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The long-running saga of Intel’s foundry woes opened a hopeful chapter this week with the news that Intel and its partner/ rival TSMC will join forces to create a new venture. That entity will run Intel’s fabrication plants. Intel’s efforts to revive its chip manufacturing business to its former glory …

  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 …

Razer’s Razer Blade Pro has been the company’s go-to high-end machine for gamers wanting a desktop replacement, and the company has tweaked its high-end configuration for 2017. The jumps aren’t huge, but the new system will offer a Kaby Lake Core i7-7820HQ (2.9GHz base, 3.9GHz Turbo) as opposed to the …

Qualcomm acknowledges that “processor” is an accepted and broadly used generic term for a wide range of products, including ASICs, CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, MICs, and probably at least a few others. It also admits that we already have a term to describe microprocessors that integrate a wide range of functionality, …

Ever since Microsoft released the Surface RT, people have wondered whether the company would build an x86 emulator to allow ARM chips to run x86 Win32 applications. One of the reasons why the Surface RT and Surface 2 tablet families ultimately failed in the market is because they could run so …

Chinese device manufacturers are now looking to equip their convertible notebooks and tablet devices with Intel’s Apollo Lake processes and one of the 1st to be available is the Voyo VBook V3 convertible notebook. The Notebook is equipped with a 13.3 inch touchscreen display offering users a pixel resolution of …

Last week in Sonoma, AMD unveiled new details on its upcoming CPU architecture, codenamed Zen. For the past 16 years, AMD has relied on a combination of Greek (Athlon, Phenom) and Latin-derived (Duron, Opteron). More recently, it’s used the old “FX” moniker from its high-end Athlon 64 consumer hardware to …