The Hot Take: Nice!
The latest October 28th cumulative update build for Windows 11 versions 26H2 and 25H2 has shipped, and with it comes numerous improvements to Windows 11, including Cloud Rebuild functionality. If you find yourself in a situation where Windows
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting, has me intrigued to try it again.
The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Interesting, reuse of a chemical.
Current AI chips face a transmission bottleneck where they’re pushing 200Gbps per lane, so even the slightest interference can affect performance. Possibly realizing that there needs to be a better way to maintain optimal server throughput, NVIDIA is reportedly looking at an unlikely material to tackle one of AI hardware’s biggest headaches: PTFE, better known by the brand name Teflon and as the coating on non-stick pans. PTFE wastes far less energy, making it suitable for achieving NVIDIA’s goals, but material complexity makes it difficult to…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: This is interesting, need more validated benchmarks. Is Qualcomm on the way out of the performance crown on the mobile SoC market?
Good news for the Galaxy S27 and Galaxy S27 Plus.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: But will they dive into Quantum processor manufacturing?
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan believes that the total addressable market for his firm's CPUs, when it comes to demand stemming from the AI agentic market, could surge to $200 billion over five years. The executive made the remarks during Intel's latest earnings call, where he reiterated the advantages of using CPUs in AI computing. Tan, whose firm also recently bought quantum computing firm Classiq, shared that the deal will enable Intel to become a "full stack revenue-generating" quantum computing company. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Touts Power Efficiency…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: No more registry hacks!
Windows 11’s right-click menu has been cluttered for a long time now. There are delays when opening a file menu and an overload of options added by Windows and installed applications. Now, Microsoft is finally fixing this by rolling out a redesigned context menu and giving users greater control over which commands appear. The update also brings layout choices that make the menu adaptable to individual preferences.
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Hoping this helps the DRAM & NAND crunch sooner than later.
Former Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger has come out in support of memory chip designer Nagare Labs and its Z2RAM technology. Gelsinger shared his thoughts about the firm with The Register, where he said the firm was combining the best aspects of SRAM, DRAM and flash memory to create a potential competitor for HBM memory when it comes to density, speed and power. Among other features, Z2RAM is integrated directly on the logic chip, which reduces the distance for the data to travel. Former Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger Believes Z2RAM Gives Better…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Intel coming for ARM?
Intel is preparing a new entry-level laptop CPU lineup called Moon Lake, which will feature just four LPE cores on the 18A process node. Intel Aims Entry-Level Laptops With Moon Lake CPUs, Based on 18A Process Node Intel is planning to offer two brand new families for entry-level PCs; the first will be Wildcat Lake Refresh, which will feature slightly better configurations than existing Core Series 3 models, and then the company will launch an even more entry-tier lineup, called Moon Lake. Latest specifications of both families were shared by…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: Out of left field Samsung comes out with Exynos 2700 to best Qualcomm? Interesting.
Back in August, insiders claimed that the Exynos 2700 beat Qualcomm's next flagship chips in internal testing. Those Snapdragons have since become official, and Samsung has reportedly put its upcoming chip up against them once again. The Exynos 2700 is expected to power at least some models in the Galaxy S27 series, which should arrive early next year. This time, the tests were allegedly run against the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max and its Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Exynos 2700 reportedly scored around 13,000 points in the Geekbench 6.5…
Read the full articleThe Hot Take: That's 1/4 of their workforce, that is insane.
The buyout offers mark Microsoft's latest efforts to cut costs and rework its workforce.
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