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This week ASML is making two very important announcements related to their progress with high numerical aperature extreme ultraviolet lithography (High-NA EUV). First up, the company's High-NA EUV prototype system at its fab in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, has printed the first 10nm patterns, which is a major milestone for ASML and their next-gen tools. Second, the company has also revealed that it's second High-NA EUV system is now out the door as well, and has been shipped to an unnamed customer. "Our High-NA EUV system in Veldhoven printed the first-ever 10 nanometer dense lines," a statement by ASML reads. "Imaging was done after optics, sensors and stages completed coarse calibration. Next up: bringing the system to full performance. And achieving the same results in the...
Supermicro C9Z490-PGW Motherboard Review: Comet Lake with 32 CPU PCIe Lanes
More widely known for its server-grade models, Supermicro always launches a small number of consumer motherboards, sometimes with some extra flair and hardware we don't see from the regular...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/21/2020
The MSI Prestige 14 Evo Review: Testing The Waters Of Tiger Lake
MSI is very well-known for their gaming products for the PC market, from motherboards, accessories, and right up to gaming laptops and desktops. The company was one of the...
66 by Brett Howse on 12/17/2020
Intel Announces New Wave of Optane and 3D NAND SSDs
Today Intel is announcing updates to most of their SSD product lines. Their products based on 3D NAND are being updated to use Intel's 144-layer QLC and TLC NAND...
70 by Billy Tallis on 12/16/2020
Supermicro X12SAE W480 Motherboard Review: For Xeon W-1200 Workstations
We have seen numerous Intel Z490 motherboards over the months since Intel's platform for Comet Lake was announced back in April. While the Z490 is designed for regular consumers...
57 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/11/2020
Razer's First Modular PC, The Tomahawk: A Fully Custom NUC 9 Extreme
Razer, a company that styles itself as 'by gamers, for gamers', has today unveiled its latest product, a modular NUC dubbed the Tomahawk. Available as both a barebones package...
61 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/3/2020
New Second Gen EVE V 2-in-1: Tiger Lake 3840x2400 with Thunderbolt 4
Sometimes for a company to get its projects over the line, it requires the help of crowdsourcing ideas. One such company is Eve Tech, or EVE for short, and...
34 by Gavin Bonshor on 12/1/2020
Intel’s New eASIC N5X Series: Hardened Security for 5G and AI Through Structured ASICs
The programmability of a processor is a scale is all about flexibility and performance – something highly programmable and customizable is adaptable to all sort of situations, but often...
6 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/24/2020
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
One of the key tenets of having good security is reducing how attackable your system is. This is what we call an attack surface – a system needs as...
27 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/23/2020
Intel’s New NUC Laptop Kit: Whitebook Tiger Lake For All
The Next Unit of Computing branding, known as NUC (pronounced nu-ck), has long been associated with Intel’s small form factor desktop designs featuring mobile-class processors. Last year Intel broke...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/19/2020
MediaTek Subsidiary to Acquire Intel Enpirion Business for $85 Million
Today an agreement between MediaTek subsidiary Richtek and Intel has been made for Richtek to acquire Intel’s power management solutions and controller product line known as Enpirion. The agreement...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/18/2020
Bittware 4x100G FPGA Card, Uses Intel 10nm Agilex and oneAPI
This week at the annual Supercomputing HPC show, we’re going to see a number of high-profile enterprise announcements across a wide array of industries that support server and high-performance...
8 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/17/2020
Microchip Announces PCIe 5.0 And CXL Retimers
Microchip is entering the market for PCIe retimer chips with a pair of new retimers supporting PCIe 5.0's 32GT/s link speed. The new XpressConnect RTM-C 8xG5 and 16xG5 chips...
8 by Billy Tallis on 11/11/2020
Intel Xe Graphics: An Interview with VP Lisa Pearce
Bringing a new range of hardware to market is not an easy task, even for Intel. The company has an install base of its ‘Gen’ graphics in hundreds of...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/11/2020
Intel’s Xe-HP Now Available to Select Customers
As part of Intel’s next generation Xe graphics strategy, one of the key elements is going to be the offerings for the enterprise market. For commercial enterprises that need...
5 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/11/2020
Intel Launches Xe-LP Server GPU: First Product Is H3C’s Quad GPU XG310 For Cloud Gaming
Following the formal launch of Intel’s first discrete GPU in over a generation, the DG1, this morning Intel is launching the server counterpart to that chip, the very plainly...
23 by Ryan Smith on 11/11/2020
Compute eXpress Link 2.0 (CXL 2.0) Finalized: Switching, PMEM, Security
One of the more exciting connectivity standards over the past year has been CXL. Built upon a PCIe physical foundation, CXL is a connectivity standard designed to handle much...
5 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/10/2020
A Broadwell Retrospective Review in 2020: Is eDRAM Still Worth It?
Intel’s first foray into 14nm was with its Broadwell product portfolio. It launched into the mobile market with a variety of products, however the desktop offering in 2015 was...
120 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/2/2020
Intel’s Discrete GPU Era Begins: Intel Launches Iris Xe MAX For Entry-Level Laptops
Today may be Halloween, but what Intel is up to is no trick. Almost a year after showing off their alpha silicon, Intel’s first discrete GPU in over two...
119 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2020
Intel’s DG1 GPU Coming to Discrete Desktop Cards Next Year; OEM-Only
Alongside today’s launch of Intel’s DG1-based Iris Xe MAX graphics for laptops, the company is also quietly confirming that DG1 will be coming to desktop video cards as well...
73 by Ryan Smith on 10/31/2020
Intel’s 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake Detailed: Ice Lake Core with Xe Graphics
During a time of increased competitor activity, Intel has decided to disclose some of the high level details surrounding its next generation consumer processor, known as Rocket Lake or...
189 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/29/2020
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