www.theregister.com

They cover mainstream topics, but they have a lot of in-depth enterprise tech news and they have their own voice and humour.

www.linuxgizmos.com www.cnx-software.com

Both these sites covers SBCs (not only Raspberry Pi), microcontrollers and random DIY stuff

www.osnews.com

Some mainstream coverage, but also a lot of random news about open source, niche and historical operating systems and computers

www.hackaday.com

DIY hardware news and projects

www.restofworld.org

Lots of tech news on non-western countries, mainstream topics are covered as well, but often with a different perspective.

www.semiengineering.com www.chipsandcheese.com

Very specialized sources on semiconductor developments. Very in-depth, many of the articles are difficult to understand even if you have solid (armchair) knowledge of semiconductors.

Self-promotion: I am a mod at [email protected], while coverage includes a lot of mainstream tech hardware topics, there is content on more nitty gritty semiconductor topics (a lot of business type news though), battery tech and unique hardware devices (some retro coverage too). The sidebar includes more specialized tech communities on Lemmy that might be of interest to you.

Intel’s decision to limit consumer CPUs to quad core in the 2010s really impacted core count growth.

Computing is definitely much more reliable and user friendly these days. Even building desktops is simpler.

One big difference is that it much more important to update BIOS/UEFI. I remember BIOS updates being much rarer back in the day.

That’s refering to the solid state battery tech that Samsung is considering for some smaller devices. To my knowledge, Chinese OEMs haven’t yet adopted this tech.

With silicon-carbon batteries, it seems design considerations play a bigger role, but that still doesn’t really explain why Apple and Samsung have been relatively slow with adopting this battery tech (relative to Chinese OEMs).

The email method still works? I thought that was being shut down as well?

I converted all my Kindle eBooks into ePub and basically gave up on the Kindle platform.

The architecture aims to balance processing power and energy efficiency, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO).

And where are the performance and efficiency benchmarks?

Silicon-carbon batteries have been widely accepted by the Korean giant’s Chinese competitors, giving them the freedom to cram in substantially larger capacities in devices without compromising the thickness.

I am surprised this is the first time I am hearing about this and that all smartphone companies haven’t already adopted this technology.

This is a purely theoretical arguement.

Ecosystem momentum makes this argument mute.

However, the semiconductor manufacturing equipment used by makers like TSMC is not exempt and is expected to be hit with the 32% tariffs. This is only half of what Taiwan imposes on imports of US-made goods.

The comments in the article suggests that the 64% tariff by Taiwan is not actually true and is a claim by the US administration.

I am surprised Ars didn’t mention that Amazon/Kindle recently shut down the ability to download eBooks (and by extension extract them into a format like ePub). This is a critical development when considering an e-ink device from Amazon.

The chip also gets a new Adreno 825 GPU, which Qualcomm is advertising to offer a 49% improvement on the graphics side compared to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3.

After the shenanigans with Sanpdragon X benchmarks (the original Geekbench results from Qualcomm were never replicated by any shipping devices, it wasn’t even close), there is reason to be sceptical of such claims.

I am willing to be the actual (i.e. on a real world device) gen on gen uplift will be much more modest.

Machine translation of Loongson’s announcement of the chips claims they achieved “single-core fixed-point score reaches 30 points based on the actual SPEC CPU2006 Base test at a main frequency of 2.5GHz.” It’s hard to know what to make of that as SPEC CPU 2006 is a benchmarking test that was retired in 2018.

There is no good reason for them to use a benchmark suite that was retired 7 years ago. Something is not right.

It features what MediaTek calls an “All Big Core” CPU cluster, comprising all Arm-designed cores. There’s a performance Cortex-X925 core clocked at up to 3.62 GHz, 3x Cortex-X4, and 4x Cortex-A720 cores.

This has got to impact battery life, but then again, they have a lot more headroom in a laptop compared to a smartphone.

Not even a chromebook. You can play local videos off a Chromebook (or access files) if you don’t have access to the internet.

TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, will take a 20% stake in the new company, the report said.

This sounds like a dead on arrival project. Why would TSMC put anything but the most token effort in this project when they have their own competitive world class business?

This seems like this JV was made exclusively for political reasons. JV in general have a mixed history in terms of performance. It’s often difficult to align the needs and priorities of two competing organizations.

I did not expect them to include RT.

I am curious what their CPU performance is like.

What the fuck is this shit?

I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s very easy to manipulate American oligarchs. However, they are relatively provincial and lack the capabilities to deal with truly complex challenges.

They operate in an environment with no real risk. They’ve never dealt with any real challenges. The US judicial system is a joke (even in China, Alibaba’s Jack Ma immediately regretted going on a public chimp out). US society is either openly supportive of corruption and criminality or lacks the capability (true desire and risk tolerance) to address corruption.

This is not to underestimate American oligarchs. They are extremely sophisticated and absolutely committed to their “number go up” fetish, but you also have to be real about what they are.

Let’s just hope they move fast and aren’t afraid to break things.

And yet many Europeans still reflexively refuse to take a sober attitude towards the nature of russian government and society.

This is a good thing in the long term IMO.

Americans can pay higher prices or try to manufacture things locally (good luck with that). The rest of world can focus on developing their own capabilities and targeting market with longer term growth opportunities and predictable political and trade environment.