CPUs
As part of AMD's Q1'2024 earnings announcement this week, the company is offering a brief status update on some of their future products set to launch later this year. Most important among these is an update on their Zen 5 CPU architecture, which is expected to launch for both client and server products later this year. Highlighting their progress so far, AMD is confirming that EPYC "Turin" processors have begun sampling, and that these early runs of AMD's next-gen datacenter chips are meeting the company's expectations. "Looking ahead, we are very excited about our next-gen Turin family of EPYC processors featuring our Zen 5 core," said Lisa Su, chief executive officer of AMD, at the conference call with analysts and investors (via SeekingAlpha). "We are widely...
Nehalem Part 3: The Cache Debate, LGA-1156 and the 32nm Future
Want to understand why Intel went with such a small L2 cache on Nehalem? We sat down with Nehalem's chief architect and got a much better understanding of...
33 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/19/2008AMD Talks Phenom II, Roadmaps and More at Fall 2008 Financial Analyst Day
The 45nm Phenom is called the Phenom II, 8 and 12-core server parts are coming in 2011 and the first CPU/GPU fusion parts will also appear around then -...
42 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/13/2008Nehalem: The Unwritten Chapters
Nehalem can be much more power efficient than Penryn and it can overclock quite well. What follows are some of the side quests that we didn't get to...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/7/2008Nehalem - Everything You Need to Know about Intel's New Architecture
It's called the Core i7, but we knew it as Nehalem. We go through the entire micro-architecture and explain the new developments from IDF.
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/3/2008The Dark Knight: Intel's Core i7
Intel reinvented itself with Conroe two years ago, could the sequel possibly live up to expectations? Later this month Intel's Core i7 processors will be shipping and you'll...
74 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Gary Key on 11/3/2008The Business of Tech: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - AMD Goes Fabless
In the most dire of cash crunches, AMD has confirmed the rumors and parted ways with its fabrication arm. What does this mean for AMD and its new spin off?
39 by Ryan Smith on 10/7/2008AMD Fusion for Gaming Utility: Automatic AMD Platform Overclocking With a Twist
The beta version of the AMD Fusion for Gaming utility has been released. It overclocks both CPU and GPU and only runs on AMD hardware. But its that little...
39 by Derek Wilson on 9/18/2008AMD 790GX - The Introduction
We provide an overview of the new 790GX chipset while we complete our benchmark testing.
42 by Gary Key on 8/6/2008Intel's SoC Update: 1B Transistors Embedded in 5 Years
Intel revealed a bit about its upcoming embedded and SoC plans. Aside from Larrabee, these are brand new areas for Intel's x86 architectures. Intel has 15 chip...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/24/2008AMD's SB750: Enabling Higher Phenom Overclocks?
Rumor has it that AMD's new South Bridge will allow Phenom processors to clock higher. Believe it or not, it works. We try and figure out why...
51 by Gary Key on 7/23/2008AMD's Phenom X4 9950, 9350e and 9150e: Lower Prices, Voltage Tricks and Strange Behavior
AMD is introducing three new quad-core Phenom processors today: a 2.6GHz 9950 Black Edition, a 2.0GHz 9350e and a 1.8GHz 9150e. AMD has also dropped its prices, making...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Gary Key on 7/1/2008The Nehalem Preview: Intel Does It Again
Two years ago we previewed Intel's Conroe core and to our surprise it blew away its closest competitor by 20 - 30% easily. Today, Intel is without competition...
110 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/5/2008Intel Launches Low-Power 65nm 4 Series Chipsets for the Desktop
With the release of their X48 Express performance chipset just a few short months back, many are asking why Intel is releasing another round of new chipsets so soon...
15 by Kris Boughton on 6/5/2008AMD Announces GAME!: Raising the Bar for Mainstream Gaming PCs
There's been one successful platform logo in recent history: Centrino. Today AMD announces its own logo program but for mainstream gaming PCs. The program is called AMD...
58 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/19/2008NVIDIA 780a: Integrated Graphics and SLI in One
We provide our first look at NVIDIA’s latest chipset that provides integrated graphics functionality free, well almost; you do need to buy the motherboard.
39 by Gary Key on 5/6/2008AMD's Phenom X3 8000 Series: Fighting Two Cores with Three?
AMD is introducing the first triple-core x86 processors as a part of its quick and dirty strategy to remain competitive with Intel's dual-core CPUs. Despite having more cores...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/23/2008IGP Power Consumption - 780G, GF8200, and G35
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the greenest of them all? The answer may surprise you.
44 by Gary Key on 4/18/2008Intel's Atom Architecture: The Journey Begins
When we reviewed the first Centrino CPU we claimed that it would revolutionize the mobile world, and it has. Intel's Atom processor has even more ambitious goals and...
47 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/2/2008Higher Clock Speeds, No TLB Issues and Better Pricing: The New Phenom
Last year Phenom brought AMD a terrible end to a terrible year. While AMD continues to try to resurrect itself we find ourselves in the midst of a...
65 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/27/2008NVIDIA's 790i Arrives: SLI Rides Again
Users looking to run the latest DDR3 memory technology with multi-GPU graphics from NVIDIA finally have the answer they've been waiting for. We examine exactly what makes the nForce...
20 by Kris Boughton on 3/18/2008