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A new hardware vulnerability bypassing previous Spectre and Meltdown protections has been found by Bitdefender researchers, CNET sister site ZDNet reported Tuesday. It affects all Windows systems with AMD or Intel processors since 2012 and can access protected memory. Spectre and Meltdown are vulnerabilities uncovered in the chips that handle sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys. …

The human brain is made of something like 86 billion interconnected brain cells, or neurons. Intel has now taken a notable step toward a digital equivalent, building a computer system with 8 million digital neurons. The system, called Pohoiki Beach, is packed with 64 of Intel Labs’ Loihi chips and will be available to researchers who can help the chipmaker …

AMD closed its Computex announcements with a “one last thing” reveal of a 12-core CPU, the Ryzen 7 3900X. Just a few weeks later at its E3 press conference, AMD one-last-thinged us again. This time it one-upped itself with a 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X desktop CPU slated to ship in September for $749. The company also delivered the promised pricing, specifications …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has been really excited about augmented reality, and at Apple’s WWDC developer conference there were some new effects announced that push ARKit into new realms of realism. But you need a top-end iPhone XS, iPhone XR, XS Max, or iPad Pro with …

If you like the high-speed Thunderbolt port for plugging stuff into your PC, there’s good news for this year and beyond. Thunderbolt debuted on MacBook Pro laptops in 2011 as an all-purpose port for monitors, storage systems and other high-end peripherals, and has since spread to Windows machines, too. This holiday season, though, Intel’s new Ice Lake processor will make …

PCs are dogged by tradeoffs. It’s hard to use your laptop all day on battery, get real work done during a two-minute break waiting for your train, or work hard when you’re not plugged into an electrical outlet. Intel noticed. The giant chipmaker is leading a multi-company, multiyear effort called Project Athena to address those tradeoffs. Athena’s goal: Make us …

After four years, Intel finally has a new processor design. And it’s something the company doesn’t have to be ashamed of. Ice Lake — officially Intel’s 10th-generation Core processor — clocks in at roughly 18% faster than its predecessor, Intel said. The processor’s graphics speed is 50% to 80% faster, and dedicated circuitry will boost AI software and double video-handling …

For a preview of the top-shelf Android phones that’ll arrive in 2020, check out the Arm Cortex-A77 processor design — and the 20% speed boost it should bring to smartphone chips. UK-based Arm designs chips and licenses those designs to companies like Samsung, Qualcomm and MediaTek. Some companies, like Apple, license only the chip instruction set,  the interface that software …

AMD turned 50 this year, and it’s celebrating the old-fashioned way: By drastically improving its processor architecture. At Computex 2019, the chipmaker announced a slew of new processor units, both central and graphics, running its new 7nm architecture. On the CPU side is the Zen 2 range, while the GPUs fall under the new Navi umbrella. The “one last thing” …

Acer is beefing up a pair of its notebook lines with new chip muscle. The computer maker said Wednesday that the Nitro 5 and Swift 3 notebooks would be powered by the second generation of AMD’s Ryzen mobile processor. The announcement comes a week before the start of the Computex tech show in Taiwan. The Nitro 5 — a notebook …