CPUs
The next few weeks in the PC industry are going to come fast and furious. Between today and mid-June are multiple conferences and trade-shows, including Microsoft Build and the king of PC trade shows: Computex Taiwan. With all three PC CPU vendors set to present, there’s a lot going on, and a lot of product announcements to be had. But even before those trade shows start, Intel is looking to make the first move this afternoon with an early preview on its next-gen mobile processor, Lunar Lake. While Intel hasn’t said too much about what to expect from their Computex 2024 keynote thus far, it’s clear that Intel’s next-gen CPUs – Lunar Lake for mobile, and Arrow Lake for Mobile/Desktop – are going to be...
AMD Releases EPYC 8004 "Siena" CPUs: Zen 4c For Edge-Optimized Server Chips
AMD this morning is releasing the fourth and final member of its 4th generation EPYC processor family, the EPYC 8004 series. Previously disclosed under the codename Siena, the EPYC...
5 by Ryan Smith on 9/18/2023
Arm's Clients and Partners Signal Interest to Invest $735 Million Ahead of IPO
According to fresh SEC filings from Arm, the chip IP designer has secured a slew of industry investors ahead of the company's impending IPO. Aiming for a strong start...
5 by Anton Shilov on 9/6/2023
Hot Chips 2023: Intel Details More on Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest Xeons
With the annual Hot Chips conference taking place this week, many of the industry’s biggest chip design firms are at the show, talking about their latest and/or upcoming wares...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/28/2023
Synopsys Surpasses $500M/Year in AI Chip Revenue, Expects Further Rapid Growth
Demand for generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications is so high that NVIDIA's high-performance compute GPUs like A100 and H100 are reportedly sold out for quarters to come. Dozens of...
5 by Anton Shilov on 8/22/2023
Arm to Be Public Once More, Files for IPO on Nasdaq
The ongoing saga of ownership of Arm appears to be finally nearing its end, as Arm has announced this afternoon that the company has made its long-awaited filing for...
16 by Ryan Smith on 8/21/2023
Intel Cuts Some R&D Positions in California to Reduce Costs
As Intel continues to refocus on its core competencies, the company has been no stranger to shedding business units and jobs in the process. And while the roughly 132,000...
12 by Anton Shilov on 8/18/2023
PCI-SIG Forms Optical Workgroup - Lighting The Way To PCIe's Future
The PCI-Express interconnect standard may be going through some major changes in the coming years, based on a new announcement from the group responsible for the standard. The PCI-SIG...
16 by Ryan Smith on 8/2/2023
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 7945HX3D: Ryzen Mobile Gets 3D V-Cache
For this year's ChinaJoy expo, AMD is taking to the show to announce a new and very special mobile CPU for high-end, desktop replacement-class laptops: the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D...
51 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/27/2023
Intel Unveils AVX10 and APX Instruction Sets: Unifying AVX-512 For Hybrid Architectures
Intel has announced two new x86-64 instruction sets designed to bolster and offer more performance in AVX-based workloads with their hybrid architecture of performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/25/2023
AMD Launches Ryzen 5 7500F in China: Zen 4 With no Integrated Graphics
Over the weekend, AMD officially listed the Ryzen 5 7500F processor on their website. Although initial reports pointed towards a China-only release, and at present, that much is true...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/24/2023
AMD Quietly Introduces Ryzen 3 5100 Quad-Core Processor For AM4
Further to AMD's latest Micro Center exclusive processor, the Ryzen 5 5600X3D with 3D V-Cache, AMD has seemingly introduced a budget-focused quad-core processor based on their Zen 3 architecture...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/12/2023
AMD To Release Limited Run Ryzen 5 5600X3D for $230, Micro Center Exclusive
With AMD now several months post release of their current AM5 platform, I figured that the sun was setting on AMD’s previous-generation AM4 platform. But, it would seem, AM4...
39 by Ryan Smith on 7/1/2023
Noctua's New Cooler Mounting to Lower Temps of AMD's AM5 CPUs
AMD's latest Ryzen 7000-series CPUs in AM5 packaging are well known for their high operating temperatures. Higher-performance coolers like all-in-one liquid cooling systems have typically solved the problem. Noctua...
19 by Anton Shilov on 6/20/2023
Intel To Launch New Core Processor Branding for Meteor Lake: Drop the i, Add Ultra Tier
As first reported on back in late April, Intel is embarking on a journey to redefine its client processor branding, the biggest such shift in the previous 15 years...
45 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/15/2023
Intel Prevails in Ongoing Legal Fight Against VLSI With Appeal Board Victory
In the ongoing legal battle between Intel and VLSI that started years ago and with billions at stake, Intel seems to be prevailing. The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal...
8 by Anton Shilov on 6/15/2023
AMD Expands AI/HPC Product Lineup With Flagship GPU-only Instinct MI300X with 192GB Memory
Alongside their EPYC server CPU updates, as part of today’s AMD Data Center event, the company is also offering an update on the status of their nearly-finished AMD Instinct...
28 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023
AMD: EPYC "Genoa-X" CPUs With 1.1GB of L3 Cache Now Available
Alongside today’s EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” announcement, AMD’s other big CPU announcement of the morning is that their large cache capacity “Genoa-X” EPYC processors are shipping now. First revealed...
7 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023
PCI Express 7.0 Spec Hits Draft 0.3, 512GBps Connectivity on Track For 2025 Release
In what’s quickly becoming a very busy week for data center and high-performance computing news, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is hosting its annual developers conference over in...
5 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023
AMD Intros EPYC 97x4 “Bergamo” CPUs: 128 Zen 4c CPU Cores For Servers, Shipping Now
Kicking off a busy day of product announcements and updates for AMD’s data center business group, this morning AMD is finally announcing their long-awaited high density “Bergamo” server CPUs...
14 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023
AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere Live Blog (Starts at 10am PT/17:00 UTC)
AMD this morning is hosting their first data center and server-focused event in quite some time. Dubbed the "AMD Data Center and AI Technology Premiere," we're expecting a sizable...
0 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 6/13/2023
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