CPUs
Further to our last piece which we detailed Intel's issue to motherboard vendors to follow with stock power settings for Intel's 14th and 13th Gen Core series processors, Intel has now issued a follow-up statement to this. Over the last week or so, motherboard vendors quickly released firmware updates with a new profile called 'Intel Baseline', which motherboard vendors assumed would address the instability issues. As it turns out, Intel doesn't seem to accept this as technically, these Intel Baseline profiles are not to be confused with Intel's default specifications. This means that Intel's Baseline profiles seemingly give the impression that they are operating at default settings, hence the terminology 'baseline' used, but this still opens motherboard vendors to use their interpretations of MCE...
NVIDIA: Grace Hopper Has Entered Full Production & Announcing DGX GH200 AI Supercomputer
Teeing off an AI-heavy slate of announcements for NVIDIA, the company has confirmed that their Grace Hopper “superchip” has entered full production. The combination of a Grace CPU and...
8 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2023Arm Unveils 2023 Mobile CPU Core Designs: Cortex-X4, A720, and A520 - the Armv9.2 Family
Throughout the world, if there's one universal constant in the smartphone and mobile device market, it's Arm. Whether it's mobile chip makers basing their SoCs on Arm's fully synthesized...
52 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/28/2023AMD Launches Zen 2-based Ryzen and Athlon 7020C Series For Chromebooks
Last year, AMD unveiled their entry-level 'Mendicino' mobile parts to the market, which combine their 2019 Zen 2 cores and their RDNA 2.0 integrated graphics to create an affordable...
33 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/23/2023Intel HPC Updates For ISC 2023: Aurora Nearly Done, More Falcon Shores, and the Future of XPUs
With the annual ISC High Performance supercomputing conference kicking off this week, Intel is one of several vendors making announcements timed with the show. As the crown jewels of...
15 by Ryan Smith on 5/22/2023Voltage Lockdown: Investigating AMD's Recent AM5 AGESA Updates on ASRock's X670E Taichi
It's safe to say that the last couple of weeks have been a bit chaotic for AMD and its motherboard partners. Unfortunately, it's been even more chaotic for some...
39 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/16/2023AMD To Host AI and Data Center Event on June 13th - MI300 Details Inbound?
In a brief note posted to its investor relations portal this morning, AMD has announced that they will be holding a special AI and data center-centric event on June...
2 by Ryan Smith on 5/9/2023AMD openSIL Planned to Replace AGESA Firmware in Client and Server in 2026
At a recent OCP Regional Summit held in Prague, AMD shared its plans to replace its AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture (AGESA) firmware with an open-source alternative called Open-Source...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/5/2023AMD Unveils Ryzen Mobile 7040U Series: Phoenix To Fly Into Thin Notebooks
Back at CES 2023, AMD announced a wave of upcoming Ryzen Mobile SKUs based on its Zen 4 silicon to launch in Q1 2023. Despite experiencing several delays in...
71 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/3/2023AMD: Ryzen Mobile 7040HS “Phoenix” Laptops to Reach Retailers in a Couple More Weeks
Alongside AMD’s usual slate of financial figures as part of their quarterly earnings call, the company also offered a brief update on the state of the next-generation Ryzen Mobile...
11 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2023AMD Reports Q1 2023 Earnings: Slipping Back into the Red as Client Sales Crumble
Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q1’2023, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying a growing...
6 by Ryan Smith on 5/3/2023Intel PR Confirms Chip Branding Changes in the Works: Core i Series to Give Way to Ultra?
In an unusual move, Intel's director of global communications, Bernard Fernandes, took to Twitter this morning to confirm that the chip giant is preparing some chip branding change for...
35 by Ryan Smith on 5/1/2023Intel Reports Q1 2023 Earnings: A Record Losing Quarter Goes Better Than Expected
Kicking off our coverage of the first earnings season of the year for the tech industry, we as always start with Intel. The blue-hued blue-chip is the first out...
9 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2023Intel: Meteor Lake & Intel 4 Process Now Ramping for Production
As part of today’s Q1’2023 earnings announcement from Intel, the company is offering a brief update on the state of its upcoming chips and manufacturing nodes. Key among these...
18 by Ryan Smith on 4/27/2023AMD Issues Second Statement on Ryzen 7000 Burnout Issues: Caps SoC Voltages
Yesterday, AMD issued a statement surrounding the burnout issues some users have been experiencing with their Ryzen 7000X3D processors. The problem, reported in multiple Reddit subforums, includes some Ryzen...
43 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/27/2023AMD Releases Ryzen Z1 Series: Zen 4 & RDNA 3 Come To Handheld Game Consoles
AMD has announced the Ryzen Z1 series of high-performance processors for handheld PC gaming consoles. The latest Ryzen Z1 chips wield Zen 4 cores and RDNA 3 graphics, a...
20 by Zhiye Liu on 4/26/2023ASUS Issues Statement on Ryzen 7000X3D Processor Issues, Possible Voltage Issues with AMD EXPO
Yesterday we reported that MSI announced a wave of firmware updates designed to address and alleviate potential issues with users on AM5 using AMD's Ryzen 7000X3D processors with 3D...
8 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/25/2023AMD Issues Official Statement on Reported Ryzen 7000 Burnout Issues
Yesterday we reported that MSI announced a wave of firmware updates designed to address and alleviate potential issues with users on AM5 using AMD's Ryzen 7000X3D processors with 3D...
35 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/25/2023AMD Releases Ryzen Embedded 5000 Series For Embedded Networking Products
AMD has announced their latest processor line-up designed for embedded-class products, the Ryzen Embedded 5000 series. The latest parts adds to their collection of other Zen 3-based embedded platforms...
5 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/21/2023The Intel Core i3-13100F Review: Finding Value in Intel's Cheapest Core Chip
While we here at AnandTech tend to be focused at the high-end of Intel's Core CPU product stacks, the company has a far more comprehensive lineup than we typically...
39 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/20/2023Intel IFS Partners Up With Arm To Develop Improved Arm IP Designs for Intel's 18A Node
In 2016, Intel's now-defunct Custom Foundry business and Arm teamed up to bring Arm's Artisan Physical IP and POP IP for its ARM Cortex-A processor cores to Intel's 10nm...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/13/2023