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...
AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper 2950X CPU Now Available
As pre-announced, AMD has begun selling its latest Ryzen Threadripper 2950X processor. The new CPU features 16 cores and is aimed at high-end desktops that can be overclocked for...
44 by Anton Shilov on 8/31/2018Huawei To Announce Kirin 980 Today at IFA
In the smartphone wars, the chip inside powering the devices is becoming ever more important. Raw performance plus accelerators are pushing the boundaries of what we used to think...
11 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2018Spectre and Meltdown in Hardware: Intel Clarifies Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake
With the launch of Intel’s latest 8th Generation Core mobile processors, the 15W Whiskey Lake U-series and the 5W Amber Lake Y-series, questions were left on the table as...
107 by Ian Cutress on 8/30/2018Intel Launches Whiskey Lake-U and Amber Lake-Y: New MacBook CPUs?
Earlier this year Intel announced that it would be introducing two new families to its low power notebook range: Whiskey Lake for new 15W (U-Series) processors, and Amber Lake...
80 by Ian Cutress on 8/28/2018AMD's 7nm CPUs & GPUs To Be Fabbed by TSMC, on Track for 2018 - 2019
With the announcement that its long-time manufacturing partner (and outright former fab) GlobalFoundries is dropping out of the race for bleeding-edge manufacturing nodes, the second big question of the...
28 by Ryan Smith & Anton Shilov on 8/27/2018AMD: Jim Anderson Out, Saeid Moshkelani In as “Client Compute Group” General Manager
In a press release sent out this afternoon, AMD has announced a shuffle in leadership for the company’s client computing business unit, the core of AMD’s business and heart...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/27/2018GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development: Opts To Focus on Specialized Processes
GlobalFoundries on Monday announced an important strategy shift. The contract maker of semiconductors decided to cease development of bleeding edge manufacturing technologies and stop all work on its 7LP...
127 by Anton Shilov & Ian Cutress on 8/27/2018AMD Slashes Prices of First-Gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs: Starting at $300
Following the launch of its second-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors earlier this month, AMD quietly began to slash prices of its first-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs. Right now, the most affordable...
34 by Anton Shilov on 8/27/2018Hot Chips 2018: Fujitsu's A64FX Arm Core Live Blog
Remember back when Arm announced Scalable Vector Extensions? Well Fujitsu has made an Arm CPU that uses it with a 512-bit width. The presentation looks super interesting, so follow...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018Hot Chips 2018: IBM Power9 Scale Up CPU Live Blog
The biggest part of the show are the server talks in the last session of the last day. All four talks are worth covering, and the first talk is...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018Hot Chips 2018: Tachyum Prodigy CPU Live Blog
One of the more interesting talks is from Tachyum, who have a deep presentation about their new hyperscale Prodigy processors with up to 64 cores and eight channel memory...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018AnandTech at Hot Chips 30: Our 2018 Show Coverage
The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of coverage at two key events: Hot Chips, the semiconductor industry conference regarding new product designs, and some minor thing...
5 by Ian Cutress on 8/21/2018Hot Chips 2018: Google Titan Live Blog (6pm PT, 1am UTC)
The second talk on security is on Google's Titan Root-of-Trust silicon that sits between the BIOS and the processor on its custom systems.
8 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018Hot Chips 2018: AMD APU Optimization Live Blog (Noon PT, 7pm UTC)
AMD is also at Hot Chips, speaking about Raven Ridge and its APUs. The key elements to this talk will be the optimizations made for Raven Ridge, specifically around...
10 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018Hot Chips 2018: Intel on Graphics Live Blog (11:30am PT, 6:30pm UTC)
Intel is talking graphics! We're expecting a lot of discussion about Kaby Lake G, with Radeon graphics, however the slide deck is going to talk a lot about power...
8 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018Hot Chips 2018: Samsung’s Exynos-M3 CPU Architecture Deep Dive
As part of this year’s first conference talks at HotChips 2018 at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, California, we’ve had the pleasure to finally hear...
45 by Andrei Frumusanu on 8/20/2018Hot Chips 2018: The Google Pixel Visual Core Live Blog (10am PT, 5pm UTC)
Hot Chips has started! One of the first talks today is from Google, detailing the Pixel Visual Core processor found in the latest Pixel smartphones. The talk is called...
14 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018Intel at Hot Chips 2018: Showing the Ankle of Cascade Lake
The final presentation of the Hot Chips event this week is from Intel, with a talk on its next generation Xeon Scalable platform, Cascade Lake. We recently learned about...
31 by Ian Cutress on 8/19/2018BAPCo Publishes SYSmark 2018
One of the bigger consortiums for developing benchmarks is BAPCo. Over the years the company has released a variety of benchmarking tools, such as MobileMark, TabletMark, and SYSmark. This...
18 by Ian Cutress on 8/17/2018An Interview with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s DCG: Discussing Cooper Lake and Smeltdown
As part of Intel's Datacenter summit, we were given an opportunity to sit down with Lisa Spelman, VP of Intel’s Data Center Group and General Manager of Xeon Products...
41 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/15/2018