TSMC is no stranger to building big chips. Besides the ~800mm2 reticle limit of their normal logic processes, the company already produces even larger chips by fitting multiple dies on to a single silicon interposer, using their chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) technology. But even with current-gen CoWoS allowing for interposers up to 3.3x TSMC’s reticle limit, TSMC…
Nvidia’s RTX 5080 GPU may not turn up this year as was previously rumored by a prominent leaker, but there’s a few pieces of better news regarding next-gen Blackwell graphics cards.Moore’s Law is Dead (MLID) just posted a new video on YouTube discussing Blackwell (among other topics), and cites a source at Nvidia as going…
As part of Samsung’s Q1 earnings announcement, the company has outlined some of its foundry unit’s key plans for the rest of the year. The company has confirmed that it remains on track to meeting its goal of starting mass production of chips on its SF3 (3 nm-class, 2nd Generation) technology in the second half…
Samsung Foundry Update: 2nm Unveil in June, Second-Gen SF3 3nm Hits Production This Year Read More »
Apple’s MacBook lineup is super popular, and for good reason. The latest MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops have powerful M series chips and killer battery life. I personally have a MacBook Air, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. That being said, not everyone who actually gets one of Apple’s great MacBook laptops…
More people should be getting the M2 Mac mini instead of a MacBook Read More »
The PCI-SIG sends word over this morning that the special interest group has completed their development efforts on the group’s new PCI-Express cabling standard, CopprLink. Designed to go hand-in-hand with PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0, CopprLink defines both internal and external copper cabling for the latest PCIe standards, giving system vendors and assemblers the ability…
PCI-SIG Completes CopprLink Cabling Standard: PCIe 5.0 & 6.0 Get Wired Read More »
After more than 20 years, what is now referred to as the Post Office Horizon scandal has become headline news. Computer Weekly has played an important part in exposing what has been described as the widest miscarriage of justice in UK history. In 1999, the Post Office’s single shareholder, the UK government, began automating accounting…
Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know Read More »
Intel’s Arrow Lake processors are inbound for desktop PCs and should land later this year, and we’ve just caught a leak about how these chips might be named.This comes from one of the more regular leakers on X (formerly Twitter), and as ever, sprinkle a whole lot of seasoning on the claims.The theory from leaker…
There’s a new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 on the block and while it might not be the best graphics card out there, it has one massive advantage: it’s adorably cat-themed.The card is currently available through one of Nvidia’s Chinese board partners, ASL, and can be shipped out to the US. Even better, the price is…
This pink Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU features adorable cats and pugs, oh my! Read More »
This year, we expect a significant design change for the Apple Watch with the Series 10 release. However, an Apple Watch Ultra 3 apparently won’t be getting the same treatment.While an Apple Watch Ultra update could probably be skipped by Apple in 2024, as Ming-Chi Kuo suggested, the top insider has now reconsidered his analysis…
Apple Watch Ultra 3 will be a boring update, top insider suggests Read More »
Charities and healthcare organisations working with HIV positive people are persistently failing to take account of their basic data protection and privacy needs, with frequent data breaches that expose people’s HIV status denying those living with the condition “basic dignity and privacy”, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has warned. Advances in drug technology have rendered…
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