CPUs
SK hynix and TSMC announced early on Friday that they had signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on developing the next-generation HBM4 memory and advanced packaging technology. The initiative is designed to speed up the adoption of HBM4 memory and solidify SK hynix's and TSMC's leading positions in high-bandwidth memory and advanced processor applications. The primary focus of SK hynix's and TSMC's initial efforts will be to enhance the performance of the HBM4 stack's base die, which (if we put it very simply) acts like an ultra-wide interface between memory devices and host processors. With HBM4, SK hynix plans to use one of TSMC's advanced logic process technologies to build base dies to pack additional features and I/O pins within the confines of existing...
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to Deliver Computex 2019 Lead Keynote
With CES 2019 barely in the mirror behind us, the consumer electronics industry is already barreling towards its next major trade show, Computex 2019 in Taiwan. And, as it...
48 by Ryan Smith on 4/2/2019Amazon Offers More EPYC: M5ad & R5ad Instances
Amazon Web Services this week started to offer M5ad and R5ad Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances powered by custom AMD EPYC 7000-series processors and featuring faster local storage.
9 by Anton Shilov on 3/29/2019Ampere eMAG in the Cloud: 32 Arm Core Instance for $1/hr
One of the companies working to put Arm processors into the cloud is Ampere, and the proliferation of Arm in the cloud is continuing to grow. Cloud company Packet...
16 by Ian Cutress on 3/29/2019Intel Readies New Stepping of 9th Gen Core Processors
ASUS and GIGABYTE have issued BIOS updates for their Intel 300-series chipsets-based motherboards that enable the platforms to work with Intel’s upcoming 9th Gen Core processors featuring a new...
60 by Anton Shilov on 3/26/2019The Xeon Entry Quad-Core CPU Review: Xeon E-2174G, E-2134, and E-2104G Tested
A couple of months ago we reviewed a few of the newest six-core Intel commercial CPUs that are also used in low-end servers. Intel has also launched some quad-core...
29 by Ian Cutress on 3/11/2019CXL Specification 1.0 Released: New Industry High-Speed Interconnect From Intel
With the battleground moving from single core performance to multi-core acceleration, a new war is being fought with how data is moved around between different compute resources. The Interconnect...
48 by Ian Cutress on 3/11/2019AMD: 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper in 2019
In a new presentation for investors AMD announced a more precise launch plan for its client APUs and CPUs for desktop, mobile, and server computers. The company is preparing...
59 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019Coffee Lake-Refresh Desktop CPU List Surfaces: 35W Core i9-9900T & 8-Core Xeon E-2200 Confirmed
This morning the crew over at FanlessTech has picked up on the release of a new Intel processor list from Fujitsu. In it, Fujitsu has published what appears to...
19 by Anton Shilov on 3/6/2019Maxon Releases Cinebench R20 Benchmark
One of the key benchmarks that have been used in the industry is Cinebench. The latest version has been Cinebench R15, released for version 15 of Cinema 4D. In...
57 by Ian Cutress on 3/5/2019Intel Reveals Name of Next Generation Xeon D: Hewitt Lake
The Xeon D processor line for Intel has been a combination networking/microserver processor that increased significantly in core count, power, and capability in the previous generation. We now have...
11 by Ian Cutress on 2/25/2019Some Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable Processor Specifications Exposed in SI Documents
The next generation of Intel’s server processor line is the Cascade Lake Xeon Scalable family. Intel has been promoting it as the next generation over several events through 2018...
7 by Ian Cutress on 2/23/2019Pentium Sans Graphics: Intel’s Pentium Gold G5600F Listed
Numerous retailers this week have started to list a rather odd microprocessor, the Intel Pentium Gold G5600F. The latest Pentium targets entry-level PCs, yet it does not feature an...
7 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2019Arm Announces Neoverse N1 & E1 Platforms & CPUs: Enabling A Huge Jump In Infrastructure Performance
Anybody following the industry over the last decade will have heard of Arm. We best know the company for being the enabler and providing the architecture as well as...
109 by Andrei Frumusanu on 2/20/2019Intel's First 4.0 GHz Pentium: Pentium Gold G5620 Listed At Retail
A number of European retailers have started listing new Celeron and the Pentium Gold-branded processors, which indicates that the world’s largest CPU supplier is about to formally announce the...
21 by Anton Shilov on 2/19/2019Intel Details New 9th Gen CPUs for Notebooks: i9-9980HK to i5-9300H
Intel is yet has to announce its 9th Gen Core processors for laptops officially, but because the company needs to sort out all the things with authorities and regulators...
37 by Anton Shilov on 2/16/2019Playing Chicken: Kentucky Fried Intel Core i9-9900KFC Processor Listed
If every letter has a special meaning for a feature in a product, and a product portfolio offers a mix and match of those features, then eventually a combination...
32 by Ian Cutress on 2/15/2019Western Digital’s RISC-V "SweRV" Core Design Released For Free
Western Digital has published a register-transfer level (RTL) design abstraction of its in-house designed SweRV RISC-V core. The SweRV core is one of several RISC-V projects the company as...
14 by Anton Shilov on 2/15/2019Intel Submits Ireland Fab Expansion Plan: $8 Billion Price Tag, With a 4 Year Lead Time
Intel has submitted a proposal to Irish authorities for the expansion of its manufacturing site near Leixlip. According to the plans, Intel is exploring the construction of a brand-new...
27 by Anton Shilov on 2/13/2019The AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Ryzen 3 2300X CPU Review
Despite AMDs resurgence to kick it with the high end of mainstream processors, the biggest volume sales occur more in the mid-range where the parts are often competitively priced...
66 by Ian Cutress on 2/11/2019Intel Details Plans for Its Oregon Fab Expansion: D1X Phase 3
Intel this week revealed the first details concerning its fab expansion plans in Oregon. As it turns out, the company intends to build the third phase of its D1X...
26 by Anton Shilov on 2/5/2019