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Intel issues revenue warning after US revokes Huawei export licenses — further efforts to restrict China's access to AI chips
By Anton Shilov published
The U.S. government has revoked export licenses for select processors for PCs and smartphones — Intel and Qualcomm can no longer ship to Huawei.
Samsung accelerates race against Intel in glass chip packaging development — glass substrates boost performance
By Anton Shilov published
Samsung accelerates construction of glass substrates pilot line, plans to start test production in Q1 2025.
Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen
By Jowi Morales published
Unverified machine learning benchmarks have been posted to Geekbench and they seem to show an incremental improvement over the previous generation of Apple processor
Intel issues official statement on Core K-series crashes: stick to Intel's official power profiles
By Anton Shilov published
Intel wants motherboard makers to adhere to the recommended power delivery profiles as it investigates the source of unlocked 13th/14th-Generation Core CPU crashing issues.
YouTuber built a 256-core RISC-V megacluster because he could
By Jeff Butts published
One gadget builder extraordinaire has designed and built his own supercomputer, and showed the world how he did it.
Microsoft is switching RAM speed units to MT/s in Task Manager
By Dallin Grimm published
Windows 11 begins transitioning away from MHz and to MT/s when listing RAM speeds in Task Manager, with beta builds available through Windows Insider already reflecting the change.
Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 is the world's first laptop to sport LPCAMM2 memory — more compact, higher performance, lower power
By Aaron Klotz published
Lenovo announces the Thinkpad P1 Gen 7 featuring Micron LPCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory, making it the world's first laptop to use CAMM2 style system memory.
AMD's new Ryzen AI re-branding for Zen 5 comes to light
By Anton Shilov published
AMD is re-branding its processors with new Ryzen AI names, according to leaked information from Asus. Upcoming Zen 5 CPUs will follow Intel's lead and jump on the AI PC hype train.
Chinese-made GPU beats performance of 10-year-old integrated AMD graphics
By Dallin Grimm published
A slow start might be good enough
Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls
By Aaron Klotz published
Microsoft will activate BitLocker encryption automatically during Windows reinstallations starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, for Home versions as well as Pro.
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