AMD Mendocino mobile chips will bring RDNA 2 graphics and Zen 2 to budget laptops

AMD plans to bring better graphics to budget laptops later this year with the launch of a new line of “Mendocino” processors that combine the company’s latest RDNA 2 integrated graphics technology with CPU cores based on AMD’s …

AMD plans to bring better graphics to budget laptops later this year with the launch of a new line of “Mendocino” processors that combine the company’s latest RDNA 2 integrated graphics technology with CPU cores based on AMD’s Zen 2 architecture, which is a few years old at this point. The upshot is that by […]

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AMD Ryzen 7000 desktop chips will bring 15% performance boost, Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics

AMD expects to begin shipping Ryzen 7000 processors for desktop computers this fall, but after a brief teaser in January, now the company is giving us a better idea of what to expect: faster performance, better integrated graphics, and baked-in suppor…

AMD expects to begin shipping Ryzen 7000 processors for desktop computers this fall, but after a brief teaser in January, now the company is giving us a better idea of what to expect: faster performance, better integrated graphics, and baked-in support for DDR5 memory and PCIe 5.0. You’ll need a new motherboard to use the […]

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Konkurrenz zu Spotify und Apple Music: Amazon Music Unlimited wird für Prime-Abonnenten teurer

Der Rabatt für Amazon Music Unlimited verringert sich für Prime-Abonnenten erheblich. Außerdem steigt der Preis für das Amazon-Music-Abo für ein Echo-Gerät. (Amazon Music, Amazon)

Der Rabatt für Amazon Music Unlimited verringert sich für Prime-Abonnenten erheblich. Außerdem steigt der Preis für das Amazon-Music-Abo für ein Echo-Gerät. (Amazon Music, Amazon)

AI-Report: Israels Besatzungspolitik wird immer gewaltsamer

Gewalt israelische Sicherheitskräfte laut AI auf Höchststand. Gleichzeitig wird der Bau tausender illegaler Wohneinheiten im Westjordanland genehmigt

Gewalt israelische Sicherheitskräfte laut AI auf Höchststand. Gleichzeitig wird der Bau tausender illegaler Wohneinheiten im Westjordanland genehmigt

Google’s past failures were on full display at I/O 2022

All your favorite dead products from the past are back.

This was not a real slide from Google I/O 2022, but it could have been.

Enlarge / This was not a real slide from Google I/O 2022, but it could have been. (credit: Google / Ron Amadeo)

Google held its I/O conference earlier this month, and for longtime Google watchers, the event felt like a seance. Google CEO Sundar Pichai stepped on stage for his keynote address and channeled the spirits of long-dead Google products. "I'm hearing... something about an Android tablet? And a smartwatch?" he seemed to say.

By my count, "resurrecting the past" accounted for around half of the company's major announcements. In all of these cases, Google would be in a much stronger position if it had committed to a long-term plan and continuously iterated on that plan.

Unfortunately, the company doesn't have that kind of top-down direction. Instead, for most of the resurrected products, Google is trying to catch up to competitors after years of standing still. There's a question we have to ask for every announcement: "Will things be different this time?"

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