The chaotic cores of Perseus protostars
The formation of a star has a simple tale. A region of interstellar gas collapses under its own weight, eventually forming a dense protostar surrounded by a disk of gas and dust. The protostar and the disk rotate in the same plane, and often jets of.....»»
9 past mistakes offer lessons for today’s hot new automakers
More than 2,000 American automakers have come and gone in this chaotic industry. The Lucid Air may look the same as the early electric prototype we saw in 2017, but a lot has changed.....»»
Physics Nobel goes to complexity, both general and climatic
An award for understanding complex systems, including the climate. Enlarge / The output of a modern climate model allows us to detect trends despite the chaotic nature of the underlying system. (credit: NOAA) Complex behavior.....»»
80 Arm cores and 768GB of RAM power Adlink"s tiny COM-HPC module
For years, a startup called Ampere Computing had been focused on developing custom Arm-based silicon for the data center, a space where x86 is still king. Two years ago, the company took a leap of faith and put one of its eMAG CPUs in a workstation c.....»»
Shocking Pixel 6 rumor lists Google SoC with two ARM X1 CPU cores
Google blazes its own trail for its first SoC design. Google's best image of the Pixel 6 Pro. [credit: Google ].....»»
Emulation aggregator RetroArch is now on Steam, and free
The version of RetroArch on Steam is mostly the same as the one available on the official website or through itch.io, except for the way users download cores -- which are what let RetroArch emulate different systems. Instead of using the "Core Downlo.....»»
Apple introduces iPhone 13 Pro models featuring an improved camera system, 120Hz displays and better battery life
Apple’s latest custom silicon features two high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores. There’s also a new 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations per second and a five-core GPU that’s up to 50 percent faster than th.....»»
Intel unveils new chip architectures; expands partnership with TSMC
At Intel's Architecture Day 2021, two new X86 cores, two new datacenter SoCs and two discrete GPUs were introduced. Intel also disclosed it is among the top customers of TSMC, which is already contracted to manufacture several of the new chips using.....»»
Intel leaks show next-gen desktop CPUs with hybrid “big.little” design
Leaked specs show performance and efficiency cores in 12th- and 13th-gen CPUs. Enlarge / It's a bit too early for photos of Alder Lake-S CPUs, much less Raptor Lake-S—so here's a gorgeous photo of an alder tree on the shore of Llyn Gwynant, in.....»»
How CPU Cores & Cache Impact Gaming Performance
At some point you may have heard someone say that for gaming you need X amount of cores. Examples include "6 is more than enough cores," or "you need a minimum of 8 cores for gaming," let's address that misconception......»»
AMD could be backtracking its stance on GPUs for cryptocurrency miners
Photos shared online show a striking new concept for AMD: Two GPU cores smashed together on a single card, built specifically for cryptocurrency mining......»»
All-Russian PCs featuring Arm SoC and Linux are now shipping
As reported by The Register, iRU's PCs come with ARM SoCs from Russian fabless semiconductor company Baikal. The Baikal-M chip isn't going to threaten Apple's similarly named M1 SoC. It features eight Arm Cortex-A57 cores running at up to 1.5GHz, an.....»»
Samsung Exynos W920 is the world"s first 5nm processor for wearables
The Samsung Exynos W920 is the industry's first 5nm processor for wearables, packing two Arm Cortex-A55 cores and an Arm Mali-G68 GPU to power the next generation of devices using qHD displays (960×540). Moreover, it will come with a built-in 4G LTE.....»»
Chaotic electrons heed "limit" in strange metals
Electrons in metals try to behave like obedient motorists, but they end up more like bumper cars. They may be reckless drivers, but a new Cornell-led study confirms this chaos has a limit established by the laws of quantum mechanics......»»
Some strange Intel Core 12900K, 12700K, and 12600K specs have appeared online
Some of the leaked specifications appear strange, but not in an unexpected way. Alder Lake CPUs have been confirmed by Intel to have Golden Cove and Gracemont cores inside, so each processor has two core counts and two clock speeds......»»
AMD"s Zen 4-based Ryzen 6000 CPUs will probably be limited to 16 cores
Hardware leaker ExecutableFix tweeted the news yesterday. If true, it contradicts previous rumors of AMD adding a third chiplet to Zen 4, which would have increased the core count to 24. But it seems we’ll have to make do with “just” sixteen. T.....»»
Solar radio signals could be used to monitor melting ice sheets
The sun provides a daunting source of electromagnetic disarray—chaotic, random energy emitted by the massive ball of gas arrives to Earth in a wide spectrum of radio frequencies. But in that randomness, Stanford researchers have discovered the maki.....»»
Injured baby elephant abandoned by rogue Chinese herd saved
A heavily injured baby elephant left behind by a migrating wild herd in southwest China has been rescued, state media reported Tuesday, the latest twist in a chaotic odyssey......»»
A pair of sparkling galaxies shine in this Hubble image
This week's beautiful image of space captured by Hubble shows two large galaxies, part of the Perseus cluster, against a background starfield......»»
The most ancient ice in the Alps will be preserved in Antarctica
The Ice Memory international mission on Monte Rosa has been accomplished. After working for five days at 4,500 meters in the accumulation zone of the Grenzgletscher, the glacier saddle of Colle Gnifetti, scientists extracted three shallow ice cores (.....»»
Astronomers probe layer-cake structure of brown dwarf"s atmosphere
Brown dwarfs are the cosmic equivalent of tweeners. They're too massive to be planets and too small to sustain nuclear fusion in their cores, which powers stars. Many brown dwarfs are nomadic. They do not orbit stars but drift among them as loners......»»