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".
Google displacing Intel with its own chips
DIY
Google has designed its own Argos video transcoding units (VCU), that have one solitary purpose: processing video and will use them to replace tens of millions of Chipzilla CPUs with its silicon.
MSI announces MPG Gaming Maverik bundle
Motherboard, CPU, memory, cooling, and a case
During its presentation at the online version of the Computex 2021 show, MSI unveiled a rather neat bundle, the MSI MPG Gaming Maverik, featuring its own motherboard, cooler, and case, as well as Intel 11th gen CPU and a 32GB DDR4 memory kit from G.Skill.
AMD announces Ryzen 5000G APUs for desktop
7nm Zen 3 with Vega 8 IGP
Although previously available to OEMs, AMD has now announced its two Ryzen 5000G SKUs for the retail/e-tail market, the Ryzen 7 5700G and the Ryzen 5 5600G, offering impressive performance with Zen 3 CPU architecture and Vega graphics at $359 and $259.