The rather huge MacBook Pro news hit today. Apple on Thursday released its long-awaited line of MacBook Pro notebooks. And while there aren’t a ton of external changes, the company seems to be chasing the pros by switching to the eight-generation of Intel Core processors (known as the “Coffee Lake” line), for which which Apple […]
Category: Processors
Technology manufacturer Foxconn broke ground on its first U.S. factory in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin on Thursday, complete with President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and others in attendance for the occasion. President Trump stated that the factory will provide jobs for “up to 15,000 Wisconsin Workers,” although reports have indicated the number will be […]
Although both TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung are vying to be the primary chip supplier to Apple, TSMC has reportedly invested $25 billion to produce the next A-series chips on a 5-nanometer process. No timeframe has been announced for the investment. TSMC has been the exclusive supplier of the A-series chips since 2009, […]
In an interesting move, Intel’s Cannon Lake processors have surfaced and it looks like Apple will be able to add a 32-gigabyte RAM option to its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines. Chinese retailer listings for the Lenovo IdeaPad 330 notebook reveal it uses a new processor, identified as the Core i3-8121U. The related listing […]
Intel’s forthcoming release of patches to fix Spectre-style flaws in its processors has apparently been delayed by two more weeks to late May, a new report suggesting that Intel wants to push the release back even further into July while it works to finalize the required updates. The new batch of flaws, unofficially named “Spectre […]