Processors

Arrow Lake splashdown: Intel pins hopes on replacement for Raptors

New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down?

Systems10 Oct 2024 | 12

MediaTek enters the 4th Dimensity with 3nm octa-core 9400 smartphone brains

Still sticking with Arm and not taking RISC-Vs

Systems09 Oct 2024 | 3

Bending the rules with flexible non-silicon 32-bit RISC-V chip

It won't smash any benchmarks, but it will go where most others can't

Systems29 Sep 2024 | 27

Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors

Root cause identified, but it's taken the better part of a year

Systems26 Sep 2024 | 25

Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch

Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent'

On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 20

Intel Arrow Lake to be made elsewhere as 20A process node canned

Meanwhile, Broadcom reportedly displeased with 18A wafers

Systems05 Sep 2024 | 12

Intel's Software Guard Extensions broken? Don't panic

More of a storm in a teacup

Systems27 Aug 2024 | 9

Dark-web kingpin puts 'stolen' internal AMD databases, source code up for sale

Updated Chip designer really gonna need to channel some Zen right now

Cyber-crime18 Jun 2024 |

Arm chief exec scored $70M in New York IPO bonanza

Brit chip design outfit sets sights on dominating AI market

Systems03 Jun 2024 | 9

GNU Compiler Collection 15 ushers Xeon Phi and Solaris 11.3 to silicon heaven

Remember Intel's 'Larrabee' many-core Pentium-based GPU? GCC doesn't

OSes23 May 2024 | 5

SiPearl updates specs for Rhea1 processor set to power Europe's exascale dreams

ISC More cores, more memory, more delays

Systems14 May 2024 | 1

Intel reportedly seeking $11B to finance facility in Ireland

Another huge investment for chip giant despite losses

Systems13 May 2024 | 10

Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance

That other processor company is gaining ground, says Mercury Research

Systems10 May 2024 | 15

Flexing financial muscles, Arm aims to elbow into Windows PC market

Despite record revenues, Wall Street doesn't expect growth to last

Systems09 May 2024 | 42

Open source Z80 clone seeks to help bring classic chip back from the dead

Whether the project will bear fruit is perhaps questionable

On-Prem29 Apr 2024 | 12

Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs

We're never going to give you up...

Systems01 Apr 2024 | 3

Pressuring allies not to fulfill chip kit service contracts with China now official US policy

Xi Jinping warns 'no force' can stop country's science and tech progress

Systems28 Mar 2024 | 14

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite dares to game, reaching 30 FPS in Baldur's Gate 3

The bare minimum performance, but suggests a beefy integrated GPU

Personal Tech27 Mar 2024 | 4

Kaby Lake-G chip back from the grave, now on modest firewall-router-NAS mobo

Intel CPU that incorporated an AMD GPU into the processor package resurrected by Topton

Systems27 Mar 2024 | 7

Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards

But not, we repeat, not on the desktop

Personal Tech26 Mar 2024 |

Building a 16-bit CPU in a spreadsheet is Excel-lent engineering

But can it run Doom?

Bootnotes02 Feb 2024 | 23

AMD slaps together a silicon sandwich with MI300-series APUs, GPUs to challenge Nvidia’s AI empire

Chips boast 1.3x lead in AI, 1.8x in HPC over Nv's H100

Systems06 Dec 2023 | 8

AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI

Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too

Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2

Arm's tiny Cortex-M52 packs AI punch for small devices

Helium tech to end up on $1-$2 SoCs claimed to bring big performance gains for ML workloads

Systems22 Nov 2023 | 4

Is America's chip blockade working against China? So far, our survey says: No

Kettle Middle Kingdom can get its hands on hardware now – and still make better stuff later

Public Sector18 Nov 2023 | 31

Arm flexes financial muscles post-IPO, but shares get a reality check

Brit chip house now looking to cloud and automotive to grow revenues

Systems09 Nov 2023 | 3

Ventana bumps performance on Veyron RISC-V silicon to surely speed up servers

Bugatti ain't got nothing on this V2

Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2

AMD gives 7000-series Threadrippers a frequency bump with Epyc core counts

Workstation CPUs hit 96 cores, high-end desktops get 64. Prices nearly as high as clock speeds

Systems20 Oct 2023 | 15

America extends China chip export bans and acts to cut off backdoor exports

Chips cunningly designed to be less powerful and evade sanctions look to be in trouble

Systems18 Oct 2023 | 6

Biden hopes to squeeze loopholes to slow China's devouring of US AI chips

Won't stop supply of nerfed export-friendly accelerators

Systems13 Oct 2023 | 4

China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans

We thought you people loved spending dollars, what gives?

