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During the Intel keynote hosted by CEO Pat Gelsinger, he gave the world a glimpse into the Intel Client roadmap until 2026. Meteor Lake launched last year on that roadmap, and Lunar Lake, which we dived into yesterday as Intel disclosed technical details about the upcoming platform. Pat also presented a wafer on stage, Panther Lake, and he gave some additional information about Intel's forthcoming Panther Lake platform, which is expected in 2025. We covered Intel's initial announcement about the Panther Lake platform last year. It is set to be Intel's first client platform using its Intel 18A node. Aside from once again affirming that things are on track for a 2026 launch, Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, also confirmed that they will be powering on...
Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture: New P and E cores, Xe2-LPG Graphics, New NPU 4 Brings More AI Performance
Intel this morning is lifting the lid on some of the finer architectural and technical details about its upcoming Lunar Lake SoC – the chip that will be the...
88 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/3/2024
The Qualcomm Computex 2024 Keynote Live Blog (10:30pm PT/05:30 UTC)
For our second keynote of the day for Computex, we have the 4th Musketeer of the great PC powers, Qualcomm. Slated to be the most PC-focused of the four...
13 by Ryan Smith, Anton Shilov & Gavin Bonshor on 6/3/2024
AMD Announces The Ryzen AI 300 Series For Mobile: Zen 5 With RDNA 3.5, and XDNA2 NPU With 50 TOPS
During AMD's opening keynote at Computex 2024, company CEO Dr. Lisa Su revealed AMD's latest AI PC-focused chip lineup for the mobile market, the Ryzen AI 300 series. Based...
27 by Gavin Bonshor on 6/2/2024
Arm Unveils 2024 CPU Core Designs, Cortex X925, A725 and A520: Arm v9.2 Redefined For 3nm
As the semiconductor industry continues to evolve, Arm stands at the forefront of innovation for its core and IP architecture, especially in the mobile space, by pushing the boundaries...
54 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/29/2024
Lenovo Unveils Yoga Slim 7x 14 Gen 14 and ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 Notebooks Powered By Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite
While we've been expecting the availability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor to be around the middle of this year, Lenovo has announced two new 'AI-powered' notebooks for...
19 by Gavin Bonshor on 5/20/2024
Apple Announces M4 SoC: Latest and Greatest Starts on 2024 iPad Pro
Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series...
68 by Ryan Smith on 5/7/2024
Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools
This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry's 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic...
8 by Anton Shilov on 5/3/2024
Qualcomm Intros Snapdragon X Plus, Details Complete Snapdragon X Launch Day Chip Stack
As Qualcomm prepares for the mid-year launch of their forthcoming Snapdragon X SoCs for PCs, and the eagerly anticipated Oryon CPU cores within, the company is finally shoring up...
50 by Ryan Smith on 4/24/2024
NVIDIA's GPU IP Drives into MediaTek's Dimension Auto SoCs
MediaTek this week has introduced a new lineup of Dimensity Auto Cockpit system-on-chips, covering the entire market spectrum from entry-level to premium. And while automotive chip announcements are admittedly...
6 by Anton Shilov on 3/21/2024
Qualcomm Intros Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3: Pushing GenAI Into Premium Smartphones
Proving the adage “ask, and you shall receive”, Qualcomm is back this week for a second Snapdragon SoC announcement for mobile phones. This time, the company is announcing the...
9 by Ryan Smith on 3/21/2024
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8s Gen 3: A Cheaper Chip For Premium Phones
With the launch of their flagship Snapdragon 8 SoC firmly behind them now, Qualcomm this morning is turning their collective head towards the premium market with the launch of...
8 by Ryan Smith on 3/18/2024
Marvell's 2nm IP Platform Enables Custom Silicon for Datacenters
Marvell this week introduced its new IP technology platform specifically tailored for custom chips for accelerated infrastructure made on TSMC's 2nm-class process technologies (possibly including N2 and N2P). The...
0 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2024
Arm Announces Neoverse V3 and N3 CPU Cores: Building Bigger and Moving Faster with CSS
A bit over 5 years ago, Arm announced their Neoverse initiative for server, cloud, and infrastructure CPU cores. Doubling-down on their efforts to break into the infrastructure CPU market...
26 by Ryan Smith on 2/21/2024
Report: NVIDIA Forms Custom Chip Unit for Cloud Computing and More
With its highly successful A100 and H100 processors for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, NVIDIA dominates AI datacenter deployments these days. But among large cloud service...
10 by Anton Shilov on 2/13/2024
AMD Unveils Their Embedded+ Architecture, Ryzen Embedded with Versal Together
One area of AMD's product portfolio that doesn't get as much attention as the desktop and server parts is their Embedded platform. AMD's Embedded series has been important for...
11 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/6/2024
Intel Unveils First SDV SoC Family For The Automotive Market at CES 2024
Further to Intel's AI-related announcements surrounding their Meteor Lake SoC and its integrated NPU, the automotive market is another market where Intel expects that AI can make a big...
10 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/9/2024
CES 2024: Intel Briefly Shows Lunar Lake Chip; Next-Gen Mobile CPU Uses On-Package Memory
As part of the final segment of Intel’s "Intel Client Open House Keynote" at CES this afternoon, Intel EVP and GM of the Client Computing Group, Michelle Johnston Holthaus...
14 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2024
Intel Announces non-K 14th Gen Core Desktop Processors: Raptor Lake in 65 W to 35 W Flavors
We typically see the flagship K-series chips first whenever Intel launches a new family of desktop processors. These show the maximum potential for improvement in generational performance, such as...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/8/2024
Intel Intros Core (Series 1) U-Series Mobile Chips: Raptor Lake Refreshed for Thin & Light
Alongside Intel’s bevvy of 14th Generation Core product announcements for desktop and mobile today, the company is also releasing a collection of new SKUs under their new Core (Series...
1 by Ryan Smith on 1/8/2024
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