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Lenovo announced the new premium Yoga 7i and Yoga 6 two-in-ones earlier in the month and now it’s pulled the wraps off the top-of-the-line Yoga 9i. The Yoga 9i two-in-one and Yoga 9i Slim laptop (called the IdeaPad 9i Slim in North America) replace the Yoga C940 and Yoga S940 (IdeaPad S940).  Being the most …

Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles every 24 months, has taken a beating as progress miniaturizing circuitry falters. But chip giant Intel has plotted a course to keep the idea alive with a plan to pack 50 times as many transistors onto processors than is possible today. The progress of Moore’s Law, …

You might not ever have heard of a digital signal processor, but there’s a good chance you’ve reaped the benefits of one on your phone. These processors, described as a “complete computer in a single chip,” are the reason phones can fully charge within five minutes or launch augmented reality for games like Pokemon Go.   The chip’s wide range of possibilities, however, …

Samsung’s operating profit rose in the second quarter despite a slight decline in sales as the novel coronavirus continues to ravage the globe. The company benefited from a one-time gain and from demand for its processors. The South Korean electronics giant reported Wednesday that its second-quarter operating profit for the three-month period that ended June 30 came in at 8.1 …

Apple has teased that it will ship the first computers running its own Apple A-series Arm chips later this year. Now, a new report from notable Apple watcher Ming-Chi Kuo, of TF International Securities, suggests that the first computers packing the new processors could be a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and possibly a new MacBook Air as well.  In the report, …

AMD’s Ryzen 5 3600XT, Ryzen 7 3800XT and Ryzen 9 3900XT chips are now available, the chip-maker announced Tuesday. These CPUs use the Zen 2 architecture that AMD has been using for the last year. However, AMD says it was able to improve the manufacturing process to achieve better performance. It’s essentially increasing boost frequencies without having to increase power …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple is overhauling its Mac computers with its own Arm chips, close cousins to those it designs for its own iPhones and iPads. Moving away from the Intel processors it’s used for the last 14 years is a historic change that disrupts software …

In a development that oddly enough bodes well for Apple Macs, a Fujitsu machine has been named fastest in the world. The system, called Fugaku and installed at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, features processors that are members of the Arm family that Apple will use in its Mac personal computers later this year. Fugaku uses Fujitsu …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s upcoming Macs that use its own processors will immediately have a huge library of software: the millions of iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store.  Apple on Monday, at its first digital Worldwide Developers Conference, said its new Macs will be …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. After 19 years stuck on the same major version number, Apple is finally unsticking MacOS. MacOS Big Sur, the first incarnation of its operating system to run on Apple’s upcoming Arm-based Macs as well as its older Intel-based lineage, will get the version …