Public Sector29 Sep 2023 | 28

A chip off the old block: The 200mm fab supply chain breaker

Southeast Asia, China spearheading factory capacity growth for foreseeable future

On-Prem20 Sep 2023 |

TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months

Boss Mark Liu says silicon ready but advanced packaging isn't

AI + ML08 Sep 2023 | 4

Need a datacenter processor? Try our take-and-bake Neoverse N2 cores, says Arm

Hot Chips Just bring your own accelerator

Systems29 Aug 2023 | 6

Big chip players join forces to form another RISC-V venture

Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints

Systems04 Aug 2023 | 16

Samsung scores fresh Radeon deal with AMD for Exynos chip line ahead of profit crunch

Prelim Q1 2023 results expected to be company's worst in 14 years

Systems06 Apr 2023 | 2

Cash-strapped Intel looks for $3B in savings to pursue '5 nodes in 4 years' dream

Cheap as chips? Not in this case

Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4

AMD flips the bird at Intel as it glides past in CPU-GPU stakes

CTO warns chips and process technology must be designed together more closely thanks to Moore's Law

Systems09 Mar 2023 | 4

Intel Sapphire Rapids workstation chips tout up to 56 cores, unlocked SKUs

Oh look, this x86 giant can ship more than just bugs, pink slips, and shareholder dividends

Systems15 Feb 2023 | 6

It's not Google's 12,000, but Intel plans to prune California headcount by 544

$20b investment in Ohio semiconductor fabs is all go, though

Systems23 Jan 2023 | 1

Qualcomm develops one automotive chip to rule them all

CES And one Snapdragon Ride Flex SoC to bind them

Systems05 Jan 2023 | 3

China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions

Beijing's dreams of producing advanced semiconductors could take much longer than hoped

Systems04 Jan 2023 | 19

Intel may delay construction of German mega-fab to cut costs

No longer 'a definitive date' for facility scheduled to be built from next year

Systems19 Dec 2022 | 10

Qualcomm talks up RISC-V, roasts 'legacy architecture' amid war with Arm

Comment Sees opportunity on one side, dictatorial control on the other

Systems15 Dec 2022 | 31

Ventana targets hyperscalers with customizable RISC-V server chip

RISC-V Summit Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house

Systems12 Dec 2022 | 5

As semiconductor VC funding dips, startups trip, crash, build for the next boom

In a weaker economy, investor scrutiny is increasing for these capital-intensive upstarts

Systems10 Dec 2022 | 5

Intel reminds everyone it's still cooking away on more PC processors

Better late than never to catch up with AMD's Ryzen star

Systems08 Dec 2022 | 9

US chip group: $52b is not enough, we need an extra $30b in federal funding

We need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks

Systems02 Dec 2022 | 38

Graphcore makes China push with Mk2 AI chip amid financial woes

It's not clear whether the upstart had to abide by new US chip restrictions

Systems30 Nov 2022 | 2

AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors

Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation

PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |

Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit

Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?

Systems21 Nov 2022 | 17

Cerebras's supercomputer has more cores than world's fastest iron – with a big catch

Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap

HPC15 Nov 2022 | 6

Arm reports record royalties but total revenues slide

Licensing down 53% due to major one-off deals signed a year ago

Systems11 Nov 2022 | 3

Mythic bet big on analog AI but has run out of cash

Veep still says 'technology will eventually be very successful'

AI + ML09 Nov 2022 | 10

Intel plans to cut products — we guess where they’ll happen

Analysis To help save x86 titan some cash, we look at the components Intel may want to lose

Systems05 Nov 2022 | 30

AMD says it's looking into gaming performance issues on Ryzen 7000

They better hop to it – Team Red's PC chip business nosedived in the third quarter

Systems02 Nov 2022 | 10