HDHomeRun teases simpler hardware and (maybe) a Roku app

From TechHive: SiliconDust’s HDHomeRun tuners have been great building blocks for over-the-air DVR, allowing users to watch and record free antenna channels at full broadcast quality. Setting things up, however, has always required extra hardware, such as a PC or a NAS box with ample storage space...

Windows 7 Has One Year to Live

From Tom's Hardware: Some people have clung to Windows 7 the way Leonardo DiCaprio should've held on to that door in Titanic. Call it a work-related necessity, devotion to a legacy operating system, or just plain stubbornness, but a fair number of Windows 7 users have simply refused to update to...

AMD Radeon VII Will Ship Without Double-Precision

From Tom's Hardware: One of the first things you may notice about the AMD Radeon VII is its resemblance to the existing Radeon Instinct MI50. The former is a gaming graphics card, while the latter is marketed towards data centers and enterprises. However, the two are both based on the Graphics Core...

Apple’s $1 Billion Baseband Deal

From EETimes: Qualcomm paid Apple $1 billion in a three-year deal in 2011 to win its cellular modem business. Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf noted the eye-popping figure in testimony late Friday in an antitrust case that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission brought against the company.

The figure was...

Huawei sacks employee arrested for allegedly spying for China

From CNET: A Huawei executive lost his job over the weekend after being arrested for allegedly spying on behalf of China.

The Chinese phone maker has dismissed its sales director for public-sector clients in Poland, identified as Wang Weijing, Reuters reported Saturday. Wang was arrested along with...

AMD Won’t Launch a Chiplet-Based APU on Ryzen Matisse

From ExtremeTech: When AMD announced the 3rd generation of Ryzen products (Matisse) at CES last week, it also showed a bare shot of the actual CPU package. The CPU layout shows that there’s clearly room for another chiplet on-package, just below the I/O die. (AMD has separately hinted that it has...

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