TSMC Plans 10nm, 7nm, and “Very Steep” Ramping of 16nm.
Getting smaller features allows a chip designer to create products that are faster, cheaper, and consume less power. Years ago, most of them had their own production facilities…
Read More
Author: Scott Michaud
Huh. Someone Installed Windows 7 on an ASUS ZenFone 2.
So this is kind-of cool. The ASUS ZenFone 2 is based around an Intel Atom processor, which uses an x86 processor. Its performance is not comparable to a Haswell PC...
Read More
Windows 10 Supported Until 2020, Extended Until 2025
Microsoft announced the upgrade strategy of Windows 10 in their January consumer press conference. If the promotion is claimed within the first year, the new operating system would be a free upgrade…
Read More
Microsoft “Suspends the Availability” of Builds Tomorrow
UPDATE (July 14th, 6:15pm ET): The change is now in effect. Going to the Insiders page at insider.windows.com has the PC link disabled...
Read More
OnePlus 2 Has Been Rolling Out Announcements Slowly
OnePlus is a Chinese smartphone company founded by Pete Lau, formerly the Vice President at Oppo. Their first phone was basically invite-only for most of its lifespan, but that was justified for…
Read More
AMD Projects Decreased Revenue by 8% for Q2 2015
The projections for AMD's second fiscal quarter had revenue somewhere between flat and down 6%. The actual estimate, as of July 6th, is actually below the entire range. They expect...
Read More
Final Fantasy XIV for Mac Sales Pulled Temporarily. PC’s Fine.
When Final Fantasy 14 launched on the PC, it was plagued with bugs and gameplay problems. It led to Square basically remaking the game and relaunching it as Final Fantasy XIV: A…
Read More
Almost NoScript Exploits Whitelist Vulnerabilities
I do not really believe in disabling JavaScript, although the ability to control or halt execution would be nice, but you can use an extension to remove it entirely if you want.…
Read More
We’re Running Out of IPv4… Still…
While the IP system allows for about 4.3 billion addresses, not all of those are available to actual devices. There are some that are designed for private network use, so a router…
Read More
My Take on July 29th Reservations
A couple of days ago, Paul Thurrott wrote an editorial about Microsoft's Windows 10 reservation system. His point was that, while Microsoft claimed users of Windows 7 or 8.1 could...
Read More
Microsoft Releases Several Windows 10 Builds This Week
Early this week, Microsoft released a pair of new builds into the Windows Insider Fast Ring. Back to back, Build 10158 was released on Monday and 10159 followed it...
Read More
Rumor: Intel to Follow Up Skylake with Kaby Lake
A few websites have been re-reporting on a leak from BenchLife.info about Kaby Lake, which is supposedly a second 14nm redesign (“Tock”)...
Read More