone Temple Consulting. The survey found that people were …

The app industry is continuing to grow, according to a new year-end analysis from app intelligence firm App Annie, out today, which found that app downloads, time spent in apps and revenue grew across the board over the course of 2016. Worldwide downloads were up 15 percent year-over-year, time spent in apps was …