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Solid state drives are way faster than traditional hard drives for storing data on laptops, but they still can’t match the old technology when it comes to cost and capacity. But Intel promises to help improve SSDs with new technology that squeezes more data into each memory cell. SSDs use flash memory, a type of …

Apple’s A13 Bionic processor will boost iPhone 11 performance by at least 20 percent over last year’s smartphones, Apple said Tuesday. That includes the speed of the main processor brains and its special-purpose engines for graphics and AI. “It is our most performant chip we have ever built for iPhone,” said Sri Santhanam, vice president of silicon engineering, at Apple’s annual …

If you’ve ever reached for your phone instead of your laptop simply because it’s faster to wake up, unlock and start working, new laptops like Lenovo’s Yoga C940 might change that. The company’s flagship 14-inch two-in-one is one of a handful of Intel Project Athena devices announced at IFA 2019 aimed at making laptops perform more like your phone.  The …

Lenovo is updating six of its ThinkPad laptop lines with Intel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake mobile processors including its premium seventh-gen 14-inch X1 Carbon ultraportable. The announcement comes less than a week after Dell said it’s updating its Editors’ Choice award-winning XPS 13 and much of its Inspiron lineup with Comet Lake chips.  The new Comet Lake-architecture CPUs don’t promise any of the advances …

Intel is stealing a page from the mobile industry’s playbook, developing a new processor code-named Lakefield that breaks new ground when it comes to squeezing significant performance into a tiny package. Lakefield uses a new Intel technology called Foveros that lets the company stack different chip parts onto different layers. That lets Intel build a chip that’s getting closer to …

Although IFA 2019, Europe’s largest consumer tech show, doesn’t start until Sept. 6, Dell is already getting its big news out. The company’s top ultraportable laptop, the XPS 13, will be updated with Intel’s 10th-gen 14nm processors, including a six-core Intel Core i7-10710U. In fact, most of Dell’s Inspiron lineup will be flipped to the new chips as well.  To be …

Oh, i7-8656U we hardly knew ye. So much water under the bridge — all those lakes — since we first tested you a mere eight months ago in the Razer Blade Stealth and already you’ve been replaced by a younger model who looks very, very much like you. The new Comet Lake-architecture CPUs don’t promise any of the advances of …

Enough with the doom and gloom about Moore’s Law. Computing progress charted by the famous 1965 observation, along with other chip improvements, will keep our digital devices humming ever faster, said Philip Wong, head of research at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. “Without any doubt, Moore’s Law is well and alive. It’s not dead, it’s not slowing down, it’s not even …

Designing your own chips is hard. But Tesla, one of the most aggressive developers of autonomous vehicle technology, thinks it’s worth it. The company shared details Tuesday about how it fine-tuned the design of its AI chips so two of them are smart enough to power its cars’ upcoming “full self-driving” abilities. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and his colleagues revealed …

Adobe’s Lightroom, long dogged by complaints it’s grown sluggish at editing and organizing photos, got a performance boost Tuesday by tapping into the processing power of the graphics chip in Windows and Mac computers. The August release of Lightroom Classic should speed up editing and make the software more responsive in general, said Josh Haftel, principal product manager at Adobe, …