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Earlier this year, ARM announced its Cortex-A72 — a new custom microarchitecture from the CPU designer that builds on and refines the 64-bit Cortex-A57. Ordinarily it takes up to 24 months for new ARM cores to come to market, after the company announces a new CPU design. But Qualcomm has*told us to expect Cortex-A72 cores by the end of the year. If true, that would make this one of the company’s fastest ...
= As the pace of Moore’s Law has slowed and shifted, every process node has become more difficult and complicated to achieve. The old days, where a simple die shrink automatically brought faster chips and lower power consumption, are now gone. Today, companies perform a die shrink (which makes most aspects of the chip perform worse, not better), and then find supplementary technologies ...
Rob Hefferan
The ability to modify a vehicle you’ve purchased is, in many ways, a fundamental part of America’s car culture — and, to some extent, embedded in our culture, period. From the Fast & Furious saga to Han Solo’s “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. I’ve made a lot of special modifications,” we value the right to tinker. More practically, that right can be critically important when ...
Free PC games used to be the realm of quirky flash games or weird indie projects, but the free-to-play phenomenon has really taken off in the last couple of years. Now, the $60 AAA games that once ruled the roost are getting some real competition from games that offer hundreds of hours of gameplay for free. There are innumerable free-to-play games available for the PC, and with that ...
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