Once the domain of external, bus-powered hard drives, these days the market for external storage has been almost completely consumed by portable SSDs. Rapid technological advancements in NAND flash technology (including the advent of 3D NAND) has allowed their capacity to eclipse 2.5-inch HDDs, all the while multiple improvements in host interface speeds (such as…
The rumors that preceded the launch of the Galaxy S24 were correct. They warned that Samsung would use both the Exynos 2400 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chips to power the flagship. Fans had not forgotten the massive Exynos 2200 disappointment that forced Samsung to use a Snapdragon chip inside every Galaxy S23 model.But…
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Nvidia’s RTX Super refreshes are one of the hottest topics on the GPU rumor mill of late, and we’ve just witnessed another claim emerge – this time supposed specs of the theoretically inbound trio of graphics cards.Kopite7kimi, a regular leaker on the GPU front, just shared specs indicating that the RTX 4080 Super could have…
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Nowadays many cloud service providers design their own silicon, but Amazon Web Services (AWS) started to do this ahead of its rivals and by now its Annapurna Labs subsidiary develop processors that can well compete with those from AMD and Intel. This week AWS introduced its Graviton4 SoC, a 96-core ARM-based chip that promises to…
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In a matter of days, we saw not one but a couple of reports detailing Apple’s purported plans for foldable iPhones. That includes a story from a reliable source of Apple rumors. The Information has learned that Apple is working on a couple of foldable iPhone prototypes. These are phones with designs similar to Samsung’s…
Amazon Web Services this week introduced Trainium2, its new accelerator for artificial intelligence (AI) workload that tangibly increases performance compared to its predecessor, enabling AWS to train foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) with up to trillions of parameters. In addition, AWS has set itself an ambitious goal to enable its clients to…
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We may now have some clues regarding the pricing of Intel Meteor Lake laptops, with listings popping up online that give us a clearer idea of what you and your wallet could expect.Two laptops have been listed on a Bulgarian retailer site, with both models seemingly based on Lenovo’s Yoga Pro 7 with 32GB of…
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While stock coolers are adequate for handling the basic thermal load of a CPU, they often fall short in noise efficiency and cooling performance. For this reason, advanced users and system builders typically bypass stock coolers in favor of aftermarket solutions that better align with their specific requirements. The high-end segment of this market is…
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This week, Apple started selling the new M3 MacBook Pro models. Praised by the new processor and a space black option, these laptops have a revamped GPU. While users buying the entry-level model will discover several new features compared to the previous 13-inch MacBook Pro, the real changes are available in the M3 Max processor,…
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Amkor, the world’s second largest independent outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) service provider, has announced their intention to build a new advanced chip packaging facility in the U.S. Carrying a price tag of around 2 billion dollars, the plant in Arizona will primarily serve to package chips produced by TSMC at its Fab 21…
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