Nintendo's Refusal to Allow Saved Game Backups is Driving Switch Hacking
…However good Nintendo's manufacturing process may be, there's no such thing as a product with a zero-percent defect rate, and that means some Switch buyers are going to get…
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AMD Expected to Launch Zen 2, Possibly Navi at Computex 2019
…What the market wants to see overall is evidence that AMD can both complete a challenging fab transition (both in terms of process node and manufacturing partners) and successfully scale the Zen…
Apple Mac, iPad Production May Be Slowed by Ongoing Chip Shortages
…The second shortage is in tiny chips built on mature process nodes. These are the $1 solutions Bloomberg is talking about, and they're mostly built on older fab lines run with…
Nintendo Sold Nearly 30 Million Switches Last Year, but Supply Constraints Persist
…The fact that the Switch is built on older process nodes may explain why Nintendo has had more luck shipping the hardware as compared with Sony and Microsoft. Chips alone are not…
Intel Touts New Quantum Computing Breakthrough, This Time With Silicon
…It's difficult to control qubits manufactured on silicon, and it's never been clear if silicon qubits could scale as well as other solutions. D-Wave's quantum annealer is up…
Nvidia Accidentally Releases RTX 3060 Driver With No Mining Limiter
…Limiting cryptocurrency mining on GPUs may or may not improve overall availability, but it's one of the only options for manufacturers to plausibly deploy. Nvidia has the right idea with the…
AMD lawsuit over false Bulldozer chip marketing is bogus
…If AMD hadn't been forced to lower clock speeds to compensate for its 28nm manufacturing process, Kaveri would've outperformed Richland across the board. The 10-20% penalty for multi-threading…
New Razer Stealth combines ultrabook portability, Thunderbolt-powered Core external GPU
…won't have to reboot or sit through a lengthy shutdown process. The big question here will be price. Manufacturers have a tendency to set extremely high price premiums on docks and…
ARM Cortex-A15 explained: Intel's Atom is down, but not out
…The diminutive mobile processor has proven to be extremely capable, but it's also getting a bit long in the tooth. Custom chips from Qualcomm and Apple have taken the wind out…
ET deals: Dell Inspiron 15 for $230, 28-inch UltraHD monitor for $450, more
…This includes a power-efficient 2014 Intel Celeron N2830 processor, which will provide enough power for typical tasks like web browsing and office use, and 4GB of RAM, a 500GB hard drive…