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 to Build Silicon for Fully Homomorphic Encryption: This is Important
When considering data privacy and protections, there is no data more important than personal data, whether that’s medical, financial, or even social. The discussions around access to our data...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/8/2021
AMD to Launch 3rd Generation EPYC on March 15th: Milan with Zen 3
We’ve known for a while that AMD was set to launch its next generation enterprise EPYC processor family, collectively known by its codename Milan, sometime in the first quarter...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/8/2021
Intel Core i7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake
The march on performance with desktop platforms has unique challenges compared to other platforms. Peak single thread throughput is often considered the Holy Grail, with a fast follow up...
541 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/5/2021
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Retail Offering Starts Today
Today AMD is officially going to start offering its Ryzen Threadripper Pro processors at retail, effectively ending the exclusivity deal with Lenovo on the product line. To date, Lenovo...
29 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/2/2021
The Intel Moonshot Division: An Interview with Dr. Richard Uhlig of Intel Labs
Some analysts consider Intel to be a processor company with manufacturing facilities – others consider it to be a manufacturing company that just happens to make processors. In the...
30 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 3/2/2021
Intel Discontinues Performance Tuning Protection Plan for Overclocking Warranties
After a 9-year run, Intel today has begun to wrap up its Performance Tuning Protection Plan service, the company’s optional extended warranty for CPU overclocking. As of today, Intel...
17 by Ryan Smith on 3/1/20212_waifu2x_photo_noise2_scale_tta_1_carousel.jpg)
Xbox Series X SoC: Power, Thermal, and Yield Tradeoffs
This week at ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), Microsoft presented a talk titled ‘Xbox Series X SoC: A Next Generation Gaming Console’, with hardware engineer Paul Paternoster presenting...
82 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/15/2021
64 Cores of Rendering Madness: The AMD Threadripper Pro 3995WX Review
Knowing your market is a key fundamental of product planning, marketing, and distribution. There’s no point creating a product with no market, or finding you have something amazing but...
125 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/9/2021
OnLogic’s New Fanless Systems Contain Intel's Elkhart Lake (10nm Atom)
Earlier this year Intel indicated that it was launching its new Jasper Lake platform very soon, built on a foundation of 10nm manufacturing with the latest Tremont Atom cores...
18 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 2/1/2021
AMD Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: Analyst Q&A Transcript
At the end of every financial call, invited financial analysts have an opportunity to probe the key members of the company on the numbers, as well as future products...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
AMD Reports Q4/FY 2020 Earnings: Record Revenues Repeat
Needing no introduction, AMD this afternoon is the second of the PC chip titans to announce their earnings for the quarter and for the full 2020 calendar year. The...
17 by Ryan Smith on 1/26/2021
AMD's Ryzen 5000 Lucienne: Not Simply Rebranded Ryzen 4000 Renoir
AMD came in for some harsh criticism when it announced that its new Ryzen 5000 Mobile U-series processors would not all be using its latest core design. At the...
48 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Cezanne Review: Ryzen 5000 Mobile Tested
Since AMD’s introduction of its newest Zen 3 core for desktop users, the implementation for notebooks and mobile users has been eagerly awaited. In a single generation, on the...
218 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/26/2021
Intel Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: Analyst Q&A Transcript
At the end of every financial call, invited financial analysts have an opportunity to probe the key members of the company on the numbers, as well as future products.
24 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/21/2021
Intel Reports Q4 2020 Earnings: 2020 Delivers A Profitable Pandemic
Earnings season is once more upon us, and once again leading the charge is Intel, who this afternoon reported their Q4’2020 and full-year 2020 financial results. The 800lb gorilla...
18 by Ryan Smith on 1/21/2021
Intel Core i7-10700 vs Core i7-10700K Review: Is 65W Comet Lake an Option?
Over the years, Intel’s consumer processor lineup has featured its usual array of overclocking ‘K’ models, and more recently the ‘F’ series that come without integrated graphics. The bulk...
217 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/21/2021
New Intel CEO Making Waves: Rehiring Retired CPU Architects
We’re following the state of play with Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, very closely. Even as an Intel employee for 30 years, rising to the rank of CTO, then...
114 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/21/2021
Intel Appoints Pat Gelsinger as New CEO, From Feb 15th
News is breaking that Intel has announced that Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMWare, is to take the role of CEO at Intel from February 15th. Intel today has released a...
161 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/13/2021
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinx, and EPYC
Following the keynote press conference, AMD invited a number of key press partners for some Q&A time with Dr. Lisa Su. On the table, we were told, was any...
72 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021
AMD Previews 3rd Gen EPYC ‘Milan’ Performance
Since the announcement of AMD’s Zen 3 core microarchitecture, we’ve been expecting three series of products to be announced: desktop Ryzen, mobile Ryzen, and enterprise EPYC. So far the...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021
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