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Arm Shocks the Semiconductor Industry by Announcing It May Sell Its Own Chips
Semiconductor design firm Arm surprised the hardware industry on Feb. 13 with the announcement that it will make a server CPU as well as license its semiconductor designs to other organizations; Meta locked in as the first partner. The move turns Arm from a resource for companies like Qualcomm and NVIDIA into a potential competitor. According to the Financial Times,…
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Apple M-Series Chips Are Vulnerable to Side-Channel Attacks
Security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum discovered two side-channel vulnerabilities in devices with Apple name-brand chips from 2021 or later that could expose sensitive information to attackers. Specifically, the vulnerabilities known as SLAP and FLOP skim credit card information, locations, and other personal data. Data can be gathered from sites like iCloud Calendar, Google Maps,…
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Trump’s 100% tariff threat on Taiwan chips raises cost, supply chain fears
“I don’t think we will see a near-term impact, as it takes years to build fabs, but by the end of the decade, the US share could rise by a few percentage points,” Gupta said. “It’s hard to give an exact number, but if I were to estimate, I’d say 14-15%. That isn’t a lot, but for the US to…
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Trump says he’ll put tariffs on imported chips ‘in the near future’
Without going into detail about what might happen to the $52 billion in subsidies from the CHIPS Act under his administration, Donald Trump said tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals are coming “in the near future.” He also namechecked DeepSeek’s AI releases, saying, “…coming up with a faster method of AI and less expensive, that’s good. I view…
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NVIDIA Unveils GeForce RTX 50-Series Chips
NVIDIA made a host of new announcements through a keynote speech from its CEO delivered at CES 2025 in Las Vegas on Monday. The main event was the GeForce RTX 50-series, the company’s first flagship desktop GPU offering in over two years. The graphics cards are powerful enough to run AI models and can multiply gaming frame rates by up…
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Nvidia’s Project DIGITS puts AI supercomputing chips on the desktop – Computerworld
Microsoft’s Link has 8GB of RAM, no local data storage, and an unspecified Intel processor with no special AI capabilities: If you want to use Windows’ Copilot features they — like everything else — will run in the cloud. Link will sell for around $350 when it goes on sale in April. One wall outlet, one petaflop Project DIGITS, on…
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The ASUS Zenbook A14 Has Qualcomm’s Best Snapdragon Chips
While Apple has seen a lot of success with Apple silicon-powered ARM Macs, ARM on the Windows side is still rough with software compatibility. This new computer by ASUS might be as good as an ARM Windows laptop can get in 2025. ASUS has launched its first Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered laptop, the Zenbook A14 (UX3407). Weighing in at under 2.5 pounds,…
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AI revolution drives demand for specialized chips, reshaping global markets – Computerworld
Turbulence in the market for some chip makers Though global semiconductor chip sales declined in 2023 by about 11%, dropping from the previous year’s record of $574.1 billion to around $534 billion, that downturn did not last. Sales are expected to increase by 22% in 2025, according to Morales, driven by AI adoption and a stabilization in PC and smartphone…
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LG’s lightweight Gram laptops get new Intel chips and offline AI features
LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device AI-powered features that go beyond its current Gram laptops. The 16-inch Gram Pro will also be the first Copilot Plus PC in the LG Gram lineup and is further distinguished as the only model using the Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra V-Series processors.…
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It looks like Apple’s forthcoming M5 chips are all about AI – Computerworld
That’s got to mean the final design will focus on enhancements in the GPU and Neural engine, and likely also means additional cores for both. It could also be that Apple’s huge investments in 5G networking will make even more sense by the time these chips ship, as network performance in terms of data downloads and uploads will be of…
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