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For TSMC, being the world’s largest foundry with nearly 500 customers has its peculiarities. On the one hand, the company can serve almost any client with almost any requirements. On the other hand, it has to stay ahead of everyone else both in terms of capacity and in terms of technology. As far as capacity is concerned, TSMC is unchallenged and is not going to be for years to come. As for fabrication technologies, TSMC has recently reiterated that it’s confident that its N2, N3, and N4 processes will be available on time and will be more advanced than competing nodes. Confidence Early this year TSMC significantly boosted its 2021 … Read more

The fervor of cryptocoin mining has consumed a large part of the semiconductor industry of late. The demands for high performance silicon to mine these virtual assets with value is one factor in a global shortage of available parts for computers, automobiles, defense, research, and other industries. One consistent element to cryptocoin mining over the last decade is the prevalence of hijacked machines and devices through malware, commonly known as botnets. Previously these armies of machines were co-opted to perform bandwidth attacks against various targets, but they have also been used for their compute resources – mining coins that have value for those that control the botnet. This week Intel … Read more

2020 has been an extremely successful year for Arm’s infrastructure and enterprise endeavours, as it was the year where we’ve seen fruition of the company’s “Neoverse” line of CPU microarchitectures hit the market in the form of Amazon’s new Graviton2 design as well as Ampere’s Altra server processor. Arm had first introduced the Neoverse N1 back in early 2019 and if you weren’t convinced of the Arm server promise with the Graviton2, the more powerful and super-sized Altra certainly should have turned some heads. Inarguably the first generation of Arm servers that are truly competitive at the top end of performance, Arm is now finally achieving a goal the company … Read more

The combination of Intel’s ability to drive 10nm product onto the shelves coupled with silicon supply chain shortages has put into question exactly what might be coming into the market later this year on the client side of the business. A few weeks ago Intel stated that across the company five CPU platforms would be coming to market in 2021: Rocket Lake, Jasper Lake, Ice Lake Xeon, Alder Lake, and the Tiger Lake-H series of processors. Tiger Lake-H at 45W+ will come to market in Q2, however AnandTech has learned and confirmed that later in 2021 Intel will also be launching a refresh of its notebook 15-28W Tiger Lake-U processors … Read more

Realme has launched a new Bluetooth speaker called Realme Cobble that comes with glow-in-the-dark luminous lanyard Realme has launched a new Bluetooth speaker in Malaysia called Realme Cobble that comes with a glow in the dark luminous lanyard along with a gaming mode as well which lowers the latency for a seamless audio sync. The Realme Cobble Bluetooth speaker is priced at MYR 99 (approx Rs 1,800). It has been launched in Metal Black and Electric Blue colours. Realme hasn’t provided any details if the speaker will be made available in other markets or not. Realme Cobble Bluetooth Speaker Specifications The Realme Cobble Bluetooth speaker is cobble-shaped speaker with a … Read more

Some computer manufacturers have been trying to kill USB-A and push consumers towards USB-C, but so far, this scheme has not been successful. Don’t get me wrong, USB-C is wonderful — the reversible connector is far superior to the previous USB design — but there are just too many USB-A devices in the world to have it disappear completely. While he death of USB-A is a certainty, it is still many years away. If you have one of those newfangled computers that only come with USB-C, you can always buy a hub, dongle, or adapter. For instance, today, NewerTech launches two new USB-C video adapters. One converts USB-C to HDMI … Read more

Sex and gender are two different things. For many people, these match. Using myself as an example, I was born biologically male and identify my gender as such. I prefer to be called “him” and “he.” For some other people, however, their gender does not match their sex. And yes, despite what some ignorant people may think, this is absolutely factual — sex is biology while gender is a social construct. This is why you really can’t assume someone’s gender or pronouns. Just because someone looks to you like they are biologically female, for instance, that doesn’t mean the person wants to be referred to as “she” or “her.” Heck, … Read more