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Apple releases Meltdown patches for older macOS versions

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 4:50 pmTuesday, January 23, 20188 Comments

Apple on Tuesday took the next step toward protecting Mac users from recently disclosed security vulnerabilities…

Benchmarked iPhone shows performance took a serious hit at every possible level after Spectre security patch

Friday, January 12, 2018 2:43 pmFriday, January 12, 201828 Comments

Apple released iOS 11.2.2 update to address Spectre security issues…

Intel’s Spectre patch is causing reboot problems

Friday, January 12, 2018 2:02 pmFriday, January 12, 20186 Comments

Intel is quietly advising some customers to hold off installing patches that address new security flaws affecting virtually all of its processors…

In wake of Spectre and Meltdown, Intel CEO offers open letter, looks to restore confidence in Intel CPU security

Thursday, January 11, 2018 6:47 pm8 Comments

Intel has posted the following open letter from CEO Brian Krzanich…

Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich sold off the majority of his shares after finding out about the irreparable chip flaws

Thursday, January 4, 2018 2:27 pmThursday, January 4, 201824 Comments

A massive flaw in the way computer processors have been designed over the last two decades…

CERT: Only way to fix Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities is to replace CPU

Thursday, January 4, 2018 1:42 pmThursday, January 4, 201839 Comments

As word of the massive security flaw in computer processing units spread yesterday…

Security flaws put nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel, AMD and ARM at risk

Thursday, January 4, 2018 8:58 amThursday, January 4, 20187 Comments

Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information

Details leak on Intel’s upcoming Ice Lake CPU, 10nm schedule

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 4:00 pmWednesday, August 16, 2017No Comments

Intel has taken the unusual step of releasing (or leaking) information on the company’s next-next-generation processor…

AMD Radeon Vega 56, 64 officially announced; bound for Apple’s forthcoming iMac Pro

Monday, July 31, 2017 4:01 pmMonday, July 31, 201717 Comments

AMD has officially rolled out PCI-E versions of the Vega 56 and 64 GPUs that will be in the iMac Pro in December…

Pro app Shootout: Apple’s 2017 fastest iMac 5K vs. cheese grater and trash can Mac Pros

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:26 pmWednesday, June 21, 20179 Comments

In response to popular demand, here are ten Pro App tests we ran on the fastest 2017 iMac 5K…

Geekbench: Apple’s new 27-inch iMac benchmarks

Wednesday, June 21, 2017 1:45 pmWednesday, June 21, 20178 Comments

The fastest Mac you can buy today…

The 2017 iMac 5K’s Pro 580 GPU versus previous iMac 5K and GeForce GTX 1070

Friday, June 16, 2017 11:25 amFriday, June 16, 201716 Comments

The Radeon Pro 580 in the 2017 iMac 5K is clearly faster than….

Patrick Moorhead: Apple’s plan to dominate silicon

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 1:46 pmWednesday, June 14, 201713 Comments

Before creating my industry analyst and research company, I was fortunate enough to spend over a decade…

Intel unveils X-series platform: Up to 18 cores and 36 threads

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 12:02 pmTuesday, May 30, 201726 Comments

The Intel platform, consisting of the new X299 chipset and new X-series processors, will go all the way up to 18 cores and 36 threads…

Will Apple put AMD processors in Macs?

Monday, February 27, 2017 11:34 amTuesday, May 30, 201730 Comments

Apple’s Mac design philosophy change hasn’t been lost on the company’s pro users…

AMD’s Ryzen processor overclocked, notches new Cinebench world record

Friday, February 24, 2017 3:37 pm5 Comments

Earlier this week, AMD officially revealed the first three desktop processors from its new Ryzen family…

5 acquisitions for Apple to consider in 2017

Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:01 pmThursday, December 15, 201622 Comments

Apple is a company at a crossroads…

New Mac Pro imminent? Trio of new AMD GPU references found in latest macOS Sierra beta

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 10:06 amWednesday, December 7, 201627 Comments

Users delving into the latest macOS 10.12.2 beta have discovered strings aligning with potential support…

An Apple-NVIDIA partnership has a bright future

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:26 pmTuesday, September 27, 201610 Comments

Since Nvidia has clearly demonstrated the superiority of its Pascal architecture in performance and energy efficiency…

What performance boost will Intel’s next chips deliver?

