While the bulk of attention on TSMC is aimed at its leading-edge nodes, such as N3E and N2, loads of chips will continue to be made using more mature and proven process technologies for years to come. Which is why TSMC has continued to refine its existing nodes, including its current-generation 5nm-class offerings. To that…
TSMC Preps Cheaper 4nm N4C Process For 2025, Aiming For 8.5% Cost Reduction Read More »
All the major motherboard makers have now introduced support for AMD’s next-gen desktop CPUs with their latest BIOS releases, and another vendor has specifically mentioned that these chips will be the Ryzen 9000 series.If you recall, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI have already issued new BIOSes that come with support for these inbound Zen 5 processors,…
All industries are facing a growing skills gap that is blocking them from effectively implementing artificial intelligence (AI), but this gap is deepest in the public sector, with 60% identifying a shortage of AI skills as their top implementation challenge, according to a study by Salesforce. In the US, federal government agencies are already being…
A former Post Office boss has admitted his mistake in failing to give proper instructions when commissioning a 2010 report on the Horizon computer system, at a time when its reliability was being challenged by subpostmasters and MPs. The exclusion of written terms of reference to guide the author resulted in a report that only…
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I have been testing robot vacuums for about a decade now. In that time, I’ve tried well over 100 different models. If you’ve read my Roomba s9+ review, you know it has been one of my favorite robot vacuums since I first tried it. So when I heard that this flagship Roomba model’s successor was…
Roomba Combo j9+ has everything other iRobot models are missing Read More »
Apple introduced FineWoven accessories with the iPhone 15 release. In its goal for a carbon-neutral company by 2030, Cupertino ditched all its leather accessories in favor of a brand-new, one-of-its-kind green accessory. Made of durable microtwill with a soft, suede-like feel, users complained about it getting dirt, scratching, and losing quality quickly.Even though Apple iPhone…
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The UK government is investing £55m in expanding the police’s use of facial-recognition systems, including a fleet of vans to scan crowded high streets, as part of a crackdown on shoplifters. Announced alongside plans to give tougher punishments to serial or abusive shoplifters in England and Wales, as well as a standalone criminal offence for…
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It seems Apple’s M3 Mac lineup is almost complete, as the company might be planning to skip an M3 Mac mini in favor of a better M4 Mac mini coming later this year or early 2025. This comes after Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reported that Apple is already producing the next M4 processors, as it aims…
Qualcomm continues to challenge both Intel and Apple in the processor market, as the tech giant claims the mid-range model of its Snapdragon X series of chips outruns the M3 in performance. It’s a bold statement that could put its chips squarely in the running for the best processors you can get in a laptop, but…
Qualcomm claims its Snapdragon X Plus is an M3 beater, but is it really? Read More »
TSMC has been offering its System-on-Wafer integration technology, InFO-SoW, since 2020. For now, only Cerebras and Tesla have developed wafer scale processor designs using it, as while they have fantastic performance and power efficiency, wafer-scale processors are extremely complex to develop and produce. But TSMC believes that not only will wafer-scale designs ramp up in…
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