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This All-Aluminum iPhone 5 Looks Pretty Freaking Cool to Me

Gizmodo reader Codi Bonney had a cool idea to stop the paint of his iPhone 5 to chip off: take the whole thing off. “I’m still working on sanding it, this is what I’ve got so far,” he said in his email. It looks pretty neat. I think he should have done the sides only,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Oct 10

A Water-Cooled Chip That Concentrates the Sun to Desalinate Water

Anyone who’s dropped a cellphone in the bath knows that water and microelectronics don’t usually mix well. But at IBM’s Swiss lab in Zurich, marrying the two is becoming almost commonplace: microprocessors with water coursing through microchannels carved deep inside them are already crunching data in SuperMUC, an IBM supercomputer – with the heat that…

Tech News Paul Marks - New Scientist Sep 25

3D NAND Chips Are Going to Make High-Capacity SSDs a Reality

SSDs are wonderful things that massively speed up your computer and they’re getting cheaper too. But currently they don’t offer the capacity that some users demand. Fortunately, that could all be about to change. https://gizmodo.com/ssds-cost-half-as-much-as-they-did-in-2011-so-its-time-5920453 Extreme Tech reports that a company called Applied Materials has announced that a new etching system will allow it to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 28

Google’s Artificial Brain Loves to Watch Cat Videos

Hidden away within Google’s X laboratory, where all kinds of secret projects are underway, its engineers have been working on creating an artificial brain. With 16,000 computer processors and freedom to learn whatever it chooses from the internet, though, it turns out that the brain does just what you do online: watch cat videos. The…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 26

Are Multi-Core Processors a Waste of Time for Android?

Many Android handsets feature incredible processing power these days, with multiple cores and high clock speeds seeming to offer incredibly smooth performance. According to Mike Bell, from Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, though, the specs might not be as impressive as they first appear. Speaking with The Inquirer, Bell explains that Android software just isn’t…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 11

This Imperfect Processor Is 15 Times More Efficient Than Yours

While it might sound like a dumb idea, designing a computer processor that can make mistakes could be a good thing—especially where energy use is a concern. Researchers from Rice University and Berkeley, along with collaborators in Europe and Singapore, have developed a new type of processor that is allowed to make occasional errors. That…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 18

This Chip Will Power the New Samsung Galaxy S III

While the new Galaxy S III is due to officially launch on May 3rd, Samsung has just announced what’s set to be powering it, and things sound promising. Based on the ARM Cortex A9, Samsung’s new chip—which is called Exynos 4 Quad—will feature four cores all running at 1.4 GHz. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-to-unveil-galaxy-s-iii-on-may-3rd-5902249 It replaces, and will…

Gadgets Jamie Condliffe Apr 26

Qualcomm Warns of International Snapdragon Chip Shortage

Chip maker Qualcomm has announced that it can’t meet demand for some of its mobile phone processors—which means that Android- and Windows-based phone manufacturers will have to seek an alternative in the coming months. Specifically, it turns out that Qualcomm has underestimated how widely used its S4 Snapdragon chips would be, which means that the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 20

IBM’s Holey Optochip Pumps 1 Trillion Bits per Second

IBM Researchers have built an optical chip that can transfer more data per second than pretty much anything else on the planet. They call this transceiver the Holey Optochip – holey because they’ve taken a chip wafer and fired 48 holes in it so that laser light can be blasted in and out of the…

Tech News Robert McMillan-wired Mar 8

HP’s Laser-Powered Chip of the Future

By 2017, HP hopes to build a computer chip that includes 256 microprocessors tied together with beams of light. Codenamed Corona, this laser-powered contraption would handle ten trillion floating points operations a second. In other words, if you put just five of them together, you’d approach the speed of today’s supercomputers. The chip’s 256 cores…

Tech News Eric Smalley-wired Mar 6

Intel’s CPU Insurance Is an Overclocker’s Wet Dream

Overclocking processors used to be extremely nerdy, but if anything it’s becoming more common these days. For those intent on squeezing performance from their chip, Intel’s new CPU insurance means getting it wrong needn’t be that expensive. Overclocking a CPU does bring performance increases, but it also brings extra heat which can damage the chip…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 19

IBM’s Processors Will Think Like Brains

It’s been just over 30 years since IBM released its first PC and shook the whole world up. Hoping to do some more world-shaking, they’ve built two chips that function more similarly to our brains than normal chips do. https://gizmodo.com/30-years-ago-today-ibm-released-its-first-pc-before-mo-5830345 Yes people, this could be the day we all look back upon with sheer horror,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 18

Will the iPhone 5 Have an A5 Chip and 8MP Camera?

