CPUs
Qualcomm this morning is taking the wraps off of a new smartphone SoC for the mid-range market, the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3. The second of Qualcomm’s down-market ‘S’ tier Snapdragon 7 parts, the 7s series is functionally the entry-level tier for the Snapdragon 7 family – and really, most Qualcomm-powered handsets in North America. With three tiers of Snapdragon 7 chips, the 7s can easily be lost in the noise that comes with more powerful chips. But the latest iteration of the 7s is a bit more interesting than usual, as rather than reusing an existing die, Qualcomm has seemingly minted a whole new die for this part. As a result, the company has upgraded the 7s family to use Arm’s current Armv9 CPU cores...
Intel: Meteor Lake Chiplet SoC Up and Running
Alongside Intel’s regular earnings report yesterday, the company also delivered a brief up on the state of one of their most important upcoming products, Meteor Lake. Intel’s first chiplet/tile-based...
72 by Ryan Smith on 4/29/2022
Intel Reports Q1 2022 Earnings: Improved Enterprise Sales Buoy Weaker Client Revenue
Kicking off our coverage of the first earnings season of the year for the tech industry, we as always start with Intel. The blue-hued blue-chip company is the first...
13 by Ryan Smith on 4/28/2022
Intel Opens D1X-Mod3 Fab Expansion; Moves Up Intel 18A Manufacturing to H2’2024
Intel for the last few years has been undergoing a major period of manufacturing expansion for the company. While the more recent announcements of new facilities in Ohio and...
91 by Ryan Smith on 4/11/2022
The Intel Core i7-12700K and Core i5-12600K Review: High Performance For the Mid-Range
Since Intel announced and launched its 12th Gen Core series of CPUs in to the market, we've reviewed both the flagship Core i9-12900K, as well as the entry-level (but...
196 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/29/2022
Update: Intel Announces Core i9-12900KS: 5.5 GHz Turbo, 5.2 GHz All-Core, Coming April 5th
Following Newegg’s flub on Friday, Intel today is now (finally) officially announcing the Core i9-12900KS. The company’s new flagship consumer desktop chip will be going on sale next Tuesday...
104 by Ryan Smith on 3/28/2022
AMD Releases Milan-X CPUs With 3D V-Cache: EPYC 7003 Up to 64 Cores and 768 MB L3 Cache
There's been a lot of focus on how both Intel and AMD are planning for the future in packaging their dies to increase overall performance and mitigate higher manufacturing...
58 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/21/2022
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X3D Launches April 20th, Plus 6 New Low & Mid-Range Ryzen Chips
Since the launch of AMD’s Zen 3-powered Ryzen 5000 desktop processors in late 2020, the company’s retail desktop chip offerings have been rather static. With AMD facing heavy demand...
98 by Ryan Smith & Gavin Bonshor on 3/15/2022
Interview with Intel’s Raja Koduri: Zettascale or ZettaFLOP? Metaverse what?
We currently live in a sea of buzzwords. Whether that’s something to catch the eye when scrolling through our news feed, or a company wanting to latch their product...
45 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/9/2022
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5000 WX-Series: Zen 3 For OEM Workstations
In 2020, AMD released a new series of workstation-focused processors under its Threadripper umbrella, aptly named the Threadripper Pro series. These chips were essentially true workstation versions of AMD's...
34 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/8/2022
The Intel Core i3-12300 Review: Quad-Core Alder Lake Shines
Just over a month ago Intel pulled the trigger on the rest of its 12th generation "Alder Lake" Core desktop processors, adding no fewer than 22 new chips. This...
140 by Gavin Bonshor on 3/3/2022
Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) Announced: Setting Standards For The Chiplet Ecosystem
If there has been one prominent, industry-wide trend in chip design over the past half-decade or so, it has been the growing use of chiplets. The tiny dies have...
25 by Ryan Smith on 3/2/2022
AMD's Ryzen 9 6900HS Rembrandt Benchmarked: Zen3+ Power and Performance Scaling
Earlier this year, AMD announced an update to its mobile processor line that we weren’t expecting quite so soon. The company updated its Ryzen 5000 Mobile processors, which are...
92 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/1/2022
Intel Launches Alder Lake U and P Series Processors: Ultraportable Laptops Coming In March
Following the January launch of Intel’s first Alder Lake-based 12th Gen Core mobile processors, the Alder Lake-H family, Intel this morning is following that up with the formal launch...
95 by Ryan Smith & Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/23/2022
AnandTech Interview with Dr. Ann Kelleher: EVP and GM of Intel’s Technology Development
It’s somewhat of an understatement to say that Intel’s future roadmap on its process node development is one of the most aggressive in the history of semiconductor design. The...
13 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/18/2022
Intel Discloses Multi-Generation Xeon Scalable Roadmap: New E-Core Only Xeons in 2024
It’s no secret that Intel’s enterprise processor platform has been stretched in recent generations. Compared to the competition, Intel is chasing its multi-die strategy while relying on a manufacturing...
147 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/17/2022
Intel Goes Full XPU: Falcon Shores to Combine x86 and Xe For Supercomputers
One of Intel’s more interesting initiatives over the past few years has been XPU – the idea of using a variety of compute architectures in order to best meet...
28 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Intel Meteor Lake Client Processors to use Arc Graphics Chiplets
Continuing with this morning’s spate of Intel news coming from Intel’s annual Investor meeting, we also have some new information on Intel’s forthcoming Meteor Lake processors, courtesy of this...
20 by Ryan Smith on 2/17/2022
Ampere Goes Quantum: Get Your Qubits in the Cloud
When we talk about quantum computing, there is always the focus on what the ‘quantum’ part of the solution is. Alongside those qubits is often a set of control...
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/16/2022
A Visit to Intel’s D1X Fab: Next Generation EUV Process Nodes
On a recent trip to the US, I decided to spend some time criss-crossing the nation for a couple of industry events and spend some of the time visiting...
38 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/16/2022
Update: AMD’s Acquisition of Xilinx Receives Regulatory Go, Deal Closes At $49B
Update 02/14: AMD has sent out a brief statement this morning announcing that the Xilinx deal has formally closed. AMD has now fully acquired Xilinx. The final value of...
34 by Ryan Smith on 2/14/2022
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