CPUs
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
New #1 Supercomputer: Fugaku in Japan, with A64FX, take Arm to the Top with 415 PetaFLOPs
High performance computing is now at a point in its existence where to be the number one, you need very powerful, very efficient hardware, lots of it, and lots...
46 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
Intel to use Nanowire/Nanoribbon Transistors in Volume ‘in Five Years’
This year, at the international VLSI conference, Intel’s CTO Mike Mayberry gave one of the plenary presentations, which this year was titled ‘The Future of Compute’. Within the presentation...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020
Intel Launches Cooper Lake: 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable for 4P/8P Servers
We’ve known about Intel’s Cooper Lake platform for a number of quarters. What was initially planned, as far as we understand, as a custom silicon variant of Cascade Lake...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/18/2020
AMD To Launch New Ryzen 3000 XT CPUs: Zen 2 with More MHz
One of the more frequent rumors in recent weeks has been that AMD would have some new Ryzen 3000 processors to launch. Today AMD is announcing three new processors...
80 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/16/2020
Jim Keller Resigns from Intel, Effective Immediately
Intel has just published a news release on its website stating that Jim Keller has resigned from the company, effective immediately, due to personal reasons. Jim Keller was hired by...
127 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/11/2020
Intel Discloses Lakefield CPUs Specifications: 64 Execution Units, up to 3.0 GHz, 7 W
Over the past 12 months, Intel has slowly started to disclose information about its first hybrid x86 platform, Lakefield. This new processor combines one ‘big’ CPU core with four...
79 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/10/2020
Electromigration: Why AMD Ryzen Current Boosting Won't Kill Your CPU
Electromigration is an issue that affects all electronics - the act of electrons bumping into silicon or copper atoms and moving them out of the crystal lattice raises the...
143 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/9/2020
Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine Scores a Sale: $5m Buys Two for the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
One of the highlights of Hot Chips 2019 was the presentation of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine - an AI processor chip that was as big as a wafer...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/9/2020
Intel Kaby Lake-G GPU Driver Updates Left In Limbo, Currently Unsupported
While the retail shelf life of Intel’s unusual Kaby Lake-G processor has pretty much passed at this point, it looks like it has become the gift that keeps on...
47 by Ryan Smith on 6/8/2020
AMD Confirms That SmartShift Tech Only Shipping in One Laptop For 2020
Launched earlier this year, AMD’s Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” APUs brought several new features and technologies to the table for AMD. Along with numerous changes to improve the APU’s power...
55 by Ryan Smith on 6/5/2020
ISCA 2020: Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture
ISCA, the International Symposium for Computer Architecture is an IEEE conference that usually we don’t tend to hear from all that often in the public. The main reason for...
52 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/3/2020
Microchip’s New PCIe 4.0 PCIe Switches: 100 lanes, 174 GBps
There are multiple reasons to need a PCIe switch. These can include expanding PCIe connectivity to more devices than the CPU is capable, to extend a PCIe fabric across...
36 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/1/2020
ASML’s First Multi-Beam Inspection Tool for 5nm
ASML has announced it has made a significant development in its multi-beam inspectional tool line. The new eScan1000 moves a single beam scanning process into a nine-beam scanning process...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/1/2020
Russia’s Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-core VLIW on TSMC 28nm
All of the world’s major superpowers have a vested interest in building their own custom silicon processors. The vital ingredient to this allows the superpower to wean itself off...
93 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/1/2020
Intel to Discontinue Core i9-9900K Special Dodecahedron Packaging
One of the interesting elements of this profession is dealing with how the processor companies have changed their attitudes towards marketing their products over the past couple of decades...
41 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/30/2020
Samsung Unveils Intel-based Galaxy Book S: Intel’s Lakefield Inbound
Samsung this morning is taking the wraps off of the long-awaited Intel (x86) version of the company’s popular ultraportable, always-connected laptop, the Galaxy Book S. First teased by Samsung...
50 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2020
Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence
2019 was a great year for Arm. On the mobile side of things one could say it was business as usual, as the company continued to see successes with...
192 by Andrei Frumusanu on 5/26/2020
The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Review: Skylake We Go Again
The first thing that comes to mind with Intel’s newest line of 10th Generation desktop processors is one of ‘14nm Skylake, again?’. It is hard not to ignore the...
220 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/20/2020
AMD to Support Zen 3 and Ryzen 4000 CPUs on B450 and X470 Motherboards
In a surprising twist, AMD has today announced that it intends to enable Ryzen 4000 and Zen 3 support on its older B450 and X470 Motherboards. This is going...
164 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/19/2020
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Review: Why Is This Amazon's Best Selling CPU?
Every so often there comes a processor that captures the market. It ends up being that right combination of price, cores, frequency, performance, features and compatibility when added to...
114 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/18/2020
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