Intel Vision 2024 Offers New Look at Gaudi 3 AI Chip
Two variants of Xeon 6 processors are coming later this year, Intel announced at the Intel Vision 2024 conference. Continue reading Intel Vision 2024 Offers New Look at Gaudi 3 AI Chip
Category Archives: System on Chip
Qualcomm Claims Snapdragon X Elite Platform for Windows PCs Will Rival Apple Chips
Generative AI workloads will be able to run on-chip in the Snapdragon X Elite. Qualcomm claims the Snapdragon X Elite exceeds Apple’s M2 Max chip’s power and energy use. Continue reading Qualcomm Claims Snapdragon X Elite Platform for Windows PCs Will Rival Apple Chips
G4 iMac Gets an M1 Heart Transplant
The second-generation iMac was a big departure from the original brightly-colored release. The chunky CRT aesthetic was dead, replaced with a sleek design featuring a slim LCD monitor on a …read more Continue reading G4 iMac Gets an M1 Heart Transplant
Another Homebrew Linux Board Success Story
It’s truly incredible what the hobbyist is now capable of. While it would have seemed all but impossible a few years ago, we’re happy to report that yet another dedicated …read more Continue reading Another Homebrew Linux Board Success Story
Hardware security: Emerging attacks and protection mechanisms
Maggie Jauregui’s introduction to hardware security is a fun story: she figured out how to spark, smoke, and permanently disable GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter – the two button protections on plugs/sockets that prevent you from electrocut… Continue reading Hardware security: Emerging attacks and protection mechanisms
Your Smart Christmas Lights Are Safer Than They Were Last Year
Manufacturers of the Twinkly IoT-connected lights slightly boosted security by switching out the Wi-Fi module, according to Pen Test Partners. Continue reading Your Smart Christmas Lights Are Safer Than They Were Last Year
Teardown: 168-in-1 Retro Handheld Game
The holidays are upon us, and that can mean many furrowed brows trying to figure out what token gift they can give out this year as stocking-stuffers. Something that’s a bit more interesting than a coupon book or a lotto scratcher, but also affordable enough that you can buy a …read more
Bike Computer Exploration Uncovers a Hidden Android
As a happy side-effect of the smartphone revolution, the world is now awash with tiny computers that are incredibly cheap thanks to the nearly unfathomable volumes in which their components are manufactured. They’re wouldn’t be a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero if the billions of smartphones that were pumped out before …read more
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Bug in widespread Wi-Fi chipset firmware can lead to zero-click code execution
A vulnerability in the firmware of a Wi-Fi chipset that is widely used in laptops, streaming, gaming and a variety of “smart” devices can be exploited to compromise them without user interaction. The research and the discovered flaws The di… Continue reading Bug in widespread Wi-Fi chipset firmware can lead to zero-click code execution
RISC-V CPU Gets A Peripheral
One of the ways people use FPGAs is to have part of the FPGA fabric hold a CPU. That makes sense because CPUs are good at some jobs that are hard to do with an FPGA, and vice versa. Now that the RISC-V architecture is available it makes sense that it can be used as an FPGA-based CPU. [Clifford Wolf] created PicoSOC — a RISC-V CPU made to work as a SOC or System on Chip with a Lattice 8K evaluation board. [Mattvenn] ported that over to a TinyFPGA board that also contains a Lattice FPGA and shows an example …read more