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While the first systems based on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake (14th Gen Core) systems are still at least a few months out – and thus just a bit too far out to show off at Computex – Intel is already laying the groundwork for Meteor Lake’s forthcoming launch. For this year’s show, in what’s very quickly become an AI-centric event, Intel is using Computex to lay out their vision of client-side AI inference for the next generation of systems. This includes both some new disclosures about the AI processing hardware that will be in intel’s Meteor Lake hardware, as well as what Intel expects OSes and software developers are going to do with the new capabilities. AI, of course, has quickly become the operative buzzword...
AMD Ryzen 7000 "together we advance_PCs” Live Blog (7pm ET/23:00 UTC)
At long last the date is here. AMD this evening will be broadcasting their "together we advance_PCs” event, which will be focused around the upcoming launch of their next-generation...
45 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/29/2022AMD Announces Ryzen 7000 Reveal Livestream for August 29th
In a brief press release sent out this morning, AMD has announced that they will be delivering their eagerly anticipated Ryzen 7000 unveiling later this month as a live...
52 by Ryan Smith on 8/16/2022UCIe Consortium Incorporates, Adds NVIDIA and Alibaba As Members
Among the groups with a presence at this year’s Flash Memory Summit is the UCIe Consortium, the recently formed group responsible for the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) standard...
21 by Ryan Smith on 8/4/2022Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.0 Announced: Doubled Speeds and Flexible Fabrics
While it’s technically still the new kid on the block, the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard for host-to-device connectivity has quickly taken hold in the server market. Designed to...
4 by Ryan Smith on 8/2/2022OpenCAPI to Fold into CXL - CXL Set to Become Dominant CPU Interconnect Standard
With the 2022 Flash Memory Summit taking place this week, not only is there a slew of solid-state storage announcements in the pipe over the coming days, but the...
8 by Ryan Smith on 8/1/2022The Intel Core i9-12900KS Review: The Best of Intel's Alder Lake, and the Hottest
As far as top-tier CPU SKUs go, Intel's Core i9-12900KS processor sits in noticeably sharp In contrast to the launch of AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor with 96 MB...
57 by Gavin Bonshor on 7/29/2022The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Review: 96 MB of L3 3D V-Cache Designed For Gamers
The level of competition in the desktop CPU market has rarely been as intensive as it has been over the last couple of years. When AMD brought its Ryzen...
125 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/30/2022Samsung Starts 3nm Production: The Gate-All-Around (GAAFET) Era Begins
Capping off a multi-year development process, Samsung’s foundry group sends word this morning that the company has officially kicked off production on its initial 3nm chip production line. Samsung’s...
22 by Ryan Smith on 6/30/2022AMD Updates Ryzen Embedded Series, R2000 Series With up to Four Cores and Eight Threads
One area of AMD's portfolio that perhaps doesn't garner the same levels of attention as its desktop, mobile, and server products is its embedded business. In early 2020, AMD...
20 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/22/2022Intel 4 Process Node In Detail: 2x Density Scaling, 20% Improved Performance
Taking place this week is the IEEE’s annual VLSI Symposium, one of the industry’s major events for disclosing and discussing new chip manufacturing techniques. One of the most anticipated...
129 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2022AMD's Desktop CPU Roadmap: 2024 Brings Zen 5-based "Granite Ridge"
As part of AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2022, it has provided us with a look at the company's desktop client CPU roadmap as we advance towards 2024. As we...
37 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/9/2022Updated AMD Notebook Roadmap: Zen 4 on 4nm in 2023, Zen 5 By End of 2024
As we've come to expect during AMD's Financial Analyst Day (FAD), we usually get small announcements about big things coming in the future. This includes updated product roadmaps for...
23 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/9/2022AMD Announces Genoa-X: 4th Gen EPYC with Up to 96 Zen 4 Cores and 1GB L3 V-Cache
As AMD makes strides in snatching market share with its high-performance x86 processor designs in the server market, it has announced some of its upcoming 4th generations EPYC families...
12 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/9/2022AMD Unveils Siena, A Lower Cost EPYC Family With Up to 64 Zen 4 Cores
As part of AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2022, AMD unveiled an updated server CPU roadmap up to and including 2024. Nestled within AMD's latest server roadmap, it highlighted the...
13 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/9/2022AMD Updated EPYC Roadmap: 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" Announced, Coming by End of 2024
As part of AMD's Financial Analysts Day 2022, AMD has provided updates to its Server CPU roadmap going into 2024. The biggest announcement is that AMD is already planning...
22 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/9/2022AMD: Combining CDNA 3 and Zen 4 for MI300 Data Center APU in 2023
Alongside their Zen CPU architecture and RDNA client GPU architecture updates, AMD this afternoon is also updating their roadmap for their CDNA server GPU architecture and related Instinct products...
16 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022AMD Zen Architecture Roadmap: Zen 5 in 2024 With All-New Microarchitecture
Today is AMD’s Financial Analyst Day, the company’s semi-annual, analyst-focused gathering. While the primary purpose of the event is for AMD to reach out to investors, analysts, and others...
159 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022AMD Zen 4 Update: 8% to 10% IPC Uplift, 25% More Perf-Per-Watt, V-Cache Chips Coming
As part of today’s AMD’s 2022 Financial Analyst Day, the company is offering a short, high-level update on their forthcoming Zen 4 CPU architecture. This information is being divulged...
10 by Ryan Smith on 6/9/2022Apple Announces M2 SoC: Apple Silicon for Macs Updated For 2022
Though primarily a software-focused event, Apple’s WWDC keynotes are often stage for an interesting hardware announcement or two as well, and this year Apple did not disappoint. At the...
171 by Ryan Smith on 6/6/2022Intel Showcases Sapphire Rapids Plus HBM Xeon Performance at ISC 2022
Alongside today’s disclosure of the Rialto Bridge accelerator, Intel is also using this week’s ISC event to deliver a brief update on Sapphire Rapids, the company’s next-generation Xeon CPU...
22 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2022