Google comes up with a new way of chip floorplanning
Fung Sui for chips
Google boffins have come up with a new way of designing the physical layout of a computer chip.
A hell of a deal at $99.99
Razer's high-end Basilisk Ultimate HyperSpeed Wireless Gaming Mouse has been heavily discounted over at Amazon.com, selling now for $99.99, down from $169.99.
Tight latencies and up to 128GB
G.Skill has announced its newest high-speed, low-latency memory kits that will be available as part of its well-known Trident Z Royal Elite series.
Apple is the loser from increased PC shipments.
When people have to buy a PC they will do so
There is some bad news for Apple in the latest Canalys figures - it is starting to look like when people want to buy a proper PC or laptop they will look elsewhere.
CPU cores suffer higher hardware errors
Cores don't count. Things are getting worse, not better
A recent presentation by Google engineer Peter Hochschild has revealed that chip design is going downhill and there are higher-than-expected hardware errors that "showed themselves sporadically, long after installation, and on specific, individual CPU cores rather than entire chips or a family of parts".