processors
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Report: All Intel Processors Made In The Last Decade Might Have A Massive Security Flaw
There’s small screwups and big screwups. Here is tremendously huge screwup: Virtually all Intel processors produced in the last decade have a major security hole that could allow “normal user programs – from database applications to JavaScript in web browsers – to discern to some extent the layout or contents of protected kernel memory areas,”…
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Laptop Processors, Battery Life and USB Type-C Explained
When looking for a new laptop, one of the first things that people look at is power and battery life — and it pays to know how the processor comes into play. And that USB Type-C is beginning to revolutionise charging options. Here’s what you need to know.
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Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need To Know
Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist. Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock”,…
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Google May Start Making Its Own Smartphone Chips
Google wants to make a better Android for the future. That means building a smartphone that can handle the technical challenges of augmented reality, virtual reality, and whatever else smartphones will become. And that means tying Android more tightly together with hardware.