Throwing their weight behind yesterday’s tantalising news that the iPhone 5 will feature a completely redesigned look, Bloomberg has reported alleged specs of the iPhone 5, plus spoken of a higher-res iPad 3 and affordable iPhone for developing countries. https://gizmodo.com/next-iphone-getting-a-totally-new-case-design-this-augu-5814006 This is all according to that old chestnut of “people familiar with the plans,” but…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 22

Chips That Make Your Cellphone Battery Last Longer

A start-up by the name of SuVolta has done what other manufacturers seemingly can’t, and created processors that consume less power than before. License the technology to bigger companies, Fujitsu is already signed on as their first customer. It’s not just the design of the chips which has enabled SuVolta to make them more energy-efficient.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 6

Qualcomm’s Dual and Quad-Core Snapdragon Processors Designed For Windows 8

Microsoft’z zippy touch-suitable Windows 8 will be compatible with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors, including the MSM8960 chip, the company confirmed. Expect the other old favorites to throw their hats in the ring shortly, too. [PRNewswire] https://kotaku.com/windows-8-and-its-incredibly-cool-new-touch-interface-5807615 TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced today that its upcoming award-winning Snapdragon™ family of…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 2

CPUs Actually Age

You know when your body is crying out for sleep, or a square of food or even some warmth—but what about your transistors and chips which don’t have a voice? IEEE Spectrum has a fascinating little tale up about component ageing, and how manufacturers play it too safe by clocking the speed of them far…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 28

NFL Considers Ball-Tracking Chips for Accuracy

The NFL wants to insert a tracking chip into footballs so that it can give players fair and accurate spots. The new system could cut down on human error and solve many potential arguments during a game From end zone to end zone, an NFL field is exactly 3,600 inches, and it’s easy enough for…

Tech News Erik Malinowski - Wired Aug 14

Intel’s Atom Z6 Moorestown Mobile Chips Will Run Android and MeeGo

Intel’s new Z6XX chips under the Moorestown banner will be used in devices running Android or MeeGo, Intel and Nokia’s new OS that’s sprung from Moblin and Maemo’s loins. https://gizmodo.com/intel-gives-umpcs-24-hour-battery-life-with-moorestown-257922 Other OSes will likely be seen sporting Z6XX chips, but for now Intel’s only talking about the two more recent platforms. We can expect to…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 5

Color-Compensation Chip Will Make Cellphone Displays Viewable Outdoors

LCD displays aren’t exactly made for the outdoors. You have to squint, tilt the screen, and adjust the brightness to decipher anything in bright sunlight. But with NEC’s new color-compensation chip that will hopefully be an issue of the past. Apparently the chip identifies colors which are “problematic” in outdoor light conditions (such as beige…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Feb 17

NVIDIA Confirms Tegra 2 Will Be In Tablets In 2010

It was a badly kept secret, but NVIDIA has just confirmed they’re working on a Tegra 2 chip, which will be out “in the marketplace in 2010,” according to the general manager of NVIDIA. https://gizmodo.com/tegra-2-coming-in-january-nvidia-promises-netbooks-sm-5428016 It’ll primarily be used in tablets, with “screen sizes between five and ten inches, all touch capable…most of them are…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 7

This All-Aluminum iPhone 5 Looks Pretty Freaking Cool to Me

A Water-Cooled Chip That Concentrates the Sun to Desalinate Water

3D NAND Chips Are Going to Make High-Capacity SSDs a Reality

Google’s Artificial Brain Loves to Watch Cat Videos

Are Multi-Core Processors a Waste of Time for Android?

This Imperfect Processor Is 15 Times More Efficient Than Yours

This Chip Will Power the New Samsung Galaxy S III

Qualcomm Warns of International Snapdragon Chip Shortage

IBM’s Holey Optochip Pumps 1 Trillion Bits per Second

HP’s Laser-Powered Chip of the Future

Intel’s CPU Insurance Is an Overclocker’s Wet Dream

IBM’s Processors Will Think Like Brains

Will the iPhone 5 Have an A5 Chip and 8MP Camera?

Chips That Make Your Cellphone Battery Last Longer

Qualcomm’s Dual and Quad-Core Snapdragon Processors Designed For Windows 8

CPUs Actually Age

NFL Considers Ball-Tracking Chips for Accuracy

Intel’s Atom Z6 Moorestown Mobile Chips Will Run Android and MeeGo

Color-Compensation Chip Will Make Cellphone Displays Viewable Outdoors

NVIDIA Confirms Tegra 2 Will Be In Tablets In 2010

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