If history is any guide, your next notebook’s new processor launched today, as Intel unveiled a fresh lineup of 12th-gen Core CPUs for laptops—specifically the chips codenamed Alder Lake-P for mainstream notebooks, and Alder Lake-U for ultraportable PCs and tablets. Intel ships about 80 percent of all notebook PC processors each year, meaning that you’ll…
Gordon Mah Ung If you’re planning on using a newer Intel processor in your next media center PC build, a combination of security precautions and digital rights management might just have you singing the Blu-ray blues. Intel is dropping support for the software guard extension feature in 11th- and 12th-gen Core processors, which breaks DRM…
Alex Walker-Todd/IDG Did you know that Samsung makes its own processors? You’d be forgiven for glossing over that — the flagship Galaxy S series of phones technically uses Samsung’s home-grown Exynos system-on-a-chip, but almost never in the United States, where Samsung uses Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. But you might want to track down an all-Samsung machine…
Microsoft’s newest in-house studio The Initiative still has yet to announce or even tease its first game, but it’s already building up hype by building a talented and well-regarded team. Studio head Darrell Gallagher just announced a slew of new hires on LinkedIn, joining a team that already has some very big names on it.The…