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TSMC is building a second chip plant to meet US semiconductor demand
The White House and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing co. (TSMC) have announced plans to build a second chip plant in Arizona.
Intel price hikes could make PCs more expensive
Intel has told customers that it will raises prices on most of its processors and other chips by up to 10-20 percent later this year.
Intel's 12th-gen hybrid CPUs bring 14 cores to laptops
After debuting its hybrid 12th-gen CPUs for desktops in October, Intel is ready to bring them to notebooks.
White House reportedly discouraged Intel from boosting chip production in China
The Biden administration is said to have 'strongly discouraged' Intel from ramping up chip production in China over security concerns.
Intel's hybrid 12th-gen chips are a major strike against AMD
Intel's performance hybrid CPUs are finally here.
M1 Pro and M1 Max are Apple's high-end Mac chips
Apple is taking a two-pronged approach with M1 Pro and M1 Max, the two chips powering the company's 2021 MacBook Pros.
Intel's revised roadmap looks beyond 1 nanometer chips
Forget about "SuperFin Enhanced," the previous name for the node powering Intel's upcoming 10nm Alder Lake processors. Now, that node is just called "Intel 7," according to the company's revised roadmap.
Intel and Apple may be first to use TSMC's 3-nanometer chips
Apple and Intel are reportedly testing chip designs with TSMC's 3-nanometer process and could be first to market with the technology.
Intel's 11th-gen H-series CPUs are finally ready for powerful gaming laptops
Intel's powerful 11th-gen H-series chips are finally here.
Biden will review tech supply chains to reduce dependence on China
President Biden is reviewing supply chains for processors, batteries and other key tech companies to reduce dependence on China.
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Ryzen 5000 series chips are on the way to laptops.
AMD's Ryzen 5000 laptop CPUs arrive with big performance claims
AMD just launched its new Ryzen 5000 mobile family with Ryzen H-Series CPUs aimed at gamers and content creators, along with the power-friendly U-series chips designed for thin and light ultrathin PCs.
Intel's 11th-gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will max out at 8 cores
Intel has revealed more information about its 11th-generation Rocket Lake desktop CPUs, including a top-end Core i9 processor.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 732G promises more power for midrange phones
Midrange phones are on the rise, and Qualcomm is updating its portfolio to power more of them. The company today announced the Snapdragon 732G, which follows up last year’s Snapdragon 730G. Poco’s global head of products Sam Jiang said in a statement, “We believe the device will set a new benchmark in the mid-range category, completely redefining the relationship between a phone’s price and its capabilities."
Intel dishes on Tiger Lake, 'SuperFin' transistors and what lies ahead
Intel has spent the past decade refining its FinFET transistor technology, starting with its Ivy Bridge CPUs in 2012. Now, Intel is ready for its next big architecture leap, SuperFin, its name for a refined FinFET process combined with a "super metal insulator metal capacitor." For users, that mouthful means that Intel has been able to deliver its biggest speed improvement ever within a single node (in this case, its 10 nanometer architecture).
Apple may unveil its ARM-based Mac processors at WWDC this month
For a couple of years now, it’s been rumored that Apple might replace Intel processors in its Mac PCs with its own chips, a move that would cause a seismic shift in the PC industry. Apple may finally confirm that news as early as this month at its WWDC developer conference, according to Bloomberg.
Intel's flagship 10th-gen desktop CPU has 10 cores, reaches 5.3GHz
Intel's powerful 10th-gen desktop chips are here: the Core i9-10900K has 10 cores and hits 5.3GHz.
Intel is losing against AMD
When AMD launched its third-generation Zen 2 Ryzen processors earlier this year, Intel had to be sweating. Its rival had developed an all-new architecture with improvements to clock speed, core count and instructions per clock and promised performance that matched -- and even beat -- Intel's CPUs. Then, along came AMD's mainstream 12-core and 16-core Ryzen 9 3900x and 3950X CPUs, which doubled the thread count of competing i9-9900 series chips. That threatened not only Intel's gaming market but muscled in on its workstation territory. To compete, Intel was forced to launch the Cascade Lake i9-10980X at $999 -- half the price of the previous 9980XE model. Unfortunately for Intel, the 3950X still keeps pace with the i9-10980X in most tests, despite costing just $750. Reviews are now in for AMD's latest 32-core 3970X and 24-core 3960X Threadripper processors, and it's more bad news for Intel. Those high-end desktop (HEDT) chips perform better for both video and 3D rendering than Intel's latest i9-10980X CPU. Furthermore, they've even made many of Intel's high-end workstation Xeon CPUs obsolete. And the kicker is that AMD has yet to release the 64-core, Threadripper 3990X. Intel still has a lead in gaming, but only just, and given AMD's progress and recent Zen 3 announcements, is any market safe? Let's explore the state of this rivalry and how Intel might counterpunch.
Intel's workstation X-series chips are a bit faster and much cheaper
Following a leak last week, Intel has officially revealed performance figures and other data for its 18-core i9 Extreme Edition and other 9th-gen X-Series chips. As we already knew, the 10-, 12-, 14- and 18-core chips can be boosted to speeds up to 4.8 GHz. That will apparently yield a modest performance bump of seven percent for Maya and 3DS Max rendering tasks compared to the last-gen models. The chips will also double the "inference" AI throughput, but that will only be of benefit to deep-learning specialists.
Most Qualcomm processors will include a 5G modem next year
Qualcomm has announced that it will integrate its 5G technology into its midrange 6- and 7-series processors and not just its flagship 8-series tech. That means that by 2020, you'll be able to purchase a moderately priced device and still get 5G speeds that go well beyond 1 Gbps. It announced that the tech would be used in smartphones built by Oppo, Realme, Redmi, Vivo, Motorola, Nokia and LG. That's on top of Samsung, which is already expected to use Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 successor with built-in 5G.
