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 Publishes Letter to Customers Apologizing for CPU Shipment Delays
In a move that I don’t believe has precedence within the x86 CPU industry, Intel this afternoon has publicly published a letter to its customers and partners apologizing for...
49 by Ryan Smith on 11/20/2019
Dell’s Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition Comes w/ Ryzen 5 3500 or Ryzen 9 3950X
Dell’s Alienware division has started sales of its Aurora Ryzen Edition desktops. The latest Aurora systems not only put AMD’s processors back into mid-tower Aurora machines for the first...
17 by Anton Shilov on 11/18/2019
Intel’s 2021 Exascale Vision in Aurora: Two Sapphire Rapids CPUs with Six Ponte Vecchio GPUs
For the last few of years, when discussing high performance computing, it has been tough to avoid hearing the word ‘exascale’. Even last month, on 10/18, HPC twitter was...
43 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
Raja Koduri at Intel HPC Devcon Keynote Live Blog (4pm MT, 11pm UTC)
Prior to the annual Supercomputing conference, Intel hosts its HPC Developer Conference a couple of days before. This year's HPC Devcon keynote talk is from Intel SVP, Chief Architect...
55 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2019
ASUS: Intel CPU Shortages Easing, But Future Is Uncertain
During its earnings call with analysts and investors, ASUS commented that while the tight supply of Intel’s processors persisted, it is no longer as severe as it was in...
20 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2019
NUVIA: New Server CPU Startup Going After Intel and AMD
Founded by former senior Apple CPU architects, NUVIA for the first time publicly revealed its existence with the announcement of a successful first investment round. The company broke cover...
41 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/15/2019
Intel Recalls Quad Core Xeon CPU Because of Inadequate Stock Cooler
Intel this week recalled one of its boxed processors because the bundled cooling system the company supplied has been found to be insufficient for fully cooling the CPU. For...
27 by Anton Shilov on 11/14/2019
The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review: 16 Cores on 7nm with PCIe 4.0
Deciding between building a mainstream PC and a high-end desktop has historically been very clear cut: if budget is a concern, and you're interested in gaming, then typically a...
206 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/14/2019
Intel Trims Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Lineup
Intel this week initiated end-of-life plan for two of its 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors, possibly in a bid to reduce the number of SKUs in the...
19 by Anton Shilov on 11/7/2019
AMD Q4: 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X, Threadripper Up To 32-Core 3970X, Coming November 25th
AMD is set to close out the year on a high note. As promised, the company will be delivering its latest 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor, built with two...
171 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/7/2019
MLPerf Releases Official Results For First Machine Learning Inference Benchmark
Since launching their organization early last year, the MLPerf group has been slowly and steadily building up the scope and the scale of their machine learning benchmarks. Intending to...
12 by Ryan Smith on 11/6/2019
Intel Launches Xeon-E 2200 Series for Servers: 8 Cores, up to 5.0 GHz
The Xeon-E family from Intel replaced the Xeon E3-1200 parts that were found common place in a lot of office machines and small servers. The Xeon E parts are...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/4/2019
Samsung Confirms Custom CPU Development Cancellation
The fate of Samsung's custom CPU development efforts has been making the rounds of the rumour mill for almost a month, and now we finally have confirmation from Samsung...
42 by Andrei Frumusanu on 11/4/2019
The Intel Core i9-9900KS Review: The 5 GHz Consumer Special
Intel likes 5.0 GHz processors. The one area where it claims a clear advantage over AMD is in its ability to drive the frequency of its popular 14nm process...
236 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/31/2019
Intel Launches Low-End Comet Lake CPUs: Pentium Gold 6405U & Celeron 5205U
Intel has quietly added two new inexpensive processors into its Comet Lake-U lineup. The Pentium Gold 6405U and Celeron 5205U CPUs will be used for entry-level thin-and-light laptops that...
23 by Anton Shilov on 10/31/2019
SiFive Announces First RISC-V OoO CPU Core: The U8-Series Processor IP
In the last few year’s we’ve seen an increasing amount of talk about RISC-V and it becoming real competitor to the Arm in the embedded market. Indeed, we’ve seen...
69 by Andrei Frumusanu on 10/30/2019
AMD Q3 FY 2019 Earnings Report: Party Like It’s 2005
Today AMD announced their third quarter earnings for the 2019 fiscal year, and AMD has not seen revenue like this for a long time – in fact this is...
44 by Brett Howse on 10/29/2019
The Intel Core i9-9990XE Review: All 14 Cores at 5.0 GHz
Within a few weeks, Intel is set to launch its most daring consumer desktop processor yet: the Core i9-9900KS, which offers eight cores all running at 5.0 GHz. There’s...
145 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/28/2019
Intel Q3 2019 Fab Update: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm On Track
After years of delays, Intel is finally shipping its 10 nm processors in high volume, and the company is preparing to fire up another fab to produce an even...
59 by Anton Shilov on 10/28/2019
Intel Boosts 14nm Capacity 25% in 2019, But Shortages Will Persist in Q4
Higher-than-expected demand for Intel’s server and PC processors has been an interesting topic of discussion since the middle of 2018, when Intel first informed investors of its backlogged status...
27 by Anton Shilov on 10/25/2019
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