Intel has selected a 1,000-acre site in New Albany, Ohio, to be its third major US chipmaking location, with construction beginning this year and operations starting in 2025. Intel has committed to spend $20 billion on two chip fabrication facilities, or fabs, but ultimately expects a total of eight fabs in a plan that could …

As part of Intel’s effort to reclaim processor manufacturing leadership by 2025, the company has ordered the first of a new generation of chipmaking machines from Dutch specialist ASML, the companies said Wednesday. The device, called the Twinscan EXE:5200, is scheduled to be delivered in 2024 for operations beginning in 2025. Such machines, each costing a budget-busting $340 million on …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. A host of new USB-C accessories that were on display at CES 2022 indicate that the data-and-charging tech may be about to reach its potential after arriving seven years ago.  USB-C and its related standards are already fixtures in laptops, Android …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. The quantum dot era of OLED TVs began Tuesday with the debut at CES 2022 of Samsung’s first QD OLED TV screens and computer monitors. This new display technology, which Samsung calls QD Display, promises to improve image quality for top-tier …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Piloting a drone is a complicated affair involving dual-joystick controllers, FAA regulations and a lot of fiddly gear. But after trying the new $1,099 Skydio 2 Plus, announced Tuesday at CES 2022, I’m impressed how new smarts let even noobs like …

This story is part of CES, where CNET covers the latest news on the most incredible tech coming soon. Intel’s next-gen PC chip, Raptor Lake, isn’t for sale yet, but it’s mature enough to boot Windows. That’s the word from Gregory Bryant, Intel’s PC chip chief, at CES 2022 on Tuesday. “With our next generation processors, code-named Raptor Lake, on …

Canon’s EOS-1D X Mark III will be the Japanese company’s last top-end DSLR as Canon moves its product line toward mirrorless cameras. That’s the word from Chairman and Chief Executive Fujio Mitarai in a Tuesday interview in the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun and confirmed by Canon. Mirrorless cameras are the future, at least for those of us who want more …

This story is part of The Year Ahead, CNET’s look at how the world will continue to evolve starting in 2022 and beyond. After years of development, quantum computers reached a level of sophistication in 2021 that emboldened commercial customers to begin dabbling with the radical new machines. Next year, the business world may be ready to embrace them more …

Apple on Wednesday released a major new version of Swift Playgrounds, its iPad and Mac app designed to teach kids its Swift programming language, that now lets budding coders submit their projects to Apple’s app store. Swift Playgrounds introduces programming by letting coders control a character named Byte. Programmers learn basics like commands, variables, loops, and if-this-then-that operations. The code …

Personal computers got a lot more exciting in 2021 thanks to Intel and Apple. Intel got a new chief executive who has plans for the giant chipmaker to reclaim its faded glory. Meanwhile, Apple introduced Macs with its own powerful new processors that challenge Intel’s plans. Processors — the electronic brains, also called chips, that power our smartphones, game consoles, …