Sonnet Technologies has announced the Echo 13 Thunderbolt 5 SSD Dock. The headlining feature of this dock is that it can accommodate a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD and facilitate 6,100 MB/s data transfers. Sonnet claims it will be the first to ship a dock with this mix of performance and features (it boasts many other ports). The Echo 13 will be available “in limited quantities” starting this month.
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Apple has recently ramped up its US chip production in Arizona, but TSMC’s CEO says you shouldn’t expect the latest and greatest chips to be US-made any time soon. Here’s why.
Apple chipmaker TSMC is currently building its third US-based chip plant in Arizona, thanks to significant grants from the US CHIPS Act.
However, the company’s CEO says you shouldn’t expect to see cutting-edge tech be produced in the US.
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The Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) just released version 0.7 of the PCIe 7.0 specifications for the approval of its members. With the goal of releasing the final specifications in 2025.
The PCI-SIG is the group that sets the standards for the interface that connects the motherboard to other components like the best GPUs , so it must ensure that these interconnects can keep up with hardware advancements and not serve as bottlenecks to future developments.
Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium (UALink) on Tuesday said that Alibaba Cloud, Apple, and Synopsys have been elected to its board of directors, which allows the companies to influence development of UALink , a technology designed to enable connectivity of AI and HPC accelerators and meant to compete against Nvidia's NVLink. The announcement outlines Apple's interest in datacenter connectivity for AI and may indicate that the company is working on a datacenter product for AI acceleration.
The UALink specification version 1.0 due
TSMC on Thursday officially confirmed that its Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, had begun high volume production of chips after months of rumors and a confirmation from the U.S. Commerce Secretary earlier in January . The company emphasized that it is producing chips on one of its N4 process technology (4nm-class) and yields in Arizona are comparable to those in Taiwan. However, chips fabbed in the U.S. are more expensive than
Parallels released Parallels Desktop 20.2.0, which lets you use x86 emulation on Apple Silicon Macs. The Parallels Desktop Blog says you can run x86_64 virtual machines on these devices. This allows you to install x86 versions of Windows 10, Windows 11 , Windows Server 2019/2022, and some Linux distributions with UEFI BIOS on your Apple Silicon Mac laptop or desktop. You