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...
Intel Announces Xeon W-1200 Series: Comet Lake for Workstations, W480
Aside from Comet Lake vPro being announced today, Intel is also lifting the lid on a new series of processors: W-1200. This line of parts are analogous to Intel’s...
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/13/2020
Intel Announces 10th Gen Comet Lake vPro: All 400-Series Chipsets Supported
With every launch of desktop processors, Intel typically follows it up with a series of vPro enabled parts in order for the company to provide solutions through its partners...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/13/2020
Intel Initiates EOL for the VCA2: Three Xeons on a PCIe Card
One of Intel’s more interesting products over the recent years was its range of Visual Compute Accelerator cards, designed to help cloud streaming and encoding/decoding of HD and UHD...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/12/2020
AMD Announces Ryzen Pro 4000 for Mobile: 8 Cores, 15 W, 4.1 GHz
On the back of AMD’s successful Ryzen Mobile 4000 series launch for consumer laptops, the company today launching its range of commercial processors from the same family. These processors...
26 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/7/2020
The AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and 3100 CPU Review: A Budget Gaming Bonanza
When AMD announced the new Ryzen 3 processors built on Zen 2, I was under the impression that these were essentially the reject parts from AMD’s successful Ryzen 3000...
250 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/7/2020
Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake for Desktops: Skylake-S Hits 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz
Today we get the full range of its Intel’s 10th Generation processors for desktops. These chips, which fall under the banner of ‘Comet Lake’, will now go up to...
177 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/30/2020
AMD Reports Q1 2020 Earnings: CPU Sales Fuel Big Gains
As the first quarter 2020 earnings period continues, up next is AMD, who has reported their earnings for the first three months of the year. The company, enjoying an...
12 by Ryan Smith on 4/29/2020
Intel: Tiger Lake Client CPUs Coming Mid-Year
Along with detailing the nuts and the bolts of their Q1 2020 earnings, as part of Intel’s financial presentation, the company also offered a quick update on their upcoming...
140 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2020
Intel Reports Q1 2020 Earnings: Another Strong Quarter For Both Client and Datacenter
Kicking off earnings season for the tech industry, Intel yesterday evening reported their financial results for the first quarter of the year. And, like pretty much every Intel quarter...
49 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2020
Arm Development For The Office: Unboxing an Ampere eMag Workstation
One of the key elements I’ve always found frustrating with basic software development is that it can often be quite difficult to actually get the hardware in hand you...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/22/2020
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100: New Low Cost Quad-Core Zen 2 Processors From $99
If one were critiquing AMD’s current line of Zen 2 processors, one of the things to note is that the cheapest option is $199, for the six-core Ryzen 5...
100 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/21/2020
AMD COVID-19 HPC Fund: Initial $15m Donation of EPYC and Radeon Hardware
One element to the recent pandemic has been the number of organizations banding together to unite for specific research into SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. We are in an era now...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/16/2020
AMD’s New EPYC 7F52 Reviewed: The F is for ᴴᴵᴳᴴ Frequency
Everyone wants a fast processor. The ability to get more stuff done is one of a number of guiding principles of business. However, business also needs consistency, safety and...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/14/2020
AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS (A Review)
At every turn in the story of AMD’s notebook portfolio, we’ve been there to document the highs and lows. Five years ago, AMD was definitely suffering from a combination...
267 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/9/2020
AMD Drops StoreMI Software; Developing New Software for Later This Quarter
In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, AMD quietly dropped distribution and support for the company’s StoreMI software at the start of this month. The technology, launched back in 2018, was AMD’s...
19 by Ryan Smith on 4/6/2020
Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 W Notebooks: Up to 5.3 GHz*
Two of the big announcements out of CES this year were both mobile related: Intel and AMD announced they would be launching new gaming laptop processors into the market...
158 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/2/2020
Intel H81 Chipset EOL'd: Long Lived Haswell Chipset to be Retired
Intel has announced that it will be discontinuing some of its Lynx Point based chipsets which are most commonly associated with its Haswell processors on socket LGA 1150. Along...
5 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/1/2020
Intel Updates ISA Manual: New Instructions for Alder Lake, also BF16 for Sapphire Rapids
As with any processor vendor, having a detailed list of what the processor does and how to optimize for it is important. Helping programmers also plan for what’s coming...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/1/2020
Intel’s new ‘Single Customer’ Ice Lake Mobile CPUs: Are These in the Macbook Air?
It was recently brought to our attention that three new Ice Lake CPUs were listed on Intel’s online ARK database of products: the Core i7-1060NG7, the Core i5-1030NG7, and...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/25/2020
Microsoft Now Offers Azure NVv4 Virtual Machines with AMD EPYC & Radeon Instinct
AMD’s 2nd Generation EPYC processors have gained a strong recognition among cloud computing companies, and today numerous instances are powered by AMD’s latest server CPUs. By contrast, however, the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/18/2020
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