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AMD patents hybrid x86 technology: low-power cores set to return
AMD has been granted a patent for heterogeneous microprocessors featuring two types of general-purpose cores. The technology resembles Arm’s famous Big.Little architecture and could be used for CPUs aimed at mobile and low-power devices. The patent outlines a microprocessor featuring two types of general-purpose cores running two different subsets of the same instruction set architecture (ISA). The first type of cores is set to support…
What’s the difference between identity theft protection, credit monitoring and credit protection?
Keeping your ID secure will help you to avoid identity theft and fraud. But what is the best way to do this? Several banks, credit agencies, and other financial institutions offer protection and monitoring services. But what do they do? What is the difference between credit protection and ID theft protection, and should you also consider a credit tracker? Here, we look at protection and…
This processor can run any code you need, faster than Intel and Nvidia
A developer of microprocessors featuring a proprietary architecture says its Prodigy Universal Processors can outperform chips from Intel and Nvidia on HPC and AI workloads. Furthermore, they can run code designed for other architectures using dynamic binary translator without any performance degradation. Emulating x86, Arm, and PowerPC using general-purpose CPU hardware is something that chipmakers has done for years, but with substantial performance degradation that…
Nvidia Ampere: release date, specs and rumors
The Nvidia Ampere launched much in the same way Volta did a few years ago – built primarily for Data Center with no mention of GeForce. Nvidia has understandably been hard at work developing the A100 GPU, which should deliver a whopping 20x improvement in raw compute power. That’s because AI has become so important in the world, thanks in large part to the unprecedented…
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 release date, price and specs: all the RTX 3080 rumors
Rumors abound for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080. Many of these point to a fast approaching release for this tantalizing GPU and the rest of the RTX 3000 line. And, while a lot of the attention has been focused on the RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti, we’ve been seeing plenty of leaks for the other cards in the series too. When Nvidia unveiled Ampere…
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Mix of stress and air pollution may lead to cognitive difficulties...
Children with elevated exposure to early life stress in the home and elevated prenatal exposure to air pollution exhibited heightened symptoms of attention and thought problems, according to researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Psychiatry. Early life stress is common in youth from disadvantaged backgrounds who also often live in areas with greater exposure to air pollution. Air pollution has…
