CERN has given us many things in our day, most notable among them recent proof of the existence of the so-called ‘God particle’, the Higgs Boson… one of the most…
As the CEO of Square, and co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has quickly become one of Silicon Valley’s most admired CEOs. His Square payment system is quickly changing the way consumers buy things,…
The current generation AMD GPU series collectivelly known as “Southern Islands” were released over a year ago, with the beginning of its rollout in January 2012. Sixteen months later, the…
As one of only two companies actively making x86 chips for personal computers, AMD is part of a duopoly with Intel in the PC processor market. That hasn’t been enough to keep…
Lenovo is reportedly creating its own chip design division, that will focus on creating systems on a chip for mobile devices. One on of the reasons behind the move is…
Oracle announced a complete refresh of its midrange and high-end SPARC server lines with new SPARC T5 and M5 servers running Solaris. Building on the SPARC T4 platform, the new servers complete Oracle’s…
AMD spent the better part of 2012 releasing an entire line of 28nm GPUs, starting with the Radeon HD 7970 in January and followed by over half a dozen more…
Chip designer ARM has always been a company close to my heart, mostly because it’s from where I live, Cambridge. More importantly though, it’s designed some killer chips for tablets…
With all the attention being lavished on thin-and-slim laptops these days, it’s easy to forget that an “ultraportable” notebook—the benchmark for the lightest “real” laptops you could buy as little as a…
We all know that Haswell is the successor to current generation Ivy Bridge CPUs but up to this point, we haven’t had a date to circle on our calendar for its arrival….
New York, California, Texas, and Oregon are reportedly competing to host a major semiconductor manufacturer with ties to Apple that will produce chips for Apple iPhones and iPads. The most…
NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor powers some of today’s most impressive Android devices, and you certainly wouldn’t call it dated. But the company has another processor up its sleeve that…
Raspberry Pi owners and developers, the Raspberry Pi Foundation just launched a new App Store today for the mini PC. The new App Store runs as an A application under…
According to multiple sources, Cisco has retained Barclays to explore the possibility of selling off its Linksys brand it purchased in 2003. Bloomberg is reporting that “people with knowledge of…
Last time we heard, Apple was going to move its mobile chip production from Samsung’s $14 billion Texas facility to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest dedicated independent…
A couple of weeks ago, rumors began hitting the Internet that Intel was going to do away with removable CPUs in its future PC processor lineup, starting with the lineup of chips that…
The 13-inch laptop has gone on leaps and bounds recently, thanks massively to Intel’s Ultrabook specifications. In many ways, a 13-inch laptop is the perfect size for a portable PC;…
AMD kick-started 2012 with the release of the Radeon HD 7970, the first member of the Radeon HD 7000 GPU series. This launch marked the introduction of the first-ever graphics card to…
Google is committed to the Chromebook and a report out of China indicates a Google-branded model is on its way. If true, this is a smart move and would help the fledgling desktop…
The supercomputer formerly known as Jaguar recently got an upgrade that was significant enough to earn it a new moniker, and it turns out that was also enough for it to claim…
Intel’s Itanium processor launches are few and far between given that only so many need its specialized grunt, but that just makes any refresh so much larger — and its new Itanium…
Even though Apple has only been using Intel chips on their Mac lineup since 2005, they may be switching to ARM chips sooner than later. Why? Bloomberg has reported that Apple’s engineers…
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple from NeXT he famously found their product lines confounding. When Tim Cook inherited Apple, an argument could be made that Steve Jobs’ greatest product, Apple itself, was confounding. Steve Jobs’…
Don’t panic, SSD 330 owners: your drive hasn’t been immediately rendered obsolete. Intel’s new SSD 335 is just the first shipping drive using the company’s 20-nanometer flash memory. The shrink down from 25nm…
First, benchmarks: The new Mac Mini has received a pretty significant performance boost over the 2011 model. The new unit scores a GeekBench score of 7433, compared to 6583 for…
Yesterday we confirmed that Samsung’s ARM-powered (WiFi) Chromebook had briefly appeared on Google’s official Play store before selling out after only a few hours. And today reports indicate that Google’s…