CPUs
For numerous generations of their desktop processor releases, Intel has made available a selection of high-performance special edition "KS" CPUs that add a little extra compared to their flagship chip. With a lot of interest, primarily from the enthusiasts looking for the fastest processors, Intel's latest Core i9-14900KS represents a super-fast addition to its 14th Generation Core lineup with out-of-the-box turbo clock speeds of up to 6.2 GHz and represents the last processor to end an era as Intel is removing the 'i' from its legendary nomenclature for future desktop chip releases. Reaching speeds of up to 6.2 GHz, this sets up the Core i9-14900KS as the fastest desktop CPU in the world right now, at least in terms of frequencies out of the box...
Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake for Desktops: Top SKUs Only, Coming November 4th
Over the past few months, Intel has been drip-feeding information about its next-generation processor family. Alder Lake, commercially known as Intel’s 12th Generation Core architecture, is officially being announced...
395 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/27/2021AMD Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Records All Around
Continuing our earnings season coverage for Q3’21, today we have the yin to Intel’s yang, AMD. The number-two x86 chip and discrete GPU maker has been enjoying explosive growth...
35 by Ryan Smith on 10/26/2021AnandTech Interviews Mike Clark, AMD’s Chief Architect of Zen
AMD is calling this time of the year as its ‘5 years of Zen’ time, indicating that back in 2016, it was starting to give the press the first...
115 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/26/2021Intel Reports Q3 2021 Earnings: Client Down, Data Center and IoT Up
Kicking off another earnings season, Intel is once again leading the pack of semiconductor companies in reporting their earnings for the most recent quarter. As the company gets ready...
32 by Ryan Smith on 10/21/2021The Arm DevSummit 2021 Keynote Live Blog: 8am PT (15:00 UTC)
This week seems to be Arm's week across the tech industry. Following yesterday's Arm SoC announcements from Apple, today sees Arm kick off their 2021 developer's summit, aptly named...
21 by Ryan Smith on 10/19/2021Samsung Foundry: 2nm Silicon in 2025
One of the key semiconductor technologies beyond 3D FinFET transistors are Gate-All-Around transistors, which show promise to help extend the ability to drive processors and components to higher performance...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 10/6/2021An Interview with Intel Lab’s Mike Davies: The Next Generation of Neuromorphic Research
As part of the launch of the new Loihi 2 chip, built on a pre-production version of Intel’s 4 process node, the Intel Labs team behind its Neuromorphic efforts...
17 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/30/2021Intel Rolls Out New Loihi 2 Neuromorphic Chip: Built on Early Intel 4 Process
We’ve been keeping light tabs on Intel’s Neuromorphic efforts ever since it launched its first dedicated 14nm silicon for Neuromorphic Computing, called Loihi, back in early 2018. In an...
69 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/30/2021Cerebras In The Cloud: Get Your Wafer Scale in an Instance
To date, most of the new AI hardware entering the market has been a ‘purchase necessary’ involvement. For any business looking to go down the route of using specialized...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/16/2021IBM Power10 Coming To Market: E1080 for ‘Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experiences’
Last year IBM presented details about its new Power10 family of processors: eight threads per core, 15 cores per chip, and two chips per socket, with a new core...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/8/2021Does an AMD Chiplet Have a Core Count Limit?
When it was announced that AMD was set to give a presentation at Hot Chips on its newest Zen 3 microarchitecture, I was expecting the usual fare when a...
116 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/7/2021Did IBM Just Preview The Future of Caches?
At Hot Chips last week, IBM announced its new mainframe Z processor. It’s a big interesting piece of kit that I want to do a wider piece on at...
150 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 9/2/2021Intel Xeon Sapphire Rapids: How To Go Monolithic with Tiles
One of the critical deficits Intel has to its competition in its server platform is core count – other companies are enabling more cores by one of two routes...
99 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/31/2021Multi-chip Intel Core i9-11900K Overclocking Review: Four Boards, Cryo Cooling
Back in March, Intel unveiled its 11th generation of desktop processors codenamed Rocket Lake. In its lineup, the flagship desktop chip is the Core i9-11900K, with eight cores, sixteen...
55 by Gavin Bonshor on 8/30/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: Machine Learning (Graphcore, Cerebras, SambaNova, Anton)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/24/2021Hot Chips 2021 Keynote Live Blog: Designing Chips with AI, Synopsys
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
0 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Hot Chips 2021 Live Blog: CPUs (Alder Lake, Zen3, IBM Z, Sapphire Rapids)
Welcome to Hot Chips! This is the annual conference all about the latest, greatest, and upcoming big silicon that gets us all excited. Stay tuned during Monday and Tuesday...
39 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/23/2021Intel Foundry Services Drafted By US Department of Defense For Next-Gen Fab Needs
Over the last couple of years, a great deal of concern has developed around the future of semiconductor manufacturing, both with respect to total capacity and where the next...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/23/2021Intel Architecture Day 2021: Alder Lake, Golden Cove, and Gracemont Detailed
This week Intel held its annual Architecture Day event for select press and partners. As with previous iterations, the company disclosed details about its next generation architectures set to...
223 by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/19/2021The AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, Ryzen 5 5600G, and Ryzen 3 5300G Review
Earlier this year, AMD launched its Zen 3 based desktop processor solutions with integrated graphics. Marketed as the Ryzen 5000G family, these processors are the latest offering to combine...
136 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/4/2021