Electronics Prices May Not Drop After All - Factories Lack Workers
Chip factories are facing another problem. As one report shows, a shortage of properly trained workers may be starting.
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Miriam Moszczynska
September 24, 2021
AMD CPUs Revealed Passwords; New Patch Fixes Vulnerability
AMD has patched a serious security vulnerability in its CPUs. The problem was caused the chip driver that enabled unauthorized persons to, among other things, access passwords.
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Jacob Blazewicz
September 20, 2021
Intel May Unveil New Cooling With Alder Lake CPUs
A Twitter post suggests that a new range of stock fans to cool Intel's 12th-gen CPUs may be in the pipeline.
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September 13, 2021
Future of Smartphone Market is at Stake; Mediatek Bests Qualcomm
Taiwanese company MediaTek overtakes Qualcom. The gigantic increase in sales suggests quite a change in the mobile chipset market.
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bachehe
September 8, 2021
AMD Ryzen CPUs With Serious Security Vulnerability
A new security vulnerability has been discovered in AMD Ryzen CPUs that could lead to data leaks. Which users should be afraid of it?
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Martin Nothing
September 1, 2021
Leaked Benchmark Suggest i9-12900K is One Smoking Hot Beast
Load test, most likely involving the new i9-12900K CPU from the Alder Lake-S generation, have been leaked. It was very warm and a lot of power was used.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 31, 2021
Brand New Ryzen 5 for $9 From a Gacha Vending Machine? Only in Japan
The popularity of vending machines in Japan transcends western imagination. So it's no surprise that the local market also offers machines, where you can draw the latest AMD Ryzen 5000 processors.
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Martin Nothing
August 31, 2021
Intel Core i5-12600K Could be a Hit; AMD has Reasons to Worry
The Core i5-12600K could be the hit of Intel's upcoming Alder Lake generation of processors. If it retains the price level of previous i5 releases, it has a chance to outclass even AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X chip.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 26, 2021
New GPU and CPU Price Increases Possible
Reports from Taiwan suggest that processors and graphics cards may become more expensive again in the near future.
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bachehe
August 26, 2021
Intel Alder Lake Hybrid CPUs Could Shake Up the Market
The 12th-gen Alder Lake processors will be Intel's first hybrid chips. They will have two types of cores with different specializations. An interesting function connected with it is Thread Director.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 20, 2021
Intel May Hinder AMD's Recovery
Intel is reserving the lion's share of TSMC's production capacity in 3nm lithography. In doing so, it may make life a bit more difficult for AMD and Apple, which rely on third-party chip manufacturing.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 16, 2021
Intel Plans a Megafactory in the U.S.; Expands Existing Facilities
Intel is planning to build a new factory in the US and is expanding the Oregon facility. Is the capacity expansion an answer to the chip crisis and the popularity of AMD processors?
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Arkadiusz Strzala
August 10, 2021
AMD on the Offensive - Ryzens Much More Popular Than Intel CPUs
Intel still rules the CPU market, but AMD is starting to tread on its heels. In fact, the new Ryzen 5000 have made AMD's CPUs much more popular in some stores than Intel's.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 9, 2021
TSMC Responds to Intel's Plans - 2nm Factory as Early as 2024
Competition in the semiconductor industry is getting fiercer, as evidenced by recent moves by major companies. Taiwanese giant TSMC has bragged about its progress on the 2nm technology.
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Martin Nothing
July 29, 2021
Intel Changes the Rules of the Game; Forget About Nanometers
Intel is changing the rules of the nanometer race. It stops using this measure in naming lithographic processes. After „10nm”, the next step in technology development is simply „Intel 7”.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
July 27, 2021
New Chinese CPU Surprises With Performance; Competition Grows for Intel and AMD
The Chinese have unveiled the latest Loongson CPU, which matches the performance of the first Ryzen. This is the country's another step of towards independence in the high-tech sector.
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Adam Krolak
July 26, 2021
Intel's New CPU Significantly Faster Than Ryzen; Alder Lake CPU Benchmark Leaked
A benchmark of the new Intel i9-12900K processor has been leaked. The model from the upcoming Alder Lake generation may be up to 25% faster than the top Ryzen 5950X. Release coming later this year.
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Arkadiusz Strzala
July 21, 2021
Chinese Giant Goes Bankrupt - is Chip Market in For a Shock?
The chip market may face another shock. All because of the bankruptcy of Tsinghua Unigroup, an important Chinese producer of the aforementioned components.
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Przemyslaw Dygas
July 19, 2021
AMD: Component Availability Won't Improve Until 2022
AMD is steadily ramping up production, but component availability is expected to be poor until at least the end of this year. The head of the company, Lisa Su, predicts improvement in the global market in 2022, although not in all its segments.
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Konrad Sarzynski
July 10, 2021
Windows 11 Won't Support Ryzen 1000 series and Intel CPUs Below 8th Gen
The list of processors officially supported by Windows 11 turns out to be surprising. Microsoft bets on the latest generations and cutts off many popular models, at least officially.
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Darius Matusiak
June 26, 2021