The UK government on Monday raised its objections to Nvidia’s takeover of chip designer Arm, in part due to national security concerns. UK Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden said that the country’s competition watchdog, the CMA, would look into the proposed sale of Arm, which has its headquarters in the British city of Cambridge, to explore …
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Newegg has some great laptop deals starting with a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 for $500
Shopping for a laptop? Good deals can be hard to find these days because the pandemic sent everyone home for a year. The ensuing run on laptops made affordable ones about as scarce as the PS5. Good news: Sub-$1,000 laptops still get marked down to even better prices occasionally, though, and right now there’s a trio of solid laptops on …
Read More »Dell’s latest Inspiron laptops are almost unrecognizable from past models
The gap in design and features between Dell’s premium XPS laptop line and mainstream Inspirons got a little smaller today with the introduction of the PC maker’s mainstream Inspiron 2021 laptop lineup. Available in four laptop sizes and a 14-inch two-in-one as well and a lot of component configuration options, there is a lot to choose from, and they’re all …
Read More »Apple’s next all
Apple has set the date for its next online-only event, sending out invites to the media for Tuesday, April 20, at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET). Apple is expected to introduce new iPads, with upgraded screens, and possibly the company’s long-rumored AirTags trackers. The new devices will be shown off during a stream on Apple’s website. The tech giant …
Read More »Nvidia’s Grace AI chip leaves Intel processors behind
Nvidia has a new chip in the works for boosting artificial intelligence and other high-performance computing work: Grace, a design slated to arrive in mammoth supercomputers in 2023. Instead of accelerating conventional Intel-powered servers, though, the design includes its own built-in Arm processors. Nvidia’s current brainiest chip, the A100, is typically yoked to Intel Xeon processors. Nvidia chips do the …
Read More »White House to meet with tech leaders about semiconductor shortage
The White House will meet with CEOs from Intel, Dell, Samsung, Ford, HP, AT&T, Alphabet, General Motors and other companies on Monday to discuss the global computer chip shortage. The virtual semiconductor summit will include White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, National Economic Council Director Brian Deese and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. President Joe Biden is expected to “briefly …
Read More »Get a refurbished Apple iMac 21.5
We love the iMac‘s all-in-one design, solid performance and attention to detail as much as the next website, but you’ll spend $1,100 minimum just to get out the door with a bare-bones off-the-shelf iMac. Thankfully, you can do a lot better with a refurbished model. You might not save a ton at Apple’s own Certified Refurbished store, but there are …
Read More »Dell gears up G15 and Alienware m15 gaming laptops for spring
In addition to the usual annual component refreshes, Dell is revving up two of its most popular gaming laptops, the Alienware m15 and Dell G15, with improved designs. The m15 reintroduces AMD Ryzen CPUs to the Alienware laptop line after a 10-year hiatus in the aptly named Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5, with 5000 H-series processors up to a Ryzen …
Read More »Apple WWDC 21: Looks like we’ll see iOS 15 by June
This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s annual developers conference is coming. The iPhone-maker on Tuesday sent out invites to its annual developer-focused event, WWDC, where it often shows off what’s next for its iOS, iPadOS, MacOS and other software platforms (here’s what we know so far about iOS …
Read More »Arm’s new chip architecture boosts security, speed for billions of processors
Arm, whose chip technology reaches every smartphone and just about every corner of the computing industry, announced a new processor architecture Tuesday designed to significantly improve security and performance. The architecture, called Armv9, should make its way into an estimated 300 billion processors starting this year through the next decade, the UK company said. Armv9, a successor to the Armv8 …
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