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Nvidia Will Limit Crypto Mining on Newly Manufactured RTX GPUs
Nvidia Will Limit Crypto Mining on Newly Manufactured RTX GPUs

After launching the RTX 3060 with capped hash rate to limit its attractiveness to miners, Nvidia has announced it will release new versions of other RTX 3000 series cards with the same limitation.

Clever OS Scheduling Partly Explains Apple M1’s Responsiveness
Clever OS Scheduling Partly Explains Apple M1’s Responsiveness

Some of the improved responsiveness of the M1 comes courtesy of new OS scheduling techniques.

Intel’s 8-Core Tiger Lake H Pours on the Performance, Power Consumption
Intel’s 8-Core Tiger Lake H Pours on the Performance, Power Consumption

Reviews of Intel's latest eight-core Tiger Lake CPUs are now available. The new CPUs definitely increase performance, but at the cost of higher power consumption.

China Successfully Lands on Mars, Preps Rover for Deployment
China Successfully Lands on Mars, Preps Rover for Deployment

China has successfully de-orbited the Tianwen-1 lander with the Zhurong rover attached and became just the third nation to land successfully on Mars.

Evidence Mounts Samsung Will Return to Google Wear OS, Ditch Tizen
Evidence Mounts Samsung Will Return to Google Wear OS, Ditch Tizen

Most big smartphone makers stopped making Wear OS watches over the intervening years, but a new report adds credence to the rumors that Samsung could be coming back to the Google fold.

Samsung Shows Off New Foldable OLED Tech
Samsung Shows Off New Foldable OLED Tech

There are more folds, different folds, and less distracting cameras. You can't buy these devices yet, but they could arrive sooner than you think based on the rapid improvement we've already seen in Samsung's foldables.

TSMC Mulls 3nm Foundry, Additional Investment at Future Arizona Fab
TSMC Mulls 3nm Foundry, Additional Investment at Future Arizona Fab

TSMC may pump billions more into its Arizona facility, expanding its manufacturing capacity and debuting 3nm technology by the same the factory opens in 2024.

Google, Seagate AI Identifies Problem Hard Drives Before They Fail
Google, Seagate AI Identifies Problem Hard Drives Before They Fail

Google and Seagate have built an AI model to track which hard drives are more likely to fail than others, ideally before any of them have failed at all.

Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Isotopes on Ocean Floor
Scientists Find Extraterrestrial Isotopes on Ocean Floor

An analysis of isotopes in the ocean crust reveals radioactive materials that could only have arrived here from outside our solar system, and their presence could help us better understand the physics of cataclysmic events like supernovae.

Foundry Freedom: AMD Loosens Wafer Agreement With GlobalFoundries
Foundry Freedom: AMD Loosens Wafer Agreement With GlobalFoundries

AMD and GlobalFoundries have amended their WSA, giving AMD complete freedom in its choice of foundry partners.

South Korea Commits $450 Billion to Dominate Semiconductor Market
South Korea Commits $450 Billion to Dominate Semiconductor Market

South Korea will invest $450 billion in its semiconductor industry by 2030, turning up the heat on the US to follow suit.

New Leak Points to Huge Google Pixel 6 Redesign
New Leak Points to Huge Google Pixel 6 Redesign

The new Pixel 6 renders, courtesy of noted leaker Jon Prosser, show off a radically different design with new camera hardware and maybe even custom Google chips.