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U.S. Tightens Chip Export Rules to China
In a significant move, the U.S. Department of Commerce is adjusting its chip export license requirements. This revision is set to tighten the reins on the sale of advanced chipmaking tools, AI accelerators, and high-performance semiconductor chips to China. The new regulations, detailed in a 166-page document available since March…
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Scientists Experimenting With Mushrooms For Future Computer Chips
Scientists have again decided to turn to nature for the future of computing and specifically to mushrooms and then came up with the idea of making a computer chip out of mushrooms. Mushrooms For Future Sustainable Electronics A few weeks ago we saw the world’s first wooden transistor which was…
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Jaguar Land Rover Halts Production Due to Chip Shortages
It’s well documented at the moment that the global chipset shortage is certainly having a significant impact on a number of major companies and manufacturers. Something perhaps most keenly felt by the tech community, specifically when looking for a new processor or graphics card. – Following a report via SkyNews,…
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TSMC Announces 6-Nanometer Process Technology
Featuring Higher Transistor Density Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced their new 6nm manufacturing technology. This follows after the announcement of their 5nm entering risk production last week. Despite the small number change, this fabrication process features a considerably higher transistor density in comparison to 7nm. It is in…
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Intel Reportedly Set To Begin Outsourcing 7nm Chip Production
Intel Reportedly Set To Begin Outsourcing 7nm Chip Production It’s not unusual, when a company finds itself under extreme pressure, to outsource some of the work. It’s something that’s used in business every day. When it comes to a company like Intel though, there are going to be more than…
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TSMC Announces Wafer-on-Wafer 3D Stacking Technology
Wafer-on-Wafer Packaging Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd (TSMC), the world’s largest chip contract manufacturer in the world is announcing their new 3D stacking technology called Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW). This technology builds upon TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) and Integrated Fan-Out (InFO) 3D manufacturing. You might have not heard of these words before, but…
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Intel Denies AMD Ryzen Impact Despite Falling Sales
AMD’s Ryzen processors have been a big hit since their release last month, and Intel should, rightly, be worried. Intel, though, is claiming that Ryzen has not impacted the company’s profits. This statement, while true, fails to acknowledge that the company’s 7% decline in desktop unit sales since Ryzen’s release. However,…
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Samsung Ready to Begin Production of 10nm LPP
Korean tech giant Samsung has announced that it is set to follow up its 10nm LPE process with a new, second-generation LPP process later this year. The 10nm LPP – to be produced in its Hwaseong fabrication plant during the fourth-quarter of this year – will boast a 10% performance…
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Intel Coffee Lake Specs Revealed?
Following rumours that Intel will be unveiling new processors at this year’s Computex, the specs for the company’s forthcoming Coffee Lake architecture have supposedly leaked. Courtesy of database entries on SiSoftware’s Sandra database, we may now have our first look at the specs for two Coffee Lake CPUs. The pair…
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First AMD Ryzen CPUs pictured
The first images of AMD’s new Ryzen CPUs have surfaced, courtesy of VideoCardz. The photos of the processors – displayed in the form of 12-unit trays, likely from an OEM PC builder – show the Ryzen branding on the chip’s integrated heatspreader (pictured below), plus the legend “diffused in USA,…
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AMD Announces Windows 7 Support for Ryzen
AMD has announced that its new Ryzen processors will support Windows 7. The bold move – announced by AMD a special Ryzen event – should ensure an extra slice of market share against Intel, whose Kaby Lake processors do not officially support Windows 7, and only partially support Windows 8.1.…
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Intel Core i7-7700K Passes 7GHz with Liquid Nitrogen
One ambitious overclocker has managed to push a sample version of Intel’s Core i7-7700K beyond the 7GHz threshold, with the aid of some liquid nitrogen, reports TechPowerUp. Professional overclocker Allen “Splave” Golibersuch managed the impressive feat by disabling hyperthreading and two of the chip’s four cores, increasing the clock multiplier to…
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Dual-Deal Backfires on Apple as Not All iPhone 7 Perform Equally
Not long after the latest Apple mobile phone hit the streets, people started to complain about a poor performance on the iPhone 7 while other people couldn’t reproduce the issue at all. The reason for this is the dual-deal Apple struck with Qualcomm and Intel to have them both provide…
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Samsung Starts Mass Production of 10nm Chips
Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics has announced that it has become the first in the semiconductor industry to start mass production of chips using a 10-nanometre process. Samsung’s new System-on-Chip (SoC) products with 10nm FinFET technology are expected to hit the market in early-2017, though the company is yet to…
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Intel Core i5-7600K, Core i5-7500T, and Core i3-7300 Kaby Lake Chips Leaked
Photos of the Intel Core i5-7600K, Core i5-7500T, Core i3-7300, and Pentium G4620 7th Generation processors have leaked online, via Chinese sources. Many of the images contain CPUz specifications, which show the chips to be based on the Kaby Lake architecture. The Intel Core i5-7600K (pictured above) features 4 cores,…
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