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’s Cooper Lake Plans: The Chip That Wasn’t Meant to Exist, Fades Away
Following an exclusive report from SemiAccurate, and confirmed by Intel through ServeTheHome, the news on the wire is that Intel is set to can wide-spread general availability to its...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/17/2020
AMD Details Renoir: The Ryzen Mobile 4000 Series 7nm APU Uncovered
The notebook market has not been kind to AMD over the last decade – for a long, long time the company was only ever seen as the discount option...
95 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/16/2020
AMD Announces Ryzen 9 4900H and 4900HS: The Halo 35 W and 45 W Mobile APUs
As part of the disclosures on AMD’s Ryzen Mobile 4000 portfolio, the company is also lifting the lid on perhaps one of the worst kept secrets in mobile computing...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/16/2020
Marvell Announces ThunderX3: 96 Cores & 384 Thread 3rd Gen Arm Server Processor
The Arm server ecosystem is well alive and thriving, finally getting into serious motion after several years of false-start attempts. Among the original pioneers in this space was Cavium...
46 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/16/2020
AMD Drop's Ryzen 3000 Pricing By Up to $50: Official Price Drop Until 31st March
AMD has started a new promotion and will sell its latest 3rd Generation Ryzen desktop processors with a noticeable discount for a few weeks. The campaign is effective worldwide...
32 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2020
New Comet Lake Mobile CPU Spotted in Intel Documents: Core i7-10810U
Intel today published a new Product Change Notification today stating that it has started using an additional Assembly, Test, and Finish site to build its mobile Comet Lake CPUs...
22 by Anton Shilov on 3/13/2020
Load Value Injection: A New Intel Attack Bypasses SGX with Significant Performance Mitigation Concerns
Microarchitectural attacks have been all the rage. For the past two years, we’ve seen attacks like Meltdown, Spectre, Foreshadow/L1TF, Zombieload, and variants all discuss different ways to probe or...
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/11/2020
Amazon's Arm-based Graviton2 Against AMD and Intel: Comparing Cloud Compute
It’s been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called 'A1' instances. While the processor...
98 by Andrei Frumusanu on 3/10/2020
AMD Financial Analyst Day 2020 Round-Up: Laying A Path For Bigger & Better Things
AMD’s first Financial Analyst Day since 2017 has just wrapped up. In the last three years AMD has undergone a dramatic change, launching its Zen CPU architecture, and greatly...
51 by Ryan Smith on 3/5/2020
AMD Clarifies Comments on 7nm / 7nm+ for Future Products: EUV Not Specified
As part of AMD’s Financial Analyst Day 2020, the company gave the latest updates for its CPU and GPU roadmap. A lot of this we have seen before, with...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020
Updated AMD Ryzen and EPYC CPU Roadmaps March 2020: Milan, Genoa, and Vermeer
Everyone is interested in roadmaps – they give us a sense of an idea of what is coming in the future, and for the investors, it gives a level...
60 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020
AMD Discusses ‘X3D’ Die Stacking and Packaging for Future Products: Hybrid 2.5D and 3D
One of AMD’s key messages at its Financial Analyst Day 2020 is that the company wants to remain on the leading edge when it comes to process node technology...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020
AMD Shipped 260 Million Zen Cores by 2020
Today’s Financial Analyst Day 2020 from AMD is full of small nuggets of information. With the company building its foundation on its new x86 Zen high-performance architecture, keeping...
33 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2020
El Capitan Supercomputer Detailed: AMD CPUs & GPUs To Drive 2 Exaflops of Compute
Back in August, the United States Department of Energy and Cray announced plans for a third United States exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. Scheduled to be installed in Lawrence Livermore...
54 by Ryan Smith on 3/4/2020
Intel CFO: Our 10nm Will Be Less Profitable than 22nm [Morgan Stanley Transcription]
This week at Morgan Stanley’s Analyst Conference, Intel’s CFO, George Davis, sat down to discuss the future of where Intel’s profitability lies. No stranger to the odd comments relating...
92 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/4/2020
Next Generation Arm Server: Ampere’s Altra 80-core N1 SoC for Hyperscalers against Rome and Xeon
Several years ago, at a local event detailing a new Arm microarchitecture core, I recall a conversation I had with a number of executives at the time: the goal...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/3/2020
AMD Launches Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs: Starting at 6W
While it doesn't get the same attention as their high-profile mobile, desktop, or server CPU offerings, AMD's embedded division is an important fourth platform for the chipmaker. To that...
40 by Anton Shilov on 2/27/2020
Testing a Chinese x86 CPU: A Deep Dive into Zen-based Hygon Dhyana Processors
In 2016, through a series of joint ventures and created companies, AMD licensed the design of its first generation Zen x86 processors to be sold into China. The goal...
133 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Wendell Wilson on 2/27/2020
Intel Launches Atom P5900: A 10nm Atom for Radio Access Networks
Continuing Intel’s run of Mobile World Congress-released announcements this morning, the chip maker is also announcing an interesting product in the form of a mobile-related Atom. Dubbed the Atom...
16 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2020
New Intel Cascade Lake Xeon 'Performance' CPUs: Cutting Prices Too
While this year’s official Mobile World Congress event may have been canceled, a number of vendors are still going ahead with their previously scheduled product announcements and launches. Among...
37 by Ryan Smith on 2/24/2020
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