Today, in a major first for any ARM vendor, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 850, with a focus explicitly on PC performance rather than smartphone or tablet performance that one would typically expect…
…RDNA 2-based GPU (Opens in a new window) , making it the first mobile chip with support for ray tracing at the hardware level. AMD and Samsung announced this collaboration back in…
…on proprietary cores, but there are some open source hardware designs for RISC-V as well. Now Read : RISC-V Tiptoes Towards Mainstream With SiFive Dev Board, High-Performance CPU ARM Co…
With a level of dedication rarely seen in today's commoditized consumer electronics market, one hardware hacker has flown all the way to Australia to get his hands on the iPhone 5…
…a material problem, ARM will likely be held off by the intrinsic strength of the x86 ecosystem (anybody miss Windows RT? Anybody?), AMD won't leapfrog Intel on absolute performance, physics will…
…Initial deployments (Opens in a new window) of the technology will focus on links between FPGAs and GPUs, the two most common types of 'accelerator' that a customer is likely to use…
…too, until I read The Linux Foundation's somewhat-annual report (Opens in a new window) on the state of the Linux kernel. The report's findings may surprise you. Who contributed…
…The Chromebook Pixel offers super-premium hardware, but the $1300 price is considerably higher than most people will pay . The Samsung Chromebook, on the other hand, is inexpensive and feels like it…
…So, SpaceX is announcing Starshield, a service based on the same technology as Starlink, with added encryption and features for national security applications. SpaceX says Starshield will offer communication, hosted payloads, and…
…Nvidia's existing Tegra hardware can already deliver on that promise, so a next-generation 14/16nm chip should have no problems. It's not clear if games will run at one…