[ad_1] The usual precautions apply. The motherboard has to be insulated with dielectric grease to fend off any accidental drops of water. Likewise, paper towel lines the gap between each memory slot, and then yet more paper towel wraps around the pot and memory sticks, to soak up condensation. A small fan helps blow the […]
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ARM’s latest chip designs promise 60 percent faster AI on phones
[ad_1] The Cortex-A77 CPU design is ultimately a refinement of last year’s 7-nanometer A76, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The new hardware claims 20 percent faster instructions-per-clock performance without hurting efficiency, and that translates to roughly 35 times faster machine learning performance than the old A55 (for context, ARM was celebrating a 28-fold […]
Intel will ramp up 10nm CPU production in June, 7nm in 2021
[ad_1] You can expect “multiple” 10nm chips throughout 2019 and 2020, including a general-purpose GPU, server-side processors and specialized parts like the AI-oriented Nervana. You’ll have to wait a while for the leap to 7nm. The first product based on the smaller and denser technology, an Xe-based general-purpose GPU, isn’t due until 2021. At least […]
Acer updates select laptops with the latest from Intel and NVIDIA
[ad_1] Acer’s Predator Helios 300, Nitro 7, Nitro 5 and Aspire 7 notebooks — announced earlier this month — will ship with NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTX 1660Ti or 1650 GPU. They’ll be powered by up to the newest 9th-gen Intel Core i7-9750H processors. According to NVIDIA, the new GPUs offer up to 50 percent more […]
AMD’s latest Ryzen Pro chips bring Vega graphics to work laptops
[ad_1] The performance differences mostly boil down to clock speed. The Ryzen 3 starts with a 2.1GHz base clock speed, a 3.5GHz peak speed and a 6-core Vega GPU. Move to the Ryzen 5 and you’ll get a higher 3.7GHz boost speed and an 8-core GPU, while the Ryzen 7 ramps up to a 2.3GHz […]