CPUs
The next few weeks in the PC industry are going to come fast and furious. Between today and mid-June are multiple conferences and trade-shows, including Microsoft Build and the king of PC trade shows: Computex Taiwan. With all three PC CPU vendors set to present, there’s a lot going on, and a lot of product announcements to be had. But even before those trade shows start, Intel is looking to make the first move this afternoon with an early preview on its next-gen mobile processor, Lunar Lake. While Intel hasn’t said too much about what to expect from their Computex 2024 keynote thus far, it’s clear that Intel’s next-gen CPUs – Lunar Lake for mobile, and Arrow Lake for Mobile/Desktop – are going to be...
Report: China to Pivot from AMD & Intel CPUs To Domestic Chips in Government PCs
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...
12 by Anton Shilov on 3/26/2024
Intel to Receive $8.5B in CHIPS Act Funding & Further Loans To Build US Fabs
Intel and the United States Department of Commerce announced on Wednesday that they had inked a preliminary agreement under which Intel will receive $8.5 billion in direct funding under...
20 by Anton Shilov on 3/20/2024
Intel Announces Core i9-14900KS: Raptor Lake-R Hits Up To 6.2 GHz
For the last several generations of desktop processors from Intel, the company has released a higher clocked, special-edition SKU under the KS moniker, which the company positions as their...
30 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/14/2024
SiPearl's Rhea-2 CPU Added to Roadmap: Second-Gen European CPU for HPC
SiPearl, a processor designer supported by the European Processor Initiative, is about to start shipments of its very first Rhea processor for high-performance computing workloads. But the company is...
3 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2024
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger to Deliver Computex Keynote, Showcasing Next-Gen Products
Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the organizer of Computex, has announced that Pat Gelsinger, chief executive of Intel, will deliver a keynote at Computex 2024 on June 4...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/8/2024
Tenstorrent Licenses RISC-V CPU IP to Build 2nm AI Accelerator for Edge
Tenstorrent this week announced that it had signed a deal to license out its RISC-V CPU and AI processor IP to Japan's Leading-edge Semiconductor Technology Center (LSTC), which will...
22 by Anton Shilov on 2/28/2024
Intel Brings vPro to 14th Gen Desktop and Core Ultra Mobile Platforms for Enterprise
As part of this week's MWC 2024 conference, Intel is announcing that it is adding support for its vPro security technologies to select 14th Generation Core series processors (Raptor...
4 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/27/2024
Intel Previews Sierra Forest with 288 E-Cores, Announces Granite Rapids-D for 2025 Launch at MWC 2024
At MWC 2024, Intel confirmed that Granite Rapids-D, the successor to Ice Lake-D processors, will come to market sometime in 2025. Furthermore, Intel also provided an update on the...
9 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/26/2024
AMD Fixed the STAPM Throttling Issue, So We Retested The Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G
When we initially reviewed the latest Ryzen 8000G APUs from AMD last month, the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G, we became aware of an issue that caused...
7 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/23/2024
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su to Deliver Opening Keynote at Computex 2024
Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the organizer of Computex, announced today that Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's chief executive officer, will give the trade show's Opening Keynote. Su's speech...
3 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2024
Arm and Samsung to Co-Develop 2nm GAA-Optimized Cortex Cores
Arm and Samsung this week announced their joint design-technology co-optimization (DTCO) program for Arm's next-generation Cortex general-purpose CPU cores as well as Samsung's next-generation process technology featuring gate-all-around (GAA...
3 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2024
The Intel IFS Direct Connect 2024 Keynote (Starts at 8:30am PT/16:30 UTC)
This morning, Intel is set to provide updates on its foundry business (IFS) and process roadmap at its IFS Direct Connect event in Santa Clara. Intel is expected to...
5 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor 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
German Court Bans Sales of Select Intel CPUs in Germany Over Patent Dispute
A German court has sided with R2 Semiconductor against Intel, ruling that the chip giant infringed one of R2's patent. This decision could lead to sales ban of select...
10 by Anton Shilov on 2/7/2024
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
Sales of Client CPUs Soared in Q4 2023: Jon Peddie Research
Global client PC CPU shipments hit 66 million units in the fourth quarter of 2024, up both sequentially and year-over-year, a notable upturn in the PC processor market, according...
15 by Anton Shilov on 2/6/2024
AMD Set to Fix Ryzen 8000G APU STAPM Throttling Issue, Sustained Loads Affected
Earlier this week, we published our review of AMD's latest Zen 4 based APUs, the Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G. While we saw much better gaming performance...
23 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/2/2024
AMD: Zen 5-Based CPUs for Client and Server Applications On-Track for 2024
As part of their quarterly earnings call this week, AMD re-emphasized that its Zen 5-architecture processors for both client and datacenter applications will be available this year. While the...
23 by Anton Shilov on 2/2/2024
Best CPUs for Gaming: February 2024
As the first quarter of 2024 is already well underway, there's not been much in the way of launches since last year. Of particular note is AMD's launch of...
35 by Gavin Bonshor on 2/2/2024
AMD Ryzen 7 8700G and Ryzen 5 8600G Review: Zen 4 APUs with RDNA3 Graphics
One of the most desired desktop chips designed for low-cost systems has been AMD's APUs or Accelerated Processing Units. The last time we saw AMD launch a series of...
111 by Gavin Bonshor on 1/29/2024
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