Apple announced this week that its new Mac Pro starts at an already pricey $6,000, but the company neglected to mention how much the top-of-the-line model will cost. From a report on The Verge: So we shopped around for equivalent parts to the top-end spec that Apple’s promising. As it turns out: $33,720.88 is likely the bare minimum — and that’s…
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Apple Announces All-New Redesigned Mac Pro, Starting at $5,999
The long-awaited Mac Pro is here. From a report: The new Intel Xeon processor inside the Mac Pro will have up to 28 cores, with up to 300W of power and heavy-duty cooling, “so it can run unconstrained at full power at all times.” System memory can be maxed out at an eyebrow-raising 1.5TB, says Apple. There are eight internal PCI…
NLNet Funds Development of a Libre RISC-V 3D CPU
The NLNet Foundation is a non-profit supporting privacy, security, and the “open internet”. Now the group has approved funding for the hybrid Libre RISC-V CPU/VPU/GPU, which will “pay for full-time engineering work to be carried out over the next year, and to pay for bounty-style tasks.” Long-time Slashdot reader lkcl explains why that’s significant: High security software is irrelevant if the…
The Invention of USB, ‘The Port That Changed Everything’
harrymcc shares a Fast Company article about “the generally gnarly process once required to hook up peripherals” in the late 1990s — and one Intel engineer who saw the need for “one plug to rule them all.” In the olden days, plugging something into your computer — a mouse, a printer, a hard drive — required a zoo of cables. Maybe…
Intel Graphics Division Shares Wild Futuristic GPU Concept Cards
MojoKid writes: What do you think graphics cards will look like in the next decade and a half? Intel wanted to know that as well, so it commissioned designer Cristiano Siquiera to give us a taste of what graphics cards might look like in the year 2035. Siquiera, the original talented designer that brought the first set of Intel Odyssey GPU…
Intel Boldly Claims Its ‘Ice Lake’ Integrated Graphics Are As Good as AMD’s
While Intel is expected to detail its upcoming 10nm processor, Ice Lake, during its Tuesday keynote here at Computex, the company is already making one bold claim — that Ice Lake’s integrated Gen11 graphics engine is on par or better than AMD’s current Ryzen 7 graphics. From a report: It’s a bold claim, and one that Ryan Shrout, a former journalist…
AMD Unveils the 12-Core Ryzen 9 3900X, at Half the Price of Intel’s Competing Core i9 9920X Chipset
AMD CEO Lisa Su today unveiled news about its chips and graphics processors that will increase pressure on competitors Intel and Nvidia, both in terms of pricing and performance. From a report: All new third-generation Ryzen CPUs, the first with 7-nanometer desktop chips, will go on sale on July 7. The showstopper of Suâ(TM)s keynote was the announcement of AMD’s 12-core,…
Intel SVP Gregory Bryant Opens Up On Project Athena Laptop Initiative
MojoKid shares a report from HotHardware: Earlier this year, Intel revealed its Project Athena initiative and earlier this month gave us a broad overview on what to expect with future computing designs. Like Centrino (which brought laptops into the Wi-Fi age) and Ultrabooks (which touted the idea of thin and light premium laptops), Project Athena encompasses a collection of technologies and…
Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches
Phoronix has conducted a series of tests to show just how much the Spectre and Meltdown patches have impacted the raw performance of Intel and AMD CPUs. While the patches have resulted in performance decreases across the board, ranging from virtually nothing to significant depending on the application, it appears that Intel received the short end of the stick as its…
Huawei Responds To Android Ban With Service and Security Guarantees, But Its Future Remains Unclear
Huawei has finally gone on the record about a ban on its use of Android, but the company’s long-term strategy on mobile still remains unclear. From a report: In an effort to appease its worried customer base, the embattled Chinese company said today that it will continue to provide security updates and after-sales support to its existing lineup of smartphones, but…