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TSMC enters mass production of 10-nanometer A11 processors

Processor manufacturer TSMC has reportedly entered the mass production stage of its 10-nanometer “A11” processors for Apple’s next-gen iPhone. While the new iPhone’s ship date has yet to be announced, TSMC is said to be applying the same 10-nanometer FinFET manufacturing technique being used to make A10X chips for this year’s 10.5- and 12.9-inch iPad […]

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Rumor: Intel to unveil Basin Falls platform in May, could launch Coffee Lake chips in August

Intel is rumored to be moving the launch of its 13-nanometer Coffee Lake processors from January 2018 to August of 2017 due to “increasing competition from AMD’s Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 processors.” The rumor has it that Intel will release several K-series Core i3, i5, and i7 processors starting in August, along with its […]

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Apple posts positions for GPU-based jobs in London following break with Imagination Technologies

Following the breakup of U.K.-based Imagination Technologies, Apple seems to be ramping up its own GPU division as well as hiring a number of engineers within the London region. Appearing on the United Kingdom version of Apple’s jobs board over the last month, the company has listed 12 “Hardware Engineering” job postings in London, located […]

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Technologist Lou Miranda points out new golden age of Apple’s device hardware and operating systems

It’s an article that ran roughly nine months ago, prior to the release of iOS 10, but it makes some good points. In the article, technologist and author Lou Miranda points out that the iPad Pro was handicapped by the software available at the time, namely iOS 9. Upon its initial introduction, the original iPhone […]

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AMD, Nvidia plan new GPUs, could bring significant upgrades to next-gen Macs

Your Mac’s GPUs are about to get a lot more powerful. Graphics titans AMD and Nvidia are set to unveil new GPU products this year featuring Global Foundries’ 14 nm FinFET and TSMC’s 16 nm FinFET Plus processor nodes, thereby allowing for significant improvements in graphics performance. Both AMD’s Polaris architecture and Nvidia’s Pascal architecture […]