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How to connect two or more external displays to an Apple Silicon M1 Mac
Apple’s range of MacBooks that use the company’s own Silicon M1 or M2 processors cannot natively connect more than one external monitor, which is a massive…
Now that the next-gen M2 is here, here’s what’s next for Apple silicon
When Apple released the M1 chip at the end of 2020, we were blown away by the speed improvements over its Intel predecessors. A year later Apple did it…
A strategy to attain amorphous silicon solar cells with over 25% efficiency
Mechanisms underlying the light-induced dark conductivity increase and boron doping…
Apple’s Silicon chips bring Macs into AAA gaming
Taylor Clemons/ZDNETUnfortunately, there were no mentions of frame rate caps, the ability to overclock your Apple Silicon M1 or M2 chip,…
WSJ News Exclusive | Silicon Battery Maker Amprius to Go Public in $1.3 Billion SPAC Merger
Amprius Technologies Inc. has reached a deal with a special-purpose acquisition company that values the maker of silicon-anode…
Alibaba Cloud is close to getting Android working on RISC-V silicon
Android could soon run on RISC-V chips thanks to advances made by Alibaba Cloud in porting the operating system to the emerging instruction-set…
Hitting the Books: When the military-industrial complex came to Silicon Valley
As with most every other aspect of modern society, computerization, augmentation and automation have hyper-accelerated the pace at which wars are prosecuted…
Apple could bring ultra-fast 2nm silicon to Macs and iPhones as early as 2025
Apple looks set to introduce 2nm chips in its flagship iPhone and Mac products as early as 2025, according to the grapevine, making it one of the first…
Mechanical engineering students aim to make silicon wafer inspections more efficient
The device uses two cameras to capture the wafer's edge. Credit: University of…