When Apple introduced iOS 11 in September, it boasted how new compression technology called HEVC shrinks your video files about 40 percent. On Tuesday, Firefox took a step to do even better. The latest Firefox test version, called Nightly, debuts compression technology called AV1 that Mozilla said makes video files 25 percent to 35 percent …
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Tucked inside the upcoming iMac Pro — alongside 18 cores of Intel Xeon processors — could be a stowaway chip that comes straight from the iPhone. Now playing: Watch this: New iMac, iMac Pro designed with crisper displays, more… 1:28 The A10 Fusion processor belonged to last year’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and it’s reportedly bringing always-on Siri voice search functionality — aka …
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Intel’s years-long effort to supply the processor brains for our phones was a flop, but the company is working hard to bring its communication chips to our phones. A series of developments the company announced Thursday could help its mobile prospects and perhaps improve next year’s iPhones with a faster version of today’s network technology called gigabit LTE. Even if …
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Competitors like Samsung and Google may have caught up to Apple when it comes to mobile-phone photography, but iPhones might reclaim their lead if a startup acquisition works out. Apple bought InVisage, a company developing image sensor technology called QuantumFilm that could outdo traditional image sensors from giants like Sony. Apple confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch on Thursday. QuantumFilm, which …
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Broadcom really, really wants to hook up with Qualcomm. The San Jose, California, company, which makes chips for everything from cable modems to set-top boxes and digital video recorders, on Monday launched an unsolicited bid for Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of chips and processors for phones, for $70 a share, or $130 billion. If it goes through, the deal …
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This summer, Intel delivered what it says is a “once-in-a-decade” performance upgrade to its line of mobile processors that power Apple’s MacBook Air and iMac, Microsoft’s Surface Pro, and hundreds of other popular devices. The new chips, the first wave of eighth-gen Core CPUs, and collectively known as the Kaby Lake R series, are just the latest in a series of …
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We’ve recently seen the first laptops powered by Intel’s eighth-generation mobile processors arrive, and now it’s AMD’s turn. The difference is Intel’s processors use a “refreshed” version of the seventh-generation Kaby Lake architecture and a rebranded version of the graphics processor that gains most of its improvements through the addition of a couple of cores and some tweaks. For AMD, …
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It’s arguably the most important component in your laptop, tablet or desktop computer. Whether called the processor, CPU, or central processing unit, it deserves top-line billing on your spec list, as it’s the brain of your device. But CPUs cause confusion and stress for shoppers. The chipmakers have not done themselves any favors with their nerdy and arcane naming conventions. …
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Intel might be an old-school computing company, but the chipmaker thinks the latest trends in artificial intelligence will keep it an important part of your high-tech life. AI technology called machine learning today is instrumental to taking good photos, translating languages, recognizing your friends on Facebook, delivering search results, screening out spam and many other chores. It usually uses an …
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Microsoft is heading into the holiday season with a new Surface computer, but it’s not what you might expect. No, this isn’t a new version of the slate-like Surface Pro two-in-one, or the slick-looking Surface Laptop. Instead it’s the other Surface hybrid, the Surface Book. This is a bigger, bulkier two-in-one with a detachable screen and a very laptop-like keyboard dock, …
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