Samsung has done something interesting after a long time. It has launched a mid-range smartphone with a leather back. The Galaxy C55 is a variant of the Galaxy M55 that was launched in Brazil and India a few weeks ago, but it has its own character in terms of look and feel. Galaxy C55 launched … Read more
AMD is introducing two new adaptive SoCs – Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 for AI-driven embedded systems, and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 for classic embedded systems. Multi-chip solutions typically come with significant overheads but single hardware architecture isn’t fully optimized for all three AI phases – preprocessing, AI inference, and postprocessing. To tackle … Read more
Astera Labs, a relatively unknown semiconductor company with a $10 billion market value, recently showed off its new Aries 6 PCIe retimer board, which it is now sampling to leading AI and cloud infrastructure providers. Due to the high-speed data transfer within the PCIe interface, the signals can suffer from degradation, especially over longer distances … Read more
Last month, it was reported that Samsung could get a $6 billion grant from the US government to build advanced chip factories in the US. The US government has now officially announced that it is offering $6.4 billion in grants to Samsung Electronics for its chipmaking investments in Texas. Samsung will invest $44 billion to … Read more
Apple chipmaker TSMC is making progress toward manufacturing 2nm and 1.4nm chips that are likely destined for future generations of Apple silicon, DigiTimes reports. The manufacturing time frames for mass production of 2nm and 1.4nm chips have now apparently been determined: Trial production of the 2nm node will begin at in the second half of … Read more
Last updated: April 8th, 2024 at 16:02 UTC+02:00 Samsung threw us for a loop when it officially announced the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2024) refresh, not just because the company decided to re-release a 2020 tablet a second time but also due to a lack of concrete information in some areas. As some might know, … Read more
Apple chip supplier TSMC has reportedly resumed most of its operations after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan’s eastern coast on Wednesday. TSMC told Bloomberg that more than 80% of its chip production lines are operational again as of Thursday, and it said there has been no damage to its most critical equipment. More specifically, Taiwanese … Read more
A major earthquake in Taiwan has halted some TSMC chip production lines, potentially impacting the manufacture of Apple devices (via Bloomberg). A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan in the early hours of the morning, killing at least nine people, injuring hundreds, and causing significant damage to infrastructure, including disrupting operations at several TSMC key manufacturing sites. … Read more
Intel is a name that’s almost synonymous with the CPUs that power some of the best PCs and best laptops around today. Alongside AMD, Intel dominates a market that many argue it first cornered 45 years ago with the launch of its 8088 Micro-processor. Released in 1979, this was the first major CPU that Intel … Read more
Readers of a certain age will for the rest of their lives be haunted by a specific string of bleeps, boops, fuzzes, and machine noises. It’s a far cry from the buttery smooth connections we have grown used to today – but indeed our our first interfacing with the World Wide Web was through a … Read more