Qualcomm buys a startup founded by former Apple chip designers

Posted on 14/01/2021 by Engadget

Qualcomm has announced an acquisition that’s bound to make ripples in the chip world — even though you may not have heard of the company it acquired. Qualcomm paid $1.4 billion for Nuvia, a startup founded by three engineers who worked on Apple’s A-s...

Watch NVIDIA’s CES 2021 keynote in 10 minutes

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Engadget

NVIDIA had plenty of news to share at its CES keynote and to save you watching the entire thing, we've crammed all the biggest announcements into a 10-minute video. Along with new G-Sync displays, the company revealed that laptops with RTX 30 series...

AMD’s Ryzen 5000 laptop CPUs arrive with big performance claims

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Engadget

After revealing its Ryzen 5000 desktop chips with much improved gaming performance, AMD is now gunning for Intel on the laptop front. The company just launched its new Ryzen 5000 mobile family with H-Series CPUs aimed at gamers and content creators,...

Intel Evo Chromebooks will feature Thunderbolt

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Engadget

Intel normally doesn’t have much dedicated hardware for Chromebooks at CES, but this year it announced some intriguing tidbits. First, the company revealed that Chromebooks are coming with Intel Evo branding, its new name for refined Project Athena m...

Intel’s 11th-gen H-series CPUs are made for ultraportable gaming laptops

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Engadget

Historically, Intel’s H-series laptop chips have been meant for beefy gaming and workhorse PCs. That’s in contrast to its U-series CPUs, which are aimed at efficient ultraportables. Putting an H-series chip into a thin and light notebook would normal...

Intel’s 11th-gen Rocket Lake desktop CPUs will max out at 8 cores

Posted on 29/10/2020 by Engadget

Intel has revealed more information about its 11th-generation Rocket Lake S-Series desktop processors, expected to arrive in Q1 next year. Unlike the 10th-generation chips with up to 10 cores, the new model will top out at 8 cores, as expected. Howev...

AMD’s Ryzen 9 5900X is its first Zen 3 CPU

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

How can AMD follow up its successful third-gen Ryzen 9 CPUs? Last year, it was clear that the company was seriously bringing the fight to Intel, especially when it came to gaming and heavy-duty computing workloads. So for its new Zen 3 architecture,...

Intel confirms 11th-gen ‘Rocket Lake’ desktop CPUs for early 2021

Posted on 07/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you’re looking to upgrade your rig or pick up a new desktop, it may be worth waiting until next year. In a Medium post, Intel has confirmed that its 11th generation “Rocket Lake” CPUs will be arriving in the first quarter of 2021. They’ll also fin...

Intel’s 11th-gen mobile CPUs are a solid upgrade for ultraportables

Posted on 17/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Intel is making some big promises with its new Tiger Lake CPUs. The company claims you'll see CPU speeds around 20 percent faster than the previous generation. And in some cases, its graphics performance is twice as fast. But until we get our hands o...

NVIDIA is officially buying Arm for $40 billion

Posted on 14/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Just as we expected, NVIDIA just announced that it’s buying the semiconductor design company Arm for $40 billion. The deal will make NVIDIA into an even larger presence in mobile computing, especially when it comes to bringing its AI technology into...

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