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The price of Bitcoin has surged in recent days, sending the cryptocurrency value soaring. With a high value of $53,750 per coin as traded on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange, the combined value of all existing coins is now $1 trillion dollars. This means that Bitcoin’s market capitalization rivals some of the top and most well-known technology companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is valued at $1.42 trillion, for comparison, putting Bitcoin within striking distance of it if the cryptocurrency’s price continues to rise, while Amazon’s current market capitalization is $1.67 trillion and Microsoft’s value sits at $1.82 trillion. At $1 trillion, Bitcoin’s market value when counting all the coins in circulation, is double what the currency’s value was at the start of 2021. At the beginning of the year, Bitcoin was at $500 million. So in a little more than two months time, Bitcoin’s combined earn market value is nearly the … [Read more...] about Passing the $1 trillion mark, Bitcoin is almost as big as Google

Intel and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week announced a three-year partnership to develop custom chips for defense systems. Under the terms of the deal, Intel will help DARPA convert currently used field-programmable gate arrays ( FPGAs ) into so-called structured ASICs (or eASICs), build new structured ASICs for DARPA's needs, develop custom multi-chiplet platforms for DARPA and manufacture those new custom chips at its Fab 42 using its 10nm technology. "We are combining our most advanced Intel eASIC structured ASIC technology with state-of-the-art data interface chiplets and enhanced security protection, and it’s all being made within the U.S. from beginning to end," José Roberto Alvarez, senior director, CTO Office, Intel Programmable Solutions Group, said in a statement. "This will enable defense and commercial electronics systems developers to rapidly develop and deploy custom chips based on Intel’s advanced 10nm semiconductor process." … [Read more...] about Intel to Make Custom Structured ASICs for US DoD’s DARPA

It wasn’t long ago that PC gamers were generally skeptical of laptops marketed as gaming machines. Times have changed, however, with mobile computer hardware coming a long, long way over the past few years. The result is that today’s best gaming laptops are both highly capable and surprisingly affordable. That’s music to the ears of any gamer, casual or serious, who’s shopping for a portable gaming computer on a budget. If you count yourself among that crowd, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got all the best cheap gaming laptop deals of the week right here: Today’s best cheap gaming laptop deals Expires soon Gateway Creator Series Laptop (Ryzen 5 CPU, GTX 1650 GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) $599 $899 This laptop is a great option for a gaming upgrade. With its spacious 15-inch display, GRX 1650 graphics, and Ryzen 5 processor, it will be able to handle all but the most demanding of tasks. Buy at Walmart Expires soon Dell G5 15 … [Read more...] about Best cheap gaming laptop deals for March 2021

We found a strong selection of cheap robot vacuum deals this month. Time-saving robot vacuums do a great job with routine floor cleaning. Robotic vacuum cleaners proved their life-changing value during the last several years, and now they are more valuable than ever before. Robot vacs keep floors clean and give family members time to spend with each other or on favorite activities. We found several Roomba deals as well as other robot vacuum deals on brands like Ecovacs, Eufy, and Shark You can find them all below. Today’s best robot vacuum deals Shark ION™ Robot Vacuum with Wi-Fi — $149 , was $299 eufy RoboVac 11S, Black — $150 , was $230 eufy RoboVac 15C MAX — $176 , was $280 Eufy by Anker, RoboVac L70 Hybrid, Robot Vacuum — $320 , was $550 Roborock S6 Pure Robot Vacuum and Mop — $520 , was $600 Roborock S6 Robot Vacuum, Black — $600 , was $650 Ecovacs Deebot T8 AIVI Robot Vacuum Cleaner, Black — $750 , was $800 … [Read more...] about Best cheap robot vacuum deals for March 2021: Roomba, Eufy, Deebot

On Monday executives at SK Hynix gave a keynote speech to the IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) where they shared their vision about the company's mid-term and long-term technological goals. SK Hynix believes it can continue increasing capacity of its 3D NAND chips by increasing the number of layers to over 600. Furthermore, the company is confident that it can scale DRAM technologies below 10nm with the help of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. Ultimately, SK Hynix wants to converge memory and logic into one device to address emerging workloads. "We are improving materials and design structures for technical evolution in each field of DRAM and NAND, and solving the reliability problems step by step," said Seok-Hee Lee, CEO of SK Hynix. "If the platform is innovated successfully based on this, it is possible to achieve the DRAM process below 10nm and stack over 600 layers of NAND in the future." The Future of 3D NAND: 600-Layers and Counting 3D NAND … [Read more...] about SK Hynix Envisions 600-Layer 3D NAND & EUV-Based DRAM