Less than two years ago, AMD announced that it was overhauling its numbering scheme for laptop processors. Each digit in its four-digit CPU model numbers picked up a new meaning, which, with the help of a detailed reference sheet, promised to inform buyers ...

A technical paper titled “ProSpeCT: Provably Secure Speculation for the Constant-Time Policy (Extended version)” was published by researchers at imec-DistriNet at KU Leuven, CEA, List, Université Paris Saclay and INRIA. “We propose ProSpeCT, a ...

Snapdragon processor naming convictions have become a lot more confusing recently, especially with the Snapdragon 7 series with new sub-variants. To summarize, we have three categories in the Snapdragon 7 series: the top variant (Plus), the standard, and ...

LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinara™, Inc., the developers of AI processors and a comprehensive software development suite for edge computing applications, today announced its partnership with ENERZAi, Inc., the developers of solutions to compress ...

The central selling point of qubit-based quantum processors is that they can supposedly solve certain types of tasks much faster than a classical computer. This comes however with the major complication of quantum computing being ‘noisy’, i.e. affected ...

Taalas Inc., a startup that develops chips optimized to run specific artificial intelligence models, has raised $169 million in funding. Reuters reported today that the company’s backers include Quiet Capital, Fidelity and prominent semiconductor investor Pierre Lamond. The round brings Taalas’ total outside funding to more than $200 million.

“What should I buy? What’s good?” are the two questions our readers ask us and what we try and answer. AMD’s new mobile processor naming scheme makes those questions nearly impossible to quickly answer and, frankly, it’s ridiculous that consumers ...

If your Intel CPU is acting up, rest easy — it’s not just you. In fact, the owners of some of Intel’s best processors have been going through a rough time lately — and that even includes game developers. The Core i9-14900K and the Core i9-13900K ...

A new technical paper titled “ProSpeCT: Provably Secure Speculation for the Constant-Time Policy” was published by researchers at imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, CEA, and INRIA. This paper was included at the recent 32nd USENIX Security Symposium.