Friday, June 3, 2016 3:58 pmFriday, June 3, 201616 Comments

Intel wants to continue to deliver 10 to 20 percent performance improvements with chips…

Apple to adopt AMD’s new Polaris graphics chips in next-gen Macs

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 9:01 pm13 Comments

AMD’s latest graphics chips, the Polaris 10 and 11, will make their way into Apple desktops and laptops…

Apple Macs to see significant graphics upgrades with new GPU launches

Thursday, April 7, 2016 4:56 pmThursday, April 7, 201623 Comments

Major graphics processing providers AMD and Nvidia are set to unveil new GPU products this year…

Surfing porn on your Mac isn’t as private as you might think

Thursday, January 14, 2016 2:02 pmThursday, January 14, 201621 Comments

Incognito mode is a feature that doesn’t log your browser history or keep cached images, both of which are especially handy if you don’t want anyone knowing what you’re looking at online…

Apple unlikely to dump Intel for AMD in the MacBook

Wednesday, July 22, 2015 4:55 pmWednesday, July 22, 201513 Comments

Apple might enlist the semi-custom design services of struggling chipmaker…

GlobalFoundries to make next-gen Apple chips in Malta, New York

Saturday, April 4, 2015 5:12 pm12 Comments

Apple has awarded the contract for its next-generation A9 chips…

After whipping Intel, Nvidia and AMD in mobile chips, the sky’s the limit for Apple’s silicon design team

Thursday, February 5, 2015 1:27 pmThursday, February 5, 201517 Comments

Apple can literally do anything it wants to do…

How AMD and Nvidia lost the mobile GPU chip business to Apple – with help from Samsung and Google

Friday, January 23, 2015 1:58 pmFriday, January 23, 20157 Comments

Apple has the most powerful mainstream Application Processor GPUs…

Samsung and GlobalFoundries reportedly win majority of Apple A9 chip orders

Friday, January 16, 2015 10:25 amFriday, January 16, 20156 Comments

Samsung Electronics and Globalfoundries have secured…

GlobalFoundries could stamp out Apple A9 processors in upstate New York

Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:25 amThursday, December 11, 20143 Comments

Globalfoundries is striving to be among Apple’s major contract chipmakers…

What’s next for Mac Pro graphics cards?

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:03 pmWednesday, August 13, 201416 Comments

If Apple updates the Mac Pro this year, there’s a very good chance that…

Why doesn’t Apple buy AMD?

Thursday, April 3, 2014 2:02 pmThursday, April 3, 201412 Comments

Among investors in Advanced Micro Devices, there is a pretty continual discussion…

Apple hires at least a dozen former AMD employees for ‘Orlando GPU Team’

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:54 pm12 Comments

Apple has hired at least a dozen former AMD graphics engineers…

Is Intel’s Haswell a has-been?

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 4:08 pmTuesday, March 12, 20139 Comments

Haswell is beginning to look DOA…

Apple rumors bloom near Malta, NY: New speculation centers on GlobalFoundries as Cupertino’s chip maker

Friday, December 14, 2012 12:44 pm4 Comments

There is no reason GlobalFoundries couldn’t be the company that Apple wants…

Apple job listing hints at AMD graphics cards returning to iMac

Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:01 pm4 Comments

Apple could be looking to bring AMD Radeon graphics to the iMac…

AMD plans to sell 58-acre Austin, Texas campus to raise cash

Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:22 pmTuesday, November 27, 201224 Comments

AMD expects to sell the 58-acre site for between $150 million and $200 million…

Apple hires chip design luminary away from Samsung

Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:35 pmThursday, October 11, 201211 Comments

He brings deep expertise in both PC technology as well as in products known as SoCs…

AMD deal brings 500,000 Android apps to some Windows 8 devices

Monday, October 1, 2012 6:02 pmMonday, October 1, 201227 Comments

Some Windows 8 laptops and PCs could end up running more Android apps…

Another AMD engineer – a graphics and system-on-a-chip expert – goes to Apple

Friday, July 20, 2012 12:01 pmFriday, July 20, 20122 Comments

The latest AMD chip engineer to pop up at Apple is…

Intel forecast portends weak PC sales

Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:33 pmTuesday, July 17, 201217 Comments

Top chipmaker Intel Corp. reduced its growth forecast, reinforcing fears…

GLOBALFOUNDRIES marks third anniversary by achieving full independence from AMD

Monday, March 5, 2012 4:08 pm2 Comments

GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced it has agreed to terms with AMD to acquire…

Apple considered AMD processor for 2011 MacBook Air

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:33 pmWednesday, February 22, 201216 Comments

Apple considered putting a notebook processor introduced by Advanced Micro Devices…

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