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MediaTek Launching New Helio X35 based on TSMC 10nm Process in 2017
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek is set to launch two new processors next year, based on TSMC’s 10nm process. One of those chips will be the Helio X35, which was initially thought to be on its already-unveiled sibling, the Helio X30, which is the other chip to be released by MediaTek in…
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Microsoft Going All In On Reprogrammable CPUs
Microsoft is betting its future on a new range of reprogrammable computer chips, and it has been working on the initiative since 2012. The fruit of that development – Project Catapault, pitched by programmer Doug Burger to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s famously brash CEO, four years ago – is field programmable…
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Intel Could Push 7nm Process Back to 2021
Intel may have revised its plans to deliver a 7-nanometre process by 2020 or earlier, according to reports. A revised job listing for a Processor Designer at Intel’s new Microarchitecture Research Lab in Bangalore, India – posted in September last year – which initially projected 7nm development to arrive in…
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Intel Reveal Their AR Glasses – The Remote EyeSight
As more and more people reveal their explorations into virtual reality and augmented reality, it would seem like sometimes we are losing our grip on reality but that won’t stop companies finding better ways to bring together our technology and lives on a daily basis. The latest company to reveal…
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AMD Working on 48-Core 7nm Processor Codenamed Starship
When it comes to server processors with tons of cores, Intel’s Xeon Phi line takes the crown, but just as AMD’s Zen could be a rival to Intel’s Core series chips in the consumer market, AMD has now been discovered to be working on a rather impressive server chip codenamed…
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Engineers Build World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip
A team of engineers from the University of California, Davis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have constructed the world’s first microchip to contain 1,000 independent processors. The KiloCore, which has a maximum computation rate of 1.78 trillion instructions per second and contains 621 million transistors, was shown off this…
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Intel CPUs Could Contain Huge Security Flaw
A management technology present in Intel x86 CPUs for the past decade might contain a massive vulnerability which, if exploited, could leave systems vulnerable to “nearly unkillable, undetectable rootkit attacks.” According to a report by BoingBoing, the Intel Management Engine (ME) – which allows administrators to remotely access and control…
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1.2 Million Reasons Why Chip And Pin Security Matters
When it comes to banks, they’ve not had the best of luck. Gone are the days where a bank heist involved someone walking in with a balaclava and a big brown bag ready to stuff their pockets with notes. These days you lose your money to someone sitting behind a…
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Walmart Suing Visa to Ensure Customers Use Pin
Remember when you got that new bank card through the post and the first thing you forgot to do was sign the back of the card? This signature is used to protect your card and help you prove who you are, even sometimes authorising payments. The latter of these uses…
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NVIDIA DRIVE PX2 Powered by Two GP106 Chips
NVIDIA showed of its DRIVE PX 2 system – the new iteration of its autonomous and driver assistance AI platform – at last week’s GTC 2016 conference, and eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed that the board shown to the audience by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was sporting a pair of integrated…
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Semiconductor Marvell Could be up for Sale
The semiconductor industry is a tough area to operate in and it is a dog-eat-dog world, and now it looks like Marvell Technology Group could be the next to be swallowed by a bigger dog on the market. According to an article in the New York Post, the chip maker could…
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Energy-Friendly Chip Could Boost Neural Networks
The quest to gain a greater insight into artificial Intelligence has been exciting and has also opened up a range of possibilities that have included “convolutional neural networks”, these are large visual networks of simple information-processing units which are loosely modelled on the anatomy of the human brain. These networks…
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Bug Causes Intel Skylake PCs to Freeze During Hyperthreading
Intel has confirmed that its Skylake processors can freeze during complex workloads. The bug, that “can freeze any system that has a Skylake processor,” was discovered by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), which uses computers to identify new prime numbers. GIMPS was running its Prime95 software to find…
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Amazon Enters the Semiconductor Market With its First ARM Chip
Amazon’s Annapurna Labs has announced that it is entering the semiconductor market, selling its first ARM-based processors, a “foundation for next-generation digital services for the connected home,” according to a press release. Annapurna Labs, established in 2011, was snapped up by Amazon last year for $350 million. Before the buyout,…
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Intel Buys Altera for $16.7 Billion
Altera, the US-based manufacturer of programmable logic devices, has been purchased by Intel in an all-cash deal worth $16.7 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled, via Engadget). “Altera is now part of Intel, and together we will make the next generation of semiconductors not only better but able…
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