Chip Delivery Times Hit 20 Weeks as Semiconductor Shortage Continues
New reports from Bloomberg and conflicting reports on whether the AMD Radeon 6600 XT is available to buy on launch day paint a complicated picture of what's going on in the…
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Shadows of the A6: What to expect from Apple's next microprocessor
…Samsung, IBM, and GlobalFoundries all opted for a gate-first manufacturing technique at 28nm, while Intel and TSMC went with what's known as gate-last. There's no switching between the…
Samsung's Austin Foundry Is Still Offline, More Than 2 Weeks Later
…5 percent of global 300mm wafer production on a monthly basis. The facility focuses on building chips built on Samsung's 14nm process, with iterations of that node available in the same…
How to build your own GPS receiver
…The Global Positioning System is fundamentally very, very simple in its operation. At any one time there are between 24 and 32 GPS satellites that constantly orbit the Earth. They orbit in…
SpaceX Starlink Beta Could Expand As Soon As January 2021
…SpaceX currently claims between 50 and 150 Mbps for the beta period with just a small part of the network online. Currently, Starlink’s beta is only available to select customers in…
Apple, Samsung Phones Make Up Almost All Carrier Store Sales: Analyst
At first glance, the US phone market looks competitive, with devices available from a wide range of vendors like Apple, Google, LG, Motorola, OnePlus, and Samsung. In practice, however, it appears to…
Google's 'FASTER' undersea cable goes online with 60 Tbps of bandwidth
…NEC, China Mobile, China Telecom, Global Transit, and KDDI. The project has cost about $300 million to complete, but it will offer huge speed increases for data transmission between Asia and North…
Motorola's new $130 Moto E will bravely attempt to murder the feature phone
…The Moto E will be available in "more than 40 countries" on more than 80 carriers over the next few weeks. In the UK, you can pick up the Moto E today…
Intel Touts New Quantum Computing Breakthrough, This Time With Silicon
…The company has published an informative video about the technology, available below: [embed width="640" height="360"]https://youtu.be/_ImX9mUwHa0[/embed] As for why Intel is pursuing spin qubits as opposed…
AMD and Intel Go Head to Head in the Surface Laptop 3
…from GlobalFoundries. AMD's 7nm desktop CPUs draw much less power than its 12nm models and we expect its mobile APUs to show significant improvements... when they eventually become available. For now…