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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-Xilinx Acquisition Now Expected to Close in Q1 of 2022
AMD this afternoon has sent out a brief update to the public and investors, offering an update on the status of the ongoing Xilinx acquisition. AMD’s purchase of the...
28 by Ryan Smith on 12/30/2021
CPU Year In Review 2021: Efficient Cores Are The New Bling
As far as most years ago, 2021 has been an up and down year when it comes to the desktop CPU market. At the beginning of the year, the...
89 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/30/2021
AMD and GlobalFoundries Wafer Supply Agreement Updated Once More: Now $2.1B Through 2025
In a short note published by AMD this afternoon as part of an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, AMD is disclosing that the company has...
71 by Ryan Smith on 12/23/2021
Qualcomm’s 8cx Gen 3 for Notebooks, Nuvia Core in 2022/2023
There are many column inches detailing Qualcomm’s design wins and marketing strategy, however to paint it all with a broad brush, it has often boiled down to ‘where can...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/22/2021
Imagination Launches Catapult Family of RISC-V CPU Cores: Breaking Into Heterogeneous SoCs
December is here, and with it comes several technical summits ahead of the holiday break. The most notable of which this week is the annual RISC-V summit, which is...
62 by Ryan Smith on 12/6/2021
United States FTC Files Lawsuit to Block NVIDIA-Arm Acquisition
In the biggest roadblock yet to NVIDIA’s proposed acquisition of Arm, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced this afternoon that the regulatory body will be suing...
175 by Ryan Smith on 12/2/2021
Qualcomm x Nuvia: Silicon Sampling in Late 2022, Products in 2023
One of the more curious acquisitions in the last couple of years has been that of Nuvia by Qualcomm. Nuvia was a Silicon Valley start-up founded by the key...
51 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/18/2021
Intel: Sapphire Rapids With 64 GB of HBM2e, Ponte Vecchio with 408 MB L2 Cache
This week we have the annual Supercomputing event where all the major High Performance Computing players are putting their cards on the table when it comes to hardware, installations...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/15/2021
AMD Confirms Milan-X with 768 MB L3 Cache: Coming in Q1 2022
As an industry, we are slowly moving into an era where how we package the small pieces of silicon together is just as important as the silicon itself. New...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/8/2021
AMD Gives Details on EPYC Zen4: Genoa and Bergamo, up to 96 and 128 Cores
Since AMD’s relaunch into high-performance x86 processor design, one of the fundamental targets for the company was to be a competitive force in the data center. By having a...
36 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/8/2021
VIA To Offload Parts of x86 Subsidiary Centaur to Intel For $125 Million
As part of their third quarter earnings release, VIA Technologies has announced this morning that the company is entering into an unusual agreement with Intel to offload parts of...
42 by Ryan Smith on 11/5/2021
The Intel 12th Gen Core i9-12900K Review: Hybrid Performance Brings Hybrid Complexity
Today marks the official retail availability of Intel’s 12th Generation Core processors, starting with the overclockable versions this side of the New Year, and the rest in 2022. These...
474 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 11/4/2021
Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake for Desktops: Top SKUs Only, Coming November 4th
Over the past few months, Intel has been drip-feeding information about its next-generation processor family. Alder Lake, commercially known as Intel’s 12th Generation Core architecture, is officially being announced...
395 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/27/2021
AMD Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Records All Around
Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q3’21, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying explosive growth...
35 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2021
AnandTech Interviews Mike Clark, AMD’s Chief Architect of Zen
AMD is calling this time of the year as its ‘5 years of Zen’ time, indicating that back in 2016, it was starting to give the press the first...
115 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/26/2021
Intel Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Client Down, Data Center and IoT Up
Kicking off another earnings season, Intel is once again leading the pack of semiconductor companies in reporting their earnings for the most recent quarter. As the company gets ready...
32 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2021
The Arm DevSummit 2021 Keynote Live Blog: 8am PT (15:00 UTC)
This week seems to be Arm's week across the tech industry. Following yesterday's Arm SoC announcements from Apple, today sees Arm kick off their 2021 developer's summit, aptly named...
21 by Ryan Smith on 10/19/2021
Samsung Foundry: 2nm Silicon in 2025
One of the key semiconductor technologies beyond 3D FinFET transistors are Gate-All-Around transistors, which show promise to help extend the ability to drive processors and components to higher performance...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2021
An Interview with Intel Lab’s Mike Davies: The Next Generation of Neuromorphic Research
As part of the launch of the new Loihi 2 chip, built on a pre-production version of Intel’s 4 process node, the Intel Labs team behind its Neuromorphic efforts...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/30/2021
Intel Rolls Out New Loihi 2 Neuromorphic Chip: Built on Early Intel 4 Process
We’ve been keeping light tabs on Intel’s Neuromorphic efforts ever since it launched its first dedicated 14nm silicon for Neuromorphic Computing, called Loihi, back in early 2018. In an...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/30/2021
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