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The Alder Lake/AVX-512 saga is finally coming to an end. As per an Intel representative, future batches of Intel Alder Lake chips won't physically support the AVX-512 instruction set, as the chip manufacturer will “fuse off AVX-512 on Alder Lake products going forward”. Support for the AVX-512 instruction set on …

It looks like Quantum Computing could arrive sooner than expected, as a UK-based company has discovered a method for manufacturing quantum chips at scale using existing processes – something that could greatly accelerate research.  Quantum Motion, a startup founded by UCL and Oxford University students, have been able to create …

Many of today’s devices including smartphones, computers and servers contain multiple smaller chips sealed inside a larger, usually rectangular package, communicating with each other via a complex multi-layered piece of silicon no bigger than a grain of rice. In the case of Intel powered devices, this communication between chips including …

Battery technology has remained stagnant for quite some time, as shown by the increasingly short lifespan of modern smartphones. This might be a thing of the past in the next few years, as Norwegian scientists claim to have uncovered the much needed “X-factor” needed for next-generation batteries. After years of …

Back in November, we heard that SUMCO, one of the largest silicon wafer producers in the world, was planning to increase prices by 20 percent this year, with another price increase planned in 2019. Now, it looks like other Silicon wafer manufacturers are joining in, with Taiwan's GlobalWafers confirming that …

Over the last year, we have seen plenty of price hikes in the tech world. A DRAM and NAND shortage has caused SSD and RAM prices to jump, but it looks like silicon prices are also set to rise over the next few years, which will have further reaching effects …

Chinese based Trina Solar has announced that it has once again broken its own efficiency record for mono-crystalline silicon solar panels, hitting 22.61 per cent for the first time. This is a near .5 per cent improvement over a similar development it made in 2015 and a more than 1.2 per …

Cover your mother's eyes before starting the video on this one ladies and gents, it's a little racy. The VirtuaDolls adult VR game controller is now available to pre-order on IndieGoGo, offering a touchable, feelable, real-world controller for certain adult ‘games' that will be available for virtual reality headsets when they …

While our silicon chips are generally fast enough at the moment, as we have to pack more transistors into them the manufacturing process has to get smaller and smaller. With most chips made today being fabricated at nanometre lengths between 45nm and 14nm, this process of getting transistors to work correctly at smaller scales is …