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 Launches Xeon W-3300: Ice Lake for Workstations, up to 38 Cores
With the launch earlier this year of Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Scalable platform, the first Intel enterprise platform based on 10nm, we were always wondering to what extent this...
52 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/29/2021
AMD Reports Q2 2021 Earnings: Company-wide Growth Drives Doubled Revenue
Continuing our Q2 earnings coverage this month, AMD is next out the gate in reporting their earnings. And, has been the story now for most of the last year...
105 by Ryan Smith on 7/27/2021
Intel Reports Q2 2021 Earnings: Client Computing Leads the Way
Kicking off another earnings season for the tech industry, we as always start things off with Intel, who is the first big chipmaker out of the gate. Over a...
52 by Ryan Smith on 7/22/2021
Cadence Cerebrus to Enable Chip Design with ML: PPA Optimization in Hours, not Months
The design of most leading edge processors and ASICs rely on steps of optimization, with the three key optimization points being Performance, Power, and Area (and sometimes Cost). Once...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021
PlasticArm: Get Your Next CPU, Made Without Silicon
Known for its core design IP that ends up in everything from IoT to smartphones to servers, Arm is now presenting that it has enabled one of its key...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/22/2021
Testing the New 3DMark CPU Benchmark: For the Boids
A couple of weeks ago, UL (formerly Futuremark) released the latest test in its ongoing 3DMark gaming benchmark suite, CPU Profile. The premise behind this new CPU-specific test is...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/15/2021
Russia To Build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025
Russian outlet Vedomosti.ru today is reporting that the conglomerate Rostec, a Russian state-backed corporation specializing in investment in technology, has penned a deal with server company Yadro and silicon...
132 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/14/2021
AMD Threadripper Pro Review: An Upgrade Over Regular Threadripper?
Since the launch of AMD’s Threadripper Pro platform, the desire to see what eight channels of memory brings to compute over the regular quad-channel Threadripper has been an intriguing...
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Intel Accelerated Webcast on July 26th: Update on Process Technology and Roadmaps
Earlier this year, new Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined his new ‘IDM 2.0’ vision for Intel. This vision was a three pronged strategy based on improving its own process...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/12/2021
Intel Hybrid CPU Starts 'End of Life' Process
As I opened my inbox this morning, I was surprised. I keep track of when Intel puts products on End of Life (or starts the process through something called...
58 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/7/2021
Intel Continues to Rehire Veterans: At Some Point They’ll Run Out
News on the wire today is that Intel has rehired 28-year veteran Shlomit Weiss into the position of Senior VP and Co-General Manager of Intel’s Design Engineering Group (DEG)...
121 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/7/2021
Cristiano Amon Takes over as Qualcomm CEO: Reiterates Focus on Custom CPUs
As of June 30th, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon has taken over as the company’s CEO, replacing his predecessor Steve Mollenkopf which has now retired. In statements to Reuters, Amon had...
36 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/2/2021
Update: PCI Express 6.0 Draft 0.71 Released, Final Release by End of Year
Update 07/02: Albeit a couple of days later than expected, the PCI-SIG has announced this morning that the PCI Express draft 0.71 specification has been released for member review...
103 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2021
Update on Intel Sapphire Rapids in 2022: Q1 for Production, Q2 for Ramp, H1 Launch
In the news cycle today, Intel is announcing an update to its planned deployment of its next generation Xeon Scalable platform known as Sapphire Rapids. Sapphire Rapids is the...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/29/2021
Intel to Launch Next-Gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon with High Bandwidth Memory
As part of today’s International Supercomputing 2021 (ISC) announcements, Intel is showcasing that it will be launching a version of its upcoming Sapphire Rapids (SPR) Xeon Scalable processor with...
150 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/28/2021
AMD EPYC Milan Review Part 2: Testing 8 to 64 Cores in a Production Platform
It’s been a few months since AMD first announced their new third generation EPYC Milan server CPU line-up. We had initially reviewed the first SKUS back in March, covering...
58 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/25/2021
Intel to Create RISC-V Development Platform with SiFive P550 Cores on 7nm in 2022
As part of SiFive’s announcements today, along with enabling SiFive IP on Intel’s Foundry Service offerings, Intel will be creating its own RISC-V development platform using its 7nm process...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2021
Intel Licenses SiFive’s Portfolio for Intel Foundry Services on 7nm
Today’s announcement from SiFive comes in two parts; this part is significant as it recognizes that Intel will be enabling SiFive’s IP portfolio on its 7nm manufacturing process for...
8 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2021
DIY on Intel Ice Lake Xeon Just Got A Little Closer
Since the launch of Intel’s Third Generation Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors in April, it was widely expected that the initial volumes of hardware would be going towards Intel’s...
25 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/18/2021
Google Announces AMD Milan-based Cloud Instances - Out with SMT vCPUs?
Today Google is announcing a new Cloud instance based on AMD Milan – but beyond the new hardware, it’s really what’s behind the new performance numbers which is what...
24 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/17/2021
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