CPUs
China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China's own CPUs. The new procurement guidelines, introduced quietly at the end of 2023, mandates government entities to prioritize 'safe and reliable' processors and operating systems in their purchases. This directive is part of a concerted effort to bolster domestic technology and parallels a similar push within state-owned enterprises to embrace technology designed in China. The list of approved processors and operating systems, published by China's Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, exclusively features Chinese companies. There are...
Intel’s LGA4189-4 and LGA4189-5 for Cooper Lake & Ice Lake CPUs Now Available
TE Connectivity, a maker of various connectivity solutions, has introduced its newly-developed LGA4189 sockets for Intel’s next-generation Xeon Scalable processors supporting PCIe Gen 4. The products have been validated...
31 by Anton Shilov on 9/2/2019AMD Bulldozer 'Core' Lawsuit: AMD Settles for $12.1m, Payouts for Some
AMD this month has agreed to pay compensation that totals $12.1 million to users who purchased FX-8000/9000 CPUs via its website or in the state of California. The case...
81 by Anton Shilov on 8/28/2019Intel Launches Comet Lake-U and Comet Lake-Y: Up To 6 Cores for Thin & Light Laptops
Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power 10th generation Core processors...
133 by Ryan Smith on 8/21/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Microsoft Hololens 2.0 Silicon
The final presentation of Hot Chips 31 is from Microsoft, who will be lifting the lid of the silicon behind its HoloLens 2.0 product.
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel/Tsinghua Xeon Jintide Security CPU
Doing custom x86 CPUs is nothing new: presenting one at Hot Chips is new. Here we have Tsinghua University giving a presentation on Jintide, its custom solution built upon...
10 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Intel Lakefield and Foveros
One of the interesting developments in packaging technology in recent memory is the 3D stacking of Intel's new Foveros technology. The first chip to use this packaging technology is...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 2: Dr. Phillip Wong, VP Research at TSMC (1:45pm PT)
The keynote for the second day is from TSMC, with Dr. Phillip Wong taking the stage to talk about the latest developments in TSMC's research and portfolio. The talk...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019Hot Chips 31 Keynote Day 1: Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD Live Blog (1:45pm PT)
The keynote for day one at Hot Chips is from Dr. Lisa Su, AMD of CEO. AMD is riding high after successful Ryzen 3000 and 2nd Gen EPYC Rome...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: IBM's Next Generation POWER
We're here at Hot Chips 31 / 2019, and the first talk to be live blogged is IBM's newest variant of its POWER CPUs. This talk starts at 10am...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/19/2019Retailers Begin to Sell Pre-Binned AMD Ryzen 3000 CPUs
For many PC enthusiasts, overclocking means a lot of fun, both in terms of process and the end result. To a large degree overclocking is a lottery that is...
40 by Anton Shilov on 8/14/2019The Biostar A10N-8800E Motherboard Review: Carrizo in 2019?!
The Biostar A10N-8800 motherboard is a mini-ITX SoC option with an integrated AMD FX-8800P processor. Also featured is support for up to 32 GB of DDR4-2133 memory, a single...
75 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 8/14/2019AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
If you examine the CPU industry and ask where the big money is, you have to look at the server and datacenter market. Ever since the Opteron days, AMD's...
184 by Johan De Gelas on 8/7/2019The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC "Rome" Launch Live Blog
The second – and arguably largest – shoe in the Zen 2 launch is dropping today: AMD’s EPYC 7002-series “Rome” processor. Based on all the things that made 3rd...
30 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2019Rick Bergman Returns to AMD to Lead Computing & Graphics Business
AMD has announced that Rick Bergman had rejoined the company and will lead its Computing and Graphics business. Mr. Bergman’s focus will be high-performance PCs, gaming and semi-custom businesses...
39 by Anton Shilov on 8/6/2019Intel to Offer Socketed 56-core Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable in new Socket Compatible with Ice Lake
Today Intel is announcing some of its plans for its future Xeon Scalable platform. The company has already announced that after the Cascade Lake series of processors launched this...
50 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/6/2019The Ice Lake Benchmark Preview: Inside Intel's 10nm
Intel's new Ice Lake platform is the company's second attempt at producing a 10nm chip for the mass market, and follows on from the Cannon Lake platform. Using 'the...
261 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/1/2019AMD Quarterly Earnings Report Q2 FY 2019
AMD announced their second quarter earnings for the 2019 fiscal year, and the company’s revenue was $1.53 billion for the quarter. This is down 13% from the same quarter...
114 by Brett Howse on 7/31/2019AMD Releases New Chipset Drivers For Ryzen 3000: More Relaxed CPPC2 Upscaling
It’s been nearly three weeks since AMD’s launch of the new Ryzen 3000 series CPUs and our extensive coverage of the new parts. Among one of the things that...
39 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/30/2019Honor Set to Enter TV Market with New Honghu 8K CPU
Not being shy to take some gambles, this one appears to be its biggest yet: Honor is going to be developing both TVs and display scalers for the consumer...
23 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/30/2019Examining Intel's Ice Lake Processors: Taking a Bite of the Sunny Cove Microarchitecture
Intel has been building up this year to its eventual release of its first widely available consumer 10nm Core processor, codenamed "Ice Lake". The new SoC has an improved...
107 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/30/2019