Apple Silicon

Apple announced the original iPhone 18 years ago today

From 4GB storage to 1024GB, the iPhone has had an incredible run that isn’t slowing down, and it all started on this day in 2007. Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the world for the first time 18 years ago today.

Apple also opened pre-orders for the original Apple TV after Jobs revealed what was originally called iTV in September 2006. See both keynotes and press releases below:

Watch the original keynote here:

And here’s


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The new Zenbook A14 MacBook Air lookalike beats the real thing in five ways

It says a lot about Apple’s design that the MacBook Air is seen as the ultimate standard targeted by PC laptop brands. Just matching the aesthetics and performance of the machine is seen as a tough goal, but ASUS may have gone one better with its new Zenbook A14.

The new machine not only succeeds in emulating the look of the MacBook Air, but exceeds its specs in no fewer than five different ways – including being even lighter …

Glance quickly at the machine and you could easily be forgiven for


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Apple Expands Its Production Footprint In The United States As TSMC Begins Manufacturing 4nm S9 Chips For The Apple Watch At Its Arizona Plant

TSMC has started production of another Apple chip in the United States, and this time around, it is for the company's wearables. The Cupertino giant is expanding its presence in the region, gradually adding more chips to its current production line with TSMC as its main supplier. According to the information, the company has begun producing the Apple Watch's S9 chip, which will be manufactured in TSMC's Arizona facility. TSMC will manufacture 4nm S9 chips for the Apple Watch at its Arizona plant

Apple Silicon|Intel

AMD does and doesn’t credit Apple for its powerful new Ryzan AI Max chips

You have to feel sorry for Intel at this point. Not only has Apple left its CPUs in the dust, but AMD’s new Ryzan AI Max chips claim to do the same to Intel’s flagship Core Ultra 9 288V.

The new chips take the same approach as Apple Silicon in combining CPU, GPU, and unified memory. AMD doesn’t credit Apple with the idea, but does admit the chip wouldn’t exist without the Cupertino company …

reports that the new chips are available


Apple Silicon|Intel

LLVM Clang Lands Targeting Support For The SiFive P550 RISC-V Performance Core

Upstreamed to LLVM/Clang overnight is now targeting support for the SiFive P550 RISC-V core with the "-mcpu=sifive-p550" option.

The P550 is one of SiFive's performance cores that features a thirteen-stage, triple-issue, out-of-order pipeline. SiFive talks up the P550 as offering 30% higher performance in less than half the area of a similar Arm Cortex-A75 core. The
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Apple Silicon|Intel

TSMC Arizona Reportedly Starts Production Of AMD’s Ryzen 9000 “Granite Ridge” CPUs; Facility Witnesses Tremendous Demand

TSMC's Arizona has started to gather massive orders from the industry, as a new report claims that AMD's newest Ryzen 9000 series CPUs are in production in the facility. TSMC's Arizona Facility Is Now Catering To NVIDIA, AMD & Apple For Their Chip Needs, Massively Upscaling Production Well, the Taiwan giant's first facility in the US is not just a big achievement for the nation, but it is a huge boost for US companies which had to outsource their semiconductor needs from Taiwan

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Corsair Reveals Several New PC Hardware At CES, New PSUs, Cases, RAM, & Accessories

Corsair releases new RMe and HXi PSU series, 5000T mid-tower cases, RAM, kits, external SSDs, and productivity LCD touchscreen. Corsair Announces a Plethora of PC Hardware at CES, Including XENEON EDGE LCD Touchscreen, Newer Power Supplies, Cases, RAM, SSDs, and More One of the leading PC hardware manufacturers, Corsair, has announced its latest lineups of PC hardware and accessories, bringing its cutting-edge technology to enthusiasts. The new hardware includes seven different product lineups, catering to

Apple Silicon|Intel

TSMC Arizona allegedly now producing AMD's Ryzen 9000 and Apple's S9 processors: Report

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TSMC's Fab 21 in Arizona is gradually ramping up production, and recently it began to manufacture some of AMD's Ryzen 9000-series processors for client PCs as well as some ingredients of Apple's S9 system-in-package (SiP) for smart watches, reports Tim Culpan , a well-connected journalist, citing his own sources.

If the information is accurate, then TSMC's Fab 21 in the U.S. is

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Plugable dock lets even an M1 MacBook Pro support five external monitors

Depending on the model, an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro officially supports between one and three external displays, but a software workaround lets you boost that number.

The new Plugable UD-7400PD dock takes advantage of that fact to provide a very neat way to allow even an M1 MacBook Pro to simultaneously drive up to five external monitors …

Apple Silicon Macs were a vast improvement on Intel machines in almost every respect, but one downgrade in the specs of the base model M1 MacBook Pro was that it


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Satechi’s New Mac mini Hub Fixes the Computer’s Frustrating Design Flaw

Apple's redesigned M4 Mac mini is great. It even won PetaPixel's award for Computer of the Year. But it can be better, and consumer electronics company Satechi hopes to help with a new Mac mini hub.

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