Silicon Industry Association: $50 billion are needed to bring chip manufacturing to the US
In brief: American semiconductor giants are planning to build up to 19 manufacturing plants in the US, but they won't do it without substantial federal investment. What they're asking is that the US government spend at least half as much as China does for securing a larger share of global semiconductor manufacturing.
In July we took a deep dive into China's ambitious plan for technological self-sufficiency, which is largely motivated by the US-China trade war and the insistence on replacing all foreign hardware and
iRobot's latest Roomba makes automatic dust bin emptying more affordable
Bottom line: Robotic vacuum pioneer iRobot on Thursday added a new model to its lineup that borrows one key feature from the company’s more expensive cleaners. It is more affordable than earlier models but even still, $600 is a lot for a vacuum. The convenience afforded by no longer having to directly tend to the chore and only having to clean the dust bin a handful of times per year, however, will no doubt appeal to some.
The new Roomba i3+ features iRobot’s clever
PlayStation 5 pre-orders sell out in less than 24 hours
Good news / Bad news: For those who already know they are going to buy a PlayStation 5, the good news is that pre-orders started at 12 am this morning. The bad news is they are also already sold out. You can still wait in line to wait in line, though, if you pre-order your pre-order.
Hours after Sony announced the PlayStation 5's release date and pricing, pre-orders went up for grabs. Several retailers, including Best Buy , Amazon
Intel offers Tiger Lake Core i7-1185G7 laptop performance preview
Something to look forward to: Intel has been having a hard time squeezing every bit of performance possible out of their older CPU architectures to remain in contention. Considering how aggressive AMD has been, you could arguably say they've done a good job keeping afloat, whether it's on servers, desktop or laptops. But they could only hang on for so long. Tiger Lake and Xe is how Intel is beginning to strike back.
For the past year past year Ryzen has clearly dominated desktop CPU buying recommendations ,
Mozilla is investigating YouTube's curious recommendation algorithms
Privacy first: Submitted data will be assigned to a randomly generated user ID and only Mozilla will have access to it. Furthermore, data won’t be collected during private browsing sessions and when Mozilla presents its findings to the public, it’ll do so in a way that’ll minimize the risk of users being identified.
YouTube’s recommendations algorithms usually do a decent job of steering viewers toward content they’re legitimately interested in. Occasionally, however, things seemingly go off the rails and before you know
Evernote looks to recapture former glories with redesigned app
In a nutshell: Remember when Evernote was the app that every productivity fan needed on their device? It’s fallen out of favor in the last few years, but the company is determined to recapture its former glories, starting with a completely redesigned iOS app. New Android, Windows, and Mac apps will follow in the coming weeks.
Virtually every “Must-have app” list from the mid-2010s contained Evernote, which at one point was valued at $1.2 billion and
Nintendo discontinues the 3DS to fully focus on the Switch
In brief: Nintendo is now fully focused on the Switch after having officially discontinued production of the 3DS handheld. Collectively, Nintendo sold nearly 76 million units during the system’s run. That’s a respectable number and far more than the disappointment that was the Wii U but it was nowhere near as successful as the original DS family which was responsible for nearly 155 million units sold.
Visitors of Nintendo’s Japanese website were the first to notice a note on product pages for the various 3
Crysis Remastered dev on game's top graphics setting: "no card out there" can handle it in 4K at 30fps
What just happened? Crysis Remastered arrives tomorrow (September 18) and while its recommended specs are very generous, the game's top graphics setting, called 'Can it run Crysis?' is as demanding on a PC's hardware as the notorious original game. According to one of the devs, "there is no card out there" capable of running the mode in 4K at 30fps.
The excitement that followed Crytek's announcement of Crysis Remastered in April turned to disappointment following the fugly
Sony PS5 showcase gives brief teaser of next God of War
What just happened? Sony's 'one more thing' at its recent PS5 showcase was the briefest of teasers for its highly-anticipated follow-up to Santa Monica's God of War 2018 reboot. It's called God of War: Ragnarok, which isn't surprising given that the world-ending event, according to Norse mythology, had been teased previously as an easter egg in GoW's official PS4 dynamic theme. Fans of the franchise, especially the 20
AMD ramps up Zen 3 hype, calls Ryzen 4000 CPUs "tremendously powerful"
Highly anticipated: We’re now only three weeks away from AMD’s official unveiling of its Zen 3-based CPUs, and the company is ramping up the hype, with one exec boasting that it will be a “tremendously powerful” architecture.
AMD has been singing the praises of Zen 3 for a while and is now trying to get more people excited as the reveal date draws closer. As reported by Seeking Alpha , AMD senior vice president Forrest Norrod had this to say during the Deutsche Bank 202