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...
AMD Launches Ryzen 5000 Mobile: Zen 3 and Cezanne for Notebooks
It has been a year since AMD launched its previous generation Ryzen Mobile processors. At the time, the update from Zen to Zen 2, as well as moving to...
117 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021
The AMD CES 2021 Keynote: A Live Blog from 11am ET / 8am PT
For the second year in a row, AMD has an official CES Keynote. A year on from the launch of Ryzen 4000 Mobile series processors, and after a recent...
16 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/12/2021
Intel at CES 2021: Ice, Tiger, Rocket, Jasper, and Alder Lake
Despite only having a 30 minute press event at this year’s annual CES trade show, Intel had a lot to discuss about its plans through the next 12 months...
45 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
An Interview with Intel CEO Bob Swan: Roundtable Q&A on Fabs and Future
Intel has a very complex year ahead. On the back of what should be strong revenue year for 2020 as well as a widened scope of markets in which...
34 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel Launches 11th Gen vPro For Tiger Lake Mobile CPUs, Adds CET Security Tech
Among Intel’s CES 2021 announcements this afternoon, the chip giant is using the annual show to launch their updated vPro platform for their latest-generation “Tiger Lake” Core processors. vPro...
1 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2021
Intel Confirms 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Production Has Started
As part of this week’s announcements, Intel has confirmed to AnandTech that it has started production its next generation server processors, known as Ice Lake 3rd Generation Xeon Scalable...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel’s New H35 Series: Quad Core Tiger Lake now at 35 W for 5.0 GHz
Historically, both main x86 processor manufacturers have developed their mainstream mobile processors for a power target of 15 W, which in turn have been sold as their U-series chips...
15 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel’s 8-Core Mobile Tiger Lake-H, at 45 W, to Ship in Q1
Ever since the launch of Intel’s 11th Gen Core mobile processors, known as Tiger Lake, back in September, the chips' limited core counts have not gone unnoticed. At a...
22 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel Launches Jasper Lake: Tremont Atom Cores For All
One of the more interesting elements in Intel’s 2020 set of disclosures was its 10nm Tremont Atom core. Initially used in the low power Lakefield product, this core design...
31 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel Previews 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake: Core i9-11900K and Z590, Coming Q1
Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time. Progress and excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node, adding cores, and extracting every drop...
33 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Intel's CES 2021 Press Event: The Future of Intel (A Live Blog, 1pm PT)
One of our first events of the annual CES trade show this year is Intel's press conference on its consumer product lines. Heading up the event with be Intel's...
19 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/11/2021
Jim Keller Becomes CTO at Tenstorrent: "The Most Promising Architecture Out There"
It is high praise when someone like Jim Keller says that your company ‘has made impressive progress, and has the most promising architecture out there’. That praise means twice...
66 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/5/2021
Intel Core i9-10850K Review: The Real Intel Flagship
When a company like Intel creates a CPU design, the process of manufacturing brings about variation on the quality of the product. Some cores will only reach a certain...
127 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 1/4/2021
Installing Windows on an Xbox One APU: The Chuwi Aerobox Review
Ever since consoles moved to the same underlying architecture as modern desktop computers, there has always been an underlying question as to whether those same processors could run regular...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/24/2020
Testing The World’s Best APUs: Desktop AMD Ryzen 4750G, 4650G and 4350G
There are two very important levels of graphics performance in modern systems to consider – one is if the graphics system is sufficient for seamless use, and the second...
104 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/16/2020
Investigating Performance of Multi-Threading on Zen 3 and AMD Ryzen 5000
One of the stories around AMD’s initial generations of Zen processors was the effect of Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) on performance. By running with this mode enabled, as is default...
126 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2020
“Microsoft Pluton Hardware Security Coming to Our CPUs”: AMD, Intel, Qualcomm
One of the key tenets of having good security is reducing how attackable your system is. This is what we call an attack surface – a system needs as...
27 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/23/2020
AMD Precision Boost Overdrive 2: Adaptive Undervolting For Ryzen 5000 Coming Soon
One of the ways that enthusiasts tinker with their processors is through overclocking: the attempt to get more performance by changing frequencies and voltages, up to the limits of...
60 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/23/2020_carousel.png)
GIGABYTE’s New AMD BRIX Series: Now With AMD Ryzen 4000U Renoir!
One of the key questions when AMD launched its latest Ryzen Mobile processor family, Renoir, was when the chip would be available in the Mini-PC space. At the time...
32 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/21/2020
IBM and AMD to Advance Confidential Computing
Earlier this year, we wrote a news segment about AMD and Google’s announcement about bringing confidential virtual machines to the cloud using features enabled through 2nd Gen AMD EPYC...
9 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/11/2020
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