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If it were on me, I’d buy any CPU (especially if it’s rated 4.8/5) at a 62% discount, let alone the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, a high-performance desktop processor. This eight-core, 16-thread CPU, originally priced at $449.00, can now be yours for only $169.99. It’s a deal that’s hard to …

NASA has been using the same spaceflight computers for almost 30 years, but it won’t be much longer. The agency has awarded a $50 million contract to Arizona-based Microchip Technology Inc. to “architect, design, and deliver” a next-generation space-optimized processor. NASA expects the new chip, which will be used in …

  In most western nations, MediaTek plays second banana to Qualcomm. The best, and most powerful phones all run on Qualcomm ARM chips, but that might change soon. MediaTek has just announced its first true flagship system-on-a-chip (SoC) in years, which it’s calling Dimensity 9000. It’s the world’s first 4nm …

  Google was roundly criticized last year for its decision to skip Qualcomm’s high-end Snapdragon 865 chip. Instead, Google’s Pixel 5 sported the cheaper 765 system-on-a-chip (SoC). The cheaper flagship Pixel was a risk, and it didn’t pay off. The Pixel 6, however, could come out swinging. According to leaked …

  Samsung has announced the availability of a new Aquabolt variation. Unlike the typical clock speed jump or capacity improvement you’d expect, this new HBM-PIM can perform calculations directly on-chip that would otherwise be handled by an attached CPU, GPU, or FPGA. PIM stands for Processor-in-Memory, and it’s a noteworthy …

  Apple loves to market itself on security and does so more often than most firms. This is always a risky proposition because nothing yells “Please attack me!” more loudly than advertising the strength of one’s security implementation. In this case, security researchers have found a problem in Apple’s T2 …

Several years ago, Google began working on its own custom software for machine learning and artificial intelligence workloads, dubbed TensorFlow. Last year, the company announced that it had designed its own tensor processing unit (TPU), an ASIC designed for high throughput of low-precision arithmetic. Now, Google has released some performance …

When AMD announced Ryzen, it made it clear that the chip would hit the desktop market first, followed by server and mobile APUs. Server parts are expected in Q2, with mobile APUs following in the back half of the year. Analysts and reviewers have broadly praised the architecture, but some …

Thanks to the WinFuture website details of a new 2-in-1 tablet in the form of the Lenovo Miix 520 have been leaked this week, revealing that Lenovo’s new tablet will be equipped with a 12.2 inch display and will be supplied with a keyboard cover as well as an option …

Just over a year ago, Qualcomm announced that it would throw its hat into the server market with a 24-core server processor built on its own custom ARM architecture. Even at the time, we knew the 24-core chip was just a prototype, but it’s still surprising to see Qualcomm going …