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The 24-inch iMac arrived this spring with Apple’s own M1 chip, but the addition of the new silicon isn’t the only thing that makes this computer notable. Apple’s latest iMac is also the first to be designed from the ground up with the M1 in mind. That’s different from the first wave of M1 Macs, …

Apple may be drawing close to having its own 5G modems ready for its 2023 iPhones, Nikkei reported Wednesday, as the tech giant works out a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to use TSMC’s chip production technology.  Cupertino, California-based Apple intends to mass produce its first in-house 5G modem chip and other components, according to Nikkei, which cited anonymous …

The Commerce Department on Wednesday barred US firms from exporting quantum computing technology to eight Chinese companies and labs to try to keep the country from decrypting sensitive US communications and developing new military technology. “Global trade and commerce should support peace, prosperity, and good-paying jobs, not national security risks,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a statement. Though still technologically …

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has ambitious goals: restoring Intel to its earlier glory as the leader in the chip industry, and in so doing, boosting the US share of chip manufacturing to levels it hasn’t seen in several decades. To get there, he’s making big investments: Intel’s just begun building a pair of chip fabrication plants in Arizona at a …

The most obvious changes to the new 2021 MacBook Pro laptops — a new design, new display and resurrected ports — have been discussed in great depth in my longform reviews of the 16-inch MacBook and 14-inch MacBook. But it’s the internal changes that are really more important for the creative professionals who are most likely to shell out for …

This story is part of Road Trip 2021, CNET’s coverage of the push and pull to manufacture more products in the USA. When you walk among the hulking machines inside an Intel chip factory, you feel simultaneously dwarfed and gigantic. Dwarfed because such factories, called fabs, are enormous facilities covering dozens of acres. And gigantic because the processors they build …

Qualcomm is poised to take on the laptop processor business in force with its next-generation chips. At least, that’s the vision outlined Tuesday by Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon at the company’s Investor Day 2021 event. When asked about Qualcomm’s ambitions for the laptop market, Amon first spoke highly of Apple’s latest M-series laptop chips. He praised the Arm-based …

Last year’s Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook was and still is one of our top picks for the category, primarily because it was a bargain for a premium Chromebook. The 2021 Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook (the added “i” denotes an Intel chip, though there is no AMD version) is mostly the same as the 2020 model and remains an excellent value …

Installing a new operating system is an emotionally complicated process. On the other side of the update, the new OS promises new toys to play with and enhancements to older features. But there’s always the fear that something goes wrong. Maybe something’s a little buggy in the new operating system, maybe your system rejects the upgrade or maybe your whole …

When Apple debuted the Touch Bar on its new MacBook Pro laptops five years ago, I was willing to give the technology giant the benefit of the doubt. The narrow touch-sensitive display along the top of the keyboard certainly offered a surprising new user interface option. And I needed a new computer. It was a chance to try something new. Alas, …