CPUs
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 Intel from system used by China's government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China's own CPUs. The new procurement guidelines, introduced quietly at the end of 2023, mandates government entities to prioritize 'safe and reliable' processors and operating systems in their purchases. This directive is part of a concerted effort to bolster domestic technology and parallels a similar push within state-owned enterprises to embrace technology designed in China. The list of approved processors and operating systems, published by China's Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, exclusively features Chinese companies. There are...
Intel’s Core i9-9900KF Listed in the USA: $582
B&H Photo and Video, a large retail chain from the USA, has started to list Intel’s Core i9-9900KF processor. The CPU is yet to become available, but since B&H...
22 by Anton Shilov on 1/29/2019CES 2019 Question and Answer Session with AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su
One of the major highlights of CES was the reveal of AMD’s next generation Matisse processor. With the cores built on TSMC’s 7nm process, the demonstration of the eight...
60 by Ian Cutress & Gavin Bonshor on 1/29/2019Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake and Core i3-8121U Deep Dive Review
Anyone interested in leading edge semiconductors knows that Intel is late with its newest manufacturing process. The '10nm' node was first announced in 2014, to be released in 2016...
129 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019AMD Pushing the AMD+AMD Strategy with Executive Promotions
Today AMD is announcing some realignment of its executive team along with some promotions. The idea behind the changes boils down to AMD wanting to focus its efforts on...
85 by Ian Cutress on 1/25/2019GIGABYTE Adds Support for 128 GB of Memory to Z390 & C246 Motherboards
GIGABYTE has released UEFI BIOS updates for its motherboards based on Intel’s C246 and Z390 chipsets that enable support for 32 GB unbuffered memory modules from Samsung. This enables...
28 by Anton Shilov on 1/24/2019Xeon W-3175X Roundup: Intel’s 28-Core at CES 2019
Last year Intel unveiled a ’28-core’ processor aimed more towards enthusiasts and professionals rather than for servers. Despite the initial demo having a tenuous overclock and setup, we were...
31 by Ian Cutress on 1/22/2019Intel Discontinues Quark SoCs and Microcontrollers
Intel has announced that it will discontinue all of its Quark-series SoCs microcontrollers. Intel’s partners will have to make their final orders for the chips this summer, whereas the...
27 by Anton Shilov on 1/22/2019ASUS Z390 Platforms Now Support 128 GB of Memory
ASUS has released a new UEFI BIOS version for its ROG Maximus XI Hero motherboard that enables support of up to 128 GB of DDR4 memory platform using 32...
8 by Anton Shilov on 1/22/2019Intel’s Graphics-Free Chips Are Also Savings-Free: Same Price, Fewer Features
We recently reported on the fact that a range of new mainstream Intel desktop processors are coming onto the market without the integrated graphics enabled. This processors, indicated by...
96 by Ian Cutress on 1/16/2019Intel Core i9-9990XE : Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only
AnandTech has seen documents and supporting information from multiple sources that show that Intel is planning to release a new high-end desktop processor, the Core i9-9990XE. These documents show...
66 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2019AMD Comments on Threadripper 2 Performance and Windows Scheduler
Users may have been following Wendell from Level1Tech’s battle with researching the reasons behind why some benchmarks have regressed performance on quad-die Threadripper 2 compared to dual-die configurations. Through...
42 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2019The $60 CPU Question: AMD Athlon 200GE or Intel Pentium Gold G5400? A Review
In the course of our reviews, when we get a chance to get hands on with random processors, we run our test suite and add the data to our...
95 by Ian Cutress on 1/14/2019AMD: “No Chiplet APU Variant on Matisse, CPU TDP Range same as Ryzen-2000”
One of the big questions coming out of AMD’s CES announcements was if its new CPU design, codenamed Matisse and which enables two chiplets and an IO die on...
53 by Ian Cutress on 1/11/2019Intel’s Core i5-9400F Hits Amazon
Amazon has started to list Intel’s six-core Core i5-9400F desktop processor that lacks integrated graphics, belongs to the Coffee Lake Refresh family, and is produced using the company’s 14...
4 by Anton Shilov on 1/10/2019AMD Ryzen 3rd Gen 'Matisse' Coming Mid 2019: Eight Core Zen 2 with PCIe 4.0 on Desktop
Blink and you miss it: AMD's keynote address this year was a whirlwind of primetime announcements for the company. The message is clear: AMD is committing itself to 7nm...
353 by Ian Cutress on 1/9/2019The AMD Keynote at CES 2019: Looking Ahead
AMD has one of the prized spots on the CES Keynote register. The company gets an highlighted hour at one of the shows prized ballroom setups to offer something...
61 by Ian Cutress on 1/9/2019More Intel 9th Gen Desktop CPUs: Core i7-9700, Core i3-9100, Pentium Gold G5420, and a new Core i3-8100F ?
After yesterday when Intel casually mentioned that it was announcing six new processors in its 9th Generation desktop line, without providing any specifications through the usual channels, it turns...
4 by Ian Cutress on 1/8/2019Intel’s New 9th Gen Desktop CPUs: i3-9350KF, i5-9400F, i5-9400, i5-9600KF, i7-9700KF, i9-9900KF
At Intel’s keynote presentation today, the company announced that it would be expanding its current line of 9th Generation desktop processors, to include new models from Core i3 up...
25 by Ian Cutress on 1/7/2019CES 2019 Quick Bytes: Consumer 10nm is Coming with Intel’s Ice Lake
We’ve been on Intel's case for years to tell us when its 10nm parts are coming to the mass market. Technically Intel already shipped its first 10nm processor, Cannon...
3 by Ian Cutress on 1/7/2019CES 2019 Quick Bytes: Intel’s 10nm Hybrid x86 Foveros Chip is Called Lakefield
At Intel’s Architecture Day, the company showed off a new stacking technology called ‘Foveros’, which is designed to allows the company to make smaller chips. The idea behind Foveros...
10 by Ian Cutress on 1/7/2019